How do I set up a reading challenge?
Step by step · Updated
Go to Challenges in your class sidebar. Click Add challenge, or Browse templates to start from a ready-made one.
Pick a mode
| Mode | How it works |
|---|---|
| Individual Challenge | Each student works toward their own goal, like a 40-book challenge |
| Team Quest | The whole class pools its reading toward one goal. You can invite other classes. |
| Class Clash | Class vs class on a leaderboard |
| Grade Gauntlet | Grade vs grade on a leaderboard |
| House Rivalry | House vs house on a leaderboard |
| Book BINGO | Each student fills a bingo card with books that match each square |
Set the goal
- Give it a Name and Start date and End date.
- Under What do you want to track?, choose the Metric: Books read, Pages read, Minutes read or Words read.
- Set the goal, and a reward if you want one.
- Save.
Add rules
Under Challenge rules, tick any of these:
- Reading must be quiz or admin certified: a book counts only once the student passes its quiz or you certify it. A book quizzed after it was finished counts on the day of the quiz, so a book read in September and quizzed in October counts toward an October challenge. A book you certify counts on the day it was finished. In a pages, minutes or daily challenge, the book's pages count on the days they were read, so those days fill in once it is quizzed or certified, and a book still being read adds nothing yet.
- Books must be within each student's ZPD: only books inside a student's Lexile range count. Books below or above it, or with no level, don't. Students without a ZPD can read any level. The rule appears once a student in the class has a ZPD (set it on Reading Levels), and only when the challenge counts books.
- A minimum page count, word count or Lexile level that every book must meet.
The top of Challenges features the running challenge closest to its goal: how much is left, a track to the finish, and how many students have added to it. Show the class puts a Team Quest's progress full screen for the projector; Open challenge opens it. Below, each challenge has a row with its progress and days left: click its name to view it (progress and leaderboard), its readers to Manage readers, or ⋯ for the rest. Ended challenges are tucked under Show N expired. Counting toward a challenge this week shows the books students in a running challenge finished in the last 7 days.
Ask Marian: "Set up a challenge: 10 books each by winter break." She fills in a challenge card from what you asked. Change any part of it, then click Start challenge.
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