Students work hard all week on ScootPad solving problems and earning coins. In addition, students are doing awesome things in your school which can be considered coin-worthy. We checked out some schools to see how they use coins, rewards, and games to intentionally engage their students and compiled a list of best practices. Check it out!
Just in time for the holidays, we're excited to announce a couple of awesome improvements. 1) Printing capabilities for reports and 2) New opportunities for your students to receive bonus coins.
At school I run a gamified classroom, where students earn mission points (MPEs) for quests (assignments) they complete. I extend this framework to our ScootPad rewards by allowing students to purchase mission points with ScootPad coins. For every 50 coins students earn on ScootPad, they can purchase 1 Mission Point, which can be earned by... Continue Reading →
In my classroom I run a gamification platform. It’s not that we play games all the time, it’s just the framework I use with kids to help motivate them. In my classes they are not given a grade. And they don’t get homework. So how do I keep them wanting to advance and put in... Continue Reading →
Our new features will keep kids involved and excited about learning! Kids can now explore our newly added coin exchange where they can exchange coins for rewards, games, and wallpapers! Today’s post will cover what has been added and how to unlock these new options. 1) Coin Exchange Our new format allows kids to see their... Continue Reading →
We are excited to announce the latest ScootPad updates! These updates will further simplify customizing curriculum, managing rewards, ordering from the store and much more. One of the major changes in this release is separating the store items from the rewards. Thanks to all the teachers and parents who sent us valuable feedback and suggestions... Continue Reading →
ScootPad is committed to continuously enhance user experience and student learning based on valuable feedback and suggestions from teachers, parents and students. We are excited to share this update which includes several new features and enhancements: 1) Enhanced Voice/Read-Aloud Feature We are excited to partner with ReadSpeaker, leader in online text to speech/voice service, to bring an... Continue Reading →
