Student logins

Admin → Student logins is where you decide whether children can reach Ten Points themselves, and see how many of them actually can.

Coverage

The Coverage figure is the honest answer to “is this working” – how many children on your roster can sign in, against how many there are. A low number usually means the roster arrived before the logins were switched on, and it settles after a night.

What a child actually has

Not a password. A child has a secret, and it works differently in three ways that matter:

It only works inside a class code. A member of staff starts a code, and the secret is what makes the child in front of the device themselves rather than the child next to them. Outside a code it is worth nothing, so it cannot get anybody in from home.

It is reversible on purpose. A member of staff can look one up when a child has forgotten it, because the alternative – a reset that a seven-year-old has to be talked through – does not work in a classroom.

Looking one up is a deliberate, recorded act. Ten Points asks the member of staff to prove who they are again first, and records that they did it, with their name against it. That is the trade that makes reversibility acceptable rather than careless.

What you do not have to do

There is nothing to issue, nothing to print in bulk, and nothing to reset at the start of a year. Children arrive through the roster and are reachable through a class code.

The plan line

This is a Classroom-tier feature, and the line is hard rather than soft: a Teacher-tier school has no child-facing Ten Points at all. The class-code screen refuses rather than making a code that lets nobody in, which is the behaviour you want if you are trialling a plan and wondering why a code does nothing.

Before you switch it on

Two conversations are worth having first, because they are the ones that come up afterwards:

Which devices. Class codes are built for a shared trolley of tablets, not for personal phones. The whole flow – two screens, first names, big targets – assumes a device passed around a classroom.

Who stops the codes. A code left running after the bell is a door left open. Every member of staff can see and stop every live code in the school, which is the right arrangement, but it works because somebody has said out loud that stopping them is part of the lesson.

Erasing a child

If a family asks for a child’s record to be erased, you ask from the child’s own screen, and we carry it out. Nobody at the school executes an erasure, and that separation is the point – see Your school’s record.