Class Home
The Home tab is the first section that loads when rooms are click into.
This section contains the Stream and a Participants list on the right side that contains Staff, Students, and their connected Guardians. Guardians will have information about which student they are connected to listed below them in the format of "Guardian of". This information can also be found in the Info area of Rooms.
If you would like to quickly create a group message to all of your participants in a room, click Message All at the top right corner of the Participants section on the right side of the page. Clicking Message all opens up the messages tab and adds all participants to a message that you can begin composing.
Stream serves as the homepage for your Room, and is where Announcements and Google Classroom postings are visible. Only staff members are able to post to the Stream. The content of the stream will be visible to anyone who is enrolled in the room/class.
Behavior
Behavior is a points based reward system that lives in Rooms. This is a feature that can be toggled on or off in the Settings page of your class.
Once turned on, Behavior is the place you can reward or take away points, have students spend those points, leave specified notes about a student's behavior, and access a notes and activity log.
How to customize your points library
How to customize your points library
To customize your points library, start by clicking the purple Edit library button. While editing your points library you can change the Add points, Take away points, and Spend points columns.
To add new point types, click the Add new button at the bottom of each columns. Here you can type in a point title, assign a point value, and select an icon from the drop down list.
In the top right hand corner of the Edit points library window, you can select Download reward passes that generates an editable pdf file of reward passes.
There is also an ability to share your points library to any other classes you teach by clicking on the Share library button.
Adding, taking away, and spending points
Adding, taking away, and spending points
On the main page of your Behavior tab, if you click on one or more students, you have the ability to distribute points.
To distribute points, first select a student, multiple students, or the Entire Class option. After selection the Add points, Take away points, or Spend points section on the left of the screen will become available.
Points will be added, taken, or spent as soon as you click the point option selected.
Additionally you can Leave a note, once a student is selected, you can type in a personal note regarding that student's behavior.
Notes are viewable for that student's guardians. These notes are only visible to guardian and teachers.
To Reset/Remove points for all students in a class, first select the students from the class list, then use the "reset point totals" button that appears next to the words "select student(s).
Notes and Activity Log
Notes and Activity Log
Students staff and guardians can check the following information in the Notes and Activity Log:
How many point the student has
What they can spend the points on (redeemable rewards)
What optional notes the staff member has added.
Activity Log:
Earned points
Spent points
Points taken away
How Behavior Points are Calculated
How Behavior Points are Calculated
Districts can choose between two methods to calculate student Behavior points: Per Class or Per Student. You can identify which setting your district has selected by checking the informational tooltip in your class Behavior section.
When Behavior points are per class, each student has a separate balance for each of their classes. When points are per student, all class balances roll up into a global total per student; you can use the Class Data tab to identify when one of your student’s transactions is associated with a different teacher’s class.
Even when points are global, certain Behavior activities will only apply to points earned in your class. For example, resetting points and spending points on rewards will only affect points associated with your current class. Additionally, you cannot see the content of Behavior notes from other classes
Behavior Sounds
Sounds are used when points are given or taken away, one sound effect can be set for each of the following situations:
Positive
Negative
Reward
Materials
Materials allows you to add relevant links and documents for the class. In Materials, you'll have the option to create a folder to house different documents and links, or use the Add button to add links or documents.
To move documents or links around, clicking and dragging and dropping, will move the various items to where you'd like them to be, or select the three dots, and use the Move item option.
Additional items under the three dots are the ability to Edit details, Download the document, and Delete if that document is no longer needed.
The maximum upload size is 200MB
Info
Info allows you to see and manually modify your class enrollment, as well as share any pertinent class information.
In the Info tab, you'll see a box titled Info with an Edit button. Once selected, you'll be able to add course expectations, communication expectations, syllabus information, or general bio information about you or your class.
Participants
Within the Feed/Rooms Homepage and Info tab, on the right, you can to add/remove staff and students.
Use the three dots to the right of Participants gives the choice to Edit Participants or Download Guardian Invites.
Editing Participants
Selecting Edit Participants will give you a list of currently added users, rosters that contain staff, and students synced from your student information system and a list of users (Staff and Students) that can be used to populate the class. Selecting Save Changes will add them to the Room.
Staff can be set to be either Moderators or Members, check out the difference by clicking the Staff Moderator/Member Roles button.
For classes that are synced with your Student Information System (SIS), your class enrollment will automatically update each day from the sync with your SIS. Any class changes should be made there.
For any manually created classes, this is how you'll manage the enrollment in your class. Those manual classes will not update upon each sync.
Staff Moderator/Member Roles
Staff can be designated as either Moderators (who can create content and manage the class) or Members (who can participate and manage Behavior, but can't make administrative changes).
This works the same way on web and mobile, updates in real-time, and automatically protects classes by ensuring there's always at least one moderator.
All existing staff have automatically upgraded to moderator status so nothing changes for current users, and you can choose to change your staff user type on a per room basis.
Switching roles can be accomplished by select the left to right arrows next to a staff members name when you hover your mouse over a name. Roles can also be changed by clicking the ... and editing participants, each staff member either added manually, or once clicked into within a roster will have a left/right toggle to slide back and forth between Moderator/Member
Settings/Configuration
A Settings panel is available in each room and allows you to customize details within each class. Choose from the options below to learn more about different types of customizations available:
Editing Class Name
Editing Class Name
Class names can be edited under the header Class details, located within the Settings tab. To make the class name field editable, select the pencil icon to the right of the name. Enter your preferred name for the class, and then confirm by clicking the checkbox.
Changing Class Color
Changing Class Color
The Class color - the colored stripe under the class name at the top of the class - is determined by you as the staff of the class. Selecting a color will immediately change the colored stripe.
Turning on Section Visibility
Turning on Section Visibility
Within settings, the right side of the screen displays options for your Section visibility. In section visibility you'll be able to select various items to utilize within your Rooms. The sections you can toggle on or off are Behavior, Sound Effects, and Materials.
Connecting Google Classroom
Connecting Google Classroom
If your district uses Google Classroom, you'll be able to connect your associated Google Classroom within your Room.
From the Settings panel, you'll see an Integrations option within the slider, located next to the default selected option Configurations. Once you've chosen the Integrations option you will see the Google Classroom Import section.
Use the Link button below Google Classroom Import to start your connection, select the class to connect, select if you'd like to sync the associated Announcements and/or Assignments, and hit Import.
The Google Classroom connection will pull new announcements hourly, typically arriving within minutes of them being posted in Google Classroom. Only Announcements and Assignments posted to the entire class will be imported.
Additionally, only assignments and announcements posted by the same person that connected the Google Classroom to Rooms will be imported.