Setting up Behaviour in Arbor

If you want to add your own behaviour types, go to Students > Behaviour > Setup and go to the Types tab. To add your own behaviour types click +Add in the top right-hand corner.

A slide over will appear and you can add the details of the Behaviour here, including the severity.

You can also add staff members who may need to be notified either by role eg Form Tutor, Head of Year or by name.

Click the green Add Behaviour button to complete.

If you want to edit a behaviour type, you can! On the Students > Behaviour > Setup > Types tab, click the type you want to edit.

Make the changes, then click Save Changes.

You can also edit who is notified when a behaviour type is received in bulk by ticking the boxes next to the type and clicking the Bulk action icon.

You have two options to remove a behaviour type from the list available to users when logging an incident:

• Archiving the behaviour type - This can be used to switch the behaviour type off for an amount of time and is reversible.
• Deleting the behaviour type - This will completely delete the behaviour type and is non-reversible. You would need to set up the behaviour type again.

Archiving

To archive a behaviour type, click the behaviour type, then click the Archive button.

If you archive a behaviour type then you won't be able to assign it to new incidents. You will still be able to see a record of any previous incidents logged for that behaviour type and you can still make custom reports with this data in too as long as the date of the report includes the time that the type was active. 

You can also archive behaviour types in bulk by ticking the boxes next to the type and clicking the Bulk action button.

The behaviour type will move from being an 'Active Behaviour' to an 'Archived Behaviour'. View these by clicking the drop-down menu at the top of the page.

If you want to unarchive the behaviour type, just click it, then click the Unarchive button or use the bulk edit feature again.

Deleting

To delete a behaviour type, click the behaviour type, then click the Delete button.

Please note: When you delete a behaviour type, any past incidents recorded with this type will instead display the derived incident level but will not display the type.

Go to  Students > Behaviour > Setup , then select the  Point Awards tab. Click +Add to add a new scale.

• Choose the ‘directionality’ of your point scale.  This can be positive, negative or neutral.  A positive scale refers to an increase in points given over time, negative refers to the scale deducting points, a neutral scale means that points can either be rewarded or deducted.  
• Select your minimum and maximum points.  This is the number of points you can distribute to a student at any one time.
• Choose a point reset cycle and opening balance. This determines the starting balance on the Totals reporting page - more details here: How does our behaviour point scale reset?
• Choose how much information about this set of points to display on the Parent Portal. For more information on what is shown on the Parent Portal and how to edit it, click here. 

Then click Create Point Award Scale.

Your scale will then be set up. You will then need to add reasons and attributes. You can assign standard behaviours to receive a set amount of points to increase the efficiency and consistency of the points system in your school. You can add as many or few attributes as you wish!

In the Reasons/attributes section click +Add.

In the slide over that appears, name the reason/attribute for which points will be awarded/deducted and how many points will be awarded/deducted for this specific behaviour.

Finish by clicking on the green Add Reason/Attribute button.

You can edit existing scales by clicking the scale and clicking Manage Point Award Scale.

You can then edit any of the information or add more reasons.

Go to Students > Behaviour > Setup. Select the Incidents tab. Then select the Automatic Incident Workflows section.

Select the severity you would like to set up the workflow for. In this example, I will be setting up a Level 3 Negative Incident.

You will be presented with the following workflow options.

Each of these can be clicked into and according to your wishes, can be either set up or not, depending on your behaviour policy and procedures. You can set up workflows for all the severity levels, all with different workflows should you wish, just see the sections below.

You can choose to notify primary guardians if an incident is logged, or if their child is added to a detention session, or through an automatic workflow - see the section on Assign Automatic Detention below for how to turn this on.

You can choose to use different SMS or email templates you've set up, if you want a different message to show depending on the severity: Set up different email or SMS messages for incidents and detention severities

You can set up incidents to automatically notify as many key members of staff as you like when an incident is created. The incident will appear in their 'Watched by me' section on the incident dashboard, and they will receive a notification in the top right corner.

To set up notifications choose a level of incident and click 'Notify member of staff' on the incident workflows page.

Select who to notify about this level of incident. Role in relation to child will pick out the head of year, form tutor, head of department, head of faculty or head teacher for each child involved in the incident.

Please note: in order to notify users with a role in relation to the student, the following needs to be set up:

• Form Tutor - Each form needs at least one form tutor and the student needs a registration form
• Head of Year - Each year group needs to have a head of year and the student needs to have a year group
• Head/Second of Department/Faculty - The lesson must be linked to a course. The course must be linked to a Department, the Department/Faculty must have a head/second.

'Specific member of staff' will notify one user for all incidents created of this level regardless of the students involved.

'Allow staff to add notifications...' allows staff to choose who to notify when they create an incident.

You can set up incidents to automatically be assigned to the member of staff you would like to deal with the issue when an incident is created. The incident will appear in their 'Assigned to me' section on the incident dashboard, and they will receive a notification in the top right corner.

Select 'Assign to member of staff' on the incident workflows page.

You can now select who to assign this level of incident to. Role in relation to child will pick out the head of year, form tutor, head of department, head of faculty or head teacher for each child involved in the incident.

Please note: in order to notify users with a role in relation to the student, the following needs to be set up:

• Form Tutor - Each form needs at least one form tutor and the student needs a registration form
• Head of Year - Each year group needs to have a head of year and the student needs to have a year group
• Head/Second of Department/Faculty - The lesson must be linked to a course. The course must be linked to a Department, the Department/Faculty must have a head/second.

