A tour of your class
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Each class has a sidebar on the left, with Home at the top. This is what's behind each item.
| Sidebar | What it's for |
|---|---|
| Home | This week at a glance, + Log reading, and every class tool (see below) |
| Roster | Students, sign-in options (QR, passcodes, links), and Administrators (co-teachers) |
| Challenges | Reading goals for the class. Choose Add challenge or Browse templates. |
| Quizzes | Quiz results per student, Book Quiz Requests, and custom assessments |
| Motivation | The reading motivation check, in beta |
| Level Check | A reading level check for the class, in beta: see the Level Check |
| Word Lists | Weekly spelling and vocabulary lists, with practice and a test, in beta: see Word Lists |
| Rewards | Each student's points, stones and gems, Custom Rewards to Fulfill, and your custom rewards. A number beside it counts rewards waiting to be handed out. |
| Families | A flyer home and Parent-Teacher Reports, each in English or Spanish |
| Book Order | A book order flyer for families that earns your class Book Cash: see Send a book order flyer home |
| Book Wallet | Your free Book Wallet and Book Cash for buying books for your class |
| Settings | How your class works, in sentences you click to change: the class and its plan, quizzes, reading and points, what students see, classmates and sharing, archive and delete |
| Resources | Getting-started videos and PDFs, Schedule Call, Send Email |
| Feedback & Ideas | Suggest and vote on features |
Ask Marian sits at the bottom of the sidebar. See Ask Marian instead of searching.
The box at the top of the sidebar shows the class name and its Class code. Click it to switch to another class, open your school's dashboard if you belong to one, or Create class.
Home
At the top: the week and today's date, and + Log reading (Record or fix reading). Below:
- … of … read this week, and how many students haven't read in two weeks (they were reading before).
- Words, pages and books this week, each against last week. Click them for Reading Stats.
- From Monday, once your class has read, Watch your Weekly Recap plays last week's recap, a short video of what the class read. The line goes once you've played it.
- A tile for each student, coloured Signed in, Recorded reading or Met their goal. A pink number on a tile counts what that student needs from you, such as a quiz request, a finished book to certify or a reward to hand out; hover for the list. Status of the Class → under the tiles shows the same students in more detail. Click a tile to open that student's panel: Needs you, their week, what they're reading (update the page, mark it finished, or start a new book right there), and links to their reading log, quiz log, full profile, conference report, points and reading level. Click their name at the top of the panel for their full profile. For a student who hasn't signed in or recorded any reading yet, the panel leads with how to get them signed in, and you can still start a book for them under Reading now. Clicking a student's name on any class page opens the same panel.
Under that, every tool, in three groups:
| Group | Tools |
|---|---|
| Validate reading | Book quizzes, Reading logs, Book reflections, Custom assessments, Quiz results, Reading baseline |
| Motivate reading | Weekly goal (the reading baseline), Reading challenges, Rewards, Connect with families, Reading motivation, Book lists, Class recaps (last week's and last month's video, and earlier ones under Earlier), Trading cards |
| Understand readers | Status of the Class, Reading levels, Reading stats, Activity feed, Books, Student dashboards, Reading zones |
Until half your students have signed in, Home shows Your first week instead: four steps that tick themselves off, and your sign-in address and class code with Print … cards. The tools wait under Everything Bookroo can do; click Show all tools to open them.
The Class Bulletin, a class page you can share with families, is under Settings → Classmates and privacy. See Share your class bulletin.
Still stuck?
Email us or book a call. A person on the Bookroo team will help.