Epic Integration
You can choose to allow your students and teachers to import their reading sessions from Epic! into Beanstack. This will allow them to count their reading on Epic! toward milestones and badges in your site's challenges.
To enable the Epic! integration on your site, make sure that the box next to Epic Integration is checked.
Important Notes:
- Students should import often to ensure all reading is synced with Beantack. Epic! imports are not retroactive prior to integration and import dates, including start date, cannot be specified. Imports can also only apply to recent Epic! sessions. Once you have Epic! integrated with your site, your readers should make sure to import reading from Epic! frequently.
- Students can only import reading between 7AM-3PM. Due to Epic's existing account constraints, importing is only available between the hours of 7 AM-3 PM local time. If an error occurs outside this window, please wait until the next available period to try again. If you continue to face issues, please contact our support team.
- Epic! reading sessions do not count toward all log and challenge types. Due to data sharing limitations, Epic! logs do not count towards reading list challenges or for pages read.
- Epic! accounts with any duplicate names cannot import their reading sessions. To fix this, users will need to visit the Epic! website and give each reader on their account a unique name (by adding a middle initial or a number, for example).
- Epic! data will appear in Reports and Insights. However, readers’ Beanstack logging and Epic! imports will appear identically in reports and insights with no indication of the logging source.
Display Friends, Display Leaderboards, Display Logged Books to Friends
Friends and Leaderboards allow your students to add other students at your school as friends, as well as for staff members like teachers, clerks, and media specialists to add other adult staff as friends. Once the readers confirm the friendship request, friends can see each others' reading progress, stats, and earned badges, plus compete on a reading leaderboard.
If you would like to turn on the Friends feature, make sure the box next to Display Friends is checked. You can also select whether readers may view the recently logged books of their friends with the setting Display Logged Books to Friends.
If you would like to turn on the Leaderboards features, make sure the box next to Display Leaderboards is checked.