Sneak Peek: Upcoming Features!
This article gives you an early look at LiveSchool's new Student Shopping and Teacher Stores. These features aren't live just yet. We'll let you know as soon as they're available on your LiveSchool site!
What are LiveSchool Stores?
LiveSchool Stores are a fun and effective way to motivate students by allowing them to redeem their hard-earned points for exciting rewards. Think of it like a virtual shop where students can "spend" their LiveSchool points on items or experiences you offer.
School Store
The School Store is a centralized store managed by school administrators. It's perfect for school-wide incentives and can feature a wide variety of rewards, from special experiences and event access to physical items and gift cards.
Teacher Store (Sneak Peek)
The Teacher Store allows individual teachers to create and manage their own unique reward stores for their classrooms. This is great for fostering classroom-specific incentives and catering to the unique interests of your students.
To enable teachers to set up their own stores, an administrator simply needs to navigate to Setup and toggle on the "Allow Teachers to Create Their Own Stores" option in the Rewards section.
Benefits of Using LiveSchool Stores
Implementing LiveSchool Stores offers several key benefits:
Increased Student Engagement: Students are more motivated when they have tangible goals to work towards.
Positive Behavior Reinforcement: Stores provide a clear incentive for students to demonstrate desired behaviors.
Customization and Flexibility: You can tailor rewards to fit your school's or classroom's specific needs and budget.
Simplified Reward Management: LiveSchool handles the point tracking and redemption process, saving you time and effort.
Empowerment for Teachers: Teacher Stores give educators more autonomy in managing their classroom reward systems.
Ways to Run Your Store
You have flexibility in how you manage your LiveSchool store:
Student Purchasing on Recaps with Staff Fulfillment (sneak peek): Allow students to browse available rewards on their individual LiveSchool Recaps. When a student decides to "purchase" a reward, your staff can have a streamlined system in place to fulfill that reward. This could involve having students come to a designated location to pick up the reward, delivering it directly to them or scheduling it in the Fulfillment App.
Setting Up a Closet or Small Office: Designate a specific physical space, such as an empty closet or a small office, to serve as your reward store. Stock this area with your rewards. Students can then visit this "store" during designated times to browse and redeem their points, with a staff member or student helper on hand to facilitate the transactions and record them in LiveSchool.
Using a Cart: For a mobile approach, organize your rewards on a cart. This allows you to bring the "store" directly to classrooms or common areas. Staff can use a device (like a laptop or tablet) to record redemptions instantly in LiveSchool or students can purchase rewards on their Recap and then pick them up from the cart.
Who can Manage and Access Stores?
School Store:
Management: Only Site Leaders and Administrators have the ability to set up, edit, and manage items in the School Store.
Access: All staff and students can access the School Store to see available items and redeem points.
Teacher Store (sneak peek):
Management: Individual teachers can set up, edit, and manage their own Teacher Stores, provided the "Allow Teachers to Create Their Own Stores" setting is enabled.
Access: All students that are on a roster in the teacher’s My Rosters tab on the Roster Picker will see the teacher’s store on their Recap. Also, only the teacher will be able to charge rewards from their store in the Points app
Getting Started
Ready to create an exciting reward system for your students? If you’re an administrator, head to Setting up your School Store, or if you’re a teacher, click on Setting up your Own Teacher Store to begin!