Using Your Reward System – Classroom Hero

This tutorial walks you through the basics of using your classroom reward system in Classroom Hero.

After you’ve created a class, open it from the All Classes page or from the side menu.

Adding Students

If you already added students during the Create Class guide (link), you can skip this step.

To add students to your class, click the Add Students button.

Quick Points

Once you’ve added at least one student, you can start awarding points using Quick Points. Hover over a student to quickly add or subtract points. These points will be categorized as Quick Reward in your classroom stats.

Actions

In Classroom Hero, there are two types of actions:

Positive Actions

Negative Actions

Positive actions are behaviors you want to encourage. When a student earns a positive action, they receive class currency and gain 1 experience point (XP), which helps them level up.

Negative actions are behaviors that result in a point deduction. You can optionally configure negative actions to reduce student XP as well, but by default they only remove points.

You can create your own positive and negative actions. Later, you’ll see how these actions roll up into your class Stats page (link) to help you track trends and overall classroom behavior. If you allow students to sign in to Classroom Hero, they’ll also be able to view the actions available in your class.

Create a Positive Action

If you already added positive actions in the Create Class guide (link), you can skip to the next section.

To create an action, click on the “Actions” tab with your class selected.

Click the Create Action button.

In the popup, enter the name of your positive action and a point value (the amount of class currency the student earns).

Create a Negative Action

Creating a negative action is very similar to creating a positive action.

Click on the “Negative Actions” tab from your class’s actions page:

Click the Create Action button.

In the popup, enter a name and point value. For example, “Speaking Out” with a value of 5 would reduce the student’s points by 5.

You can optionally configure negative actions to reduce a student’s experience points. By default, negative actions only remove points.

To do this, expand the “Advanced Settings” section and check the box to enable experience reduction. You will also be asked to provide how much experience the student loses.

Using Actions

Now that you’ve set up positive and negative actions, you’re ready to start using them with students.

Log a Positive Action

To log a positive action, return to the Students grid and click on a student.

In the popup, select a positive action for the student:

After you log a positive action, the student will begin to level up as they earn XP.

Log a Negative Action

To log a negative action, open a student and click the Negative tab, then select the appropriate action. You can also add notes for your own reference.

Use Actions in Bulk

You can award Quick Rewards or apply positive/negative actions to multiple students at once using the Select feature.

To select multiple students, click Select in the bottom bar on your class page, or choose Select All to include everyone.

Once you’re in selection mode, you can quickly add or remove points for multiple students at once using Quick Reward:

Or, you can choose one of your actions to better categorize student behavior.

Wrapping Up

You now have the core tools to manage your classroom reward system: add students, award Quick Points, and log positive and negative actions—individually or in bulk. Over time, these student actions roll up into your class Stats page (link), where you can review trends and overall behavior at a glance.

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