Best Practices for Promoting Honest Logging

Instead of a quiz-based approach, Beanstack uses competition, recognition, and proven gamification principles to motivate students to read and grow your school or district’s reading culture.

Beanstack helps educators uphold reading integrity and prevent fraudulent logging, while keeping the reading and logging process fun and easy for students of all ages.

What best practices are most effective?
    Use insights and reports to talk with students
    Use social tools to create transparency
    Create opportunities for deeper engagement
    Set logging limits and restrictions
What does our data show?

What best practices are most effective?

Use insights and reports to talk with students

Leverage Available Data

Leverage insights from students’ reading logs, allowing you to catch—and intervene in—fraudulent logging if and when it starts.
Rich reading log reporting allows administrators and teachers to identify (and edit or bulk delete) flagged reading logs at the individual student, class, or school level.

Connect with Students

The best way to combat fraudulent logging is to talk to the students who are doing it. An honest and open conversation turns most students around.
Regularly engage with students about their Beanstack logs, and recognize students who are logging honestly.
Use Beanstack as a tool for growing digital citizenship, where students can practice using technology in ways that are safe and responsible.

Use social tools to create transparency

Beanstack harnesses the proven power of reading as a social practice. Use Beanstack’s social tools—like friends, leaderboards, and community goals—to make reading logs visible to the entire community so that students self-police and log honestly.

Create opportunities for deeper engagement

Activity and review badges prompt students to engage deeply with their reading material in positive and self-driven ways.
Benny-enabled challenges that engage students in a Book Talk with Benny after they finish a book.

Set logging limits and restrictions

Add logging limits and warnings to your Beanstack site. These limits prevent students from logging more than an amount of minutes determined by the school and require students to promise that their reading is honest when they log above a warning threshold.
Set additional standards for honest logging by requiring book titles when students log or restricting logging to only the past 90 days. These settings can be updated in Setup > Reading Integrity Settings.

What does our data show?

Fraudulent logging is limited:

Just 0.8% of all student readers across the platform created a fraudulent log.
At most schools, just one or two students engage in fraudulent logging, and most of these students add fraudulent logs during a single day.

As always, we’re here to help! Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to your dedicated school success manager for additional support. Not sure who is your CSM? Reach out to our helpdesk!