Instructions for Staff

Principles of the Entire Reading Tree

1. No-one succeeds on the tree alone. All reading is a team effort, between the reader and their mentor. In the case of adult students (“RT members”), this is typically the student and their madoguchi and/or teacher. In the case of kids, this is typically the student and their parent or guardian. Mentors are called “Shidousha“. Shidousha have their own points system called “Shidousha Sen” so support levels can be monitored.
2. 1 student = 1 login. Parents and guardians do not have their own login.
3. RT Members have a Reading Tree Pseudonym made up of their own name and a keyword chosen by their madoguchi. This is also called, and is programmatically, their Display Name and Nickname. This is because we want to maintain some anonymity when publishing results such as league tables.

Orientations

1. It is generally advisable to do Reading Tree man-to-man orientations at the start of the second or third month since nyukai.
2. Orientations should involve a quiz, a presentation, a video and a demonstration.
3. Re-orientation should occur for individuals and groups every year as the RT gets updated, more features are added and bad habits need to be addressed.

Kashidashi

• You can DONATE items to the kashidashi corner
• Anything donated must not be obscure and must be in excellent condition
• Any item that is not borrowed for 24 months is destroyed

User Roles

Role	Machine Readable	Who is this?
Native Member	native_member	Native Teachers
JStaff Member	jstaff_member	Madoguchi J Managers
Kids Member	kids_member	Kids Members, PPA~P3
Adults Member	adults_member	All adults students
X-Staff	x_staff	Ex-Staff
X-Member	x_member	Ex-students

User Creation

Please use the form to create new users; click here:

https://readingtree.net/create-user/

User Systems & Looking Up Real Name, Monicker and Password

https://readingtree.net/edit-users/

Points Systems

There are 2 currency systems with different purposes and rewards.

	Reading Tree Points	Mentoring Points
Known to students as	RT Points	Shidoushasen
Symbol	+ (suffix = points)	suffix = 錢
Reward System	Rewarded for approximately reading 1 word. Spelling words as part of the RT Sheets system gives more than 1 point per word.	1 sen = logging in 3 sen = liking a comment 5 sen = borrowing a book 10 sen = returning a book 15 sen = commenting or giving star rating 20 sen = giving a fellow member kudos 25 sen = reporting a mistake or giving feedback 50 sen = finishing an online tutorial, seminar or setsumeikai 100 sen = donating a book to the Kashidashi
Hook(s)	LearnDash Quiz (quiz questions)	Logging In (myCRED) Liking Comments Borrowing Books Returning Books Commenting (wpDiscuz) on books or kashidashi items Giving Kudos to RT Members Filling in a feedback form Tutorials, seminars or setsumeikais = ?????? manual! Donating a Book Record Gravity Form
Limits	There are no limits to how much you read.	Logging in = 1 per day Liking Comments = 1 per day Borrowing a book = 1 per week Returning a book = 1 per week Commenting / Star Rating = 1 per day Giving Kudos = 1 per day Feedback form = 1 per day Tutorial, seminar or setsumeikai = per event Donating a Book = once a week

Commenting Systems

You can comment on:

• Any RT Book – any Graded Reader or ORT reader that is in the physical library
• Any Kashidashi Item you have borrowed

Setsumeikai Presentations

Reading Tree Extensive Reading Quiz Presentation

Password:tree Update here: https://english-please.slides.com/matthew-reynolds/readingtree-quizsetsumeikai/edit

Reading Tree Features Presentation

Password:tree Update here: https://english-please.slides.com/matthew-reynolds/readingtree-features/edit

Reading Tree Demonstration Presentation

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Zeroing Out the book loans on a User Profile

Sometimes students are not sure if their returns worked or not. When they return books, it should zero their user profile so they can loan again but if this fails, here is how to return any students to zero loans; 1 – Go to the students User profile (Backend Users > All Users) 2 – Find the part of the User Profile that stores the record of loaned books (the books appear as rt book ids not as isbn) 3 – Replace the book ids with the values on the left 4 – Make sure all 4 field have the “no-” values added and it looks like this; 5 – click “Update Profile”

The student should now have zero loans and can loan more books. Only managers, natives and admins can to this.

