# New Template: Student Reading Log
**URL:** https://community.glideapps.com/t/new-template-student-reading-log/11884
**Category:** Project Showcase
**Created:** [July 3, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/new-template-student-reading-log/11884 "2020-07-03T02:02:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 2:02am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/new-template-student-reading-log/11884/1 "2020-07-03T02:02:07Z")
# 👋 Hey all!
Just wanted to share with you my latest template: **Student Reading Log**.
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It’s a simple, clean app that lets teachers manage and monitor the reading logs of their students. Features include:
- Default, randomized avatars that students can edit
- Reading Logs by Class Period or by All Students
- New Reading Log Indicator next to students’ names
- Mark Reading logs as Reviewed
- Comment thread available for each log entry
- My Books section to track your progress and stats on all books that you’ve read/are reading
- Separate Student and Teacher Views
Here are some pics:
       
And the Promo Video:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koYtUBmsFMM)
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### Author:  [@Tuttografica](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Tuttografica)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 2:24am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/new-template-student-reading-log/11884/2 "2020-07-03T02:24:55Z")
Robert, I congratulate you on the freshness of your ideas. You inspire 👏 👏 👏
Dario
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### Author:  [@spencersRus](https://community.glideapps.com/u/spencersRus)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/new-template-student-reading-log/11884/3 "2020-07-03T02:29:10Z")
Can you give me a little behind the scenes on the button and the random avatar?
Up til now, I have connected the avatar to the “Name” column so each person is ‘assigned’ an avatar by their name.
What column are you connecting the avatar to?
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 2:35am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/new-template-student-reading-log/11884/4 "2020-07-03T02:35:29Z")
I think the random avatar trick is here.
> [@Profile Pic using Data (if/then)](https://community.glideapps.com/t/profile-pic-using-data-if-then/11567/16):
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> something like this: ={"Default Image";arrayformula(if(len(A2:A), A2:A, "https://AVATARURL.com/"&B2:B)) Where A2:A is the image upload and B2:B is a unique ID to the user profile. Email address or Row ID. Avatar URLs can be any of the ones we found here: [https://community.glideapps.com/t/avatar-builders/7964](https://community.glideapps.com/t/avatar-builders/7964)
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### Author:  [@spencersRus](https://community.glideapps.com/u/spencersRus)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 2:38am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/new-template-student-reading-log/11884/5 "2020-07-03T02:38:58Z")
Not exactly, In his video … the user can click a button and get a random avatar. They can click it as many times as they want and it is random again.
In my app, the avatar is connected to the spelling of their name. I wanted to know how he did the magic avatar changing button!
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### Author:  [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 2:41am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/new-template-student-reading-log/11884/6 "2020-07-03T02:41:39Z")
Just my thoughts, but probably you can achieve it by an increment action that points to a value column in the profiles sheet.
If you have a list of random avatars with corresponding values, you can have a relation - lookup so that each time the user presses that button, it will generate a new one.
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/new-template-student-reading-log/11884/7 "2020-07-03T02:44:52Z")
The explanation:
https://www.loom.com/embed/c6d139bbb2b64e4684284b61055d9bfd
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 2:45am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/new-template-student-reading-log/11884/8 "2020-07-03T02:45:27Z")
Exactly what I did @ThinhDinh ☝🏽
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### Author:  [@Robert\_Petitto](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Robert_Petitto)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2020, 3:19am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/new-template-student-reading-log/11884/9 "2020-07-03T03:19:39Z")
Edit. Don’t use a user specific column. Use a regular number column.