Questions about the reading log

No. A family scans the QR code on their child's slip, or types the two codes printed on it, and their phone opens the child's page. There is nothing to sign up for and no email address to give. By default the page is open for that visit only: closing it, or 30 minutes with no tap, ends it, so the next family on a shared phone sees the code box. On their own phone a family can tick Keep me signed in on this phone, which keeps it open for 120 days from the last use.

Only a seat number and a nickname you choose, such as Reader 7 or Maya R. A nickname is one word, or a word and one initial; the site refuses two-word names and asks for a first name or nickname, though it cannot catch every form of a full name. It has no field for a name, birth date, address, school or photo. Book titles refuse email addresses, web addresses and phone numbers.

No. A family's page shows one nickname, that child's last 7 nights, streak and total. The class grid is only on the teacher's signed-in page.

A streak is the nights in a row with a tick, counted back from tonight if tonight is ticked, otherwise from last night, so it never drops during the evening. Skipped nights neither break it nor add to it. The words are gentle: 3 nights in a row, or Ready for the next night.

Choose school nights only for the class and Saturday and Sunday are skipped for streaks. Add no-reading days for trips, holidays and test weeks, up to 60 in a term. A tick on a skipped night still counts in the total.

Yes, for today and the 6 nights before it: tap the night on the page. Older nights are added by the teacher from the grid. Nights that have not happened yet cannot be ticked.

Print the monthly paper log for that reader: a box for every night of the month. When it comes back, tap their nights in the grid; they show as ticked by you.

No. It is a record of nights a family marked as reading. It is not an assessment and never measures reading level, progress or ability.

Ticks are kept 400 days after the term ends; a notice on your classes page comes 7 days before they are removed, so you can download them first. Nicknames go when their class is deleted or holds no term any more. Deleting a class or your account removes everything in it after 7 days.

On the class page, Start a new term with its label and dates. The current term ends the day before the new one starts. The readers and their slips carry on into the new term.

Yes. Each term downloads as a CSV file from the class page, and the account page downloads everything you own as one file.

Make a new slip for that reader on the class page and print it. The old slip stops at once, the ticks stay, and the family page shows the date the new slip was made. Family codes are shown only when they are made, so a slip is never printed twice with the same code.

A passkey is a sign in your phone or computer makes instead of a password, kept behind your fingerprint, face or screen lock. Add a second device on the account page, or use the recovery code you saved at sign up to add a new passkey.

The site runs within a free hosting allowance with daily limits. When it is used up, a tick waits on the family's phone and is sent once, later, when saving works again. Nothing has to be tapped twice.

Yes. On an iPhone or iPad, open the Share menu in Safari and choose Add to Home Screen. On other browsers use Install in the menu.

Readingtick is not affiliated with any school, publisher, reading scheme, library or reading-record app. You run it for your own class, and the school's rules on pupil data are yours to follow.