Recognize a Student
Each time you launch the app, the “Recognize a Student” screen will appear as this is the primary action for staff members. You can access the menu to do other tasks by clicking the three lines in the top-left corner.
- Select the points to award for each expectation, or choose the amount on the number line, depending on the point type of your school
- Selecting “Include Comment” will reveal a text box to note the reason that points were awarded
- “Scan to Reward” to scan or search to select a student
- A successful scan will bring up the results as confirmation. You can show this to the student so he/she knows exactly where they stand with respect to points. The practice of scanning and showing the results to the student becomes a natural process.
- The orange undo button will appear for roughly 4 seconds. This feature is helpful if you are scanning cards from a printed roster sheet. Many smartphones are very fast at scanning and it can be easy to pick the wrong QR Code off of a printed sheet. Just tap the undo button to reverse the scan.
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Award by Group from the App
The smartphone Staff App allows you to award points to your favorite groups. For a group to be available on the app, add it to your “My Groups/Favorites” section in the “Groups” screen of the Web Portal. (A group from any sections of the “Groups” screen can be added to “My Groups/Favorites” by selecting the heart. Remove the group from your “Favorites” by clicking the heart again.)
From the “Main Menu,” choose “Groups.”
- Select the group for which you would like to award points.
- Tap the “Select All” on the right to select all the students in the group.
- You can remove the checkmark next to students who should not be awarded points by tapping next to their name. Tap again to put the checkmark back.
- Select the points to be awarded at the top of the screen
- Checking “Include Comment” will create a text box for the comment to be entered.
- Select “Reward # Points” at the bottom.
- Points will be awarded and the confirmation will pop up.
- Use “Ok” to close the notification.
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