Behavior module

General
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Is it possible to have a deeper description about the behavior module? Thanks

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  • The behaviour modules maintains a set of behaviour records for students, where each record is one event or behaviour.
  • Events can be either positive (x helped y) or negative (x hit y).
  • When a positive comment is recorded, the student gets a "like" (e.g. gold star, merit, etc. v11 only)
  • When a negative event is recorded, the students' form tutor will be notified. (v11 only).
  • Events have descriptors, which are like main categories (e.g. Being Nice, Helping Others, Working Together for positive, or Hitting, Fighting, Swearing for negative).
  • These descriptors can be easily customised under Admin > School Admin > Manage Behaviour Settings. In addition, in v11, these can be turned off all together.
  • Events have levels, which say how severe something is (e.g. Level 1, Level 2, Level 3).
  • These levels can be easily customised under Admin > School Admin > Manage Behaviour Settings. In addition, in v11, these can be turned off all together.
  • The teacher adding the record can do so for one student, or a group of students together.
  • When adding the record, an initial comment on the incident can be made. This can be added later, or follow up information can be placed in an individual box.
  • Form tutors see a summary of recent behaviour for their form on the home page.
  • A behaviour summer of each student is given in the behaviour module, and in the student profile.
  • There is a pattern spotter, for seeking particular types of behaviour.
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Thanks Ross, Your information is very useful !!

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Hi Ross, hope you are well.

Can you clarify something or me? When a student has a positive behaviour I am not seeing any positives in the alert level.
I am not sure if i am making myself clear.
In other words, when the student has done something good/positive the levels only points to stages of severity stage1 to stage 3.
Can this be changed?

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Willpro,

Levels should appear for both positive and negative behaviour records, but only if Levels are turned on and setup under Admin > School admin in the main menu and then Manage Behaviour Settings in the module menu.

Does this help?

Thanks,

Ross

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Hi Ross,


Thanks for your response. If I can clarify further. The Levels seem to be tied to different stages and these stages all (to me) seems to be based upon what action or non action to be taken if the behaviour is negative. However I am not seeing anything in the levels/stages to praise a positve behaviour.or am I over looking something? I hope am a little clearer?

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Willpro,

No, you are clear. Those levels are just one possible way of creating levels, and they are completely customisable by going to Admin > School admin
in the main menu and then Manage Behaviour Settings in the module menu. You just enter a comma-separate list of the options you want.

Levels are not specific to positive or negative: the same list of levels applies to both.

Ross

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Ross, 


My main concern are the stages of severity found under levels in school admin. I assume these also link to the alert levels which are all tied back to the behaviour records for each student. So while the student may have a positive descriptor in his record the levels doesn’t reflect same. The levels under behaviour records will be stage 1, 2 or 3 depending on severity of a negative incident. Is there any way we can have a positive stage to highlight positive descriptors? Hope I am not confusing you.

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Willpro,

I see what you mean. The alert system is slightly separate, and basically runs on a count of the various behaviour records a student has (3-5 = low alert for example).

If you want to to have separate positive and negative behaviour levels, you would just have to label them:

Positive - Level 1
Positive - Level 2
Positive - Level 3
Negative - Level 1
Negative - Level 2
Negative - Level 3

Not ideal, but the best the system can do for now.

Thanks,

Ross

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thanks much.