How do I check in as a student?

Check in to Pulse on your device and share how you feel about your wellbeing, experiences, and reflections. You can also show your appreciation by sending gratitude to someone at school.

Wellbeing questions

Pulse will first ask you the Wellbeing question: How are you feeling today?

• If you select I’m feeling great, I’m feeling positive, I’m feeling in the middle, or I'm feeling negative, Pulse will next ask a series of follow-up questions.
  
  If you’re a student in Australia and New Zealand, Pulse will ask “Digging Deeper” questions to describe how you’re feeling. Your school can see your response to this question.

Image 1. A sample “Digging Deeper” question based on an answer to “How are you feeling today?”

• If you select I need some help, Pulse will ask if you want to talk to a teacher, a counsellor, or another adult at school you trust. Select the name of the person you want to ask for help, then confirm your choice by selecting Yes. Pulse will send you an email or an alert on your phone when the staff member has seen your message.
  
  

  Note

  If you select I need some help and choose to reach out to a trusted adult, Pulse will skip the rest of the check-in and ask instead if you want to speak to someone immediately.

Experience questions

Pulse will next ask questions about how you feel about school and life in general. These are called Experience questions.

Each question has five responses you can choose from, from most positive (green) to most negative (red). Your school can see your answers, but they won't know they're yours.

Image 2. This sample Experience question provides five responses you can choose from.

Reflection questions

The last set of questions Pulse will ask are Reflection questions. These questions ask about what makes you happy, relaxed, or excited. Only you can see your answer to these questions, and it will be part of a special wellbeing summary you'll receive at the end of each term.

Image 3. A sample Reflection question asking what makes a student excited.

Share Gratitude

Share Gratitude by answering the question, “What are you grateful for today?“. Select your answer from the options on the screen.

Image 4. Gratitude question

Pulse will next ask if you would like to share Gratitude to a peer (a student) or a staff member (an adult). You can also ask Pulse to choose someone for you.

To share Gratitude with a peer or a staff member:

1. Select Share with a peer (another student) or Share with a staff member (an adult).
2. Start typing in their first name, then select it from the list that appears.
   If their name is longer than five letters, type at least five letters to search.
3. Select the gratitude you want to give them. You can also select Just Say Thanks.
4. Select Send to let them know you appreciate them!

To share Gratitude with someone Pulse chooses for you:

1. Select Surprise Me.
2. Pulse will suggest three people you might want to give gratitude to. Select one from the list of suggestions.
3. Select what kind of gratitude you want to give them, or choose Just Say Thanks.
4. Select Send to let them know you appreciate them!

Log out or read gratitude messages

The check-in will end after you send your gratitude message. You can log out or read the gratitude messages you’ve received from your peers. To work your way through the stack of gratitude cards, select OKAY.

Image 5. At the end of your check-in, you can view the Gratitude messages you received from other students and staff members or log out.