How do students recommend a book to a classmate?

Students can recommend a book they finished to a classmate. By default you approve each recommendation before the classmate sees it. You can also send them right away, or turn recommendations off, class by class.

What students do

1. A student opens a book they finished and clicks the Reflect tab.
2. Under Recommend it to a classmate, they pick a classmate and click Send.

The book is all they send: there's no message. The new recommendation shows at the top of their list under the picker, which says how each one went: Waiting for your teacher, Sent, or Your teacher didn't send this one if you declined it.

• Students can only recommend a book they finished, and never to a classmate who already finished it. Classmates who already read it are named under the picker ("Already read it: Summer, Sydney"). When everyone has read it, the box says "Everyone in your class has read this one!"
• They can recommend a book to each classmate once.
• Remove beside a recommendation takes it back: it leaves your list if it's waiting, or the classmate's suggestions if it was sent, and the student can send it again. A recommendation you declined has no Remove, so it stays declined.
• A student can have up to 5 recommendations waiting for you at a time, and can send up to 5 a day. At either limit, the box says so in place of the picker.
• Classmates show by first name and last initial, as on your class sign-in page.

Approve or decline them

When recommendations are waiting, your class Home says so at the top. Click Review, or click Classmate recommendations under Validate reading.

1. Each row shows the Date, who it's From, who it's To, and the Book: its cover, its Lexile and AR level, and where it sits against the classmate's ZPD (for example "For Savannah: Above range"). Click the title to see the book.
2. Click Approve or Decline. Clicked the wrong one? Click Undo in the message at the bottom right within 15 seconds, and it goes back on the list. Approve all approves every one on the page, and asks first when more than 5 are waiting.

An approved book shows in the classmate's What are you reading? suggestions, marked From the student who sent it, such as "From Ava M." Books you or another teacher suggested always come first. A declined one never shows, and the sender can't send that book to that classmate again.

Co-teachers with view-only access see the list but can't approve or decline.

Change the setting

1. Open your class and click Settings.
2. Under Classmates and privacy, click the underlined words in "When a student recommends a book they finished to a classmate, …" and pick one:

Changing the setting doesn't change recommendations already waiting. They stay on the Classmate Recommendations page for you to approve or decline.

Students in more than one class

Two students who share more than one class follow the strictest of those classes' settings. If any of them is off, they can't recommend books to each other. If any of them approves each one, recommendations between them wait for a teacher. Any teacher of a class both students are in can approve them. See Students in more than one class.