Educa

Kimberly Sende

Find all the information you need to get off to a flying start on Educa.

Getting Started

Start list, an interactive guide, the teacher web app for your phone, links to videos, help articles, Educa Academy and more

Getting Started - for Teachers

For Admins - brief video tour of Educa, guides & checklists.

Getting Started - for Admins, Training Video, Resources

Start Resources for Families and Caregivers

Add this info to your website to inform families about Educa. Plus images for easy login access.

FAQ to Explain Educa to Families

Setting Up Your School Site - for Admins

Elevate your child's learning journey with Educa

Getting started - For Families

Mobile Web App Instructions

Getting Started Resources

ChildPlus has created an Educa report #6567 that allows you to use your ChildPlus data for adding children to Educa

Add Children From ChildPlus to Educa

Add a child to your site and create their profile.

Add Children to Your Site

Here's how to mass upload and manage children in Educa using our upload template.

Bulk Upload Children with our Children Data Upload Template

Learn how to add or archive educators who have access to your Educa site.

Invite and Delete Teachers

The children are loaded, it's time to invite families - either one at a time or in groups. Those family members can then invite others.

Invite Family Members & Extended Family

Use the Manage Users page (access from Settings on sidebar) to invite and re-invite families and teachers and change passwords.

Invite and Manage All Users on One Page (Manage Users)

Confidentiality and security are essential to Educa. Share this with parents to get their consent.

Parent Consent Form for Educa

Adding Users

How to manage teacher access to classes and child profiles.  Class privacy, confidentiality, child privacy, teacher privacy explained.

Class Privacy

Every child can belong to one class. Here's how to create new classes, add and move children between classes and archiving options.

Class Management - Add, Move and Archive Children

Segment children, families and teachers into meaningful groups outside their class assignment - using "groups."

Groups - How They Work & Use Cases

How to activate public frameworks, change them for your own purposes or create your own.

Using Your Framework Library

This page could also appear as Service Info or School Info, depending on your site settings. From here you can update your centre's details.

Updating Your Centre Info

Work collaboratively to monitor the quality of stories sent out to families with Educa's Story Approval.

Story Approval

How to change/edit child's "About Me page.

Change Questions on "About Me" Page

Learn how you can translate your Educa site into one of five languages.

Change Your Site's Language Settings

Update your printing settings to customise the header printed on learning stories.

Set Up a Print Header

Site Branding and Labels

Teachers can see all of their children in the teacher profile under "Profile Children."  Here's how assignment works.

Profile Children - Assigning To Teachers

About class privacy, child privacy, staff access and other privacy settings in Educa.

Your Site's Privacy Settings

Learn how to add or remove your site's child profile limit.

Increase or Decrease a Site's Child Profile Limit

How to manage email notifications for your Educa site and individuals.

Email Notification Settings

Update the reflection text boxes that appear on your teacher portfolio posts.

Customising Teacher Portfolio Reflection Questions

Update your email address, reset your password, upload a profile picture and change your name in Account settings.

Update Your Account Settings

How to access Educa on your smartphone or tablet

Educa on mobile

Site Set Up

Educa's Learning Story site - webinars, study groups, request private team training - on all things Learning Stories.

About Learning Story Academy

Training Opportunities

Learning story settings to consider in your service set up - you can change template questions, field privacy, workflow and edit access.

Learning Story Settings

Educa has a completely separate version for family day care or home-based groups that want to have multiple homes on one site URL.

Getting Started Resources

Adding Users

Site Set Up

Training Opportunities

Getting Started Inspiration