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Change your settings

Most teachers only use Settings to change the language, download scripts or turn off emails. To open it, click Settings near the bottom of the left sidebar.

Settings is one long page, not tabs. It is split into parts, each with its own heading:

  • Your Account: Language, Export Submissions and, for some teachers, Answer scheme editor. These are just for you.
  • Department Settings: Your Departments, Your Email Notifications and AI Scoring Mode. These apply to one department.
  • School-wide Settings and Integrations: most teachers do not see these. See Other sections.

If you see Answer scheme editor, leave it on Follow the school setting unless the ren. team or your HOD (Head of Department) asks you to change it. It only changes which editor opens for you.

Change the language​

  1. Under Language, click the list.
  2. Choose English, 中文, Bahasa Melayu or தமிழ்.

The page reloads in that language. Buttons, labels and messages change for you only.

Download all your scripts​

Download your students' submissions (their scripts with your marks and comments) as PDF files, for example to keep your own copy.

  1. Under Export Submissions, click Export All Submissions. A box opens with your classes, assignments and students.
  2. Tick the classes, assignments or students you want. Use the search box to find one quickly.
  3. Click Export at the bottom. It shows how many files you chose, for example Export (12 files).
  4. Wait while ren. prepares the files. A ZIP file (one file holding all the PDFs) downloads to your computer.

Exporting changes nothing. Your marks stay as they are, and students are not told.

Choose which emails you get​

Under Department Settings, find Your Email Notifications. Each switch is one email ren. sends for you. Switch one off to stop it. Depending on your school, the list can include:

  • Email my students when I create a new assignment
  • Remind my students the day before an assignment is due
  • Send me a daily summary of new submissions
  • Tell me who has not handed in, once a deadline passes
  • Email my students when their results are released
  • Remind me about work that has been waiting to be marked for two days

Each time you flip a switch, ren. saves it straight away and a message appears: Saved. There is no save button. If it says Could not save that change. Please try again., flip the switch again.

You only see the emails your school sends. You can turn any of them off for yourself, but not turn on one your school does not send. If your school sends none, the box says so and there is nothing to choose.

If you belong to more than one department​

Your Departments is the first box under Department Settings. It lists the departments your account belongs to. With one department, there is nothing to do here.

With more than one, Your Email Notifications and AI Scoring Mode apply to one department at a time. The one on screen says Selected. To change another department's settings, click Manage settings next to it.

AI Scoring Mode​

AI Scoring Mode is set for each department, not for each teacher. It decides whether teachers in that department see ren.'s suggested marks while marking:

  • Suggest: AI scores are shown as suggestions that teachers can accept or override.
  • Hide: AI scores are hidden from teachers. Scores are still recorded for analytics.

For most teachers the box only says Set by an administrator at your school. Nothing to do.

Leave this to your HOD

If you can change this, it changes marking for everyone in your department. Clicking Hide asks Hide AI-suggested scores?; click Hide scores to confirm. Leave it on Suggest unless your Head of Department (HOD) asks you to change it.

Other sections​

Most teachers do not see these. They are for school administrators; leave them alone.

  • School-wide Settings: Email Rules, marked Applies to your whole school. These decide which emails ren. sends at all, for everyone at your school.
  • Integrations: connecting ren. to your school's learning system, such as Microsoft Teams or Canvas. It only appears if your school has these connections turned on.

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