How students participate in a reading fundraiser on the web
All students, as well as teachers and staff members, are automatically enrolled in the school’s reading fundraiser when it goes live. Afterward, readers can begin logging their reading, completing activities, and gathering donations to earn the fundraiser’s badges until its end date.
Note: The fundraiser cannot accept donations before its start date or after its end date. So encourage students and teachers to share their donation page widely and often during the readathon so that their loved ones can follow their progress and root them on!
When a student or teacher logs into Beanstack, either directly on your site or through your rostering portal, they will be taken to the live reading fundraiser challenge page.
To view their public and shareable donation page, they'll click “View My Donation Page.” This is where family, friends, and community members can:
- See their progress
- Learn about the readathon
- Donate straight to them and their school
- Share the page with other people
Donations through this page will be linked to that reader and help them earn donation badges and any attached prizes.
Below are steps that students/teachers can take to participate in their school fundraiser:
- To personalize their individual donation page, readers on school sites, whether they be students, teachers, or administrators, can update their profile image to a custom photo or avatar. Back on their reader profile, they can click their reader name and then the pencil icon next to the default image of their initials. In the pop-up window, clicking “Select Photo” allows them to pick an image from their local device to upload. We recommend using a square png, jpg, or gif file that is 200 x 200px and 2MB. Then, they will need to confirm that they understand that the image will be public and that it is an acceptable image before saving.
- Back on their reading fundraiser challenge page, they can scroll down to see their school’s overall progress toward the fundraising goal, share or copy the link to their fundraising page, and view their individual progress in the readathon. They can scroll back up and click any of the challenge headers to view more details about those challenge components.
- Within “Badges,” readers can see all their earned and unearned badges. They earn donation badges based on the number of donations they gather, logging badges based on the number of minutes they log, and activity badges based on the fundraising activities they complete. Any badge may also have a prize associated with it, which readers unlock when they earn the badge.
- They can read any prizes’ redemption instructions in their “Prizes” tab.
- In the “Donations” tab, readers can see a list of the donations, donors, and donation messages that have been contributed toward their readathon progress. And the “Challenge Log” tab shows the reading time and titles they’ve logged during the reading fundraiser, and gives them the option to print a list view of all their readathon reading sessions.