Understanding Reports in simpldiscipline

When reviewing reports in simpldiscipline, you’ll notice that there are numbers for incidents and numbers for behavior/action codes. These are not the same thing. This article explains the difference between them and how to interpret reports accurately.

Additionally, reports have been optimized for clarity:

•Reports labeled “Summary” display data per student.

•Reports labeled “By Incident” display data per incident.

What’s an Incident?

An incident is the “event” that gets written up.

• Example: A fight in the cafeteria = 1 incident.

• Even if 6 students are in the fight, it’s still 1 incident.

What’s a Behavior or Action Code?

A behavior or action code is tied to each student in the incident.

• Each student gets their own code that shows what they did.

  • Fighting

  • Tardy 

  • Phone 

  • OSS / ISS

• Example: If 6 students are in that same fight, all 6 get the code 009 – Fighting.

  • That’s 6 behavior codes.

Why the Numbers Don’t Match

• Incidents count the event.

• Behavior/action codes (or other summary reports) count the students involved.

Examples:

• 1 fight with 6 students = 1 incident, 6 behavior codes.

• 1 phone violation with 4 students = 1 incident, 4 behavior codes.

• 1 tardy write-up with 3 students = 1 incident, 3 behavior codes.
  
  

✅ Incidents = events

✅ Behavior/action codes (or summary data) = students

Understanding How Reports Count Data

Different reports in simpldiscipline count things differently.

Behavior Code Summary & Action Code Summary

• Always counted per student.

• Example: If 1 incident involves 4 students with code 180 – Tardy, the report shows 4 tardies.

• Same for action codes: each student with an action (like OSS) is counted separately.

Incident-Based Reports (like Incidents per School)

• Counted per incident.

• Example: If there are 315 incidents at a school, the graph shows 315 — even if some incidents had multiple students.

Downloads with "Include all related incident and offender data"

• Always shows the exact details per student

• Each line = one student tied to one incident.

• Example:

  • 1 incident with 6 students = 6 lines.

  • 1 incident with 1 student = 1 line.

When you filter an incident-based report (like Incidents per School) by a behavior code, the system will only show incidents where at least one student has that behavior code.

Important Details

• The report is still per incident, not per student.

• If multiple students are in the same incident, but only one student has the behavior code you filtered for, the entire incident will still show up.

• The graph will count that incident once, even if more than one student had the same behavior code.

Example

• You filter for 180 – Tardy.

• There are 10 incidents where students were marked tardy.

• Some incidents had 1 tardy student, some had 3.

Result:

• The graph shows 10 incidents.

• The raw data download shows all the students who were involved in those 10 incidents.

Key Takeaway

• Filtering by behavior code narrows the incident list to only incidents that contain that behavior.

• The graph = number of incidents, even if multiple students in those incidents had that code.

• The download will have incident data, unless you choose to include offender data using the toggle show above. 

✅ If you want to know how many (or which) students had that behavior code, use the Behavior Code Summary report.

✅ If you want to know how many incidents included that behavior, use the Incident Report filtered by behavior code.

Additional Information:

For bar graphs, you can click the hamburger menu (three stacked lines) in the top-right corner to download a CSV file of the data shown in the graph.

Please note that this download option is not currently available for circle graphs.