Housepoints.net
Here is an email I received from Ahmed regarding his website housepoints.net:
I created housepoints.net to allow my school to track house points online. It's been a big hit with the teachers, students and parents so I've now made it available for other schools to use. You can find more information on the following page:http://www.housepoints.net/for_teachers
The site is free to use and I intend to keep it that way for the forseeable future. It's been designed with simplicity in mind and there's a special "student mode" to allow students to enter their own points - less work for the teachers!
Parents can be given access to their child's profile and at my school this has reinvigorated the house points system - parents are taking more of an interest in school and for the children, earning house points is a big deal again. (I've had plenty of reports of parents praising/rewarding children at home when they've had a particularly good day and that has helped to reinforce the behaviour policy outside school).
There's a short guided tour and online demo you can try. The demo is reset periodically so feel free to make make changes.
It's a fresh look on the team / house points system and certainly worth considering - even if you just use the points with your class. I'd like to see the system being made more child friendly - maybe awarding stars for x number of points etc.
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