Award behavior points and follow the score

This guide follows behavior points from the school’s settings to the score students and families see. A behavior point is one behavior of a point category, scored for one student on one day. A student’s behavior total is the school’s starting point plus the points counted in the school’s counting period.

Who does what

The school:

• Prepares the point categories and their behaviors, the starting point and the counting period.
• Decides whether guardians receive a daily summary of the points.
• Gives points to batches, classes and single students, and follows the totals on the behavior scoring report.

Teachers give points to their own students from Counseling → Behavior points.

Parents follow their child’s points, and students their own, from Counseling → Behavior pointing.

1. Prepare the point categories

1. In the Behavior assessment menu, choose Settings, then the Behavior categories card.
2. Open the Point categories tab. Behavior pointing offers only these categories; the Assessment categories tab holds the categories report cards use.
3. Choose Add point category at the top right of the table. The form opens beside the table.
4. Fill in the form:
   • Title: up to 65 characters, different from the class level’s other categories.
   • Class level: the category is offered only in that class level’s batches and classes.
   • Minimum and Maximum: the points a behavior of the category can carry, whole numbers from -100 to 100. A negative score takes points away.
   • Allow a comment with each assessment: leave it on if a point may carry a comment.
   • Subject, Class and Teachers: optional. A teacher is offered the category when Teachers names them or is empty and, when the category names a class, they teach that class.
5. Choose Save. The form closes and the category appears in the table.

Add the behaviors

1. In the category’s row, open the arrow next to View and choose Behaviors.
2. Choose a behavior in the Student Behavior list and choose Add, or type one in New behavior and choose Add new behavior.
3. A behavior takes the category’s range when it is added. To make a behavior worth a fixed number of points, set its own Minimum and Maximum to the same number and choose Save range.

Each change is saved at once. Once points use a behavior, it cannot be removed and its range cannot change.

2. Set the starting point and the counting period

Important: Set both before the first point is given. They lock once any behavior point has been given at the school this season.

1. In the Behavior assessment menu, choose Settings.
2. On the Starting point card, choose Edit, enter the score every student of the school starts the season with, and choose Save. It is a whole number and can be zero or negative; until one is saved, 0 applies.
3. On the Score counting period card, choose Edit, choose Termly or Yearly under Count behavior points, and choose Save. Termly counts the points dated in the current grading term; yearly counts every point of the season. Until one is saved, yearly applies.

Administrators and managers change these cards, and both values belong to one school: with a campus or headquarters selected, the cards ask for a school. A locked card says Locked: behavior points have already been given at this school this season.

Tell guardians about the day’s points

1. On the same page, open the Notifications card.
2. On the Send guardians a daily summary of behavior points card, choose Edit, pick At 15:00 school time, At 16:00 school time or At 17:00 school time, and choose Save. Do not notify turns the summary off, which is how it starts.

At the chosen time, each guardian of a student with points dated that day receives one message per student in SmartClass, listing each behavior with its category and score and the day’s change, and a push notification unless they turned it off. A guardian who chose email in their own notification preferences also receives an email. Teachers’ comments are not included, and the student is not told. Giving a point sends nothing at once.

3. Give points

As school staff

1. In the Behavior assessment menu, choose Behavior pointing. The page needs a school selected.
2. Top 15 students shows the school’s 15 students with the highest total, as a chart and a table. When the school counts termly, choose a term in Term.
3. Under Give points, choose a group in Choose a batch or class and choose Open.
4. Choose the Date, the Teacher the points are given in the name of, and a Category. Only the point categories of the group’s class level are offered.
5. Each behavior of the category is a column. Check the box of a behavior worth a fixed number of points, or type a score inside the range of a behavior with a range. The All students row checks a fixed-value behavior for every student.
6. Choose Save. Undo changes clears what is not saved.

A point’s date must be inside a term of the season when the school counts termly, or inside the season when it counts yearly. Each save is all or nothing: if one entry is refused, nothing of that save is kept. To take back a point just given, clear its box and choose Save. Giving, changing and deleting points needs its own permission; without it, the grid is read-only.

One student, with a comment

1. Select the student’s name in the grid or in the Top 15 students table. The student’s page lists their points with the teacher and the comment.
2. Choose Give points. Choose the Category, the Student Behavior and the Point, write a Comment if the category allows one (up to 2,000 characters), check the Date and the Teacher, and choose Give point.
3. To change or delete a point, choose Edit or Delete in its Actions menu.

As a teacher

1. Open Counseling → Behavior points. The page shows your 15 assigned students with the highest total and the batches and classes you teach.
2. Open a group and give points as above. You see only your assigned students and the categories offered to you, and points are always given in your name.
3. To give one student a point with a comment, select the student’s name and choose Give points.

You see every point of your students, including those other staff gave, and you can change or delete only your own: while its date is in the current term, or, when the school counts yearly, in the season while the season runs.

4. Follow the score

The behavior scoring report

1. In the Reports menu, choose Academic reports, then Behavior scoring report. With a campus selected, it is in the Behavior assessment menu.
2. Set the filters you need. Term, Class level, Batch or class and Student need one school in scope. With a Start date and an End date, the report lists only the students with a point in that range.
3. Choose Run report. Each row shows the student’s Total score, the Counted period and, as Score date, the day of their latest point.
4. Choose View details on a row to read the student’s points, or Export CSV to download the rows.

The total is the starting point plus the points dated in the counted period, worked out each time the report runs. With a campus or headquarters selected, the report reads the schools under it, and each school counts from its own starting point in its own period. The report needs the Behavior scoring report permission at the selected institution.

What students and parents see

A parent chooses the child in the student list at the top of the menu, then Counseling → Behavior pointing; a student opens Counseling → Behavior pointing. The page, Behavior scoring report, shows the Behavior score summary, with the Starting Point and the Total, and the points of the counted period with their behavior, category, teacher and comment. All categories and All teachers narrow the list. Parents also see the points in the SmartClass app.