Monthly Archives: September 2011

Security Enhancement – Private Reading Groups

We’re happy to announce a security enhancement on our Reading-Rewards.com reading groups, that has been rolled out today, September 13, 2011.

Your kids’/students’ security is our top priority.

We have added privacy setting on reading groups, which will allow you to make your groups completely private. If you enable this setting, before being able to view or join your group, users will be asked to provide a security code that is unique to your group.

If they fail to do so, they will not be able to view any information about your group.

We strongly recommend that you change the security setting on your reading group by doing the following:

  1. Log on to Reading Rewards
  2. Access your group’s page from the ‘Groups’ tab
  3. Click on the ‘Edit Group’ button
  4. Set ‘Secure group with a code’ to ‘Yes’
  5. Take note of the security code (randomly generated) to hand out to any new students that wish to join your group

This does not affect current group members, nor does it affect students that you created and added to your group yourself. This only affects future members of your group that wish to join you on their own.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

Happy Reading!

The Reading Rewards Team

Reading-Rewards.com is an online reading incentive/reading log website that can be found at www.reading-rewards.com. Kids log their reading time, and are invited to review their books once they’ve finished them. Once their reading entries get validated by a parent (optional), their minutes get converted to points (RR Miles) they can use to redeem for rewards that their parents or teachers set […]

By |September 13th, 2011|Reading Rewards|0 Comments
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Reading Rewards Badges Are Here!

Do your kids love to collect things? If they’re anything like mine, they’re badgering you at the first sign of a potential new collection: Pokemon cards, Chaotic cards, Beyblades, SillyBandz (shudder), you name it. What do they do with them? Lose them everywhere, leave them in piles all around the house, fight over unfair trades… Ok, so maybe that’s just my kids. As far as I can tell, most of the time it’s simply a race to see who can collect the most, the fastest. Add notions of ‘rare’, ‘super rare’ and (gasp!) ‘ultra rare’, and you turn it into an absolutely must-have collection. I’ll never forget the look on a poor store manager’s face last year when those dreaded Silly Bandz were all the craze: she simply could not keep up with the waves of kids coming in, raiding her displays, literally going berserk if a new pack came in. For colored elastic bands!!

This got me thinking… What if we rewarded kids (Reading Rewards kids, that is!)  with a card of some sort, every time they reached a reading milestone? Show them all the cards they can collect if they keep reading. Make some more desirable than others. Make some …. (gasp!) ULTRA rare! :-) I can see the reading frenzy starting already!

Introducing RR badges, the latest must-have collection for your RR kids!  Only this time, instead of shelling out your hard-earned cash to add to their collection, your kids will just have to keep reading and logging their minutes on Reading-Rewards.com!

Kids […]

By |September 9th, 2011|Reading Rewards|0 Comments
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