Educa

Tierra Talley

Feature Guides

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

Create and share an Individual Story for a child with their Family and linked Teachers.

Create an Individual Story

Create and share a Group Story for multiple Children at once and share with their Family and linked Teachers.

Create a Group Story

Save time by reusing story text while personalising it for each child.

How to Copy a Story to Another Child

Learn how to view, comment and thank stories.

View a Story

How to print or download published stories as a PDF.

Print and Download Stories

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

Create and share plans to set goals, link stories, and collaborate with teachers and families.

How to Create a Plan

Create or adapt planning templates that define plan sections, family visibility, and linking options. Best practice: copy an Educa template, tweak it, publish, then archive older versions to avoid changing…

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)

Your private space on Educa to record, store, and share your professional development.

Teacher Portfolios

Share internal updates and resources with your Teacher team.

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

Add shared or private notes to a child’s profile to keep everyone informed.

Child Notes

Store and share your centre policies with teachers and family in Educa.

Policies

Share documents with Families and Teachers through your Resources Library.

Resources

Track nappy changes, sleep, meals and daily care updates.

Routines

Keeping Families Informed 

How to update a teachers profile to make them a Site Admin

Make a teacher a Site Admin

Learn how to archive or restore child profiles to manage capacity and family access

How to Archive Child Profiles

How to move a child’s portfolio from one Educa service to another.

Child Transfer

Allow an educator to also receive parent notifications if their child attends your centre.

How to 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

How to set up Student users so they can login themselves.

Student Users - 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

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

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Find answers and get help from Intercom Support and Community Experts

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