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How to reward your children for their work on Sumdog
There are three main ways you can reward your children for working on Sumdog.
Select the option you would like to find out more about:
How to use the house as a reward
The Sumdog house has lots of fun things in it for your children to play with as a reward for their hard work on Sumdog. For example, children can:
- Play with their pets
- Design their room
- Access the Store (students can only spend coins they have earned in Sumdog)
- Access the Garden
- Dress up their avatar
- Add friends
- Change the way your avatar looks
If your child’s account is connected to a school, the house will normally be closed during school hours but you will be able to control the house opening after school hours. If your child’s account is not connected to a school you will be able to control the house open/closed status at any time.
These instructions explain how to open and close the house for your children. This option may only be available outside of school hours if your child’s account is connected to a school.
Click on the slider in the ‘House’ box to open the house
Click on the slider again to close the house
Sending Coin rewards
Coins can be used by children to buy items to decorate their house or avatar in the Sumdog store. Children can only spend coins they have earnt by playing games or that have been sent to them by a teacher or parent in the game.
This is a subscription feature.
These instructions explain how to send your children coins as a reward with a message. Note: a child can only be rewarded with coins once a day.
Click the downwards arrow next to the name of any child
Click ‘REWARD’
Click ‘CHOOSE CHILDREN’. Click the name of each child you would like to send coins to as a reward.
You will only be able to reward a child once a day.
If you would like to send each child a personal message you should select one student at a time.
Click ‘Done’.
Note: you will only be able to reward children with a family subscription.
Select the coin value you would like to send your child from the drop down box.
You can select 50, 100 or 200 coins.
You can also key in a nice message below
Click ‘SEND REWARDS’
(Visible on your child’s account) Your message and reward will be visible on your child’s account when they next log into their account or when they complete their next game
Setting work with coin rewards
Coins can be used by children to buy items to decorate their house or avatar in the Sumdog store. Children can only spend coins they have earnt by playing games or that have been sent to them by a teacher or parent in the game.
Click here for more information on how to set work for your children.
When you set work for your children they will earn bonus coins when they complete their activity.
Example: If you’ve set the correct answer target for a challenge at 50 once your children have answered 50 questions correctly they will be rewarded with 50 bonus coins. This is in addition to the coins they will earn when they answer the questions correctly on the game.
When you set an Assessment for your children they will earn 5 coins for each correct answer instead of the normal 1 per correct answer when playing the game.