Usage

• Adding a behaviour incident & referring incidents to other staff members
• Editing and deleting behaviour incidents
• Dealing with referrals
• Managing house points
• Reporting on behaviour
• Printing behaviour certificates

Configuration

Basic configuration

If you are configuring behaviour in PARS for the first time, then you will need to create Grounds and Outcomes. These are the equivalent of Types and Outcomes in SIMS; when adding a behaviour incident, a ground is what the pupil has done, and the outcome is what the staff member is going to do about it.

If you want to use the same Types and Outcomes as you have in SIMS, you should first go to the synchronise setup with SIMS page which allows you to copy the behaviour setup from PARS to SIMS or vice versa.

Now go to the behaviour preferences page. There are various global preferences which apply to all users.

Next you should go to the configure outcomes page. In PARS, points are attributed to the outcomes, not to the grounds (types).

For example: in SIMS, the behaviour Type "Great work" might be worth 5 points, and teachers could issue "verbal praise" or a "silver certificate". Either way the incident is worth 5 points. In PARS "Great work" is not worth any points. Instead the points come from the outcome, so "verbal praise" might be worth 3 points and "silver certificate" might be worth 6; in PARS it is the outcome that defines the magnitude of an incident.

Once you have configured your outcomes, you should next go to configure grounds. The grounds are what the pupil has done in a behaviour incident.

In PARS grounds and outcomes are categorised to make it easier and quicker for staff to enter behaviour incidents. When adding a behaviour incident, staff must choose the category first. They will then only see grounds and outcomes related to that category. Commonly used categories are:

• Attendance
• Behaviour & Attitude
• Equipment & Uniform
• Work
  
  

You should then go to the configure locations page. This allows you to import the list of classrooms from SIMS, and add any extra locations that are required.

Next go to configure events. Events are times of the day - PARS will automatically import the periods of the day from SIMS e.g. AM, P1, P2, etc. However you may wish to add extra events, such as "Before school", "After school", "Break time" and "Lunch time".

• Rule based behaviours
• Behaviour alerts
• Setup referral list
• Import email referral templates
• Synchronising with SIMS