Educa

Tierra Talley

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Suggestions on how to fit story creation into your teaching day - from taking playground photos through to conversations with families

Story Workflow - from Playground to Family Response

Write one Group Story, then create unique links to framework outcomes or goals for each child - for DRDP, ELOF and all frameworks.

Individualized Framework Linking in Group Stories - US Only

Learn how to create a learning story for one child to share with parents, extended family and linked educators only. Draft and publish.

Create an Individual Story

Save time by writing one story and posting it to multiple children's portfolios for their families to see.

Create a Group Story

Save time by copying individual stories to another child's profile, making adjustments before publishing.

Copying a Story

Learn how to edit, delete, print and download stories. Alos how to locate draft stories.

Edit, Delete  & Print Stories

Learn how to view, comment and thank stories.

View a Story

Learn how to print or download Educa stories as PDFs, customise layout, adjust formatting, and fix common print issues.

Print and Download (PDF) Story Formatting Options

Sometimes it's not a Learning Story, it's just about fun with the children. About the Day Journal option.

Marking a Story as a "Day Journal"

How to save stories as a PDF on iOS and different browsers

Download PDF & Print Options

Learning Stories

A form template can not be archived or edited once a form has been created from the template.

How to Delete/Archive or Edit Form Templates

Forms are online documents. They can relate to children, teachers or your centre, they can be private or shared.

About Forms - Child, Teacher and Centre Forms

Choose the right form type for your purpose depending on your subject - children, teachers or your centre.

Form Types & Use Cases

Each new form requires a source Form Template. You can use or adapt a "public" Educa template or create one from scratch.

Creating a Form Template

Create new forms from the Active Forms page.  Each form has its own unique template. Forms can be used as often as needed.

Creating a Form

Forms

Use plans to connect stories into a bigger narrative, to plan learning experiences or to set goals, for individuals or groups.

Writing a Plan

Educa allows for internal linking to plans and from plans to help document your process and for collecting evidence.

Linking to Plans - Live & Copy as PDF

How to create or edit plan templates for teachers. Set linking and family visibility settings for each template.

Setting Up Planning Templates

Planning

Setup for Admins and Ratings workflow for teachers explained - for DRDP for Head Start and state agencies.

DRDP Ratings - Assessment

How the ELOF framework linking and period end reporting works for sites reporting to the NYC DECE, including the DRDP report.

ELOF Ratings for NYC DECE

Ratings (for North America)

Every teacher has a private Teacher Profile and Teacher Portfolio - for managing and documenting your professional development.

Teacher Portfolios

Strengthen communication between your team of educators by utilising Educa's Teacher Messages.

Teacher Messages

Professional Development for Teachers

Discover the Educa generated reports, based on a child's development.

Child Reports

Discover the Educa generated reports build around a teacher and their Educa activity.

Educator Reports

Deep Insights from Reporting

Learn how to create and manage posts on your Educa Message Board to share updates, photos, and announcements with your community.

How to Post and Manage Updates on the Message Board

How to use conversations to send private messages

Conversations

How to add shared or private notes to a Child's profile for parents and teachers to view.

Child Notes

Also known as Service Info or School Info, this is a page to display all of your centre contact details.

Centre Info

Store your policy documents digitally with Educa and share them with families and educators in one click.

Policies

Share resources with families or only teachers through Educa's Resources Library.

Resources

Track nappy changes, sleep times, meals and more.

Routines

Keeping Families Informed 

How to enable a teacher's Admin rights, reviewer settings and approval settings.

Assign Teachers Different Access

Learn how to link siblings to each other and link the associated parent accounts.

Linking Siblings

How to archive a profile when a child has left your service.

Archiving Child Profiles

How to transfer a child's profile to another Service.

Child Transfer

Set a Teacher as a Parent

How to share posts and documents between multiple Educa sites.

Multi-Site Sharing

Managing Your Educa Site

Set up and overview of remote management and communication site for groups and associations

Network Hub - Management Site for Groups

Network Hub

Educa has a "student user" option - mainly for schools.

About Student Users (& Invites) - Schools

Students use stories to highlight work, interact with the teacher, link to personal goals and frameworks, and share with family.

Student User - Create Story & Approval Process - Schools

Educa has two ways to manage pending stories - full edit mode where you can add to the story or a quick approval mode.

Approving Stories - for School Teachers

If your school is using the New Zealand Curriculum, find out how to switch the display in Educa.

New Zealand Curriculum

For Schools

How to use the Logbook to either record events or create a schedule all teachers can see.

Logbook

Archived Features (Not available for new sites)

Contact Support

Educa Academy

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