Schools: How to review a student’s reading session

Tags: Staff, Reading Integrity

Reading sessions can be accessed and reviewed by school staff on the admin view of their Beanstack site, and help surface students that need more attention with their reading progress.

1. Log in to the admin view of your school site.

2. Navigate to Classes and Readers > Students > Book Talks and Flagged Sessions

3. Review Book Talks and sessions in the following places:

   • Overview

   • All Book Talks

   • Safety Signals

   • Engagement Sessions

   • Flagged Sessions

4. Use the dropdown options to display the sessions relevant to you, such as engagement flags, classes, or grades.

5. Perform actions on a single Book Talk or session by selecting a book title under the “Title” column or the three-dots to the right of it. These actions include viewing, editing, or deleting a session.

   • You can perform actions on multiple sessions under “All Book Talks,” “Flagged Sessions,” and “Engagement Sessions,” as well as download the results as a CSV buy clicking the download icon near the top-right.

Overview

This sections begins with a brief summary by Benny of how students used Book Talks over the past week.

This section also highlights students in the following areas:

• Safety Risk - Students who may be at risk

• Reading Wins - Students with engaged Book Talks

• Take a Closer Look - Students with mixed engagement Book Talks

• Needs Support - Students with disengaged Book Talks

• Repeat Flags - Students with the most flagged Book Talks

• Unfinished Book Talks - Students with the most Book Talks still in-progress

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All Book Talks

This section lets you search through all Book Talks by a student’s first or last name. You can also narrow your results with dropdown filters that include flag type, engagement, and finished/unfinished conversations.

Safety Signals

In this section, you can review flagged sessions with students that exhibit troubling behaviors, including swearing and expressions of self-harm.

These sessions have a red safety flag at the top of the conversation along with red safety signals above each point where the student gives troubling responses. Benny flags the session and recommends the student seeks help, such as talking to a trusted adult or contacting the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

Flagged Sessions

When an unverified student’s logged reading exceeds the limits set by the school, the session is flagged for later review. This session lets you review those flagged sessions.

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Engagement Sessions

When students finish a title in a Benny-enabled challenge, Benny initiates an open-ended conversation about the book they read. Afterward, school staff can review these Book Talks with Benny.

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