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.
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Adding Behaviour Notes & Sharing with Parents and Students
Turn on behaviour notes
- Go to Settings > Behaviour & Discipline and tick Enable Behaviour Notes. This adds the Behaviour & Discipline tab to student profiles.
- Behaviour types are added by default. Select Add Behaviour Type to add more, tick Positive? for positive behaviour types, and drag to reorder them.
- Under Next Step, select Add Next Step to add the follow-up actions teachers can choose, then select Save Changes.
Add a behaviour note
Administrators, the student's homeroom advisor and their class teachers can add behaviour notes.
- Open the student's profile and select the Behaviour & Discipline tab.
- Select Add Behaviour Note in the right-hand panel.
- Enter the Incident Date & Time, Action Date, Behaviour Type and Next Step, and describe the incident.
- Under Additional Options, choose who can see the note (see below), then select Add Behaviour Note.
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.
- 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.
Students find notes shared with them in their profile, on the Behaviour & Discipline tab.
Email to parents
When Notify Parents via E-mail is ticked, parents receive an email like this one.
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