Knowledge Base

The Practice Journal

The Practice journal is the student's main practice area in the Hub.

It combines three things in one place:

• logging practice
• reviewing practice history
• choosing which student and enrolment the practice belongs to

The page is built around a monthly calendar, so students can see their practice pattern at a glance instead of only looking at a list.

Who Is Practising?

If a parent is logged in and manages more than one student, the Practice journal starts with a Who is practising? section.

This lets the parent choose which child they want to view or log practice for.

If a student is logged in for themselves, this area simply shows their own name.

Which Enrolment?

Students can have more than one practice context, especially if they have:

• more than one individual enrolment
• both individual and group enrolments

The Which enrolment? section lets the family choose the right context before logging or reviewing practice.

Each option is shown as a chip, such as:

• Individual: [student name] · [instrument]
• Group: [group name] · [instrument]

This keeps practice attached to the right enrolment.

Logging Practice

The Log practice card gives two ways to add practice:

• a live timer
• a manual entry

Using the Timer

The timer is best when the student is about to practise now.

They can:

• start the timer
• pause it
• resume it
• save the session
• reset the timer if they want to start again

While a timed session is in progress, the page also opens a notes area where the student can write what they are working on.

Notes save automatically while they practise.

Adding Practice Manually

Manual entry is useful when practice has already happened and needs to be recorded afterwards.

The student can choose:

• the date
• the number of minutes

Manual entries can be added for today or an earlier day, but not for a future date.

What Happens After Saving

When a practice session is saved:

• the practice calendar updates
• the selected day is refreshed
• the monthly totals update

If the session unlocks an achievement, the student sees a celebration modal straight after saving.

Depending on the achievement flow, they may also be prompted to choose a sticker.

Monthly View

The right-hand side of the Practice journal shows a full month view.

At the top of the month panel, families can move between months using:

• Previous month
• Today
• Next month

The panel also shows summary cards for:

• total practice time for the month
• number of sessions
• number of active practice days

Each day in the calendar shows:

• the amount of practice logged that day
• the number of sessions
• and, where relevant, a sticker marker

Selecting a day opens the detailed list of practice entries for that date.

Viewing Practice History

When a day is selected, the journal shows the completed practice logs for that day.

Each log can include:

• the duration
• the start time, where available
• the enrolment context
• the student's notes

If there are no completed logs for that day, the page shows an empty message instead.

Editing or Deleting a Practice Entry

If a practice entry was recorded by mistake, the family can fix it from the selected day.

Under each entry you will see Edit and Delete.

Editing

Choose Edit to change:

• the date
• the number of minutes
• the notes

Then choose Save changes. The calendar, monthly totals and leaderboard figures update to match. You can't move an entry to a future date.

If you change the date or the minutes, the entry no longer shows a start time, in the same way as a manual entry. Changing only the notes keeps the start time.

Deleting

Choose Delete, then confirm with Yes, delete. The entry is removed from the calendar and the totals.

Stickers and achievements the student has already earned are kept. A sticker that was attached to a deleted entry stays in the student's collection, but it no longer appears on that day in the calendar.

Who can change an entry

• Students can edit or delete any of their own entries.
• Parents can edit or delete the entries they added themselves. They can't change entries added by the student or by another parent or guardian. Entries recorded before this feature was added can be changed by a parent only if the student does not have their own Hub account.

You need to be online to edit or delete an entry.

Practiceathon sessions

Sessions that count towards a Practiceathon can't be edited or deleted here. They show a note instead: change them on the Practiceathon page, where the Practiceathon's own rules (such as parent verification) apply.

Leaderboards

Leaderboards are a separate page in the Student Hub, but they use the same practice data recorded in the journal.

The leaderboard page shows:

• a school-wide ranking
• multiple leaderboard categories
• a podium for the top three students
• a ranked list underneath

Students can switch between categories such as:

• Practice Hours
• Sessions
• Consistency
• Momentum

Each category then offers different time windows or ranking modes.

Who Appears on the Leaderboard

The leaderboard only includes students who have opted in.

Students are shown using privacy-safe names rather than full names. Other Hub users do not see a full student name in the rankings.

If leaderboards have not been enabled for the school, the student sees a message explaining that leaderboards are not available yet.

If leaderboards are enabled but there is no qualifying data for the chosen mode, the page shows an empty state instead.

Leaderboard Participation Settings

Students control their leaderboard participation from Settings in the Hub.

The setting is called Show on practice leaderboard.

When it is turned on, that student's practice time can appear on the school leaderboard visible to other Hub users.

For parents with more than one linked student, the Settings page shows a separate leaderboard toggle for each child.

How Practice, Achievements, and Leaderboards Fit Together

These parts of the Student Hub all work together:

• the Practice journal records the practice
• Achievements recognise milestones
• Stickers can be awarded as part of celebration flows
• Leaderboards use opted-in practice data to create school-wide rankings

This means the Practice journal is not just a diary. It is the part of the Hub that feeds the rest of the student's practice experience.

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