How ScoreSync works
ScoreSync takes the house point system your school already runs and turns it into a live, school-wide competition. Staff award recognition in seconds from any device, the hall screen reacts instantly, and students get badges, streaks and celebrations that make the whole thing worth chasing. Here's the detail — from first setup to a full season.
From sign-up to a live arena
Create your school space
Sign up and your school gets its own private space. Students, staff, houses and points are completely walled off from every other school on the platform — nobody outside your school can ever see your data.
- A short setup wizard walks you through school name, logo and brand colours.
- Your first account becomes the owner, with full control over everything that follows.
- A 14-day free trial starts immediately — no card needed to explore the whole system.
Set up houses, students and staff
Add your houses with their own colours and logos, import your student roll, then invite teachers by email and give each person the right level of access.
- Bulk-import students from a spreadsheet — house names are matched intelligently, so 'Rokino' still lands in 'Rokino Raiders'.
- Student ID and year level are optional; only names are required to get moving.
- Roles range from owner and admin through to teacher and house leader, each with their own permissions.
- Define your school values (respect, kindness, excellence — whatever you use) so every point is tied to something meaningful.
Award points from any device
Teachers award points from a phone in the corridor, a tablet on the field, or a laptop in class. Type a student's name, pick the value they demonstrated, choose how many points, done.
- Points follow the student — the system knows their house, so nobody has to remember.
- Award an individual, a whole class, a team, or an entire house in one action.
- Purpose-built dialogs handle activity placings (1st = 20, 2nd = 15, 3rd = 10, 4th = 5) and sports results.
- Awards keep working through patchy wifi: they queue in the background and retry, so staff never see a point 'fail'.
Put it on the big screen
The dashboard is built to live on a hall or foyer display. Bars grow, rankings shift, tokens drop into house bars and rotating panels highlight today's top house, top class and your school whakataukī.
- Updates land on every screen in the school at the same moment, without refreshing.
- House logos, colours and glows make the standings readable from across a hall.
- A live activity feed shows who just earned what, and why.
Celebrate, review and adjust
Milestones, overtakes and badge unlocks trigger full-screen celebrations. Behind the scenes, leaders get the reporting and correction tools they need to keep the competition fair.
- Every point is a permanent record — mistakes are fixed with a visible reversal, never a silent edit.
- Leaderboards break down by week, term, year and all-time.
- Administrators can set a house total directly when a season needs resetting or rebalancing.
What it replaces, and what it gives back
Most house point systems fail on admin: tallies get lost, staff forget to submit, and the board is always a week behind. ScoreSync removes the counting entirely so leaders can focus on the culture it's meant to build.
One source of truth
No more competing spreadsheets, whiteboard tallies or a lost tally book. Every award is captured once, attributed to the staff member who gave it, and visible to everyone who needs it.
Fast roll setup
Import students in bulk from a CSV. House names are fuzzy-matched, missing IDs are generated, and year level is optional — so an imperfect export still works.
Role-based control
Owners and admins configure the school. Teachers award points. House leaders champion their house. Sensitive actions like reversals and total adjustments stay with leadership.
Auditable by design
Points live in a permanent ledger. Corrections create a linked reversal entry, so you can always answer 'who awarded this, when, and why?' months later.
Reporting that answers questions
See house standings over any window, which values are being recognised most, which classes are most active, and which students are quietly excelling.
Values-led recognition
Every point is attached to a school value. Over a term you get a real picture of the culture you're actually reinforcing, not just the one on the wall.
Whole-school participation
Assemblies, sports days, inter-house events, classroom moments and playground kindness all feed the same board.
Zero admin overhead
No end-of-week tally sessions. Totals, badges and standings are calculated the instant a point is given.
Why students actually care about it
A number on a whiteboard doesn't motivate anyone. ScoreSync borrows the mechanics students already love from games — instant feedback, unlockables, streaks, comebacks and big celebration moments — and points them at behaviour that matters.
Instant recognition
A point awarded in class shows up on the hall screen seconds later, with the student's name and the value they showed. Recognition that lands immediately is recognition that sticks.
Badges and achievements
Students unlock collectible badges across tiers — bronze through to legendary — for point milestones, school values, attendance, leadership, service and sport. Each has its own artwork and rarity.
Visible progress
Every student profile shows what they've unlocked and how close they are to the next badge, so there's always a next goal in sight.
Streaks
Three awards in a row for one house triggers a full-screen inferno animation. Momentum becomes something the whole school can see and chase.
House Freeze
When the house in last place hits a 10-point milestone, they can freeze a rival — whose next award is worth zero. It keeps the competition close all year and gives trailing houses a real path back.
Value multipliers
A house leading across several school values earns a multiplier of up to 4x on point awards. Consistency across the board pays off, not just raw volume.
Overtakes and milestones
When one house passes another, or crosses a big milestone, the screen erupts with their logo, confetti and sound. Those moments are what students talk about at lunch.
A season worth following
Weekly, term and year leaderboards mean a slow start is never fatal. There's always a race to be in.
A day with ScoreSync
What it actually looks like once it's running in your school.
The hall screen wakes up on the live standings. Students walking past see where their house sits and today's top class.
A teacher recognises three students for helping set up the library. Two taps each on her phone — their houses tick up before she's back at her desk.
Lunchtime inter-house football wraps up. Placings go in through the activity dialog: 20, 15, 10 and 5 points, awarded in one go.
The house in last place crosses a milestone and freezes the leaders. The screen lights up and half the hall reacts.
A student unlocks their 100-point badge. A full-screen celebration plays with their badge artwork and their name.
Leadership reviews the day's ledger — every point, who gave it, and which value it recognised. No tallying required.
Built for schools, designed for excitement
Private by design
Every school lives in its own isolated space, enforced at the database level — not just hidden in the interface.
Award anywhere
Phone, tablet, laptop or wall display. No app to install and nothing to sync manually.
Real-time sync
Points appear on every screen in the school the moment they're given, so nobody is looking at stale standings.
Immutable ledger
Every point is a permanent transaction. Corrections create reversal records, never hidden edits.
Common questions
How long does setup take?
Most schools are awarding points within about fifteen minutes: create the account, add your houses, import the roll, and invite staff. The setup wizard keeps track of where you are so you can finish it across a couple of sittings.
Do students need their own logins?
No. ScoreSync is designed to run as a staff tool with a public display, so students experience it through the big screen, assemblies and their teachers. Nothing needs to be handed out to hundreds of kids to get value on day one.
What happens if a teacher awards points by mistake?
An owner or admin reverses it. The original record stays exactly as it was and a linked reversal entry cancels it out, so totals correct themselves while the history stays honest.
Can we use our own house names, colours and logos?
Yes — houses carry your own names, colours and uploaded logos, and those appear everywhere from the leaderboard bars to the full-screen celebrations. School branding and colours are configurable too.
Does it work on a TV in the hall?
That's exactly what the dashboard is built for. Point it at a display and leave it running — standings, the activity feed, rotating highlight panels and celebrations all run continuously without anyone touching it.
What does it cost to try?
Every new school gets a 14-day free trial with full access. If you don't subscribe at the end of it, your data stays safe — awarding is simply paused until you do.
Ready to launch your arena?
Create your school's private space and run the setup wizard. Your 14-day free trial starts the moment you sign up.