Coins Earned Leaderboard

By default, pupils in years 4 and up will see an individual coins earned leaderboard on their dashboard when they log in. This means they can see the top five coin earners from their class that day. Teachers can customise what pupils see on their dashboard. There is a team view of the coins earned leaderboard. There is also an option to turn off the leaderboard altogether. Pupils in years 1 through 3 do not see any leaderboard to reduce the number of options they see when they log in.

Team Coins Earned Leaderboard

When a teacher selects the "Team" leaderboard option from his or her home, Freckle will automatically sort pupils into five different teams (regardless of how many pupils are in the class). This means that the larger the class size, the larger the team size. The teams are selected based on previous coin totals to ensure that teams are evenly matched.

As pupils work, Freckle will determine the coin totals of each team by adding together the coin totals of each of the team members. When pupils check the leaderboard, they will see the different team names and how their team is competing against the other teams on that particular day. If you want to know which pupils are on which teams, read the team names aloud and have all pupils stand or raise their hands when their team name is called. This will allow the teacher to see who is competing on which team, and the pupils to know who their teammates are. 

How to Adjust Coins Earned Leaderboard Settings

To choose your leaderboard settings, follow the steps below:

1. Log in to your teacher home, select your name in the upper-right corner and select Your Account in the drop-down list.
2. On the Product Settings tab, select the leaderboard option you want.
3. Have all pupils log in to Freckle. If pupils were already logged in, they must log out and then log back in again before seeing the changes in their dashboard.

If you want to change the leaderboard option, follow the same steps.

Pupil Side of Team Mode

Individual Coins Earned Leaderboard

Team Coins Earned Leaderboard

Once pupils log in to work on a domain, they can see which team they are a part of by looking at the team name that is highlighted. Team names are randomly generated by combining an adjective with a noun. In this case, the pupil shown above will be competing on the "Super Apples" team with several other pupils in his or her class.

As pupils work on Freckle, they will still be able to see exactly how many coins they have earned individually. Rather than displaying this coin total on the class leaderboard, it will be kept to that individual pupil. Each pupil will have his or her coins added together with the rest of the team in order to determine which team sits atop the leaderboard.

Notice how no pupil names are seen in the leaderboard for years 4 to 6. Instead, the leaderboard is populated with different teams, ranked by the number of total coins earned by all members of that team. However, pupils in years 7 and higher will be able to see the names of the other pupils on their team.