Student Incentives & Awards
Students earn stars for practice, completion, or success with
different activities. Stars are used to purchase fun items to personalize the Raz Rocket and to create a
customized avatar using the Avatar Builder.
Star System
Students earn stars across all of Learning A-Z's resources that students access through Kids A-Z. See how stars add up for practice, completion, or success.
Activities
Stars Earned
Headsprout
Read Book
50
Episode Complete
100
Assessment Complete
300
Assignment Complete
500
Avatar Builder
Students can create a custom avatar that helps to personalize their online experience.
- Students use earned stars to buy parts and accessories to customize their avatar’s appearance.
- Just like the Raz Rocket, teachers enable the Avatar Builder from the Roster or individual student pages.
NOTE: All students will receive 500 bonus stars when they first enter the new Avatar Builder. Their current robots will carry over and be replicated as closely as possible.
Seasonal Avatars
Seasonal avatar items are available to students for 60 days at a time, with new seasonal items presented every quarter. Students keep purchased seasonal items beyond the season, but those not purchased disappear from availability.
Teacher Tips
You can turn on/off student access to the Raz Rocket or Avatar Builder by customizing the student Incentives settings in your Roster or on individual student pages.Badges
Students earn badges for achieving milestones.
- Students can see the progress they are making toward each badge from the My Stats area on their dashboard.
- Unearned badges will appear in gray and turn to color when earned.
- Students will see a celebratory animation upon earning a badge.
- Teachers can present students with printed versions of badges to further celebrate achievement.
Print out badges and give them to students to celebrate their achievements.
Printable Headsprout Badges
Raz Rocket
Students create a room inside their Raz Rocket with aliens, furniture, equipment, plants, robots, and other items they might want in their space-themed environment.
- Teachers enable the Raz Rocket from the Roster for the whole class; or individual student pages.
- Students use earned stars to buy items from the catalog to personalize their Raz Rocket.
Completed one Headsprout episode
Completed ten Headsprout episodes
Completed twenty Headsprout episodes
Read one Sprout Story
Read five Sprout Stories
Read ten Sprout Stories
Bought Tin Beard the Robot Monkey Pirate and Able the Robot Monkey in the Raz Rocket
Bought the Light Switch and both glow-in-the-dark plants in the Raz Rocket
Collected 4000 stars
Collected 8000 stars
