Our award-winning school rewards system and learning engagement platform.

What is a school rewards system?

School reward systems are where students are awarded praise points (sometimes known as house points, stars, stickers, postcards, merits or commendations) for doing something well. This might be for working really hard on a piece of work or based on something like extra-curricular involvement, attendance, grades or sticking to the school rules. Often students are then rewarded in some way based on how many points they have received with something such as a voucher or a school trip.

What is a learning platform?

A learning platform allows students to access learning resources such as homework, quizzes and assessment results, and make it easy for teachers to share work and feedback such as grades or comments with students. Home learning (also know as remote learning or distance learning) and blended learning (also know as hybrid learning) both become possible with a learning platform. These platforms are also known as VLEs (Virtual Learning Environments) and LMS (Learning Management Systems).

What is a parental engagement solution?

Evidence shows that parental engagement has a big impact on educational outcomes. Platforms such as ePraise offer schools the ability to improve parental engagement through better communication and more opportunities to get involved in their children's education. For example ePraise has the ability for parents to communicate directly with teachers, receive push notifications when their children get an award, and fill in forms for trips and other activities.

Why is ePraise the best?

We believe there are several things that separate us from our competitors, but at the heart are two things - our platform and our customer service. Great customer service means not waiting hours for a response, speaking to someone knowledgeable and getting an answer quickly. A great platform means things are easy to find and use and the platform is constantly evolving with new features and improvements released throughout the year.

What if we don't want all the features?

Our system is extremely flexible - you can turn off or customise a huge number of features at any time through our own 'Site Settings' area. For example, you can go here to turn on your prize draws, or to limit your leaderboard to only the top 10 students. Our pricing structure allows you to build the platform that you want, without having to pay for things you don't need, and you can always upgrade at any time.

How well does ePraise integrate?

Our MIS link, which works with SIMS, Arbor, Bromcom, iSAMS, Veracross and more, means your school data can be updated automatically every day. Our Microsoft and Google links make logging in easy. Our APIs mean that you can display our graphs, charts and leaderboards on your screens around the school and on your website. In short, we care very much about making ePraise easy to integrate with everything you do.

Can ePraise fit in with our house points system?

Although many schools start from scratch when they begin using ePraise, we have designed the system to work well with existing achievement structures or procedures you already have in place. It's very flexible and most features can be switched on or off as you wish. You can customise it to do what you want - for example some schools use it for house competitions, other schools don't use houses at all. ePraise can either compliment or replace any existing school reward system and you get to decide exactly how you want it to work.

Can the system monitor negative behaviour?

Our system is also great at recording negative behaviour and is incredibly easy to use for analysis. You can decide whether negative behaviour will deduct from student points or not. 'Demerits' are given out in the same way as points so it only takes two seconds to record them. Demerits can be used in conjunction with interventions for things like detentions and phone calls home. Our schools love how easy it is to track statistics on demerits and interventions by individuals, tutor groups, year groups and categories.

Can we have a demo login?

We would love to show you around our site so you can get a feel for what ePraise is capable of. Get in touch and we'll arrange a time to give you a tour via a phone call or Teams meeting.

We don't believe in the 'hard-sell'. Our demonstrations can be set up to take just 30 minutes of your time and you're under no obligation whatsoever; it's just a chance for you to have a look around and ask any questions you might have.