What do students see when they sign in?
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After signing in, students land on their own reading dashboard. To see it exactly as a student does, go to Roster → … next to the student → Sign in as student. Click Back to Teacher when you're done.
Top bar
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| Dashboard | Back to their reading dashboard |
| Rewards | The Rewards Shop |
| Books | Book discovery, plus the eBook Library unless your school or class turned it off |
| Search | Find any book by title, author or ISBN |
| Add reading (purple + on phones) | Record reading. See How students record reading. |
The dashboard, top to bottom
| Section | What's there |
|---|---|
| Profile card | Their name and avatar, your class reading goal, and progress on an individual challenge |
| Points card | Their points, how many more they can earn this week, and a Rewards Shop button |
| Reading Report card | A chart of pages read, and a Reading Report button |
| Level Check | Find your reading level, with Start (or Keep going), while a Level Check you started is open |
| Reader check | What kind of reader are you? while a motivation check you started is open. Their reader type then shows on their Reading Report. |
| Spelling words | A card for each open word list, with Practice or Take the test |
| Assessments | Any custom assessments you've assigned, with Take assessment |
| Reading Journey | Their recent reading. Tap a book to update it or take its quiz. |
| What are you reading? | Only for students who read chapter books, while no book is open. They can search for or scan the book they're already reading, or open a suggested book and click Start reading. Suggestions start with up to 3 books you suggested, then the next book in a series they've read, their Want to Read list, books classmates finished recently, and books picked for them; × hides one they don't want. See How students record reading. Any book classmates finished has a badge such as "3 classmates read this", with who on hover (see Which books your class reads most). |
| Reading calendar | A sticker for each day they read |
| Quizzes You Requested | Requested quizzes that are now ready |
| Active Reading Challenges | Each challenge they're in, with progress |
| Challenges you can join | Challenges open to them |
| Getting Started | A checklist: mark a book read, rate a book, polish a stone, collect a trading card |
| Reading Stats | Books read, this year, last 30 days, and rated |
| My Class | A link to each class page |
| My Resources | Recommended Books (every book suggested for them, as shelves), their Reading Log, Book Quiz Log, book lists and more |
Simplified view for younger readers
Simplified view for younger readers (Beta) gives students who are still learning to read a simpler home instead of the dashboard above. It's off until you turn it on under Settings → What students see: click the standard one in "Their home page is the standard one" and choose the simplified one for younger readers. You can turn it off anytime. preview the simplified home as (with your first student's name, in the same sentence) shows it to you as that student, even before you turn it on; click Back to Teacher to return. A student in more than one class gets it when any of their classes turns it on. It's new and still missing some things, so tell us what you'd change on Feedback & Ideas.
- Top bar: just Home, Prizes (the Rewards Shop) and their avatar.
- Their avatar greets them, big, beside "Which book did you read?". Tapping it lets them pick another avatar they own, or Get more in the Rewards Shop.
- Which book did you read? Big covers of the books they can take a quiz on: quizzes you requested for them first (marked From your teacher), then the book they're reading, then books they finished without passing the quiz. Tapping a cover or its green Quiz button opens one screen with the cover and a big Start! button. If the quiz needs your password, that screen asks them to get you. A book with no quiz (a board book, say) offers I read it! instead, which records it as read, unless you record their reading for them. Not here? lets them Scan it (the barcode) or Type it.
- The quiz: each question reads itself aloud, then each answer, lighting the answer as it's read; Hear it again replays it. Answers are big cards, one under another: they tap one (it turns purple), then Next (Finish on the last). Dots show how far along they are. Passing shows the same PASSED result and Word Vault celebration as for every student.
- My goals: your class reading goal (for example "This week · 0 of 100 pages") and each active challenge, each with a big progress bar. Tapping a challenge shows its details.
- From your teacher: one card for each open Level Check, reader check, spelling list or assessment you've assigned, each with a single button such as Start or Practice.
- Books I've read: a tile for each book they finished. Tapping one opens its quiz screen.
- Words and points: top right, how many words are in their Word Vault (with a bar to the next level; tap it to open the Word Vault), and their points with Prizes →.
There is no calendar, challenge list, stats, Getting Started checklist, My Resources or library card on this home.
Library Card
The library card on a student's dashboard is their Bookroo Library Card, hanging from a lanyard. It shows their avatar, name, class, how many books they've read, and a barcode made from their reader number. On wide screens it hangs beside the profile card; on narrower windows, students click the Library Card tab at the top to pull it down. They can grab it, swing it and spin it to see the back.
- Customize it: students click their card to open My Library Card. They choose a card design, a strap and up to 8 stickers, and pick which class shows on the card if they're in more than one. Pins are coming soon.
- Get more: card designs, straps and stickers are bought with points (and sometimes gems) on the Library Card shelf of the Rewards Shop. Some are seasonal or rotate, and show the day they leave.
- You can see it too: click a student on your class Home, then Full profile, and click the Library Card tab at the top. You can look but not change it.
Rewards Shop
Students spend purple points on Avatars, their Library Card, Sticker Packs, Trading Cards, Bookmarks, Postcards, Coloring Pages and 3D Models. 3D models they unlock are kept under Collectibles. A coloring page they unlock has Color it, to color it on screen with a paint bucket and markers and download it colored, and Download, to print it blank; what they color stays on that computer or tablet. Each class has its own tab for the custom rewards you create, paid in blue points. See What can students spend their points on?.
Stones and gems
- Students earn a stone by rating a book they've finished (on the book's Reflect tab). Every book earns at least one, and longer books give more (up to 5).
- Clicking Polish turns a stone into a gem: a ruby, emerald, sapphire or diamond.
- Gems unlock some shop items. Students can earn up to 30 stones (so 30 gems) a week.
Still stuck?
Email us or book a call. A person on the Bookroo team will help.