Table of Contents
Log Warning Levels and Log Limits
Review Minimum and Maximum Character Count
Friends & Leaderboard Options
Additional Integrity Settings
Beanstack has many features and settings to help school administrators promote reading integrity in their community. You can find the settings below by navigating to Setup > Reading Integrity Settings.
Log Warning Levels and Log Limits
Beanstack’s log warning levels, log limits, and daily limits can help catch cases of fraudulent logging before they occur.
- Warning Level: Setting a log warning level for a specified number of reading units displays a warning and an extra verification check to students who log more than your limit in a single session.
- Per Log Limit: Setting a log limit completely restricts students from logging above the limit in a single reading session.
- Per Day Limit: Setting a daily logging limit completely restricts students from logging above the limit in a single day. Please note: this is only available for the minutes log type, and by default this limit is set to 300 minutes.
To set or update these values on your site:
- Scroll down to the Set Log Type Limits section.
- Enter the warning and limit values for each log type
- Click save at the bottom of the page.
Review Minimum and Maximum Character Count
Reviews can be a fantastic way to prompt students to engage deeply with their reading material in positive and self-driven ways. Setting a minimum number of characters required for a review can encourage students to derive meaningful insights from their reading.
To set these values on your site:
- Scroll down to the Set Log Type Limits section.
- Enter the minimum and maximum number of characters in the row labeled “Reviews.”
- Click save at the bottom of the page.
Friends & Leaderboard Options
Friends and leaderboards are a great way to build social accountability into your Beanstack site.
- Friends Settings
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Display Friends: If this setting is toggled on, students may add friends on Beanstack. The other student must accept the friend invite for two students to become friends on Beanstack.
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Display Friends Leaderboards: If this setting is toggled on, students can view the Friends Leaderboard, which displays a leaderboard of their friends with the most minutes or books logged for a given time period.
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Display Logged Books to Friends: If this setting is toggled on, students can see their friends’ recently logged books.
- Allow Student-Teacher Friends: If this setting is toggled on, students and teachers may add each other as friends. Please note that depending on the settings above, this may mean students can see teachers on their leaderboards or view their most recently logged books.
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Reader Leaderboard Settings
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Display Books: If this setting is toggled on, all leaderboards on your site will be available based on books logged. Please note that if you use challenges with the books logging type, we recommend you turn this on.
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Display Minutes: If this setting is toggled on, all leaderboards on your site will be available based on books logged. Please note that if you use challenges with the minutes logging type, we recommend you turn this on.
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Additional Integrity Settings
You can also set additional rules on your site to discourage dishonest logging.
- Require Book Title: If this setting is toggled on, students must input a book title when logging reading. This is a site-wide setting and not a challenge-specific one, meaning that it will affect all logging on the web, no matter what challenges the students are enrolled in. Please note, however, it does not affect logging on the mobile app, where students can always choose to log with or without a title.
- Restrict Back-Dated Logging: If this setting is toggled on, students can only log reading for up to 90 days in the past. Note that you cannot restrict back-dated logging for a shorter time frame than 90 days in the past.
You can toggle on or off these settings in the Additional Integrity Settings section.