ARTICLE: Pastoral Points

ARTICLE: Pastoral Points

Pastoral Points is a simple scoring mechanism that is integrated with the submission of your pastoral notes.

It allows you to to allocate point scores for some or all of your pastoral note categories as they are submitted.
All Pastoral Notes are recorded and historically reportable, this allows your school to view and analyze student data  / history / patterns as required.
Student pastoral scores can be used as a benchmarks to implement rewards and/or restrictions to specific individuals.
Selected scores can be published for student viewing, to create team based, behaviour focused, competitive environments among the student population.
Eg; Dorms competing against Dorms - where points are aggregated for particular goals - top points receive a reward

Important facts about Pastoral Points

  • When creating your Pastoral note categories you can set default points values for each pastoral category, these points are automatically applied to the pastoral points aggregate
  • When writing a pastoral note for a student, pastoral points can be adjust manually. before submitting the pastoral note
  • A colour coding scheme can be used for points, by setting the background display for various point ranges
  • The Pastoral Points aggregator allows you to collate and view data, filter students by any year, house or student group
  • Pastoral Points scoreboards can be exported for sharing or publishing with your student community.

How to apply Pastoral Points to your students

While creating and completing a Pastoral Report, points can be added
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GO TO: Pastoral Management >> Create Pastoral Report
 
Points can be applied by default from the selected Report Type, or adjusted manually, these are applied to a student's profile when the report is submitted.



Set Default Points for Pastoral records

Each Pastoral Incident Type can be managed by your school to reflect a default Point Value.

GO TO: System Configuration >> Pastoral >> Select Line Item >> Default Point Value

Once the settings are created here, click save. Then, while creating a Pastoral Report, select the required Incident Type, once selected, the default points will auto-update on the screen, these can still be manually adjusted as needed. Points will be logged with the student profile once the report is submitted.


Set Points Threshold and Colour

Each Pastoral Incident Type can be managed by your school to reflect a default minimum / maximum threshold and a set colour.

GO TO: System Configuration >> Pastoral Points


IMPORTANT - Points can not be adjusted once the Report has been submitted. However, additional notes can be added.

Pastoral Points Aggregator

When using Pastoral Points as a measurement tool, the Pastoral Points Aggregator is the tool to collate and view data as required.

GO TO: Pastoral Management >> Pastoral Points Aggregator

Group various parameters by using the filters and click Generate. Use column headers to rank data and export as required.


Pastoral Points Timeframe

Cumulative pastoral points timeframe counter in the Student Sidebar & Student Summary can be managed by your school.

GO TO:  System Configurations >> General

Here the option is available to set no timeframe (by default), set a number of weeks/months, or configure the timeframe to reset to 0 points score on a specific date. 



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