Adding Behaviour Notes & Sharing with Parents and Students

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Turn on Enable Behaviour Notes in Settings > Behaviour & Discipline. Then open a student's profile, select the Behaviour & Discipline tab and select Add Behaviour Note. Tick Visible to Parents or Visible to Student to share the note.

Screenshot: Settings menu with Behaviour & Discipline open
Where to find it: Settings > Behaviour & Discipline

Turn on behaviour notes

  1. Go to Settings > Behaviour & Discipline and tick Enable Behaviour Notes. This adds the Behaviour & Discipline tab to student profiles.
  2. Behaviour types are added by default. Select Add Behaviour Type to add more, tick Positive? for positive behaviour types, and drag to reorder them.
  3. Under Next Step, select Add Next Step to add the follow-up actions teachers can choose, then select Save Changes.
Screenshot: Behaviour Types Settings with Enable Behaviour Notes, behaviour types and next steps
Behaviour Types Settings with Enable Behaviour Notes, behaviour types and next steps.

Add a behaviour note

Administrators, the student's homeroom advisor and their class teachers can add behaviour notes.

  1. Open the student's profile and select the Behaviour & Discipline tab.
  2. Select Add Behaviour Note in the right-hand panel.
Screenshot: Add Behaviour Note in the Details panel of a student profile
Add Behaviour Note in the Details panel of a student profile.
  1. Enter the Incident Date & Time, Action Date, Behaviour Type and Next Step, and describe the incident.
  2. Under Additional Options, choose who can see the note (see below), then select Add Behaviour Note.
Screenshot: Add Behaviour Note form with Additional Options for parents and students
Add Behaviour Note form with Additional Options for parents and students.

The student's homeroom advisor is emailed automatically when a new note is added.

Share a note with parents or the student

  • Visible to Parents: parents can see the note on their child's Academic Profile. Tick Notify Parents via E-mail to email them as well.
  • Visible to Student: the student can see the note on their profile. Tick Notify Student via E-mail to email them as well.

Note: You can only send an email notification when the note is visible to that person. If a note is not visible to students or parents, they cannot see it.

View behaviour notes as a teacher or administrator

Open the student's profile and select the Behaviour & Discipline tab. Each note shows the incident date, who logged it and whether it is visible to parents or the student.

Screenshot: Behaviour & Discipline tab on a student profile with a note marked Visible to Parents
Behaviour & Discipline tab on a student profile with a note marked Visible to Parents.
  • Class teachers can see and edit only their own notes.
  • Homeroom advisors can see all notes for their students but edit only their own.
  • Administrators can see and edit all notes for all students.

What parents and students see

Parents find shared notes in their child's Academic Profile > Behaviour & Discipline tab.

Screenshot: parent view of the Behaviour & Discipline tab on their child's Academic Profile
Parent view of the Behaviour & Discipline tab on their child's Academic Profile.

Students find notes shared with them in their profile, on the Behaviour & Discipline tab.

Screenshot: student view of the Behaviour & Discipline tab on their profile
Student view of the Behaviour & Discipline tab on their profile.

Email to parents

When Notify Parents via E-mail is ticked, parents receive an email like this one.

Screenshot: behaviour note email sent to parents
Behaviour note email sent to parents.

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