'Specific member of staff' will notify one user for all incidents created of this level regardless of the students involved.

If a member of staff doesn't have the right role for an incident to be automatically assigned (for example, if there is no one listed as head of department) then the member of staff that logs the incident will be asked to select someone to assign the incident to. There can only be one assignee for each incident.

To automatically assign students to a detention if they are involved in a certain level of incident. Choose Auto-assign detention and then select the detention type you would like to assign.

Select Next available session to automatically enrol the student in the next available detention session or select do not assign a detention session to leave the student without a specific detention session (this will require someone to go in and assign the student a session).

Need time to inform parents of upcoming detentions? You can also allocate automatic detentions with a 24h delay! If an incident is logged at 10 am, the student will be given the next available detention after 10 am tomorrow.

Select 'Allow staff to assign detentions' to allow staff to assign students to detentions manually when they log incidents.

The auto close workflow closes an incident automatically after the workflow has been run for it. For example, At school A for level 1 incidents, students automatically gain 2 behaviour points and message is sent to their parents. After this, the school don't want any further action to be taken on the incident so they select enable 'auto-close' to automatically resolve the incident after the actions have been taken.

To enable auto-closing, select Auto close.

Select this option to automatically escalate an incident after repetition.

Enter the number of incidents required to escalate to the next level. Then select the time period these incidents must occur in. Finally, select the level you would like to escalate to. Then click Save.

For example, weekly thresholds reset 7 days after the first incident was logged. So if you select 2 as the escalation threshold, student with an incident on Friday and the following Monday will be escalated, but a student with an incident on the Friday and the next Friday wouldn't.

Select this option to automatically add or deduct behaviour points when this level of an incident is recorded.

Select this option to email the assigned staff member with a link to the incident overview.

The staff member will receive an email when an incident is assigned to them. It will say 'New behaviour assignment' in the subject line.

It is possible to ‘Allow students to be assigned an internal exclusion’ as part of your school’s behaviour workflows.

If a student triggers a predefined ‘incident level’, then they will appear in the ‘Pending internal exclusions’ tab of the Internal Exclusions - Overview page.

It would then be up to the member of staff in charge of behaviour, or internal exclusions to allocate the student to an internal exclusion type and session.

Due to the serious nature of internal exclusions and factors such as internal exclusions room size and student behaviour clashes, we have set the system up so that it is not possible to automatically enrol students in an internal exclusion.

An internal exclusion must be assigned by a member of staff with the correct permissions to do this.

Create Detention Types in Students >  Behaviour > Setup, and select the Detentions tab.

To create and schedule a detention click on +Add on the right-hand side of the page.

A slide over will appear to Add Detention Type for Academic Year.

The detention you have just created will now be listed in the Detentions Type Table.

Clicking on a detention in the table will take you to the Detention Overview.  Here there is an Overview tab and a Timetable tab.

Click on the Timetable tab and then the green +Add button to schedule detention sessions.

You can schedule one-off or regular sessions, simply click on the option you want to create.

This will take you to a slide over where you are able to enter all the details about the detention session you are setting up.

You aren't able to set multiple locations for detentions, but you can add more than one staff member.

The scheduled slots will then display.

The detention session or sessions you have created will now be visible on the Detentions Dashboard under the Upcoming Detentions tab.

To add a new reason, click +Add in the Internal Exclusion reasons section. 

Add the reason name, then click the green button to add it. Users will then be able to select this reason when assigning an internal exclusion.

Any unwanted reasons (Arbor or user-defined) can be ‘archived’, or you can modify the names of reasons you have already created (if you have not yet recorded internal exclusions using this reason). 

To archive an Arbor-defined reason, click the reason, then click Archive.

To archive or modify the name of a User-defined reason, click the reason.

Note that changing the name of a reason will also change any historic references to this internal exclusion reason. Please archive this reason and create a new one if you do not wish to change any historic references.

You can see and unarchive your archived reasons if you select Archived reasons and click Apply.

Click +Add to create new Internal Exclusion types.

Add an internal exclusion name, then click the green button.

After creating the Internal Exclusion it will take you automatically to the Timetable setup or you can come back to this later. (If you choose to do this later just highlight the Internal exclusion that needs to be timetabled e.g Periods 1 and 2 and click on this exclusion type. This will take you to the Timetable Setup overview.) 

Go to the Timetable tab, then click +Add in the Timetable section. 

This will allow you the choice of creating a one-off or a regularly occurring internal exclusion. Select which type to create.

If you choose to create a repeating session, you can choose the dates the session should run on. You can only select one room for a session to run in, but you can add multiple staff members.

Top Tip: Students cannot be added to internal exclusions spanning more than one day: Can I add an internal exclusion across more than one day?

When the internal exclusion has been successfully timetabled, you can start adding students and additional staff to the sessions. You can see how to add students here: Adding a student to an Internal Exclusion

You can choose to not allow your staff to edit incidents once they have been logged. This can be useful if behaviour incidents are used as evidence for exclusions, in meetings with parents and sometimes in court.

This is by default set to ‘Yes - allow editing of behaviour incidents after they have been logged’, but you can change this to not allow editing.

Want to list positive incident types first when logging an incident? We’ve added the option to toggle this to show most positive level behaviour types at the top and most negative at the bottom of the drop-down when logging an incident - encouraging staff to record the good times as well as the not-so-good. 

This is by default still set to negative first, but you can change this setting.

You can toggle whether the box to create separate incidents is ticked by default when users log an incident.