Peanuts and Points

After much consultation with and feedback from teachers and students, we are delighted to announce our new thisisschool.com currency: Peanuts! 🥜


“Peanuts” are exactly equivalent to and will replace “Points”. E.g., where previously a student would have earned 2 points per correct answer they will now earn 2 peanuts.

There are 2 huge benefits to this change:

1 - Students can now buy cool new items in our store with the peanuts they earn whenever they complete work on thisisschool.com.

2 - There had previously been confusion about score vs points. Now, teachers and students can see a clear difference between Score and Peanuts:
Score = the % that a student scores on any given exercise.
Peanuts = the corresponding peanuts that they earn for that exercise.

So other than this name change and our amazing new store, nothing has changed! Go forth and earn those peanuts…

N.B. - Students will now also see a clear distinction between:

Lifetime peanuts = all the peanuts that they have ever earned on thisisschool.com
Current peanuts (in a jar) = the peanuts that they have left to spend

Updated on: 02/10/2023