Renaissance myON vs. Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport)

myON is a good program for all students in the middle grades. Using the suggested readings, several of our EL students have increased their vocabulary as well as overall reading proficiency in English by at least 1/2-1 grade equivalent within a school year.

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It is well suited for enhancing your current curriculums and allowing learners the ability to expand their knowledge with current book selections. It is a valuable asset to eLearning courses and for developing your employees

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• Helps students gain comprehension by suggesting reading materials at their level.
• Because the program has the capacity to read to the students, they get a to hear a good role model which helps develop fluency and accuracy in their reading.
• It is easy to access and helps keep students on track with their reading goals.

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• Good capability to host all kinds of training types (PDF, Powerpoint, captivate-created training content, etc.)
• Gives an easy way for me as an administrator to track completion of the training content through the reporting feature
• Easy to add and remove users to certain training groups as needed

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• I could never figure it out.
• Students levels from their STAR test did not translate into the books suggested on myON.
• The platform is cumbersome and inaccessible for students and teachers.
• I am fairly tech-savvy, but I could never navigate through and understand how myON worked. Eventually, I gave up and switched to Epic.
• The book selection was poor. Only the non-fiction books were interesting to my students. None of the popular titles and authors were available.
• It was a big disappointment and frustration for me and my students.

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• I've had issues in the past when I have completed a training, but it doesn't show up that it is completed.
• I think Skillport could be more visually pleasing.

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Books 24x7 is a useful tool for growth, knowledge sharing, and overall intellectual health within the company. Our company has been very forward thinking in offering this to every employee. As a result, people have been able to grow in areas they may not have previously explored because of the free access to resources they may not have bothered with before they had free access to them.

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Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport) is easy to understand. Students didn't need much of an effort to understand how to use it, where to find the content, how to pass each course. It was also great that Skillsoft Percipio (Skillport) has this direct link to LinkedIn so the user can post their acquired skills on their professional history.

I believe this product provides students with faster and easier access to books. This increases their time spent on task reading. myON reader is a product that is great for students and teachers.

If there are any issues and concerns while using myON, there are many help resources available to offer assistance.

myON Reader works so well with the rest of the Renaissance Platform. This consistency is great for everyone!

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We have standing meetings every month with our support team along with having a customer service portal with Knowledge Base and online support

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All the Renaissance products are so user friendly and have the ability to fit into any educator's classroom needs. [Renaissance] myON [Reader] goes hand in hand with Accelerated Reader and easily links the quizzes for the students to access. My students have stayed so engaged while reading/listening to fun books on different topics for class. They love the fact that they can listen to the books while following along in the digital book. This helps my struggling readers have success.

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It all depends on your use case, budget, technology lift, quality, etc. My users need to be satisfied #1, or else we go with another provider. #2 the cost needs to be in line. #3 the user onboard needs to be easy, etc. Skillsoft Percipio works for us, hits all the marks.

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• Students continued to read on their level and were motivated by all of the books being an AR book with a quiz and points to earn.

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• Access to quality educational content for employees to take advantage of and invest back into their work.
• Technology training at scale - Users can access courses at any time apart from dedicated training sessions.

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