Workflow for Creating ORT RT Books and Quizzes

Create ORT Quiz Questions in the Master Quiz Questions Numbers Document

Entering Information About the ORT Book in the Main Quiz Question Document

1 – Find the location of the ORT Master QUIZ QUESTIONS (2018): Dropbox (English-Please! 英会話)/Reading Tree/Reading Tree 2018/RT 2018 ORT QUIZ & Book Meta IMPORT/ORT RT Books Quiz Import Docs/EPRT ORT Master QUIZ QUESTIONS (2018).numbers 2 – Add one row per book you are adding to the bottom of the document (you can organize by column later, if you must). Fill in all necessary information. You can find the point values in the other sheets within the numbers document (command+F is your friend; it will help if you search by ISBN or Title). The total point values need to be divided by the number of questions to give you the point value per question. NOTE: You may need to look up the ISBN on https://www.amazon.co.uk/ if the book you are adding has a duplicate ISBN due to it being part of a set. 3 – Looking at the content of the book, come up with true or false questions to test comprehension of the story. Keep the questions short, make sure you use pronouns as often as possible (using names isn’t as educational), try to match ability level to the difficulty of the question, and try to avoid trick questions. Also, the questions need to be based off of the text, not the pictures. Sometimes simple substitution is your best bet for making a good question. For example: “Floppy chased the cat” (FALSE, because he chased the dog). For books that are Stage 1-6, create 3 questions. For stages 7-9, 5 questions, and for stages 10+, 10 questions.

Import ORT Quizzes to the LMS Quiz Database

NOTE ; This method uses LD Quiz Import – this import has settings that apply to all .xls sheets that are converted to LearnDash quizzes. You therefor CANNOT mix RT ORT Quiz imports and adults Graded Reader Quiz imports. You should finish ALL ORT quizzes before the settings are updated for importing adults Graded Readers – see “Switching between Graded Reader and ORT Imports” below.

Creating Quizzes to Import (By Exporting to .xls Format)

1 – Make a duplicate of this file – this will act as the pre-import template: /Dropbox (English-Please! 英会話)/Reading Tree/Reading Tree 2018/RT 2018 ORT Quiz & Book Meta IMPORT/Final ORT import master.xls 2 – Open the new template you have created in Numbers. Notice that you cannot save as .xls in numbers. You will have to be exporting this document once you are finished editing it. Find and open the EPRT ORT Master QUIZ QUESTIONS (2018).numbers document (or the Graded Readers document you are using, if you are making adult quizzes). Populate the columns that need populating; the question titles (e.g. 947495595759 Question 1), the Total Points, the 3 statements (“Question Text”), and the answers (1=TRUE, 2=False). These 4 columns are indicated in pink. You can leave all other columns as they are. Note: Right click the scientific notation and choose “Format Cell…” to number to get the regular ISBN if necessary. 3 – In the pre-import template (Final ORT import YOUR_LABEL_HERE), go to File>Export To>Excel…. In the pop-up screen, de-select Include a summary worksheet, and under Advanced Options, choose the .xls Format.               4 – On the Save As… screen, set the ISBN as the name of the document (e.g. 947495595759), and save it in the following folder: Dropbox(English-Please! 英会話)/Reading Tree/Reading Tree 2018/RT 2018 ORT QUIZ & Book Meta IMPORT/ORT RT Books Quiz XLS Ready-to-Go

Importing the Quizzes

1 – On the backend of readingtree.net, click on LD Quiz Import > LD Quiz Import 2 – choose a .xls quiz you have made, e.g. 947495595759.xls and press Import Quiz.

Adding the embed code to the RT Book post

1 – Navigate to the Quiz under LearnDash LMS > Quizzes. 2 – Copy the embed code (it lists 2, use the longer one) 3 – Go to the RT Books > RT Books backend table, filter if necessary, find the corresponding book, make sure Inline Edit is on, paste the quiz embed code into the correct column (click the pencil mark) 3 – Open the ORT Master QUIZ QUESTIONS (2018) (Dropbox (English-Please! 英会話)/Reading Tree/Reading Tree 2018/RT 2018 ORT QUIZ & Book Meta IMPORT/ORT RT Books Quiz Import Docs/EPRT ORT Master QUIZ QUESTIONS (2018).numbers) and mark “YES” in the “IMPORTED?” column for each book that is successfully imported to the readingtree.net site.

Switching between Graded Reader and ORT Imports

The following 2 fields need updating when importing either Graded Reader or ORT quizzes in LD Quiz Import > Import/Export Settings

 

 

 

Who borrowed which book?

This is live data – to find who borrowed a book, enter the book’s ISBN here: