This article explains how to award behaviour points in Arbor for both positive and negative behaviours. It details the necessary permissions, various methods for recording points, and the information required when logging points. Additionally, it addresses common issues and limitations regarding automatic point logging.
Behaviour points can be awarded for positive or negative behaviour on Arbor. There are a few different places you can record points from.
Permissions
To add behaviour points, you will need either:
- School: Behaviour: Log Point Award
- School: Behaviour: View All/My Students and Student: Behaviour: Administer All/My Students
All business roles will have the Student: Behaviour: Log Point Award permission by default, but if your school manages your permissions you may need to ask your admin team to give you permission using these instructions.
Recording behaviour points
From the Homepage
Select your point award scale to record points for from your Favourites on your homepage.
From a Lesson Dashboard
You may already be viewing a lesson through the lesson dashboard of your class (the page you use to take the register and see class and student details).
On the lesson dashboard, there are two ways you can record points – either click the orange Behaviour button to get a drop-down menu, or tick the names of the students involved and click the Bulk action button in the Students table.
From the student's profile
Go to the Behaviour section from the left-hand menu on the student's profile.
Click the Behaviour Points tab then click +Add.
From the Behaviour Dashboard
You can jump to the behaviour section of Arbor through your Favourites on My Homepage, or by going to Students > Behaviour > Point Awards. Click the green Award/deduct points button.
When using this option, make sure you select which scale to add points for.
Update the slide over with the details, then click Award/Deduct points. When logging points you need to include:
- Who you are awarding the point to - this can be an individual student or a group
- The reason
- The points being awarded or taken away
Additional notes can be added including the time, location, staff who gave the points, as well as linking it to the lesson students were in at the time.
You can also upload a file, e.g. evidence such as a photo or copy of a piece of work too.
Top Tip: The maximum number of characters allowed in the Narrative field is 255 characters, to prevent further text being cut off in reports etc.
I can't add behaviour points
If you can't record behaviour points, take a look at this article: I can't add behaviour points
Can we automatically add points?
You can't automatically log points, such as for students with a certain high attendance percentage.
However, you can have certain behaviour incidents (positive or negative) also award points: Setting up Behaviour workflows
What's next?
You can see how to report on behaviour points as a teacher here: How can I see behaviour statistics for my class?
Or how to see who has the most points in a certain timescale here: How can I see who has the most behaviour points?
Comments
I am confused to the pictures on this page and the bottom statements. The award/deduct photo doesn't match what we have in Arbor and I don't understand to which option is the..........
Update the slide over with the details, then click Award/Deduct points. When logging points you need to include:
Additional notes can be added including the time, location, staff who gave the points, as well as linking it to the lesson students were in at the time.
You can also upload a file, e.g. evidence such as a photo or copy of a piece of work too.
to be direction to??? Have there been updates?
Hi Sally, there haven't been any recent updates to this area. It may be that you're clicking to create a behaviour incident rather than add points to one of your point award scales, which is why the slide over would look like it does here: https://support.arbor-education.com/hc/en-us/articles/115000183829-Logging-editing-and-resolving-Behaviour-Incidents
If not, please get in touch with our support team via email or chat, as we may need to take a look at your site so cannot resolve any issues here.
hi,
how can i bulk add achievement points/incidents for custom groups/ clubs/ students on custom report writing. i want to add 500 merits to students with 100% attendance. I have all of them in a Custom Report. I can email them, email parents but not add points.
Hi Jamie, you won't be able to record behaviour points from within a custom report.
However, you will be able to record points for all of your custom group at once. Just select to add behaviour points from your homepage and select the custom group in the Student(s) box!
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