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Manage student tokens

Overview​

The token roster dashboard shows every enrolled student's remaining token balance. From here you can grant additional tokens to individual students and open a student's full usage and grant history.

Before you start​

  • You must be an instructor or on the teaching team for the course.
  • The Course Tokens feature must be enabled for the course, and Enable course tokens must be on in settings.

View balances​

  1. Open your course in TeachFront.
  2. Go to Course tokens → Dashboard.
  3. The table lists each enrolled student and their remaining tokens. Sort by any column header.

Token roster dashboard listing students and remaining balances

Students without a persisted pool row display at the configured starting balance from Defaults. Balances update live as students spend tokens — you do not need to refresh the page.

If no token settings have been saved yet, the dashboard shows an empty state prompting you to configure tokens first.

Adjust a student's tokens​

Each student row has an Adjust Tokens column with a ＋ (grant) and a － (deduct) button.

Grant tokens (＋)​

  1. On the dashboard, choose ＋ for a student.
  2. Enter the number of tokens to add, and an optional note.
  3. Confirm.

Add tokens modal for a single student

note

You cannot push a student above the Defaults maximum balance. If the amount you enter would exceed it, the grant is rejected with a specific cap message.

Deduct tokens (－)​

Deducting lets you charge a student on their behalf — for example, when a student uses an allowance but does not self-report.

  1. Choose － for a student.
  2. Pick what you're deducting for from the list of the course's configured opportunities, or choose Something else (note only) and add a note.
  3. Choosing an opportunity pre-fills its token cost. The amount can never exceed the student's current balance.
  4. Choose Deduct Tokens.

Deduct tokens modal with the opportunity list and a note-only option

Every grant and deduction is recorded server-side with who did it, how many tokens, and when, so adjustments stay auditable. Manual deductions appear in the student's history attributed to you.

Review custom opportunity purchases​

When students spend tokens on a custom opportunity (a reward you fulfill by hand), each request appears under Custom Opportunity Purchases at the top of the dashboard, showing the student, the item, the tokens spent, and a status of Requested, Fulfilled, or Refunded.

  • Fulfill — mark the reward delivered. The tokens stay spent; the status becomes Fulfilled.
  • Refund — return the tokens to the student and mark the request Refunded. The student can request again.

Custom opportunity purchases queue with Fulfill and Refund actions

Review a student's history​

  1. From the dashboard, open a student's usage history, or go to Course tokens → User History and pick a student.
  2. The page header shows the student's current balance and maximum (for example, 2 / 10).
  3. The table shows:
    • Initial allotment — the starting balance from Defaults (shown even when the student has no activity yet).
    • Spends — tokens used, the date, the action type, and the assignment name when available. Custom-opportunity spends also show their Requested / Fulfilled / Refunded status.
    • Granted tokens — instructor grants (and refunds), with the amount and date.

Student token usage and grant history with balance header