DnA Reviews & Product Details

DnA is a K–12 standards-based assessment creation and administration platform providing instant scoring, formative feedback, and interactive reporting. Districts can use DnA’s high-quality, standards-based assessment content to build assessments tightly aligned to their scope and sequence—or choose to customize DnA’s prebuilt assessments—for information-rich data on student learning. Prebuilt reports give instant visibility into standards mastery, and custom reporting offers a holistic view of performance across assessments. DnA also offers built-in distractor rationales to guide in-the-moment feedback, content authoring, and live proctoring, forming a complete solution to accelerate standards mastery.

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Renaissance Learning

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Elissa K.

Chief of Staff

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/9/2018

"Best-in-class student assessment and data solution"

5/5

What do you like best about DnA?

Bubble sheet customization, overview page, matrix report, response frequency report Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DnA?

Custom reporting is exceedingly difficult and limited. They have a BI tool, JasperSoft, too. It is terrible. Everyone uses Tableau to get custom reports with Illuminate. This wouldn’t be a problem if Illuminate had good school and district level reporting, but those reports (although there are many options) don’t give us data that’s comparative at a granular enough level all in one easy to use page. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Rebecca N.

Principal

Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/14/2019

"Illuminate Data & Assessment - Still a work in progress"

3/5

What do you like best about DnA?

The reports and graphics for data on state testing is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DnA?

Administering tests and trying to make an assessment that truly assesses student learning has been challenging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UE

Verified User in E-Learning

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/14/2019

"Fills the gap for data-driven educational improvement"

4/5

What do you like best about DnA?

ease of singular location for all data-driven processes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DnA?

slightly tough interface for a totally new user Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering DnA:

Fantastic program if you need one place to make and deliver assessments, help students find resources on one place for their targeted learning, and the ability for teachers themselves to analyze all data sources for their own instructive purposes. Ease of use is a little tough for first-time users but using the tutorial/guide could easily solve this potential issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is DnA solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provides the opportunity to create and administer standards-based assessments, obtain immediate results and group students in a flexible way, with unique Response to Intervention (RtI) protocol Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Laurance J. S.

Manager of Personalized Learning and Dean of Instruction

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/11/2018

"Illuminate: Good tool, could be great"

4/5

What do you like best about DnA?

Question database is extensive. Online assessment platform is easy to use for students.Quick codes cuts down on setup process and student logins. Good customer service and support. Provides quick data and numerous reports are built in along with the abikity to customize. SIS feature holds very detailed information. Built in gradebook system is great tool as it pulls assessment datat directly into it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DnA?

UX/UI needs work. Cannot make front end changes in the portal to move staff or students around if necessary. Backside uploads for data are layered and errors can occur without clear explanation. Grading is not intuitive and visualization is crowded. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

UE

Verified User in Education Management

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

10/29/2018

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"Fantastic resource to Teachers!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about DnA?

I like that the program can store many assessments and their answers in order to make grading much more efficient and quick for me! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about DnA?

I dislike having to upload the assessments manually in order to have this process occur. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.