The Child Development module helps you follow each child's development based on a template: areas of development (categories), subcategories and lessons, evaluated with the criteria you choose. From the evaluations you generate PDF reports, which you publish for parents.
We recommend following the steps in order: first the template (from the library or created from scratch) and its settings, then the evaluations, and finally the reports.
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1. How do I open the Child Development module?
In the left menu, click Child Development. A submenu with four pages opens:
Templates: the institution's templates and the template libraries;
Progress and Plan: evaluating children on lessons;
Reports: progress reports generated from the evaluations;
Evaluation history: all evaluations added, with author and date.
2. How do I use a template from the Public Library?
Child Development › Templates › Public Library
The Templates page has four tabs: My Templates (the ones your institution uses), Private Library, Public Library (ready-made templates, for example EYFS, Fisa Romaneasca or OCEPE) and Archived templates. Each card shows the age range, the number of lessons, the areas of development and the evaluation criteria.
Click the three dots on the template card. Choose View to see the content before you use it, or Clone to copy it straight into My Templates.
The Template Content page shows the areas of development, the number of lessons and of evaluation terms. If the template suits you, click Use this template.
Tip: once copied, the template is yours: you can edit it (lessons, criteria, terms) without changing the original in the library.
3. How do I create a new template?
Child Development › Templates › New template
Click the green New template button at the top right.
The template setup opens, with five steps on the left: Template Details, Age Range, Evaluation Terms, Evaluation Criteria and PDF Report. Each step is explained in the next section.
4. How do I set up a template's settings?
Child Development › Templates › ⋮ › Edit › Template Settings
For an existing template, click the three dots on the card, choose Edit and open the Template Settings tab. For a new template, the settings open directly.
Note! When you move from one step to another (with Next or by clicking a step on the left), the changes in the current step are saved automatically.
Step 1: Template Details
Template Name and Short Name (SKU), at most 3 characters;
Description;
Visible for: the groups/classes that can use the template (by default All Groups);
Color and Subcategories depth level: how many levels the template has between the area of development and the lesson. On the right you see an example of the structure;
Progress visible to parents: when it's on, parents see the evaluations in real time.
Step 2: Age Range
Turn on Levels / Ages ranges if you want to assign lessons to age ranges, then add them with + Add new age range. This step is optional.
Step 3: Evaluation Terms
Turn on Evaluation terms if evaluations are done in fixed periods of the year. With this option on, evaluations can only be entered for the defined terms; without it, you can evaluate at any time.
With + Add school interval you add the school year, and with + Add new term you add the terms of that year. The pencil next to a term edits it.
Step 4: Evaluation Criteria
Evaluation Criteria: define the criteria (for example Exceeding, Excellent, Good), each with a Short Name, Weight and Color. The Preview column shows how the criterion will look in the table. Without criteria, evaluations are text only. Add criteria with + Add new criterion.
Group criteria: create groups of criteria with + Add new group, give them a Group name and choose the criteria in the group. Then choose, for each lesson or category, which group of criteria it uses (see section 5).
Expected Evaluation: define the evaluation you expect for each evaluation term.
Step 5: PDF Report
Turn on Customize Report to add a header image with your institution's branding to the PDF report. Click Finish.
5. How do I add categories, subcategories and lessons?
Child Development › Templates › ⋮ › Edit › Template Content
In the Template Content tab, click Create main category to add an area of development. When you hover over a category, three icons appear: add a subcategory or lesson, edit and delete. You can search the content or filter by category.
Lessons have the edit and delete icons. You change the order of categories and lessons by dragging the dots on the left of the row.
Click the lesson name to open Lesson details: name, short name, age range, description and the evaluation criteria group. The Inherit from category / template option uses the criteria of the category or template; turn it off to choose other criteria for this lesson only. Don't forget to click Save.
6. How do I archive, clone or delete a template?
Child Development › Templates › My Templates
Click the three dots on the template card:
View and Edit;
Archive: moves the template to the Archived templates tab;
Clone template: copies the template to the library of other institutions in your account (for example another branch). In that institution, the template appears in Private Library, from where you clone it into My Templates;
Delete.
7. How do I add evaluations from the table?
Child Development › Progress and Plan
Use the filters at the top left: the template, the school year and term (or the date range, if the template has no terms), the class, the age range and the category. Lessons are shown on rows and children on columns. The criteria legend is at the bottom right.
At the bottom, choose the way you work:
Batch record: evaluate one lesson for several children at once;
Evidence: evaluate children one by one, by clicking the lesson cell in the child's column.
8. How do I see or change a child's evaluation?
Child Development › Progress and Plan › Evidence
Click a lesson cell in the child's column. The evaluation window opens: the author, the template, the date, the criterion, Observation and Next steps. Click Edit to change the evaluation, or Add new evaluation to add another one for the same lesson.
9. How do I add a grouped evaluation?
Child Development › Progress and Plan › Add grouped evaluation
Click the green Add grouped evaluation button. The evaluation is added in three steps.
Step 1, Lesson selection: choose the Evaluation date and tick the lessons evaluated. You can search for lessons or filter by category and age range. Click Next.
Step 2, Evaluation Criteria: choose the Children and the Author, then the criterion for each lesson. The bin icon removes a lesson from the evaluation.
Children are chosen in a window where you filter by class, search by name or click Select all. Confirm with Select.
Step 3, Add comment: fill in the Observation (required) and, optionally, Next steps. The Correct with AI, Generate with AI and Summarize with AI buttons help you write. You can also attach files. Don't forget to click Save.
Note! If you close the window before saving, the app asks whether you want to leave without saving; all the data you filled in is lost.
10. How do I see a child's individual progress?
Child Development › Progress and Plan › Individual Child Progress
Open the Individual Child Progress tab and choose the template, the period and the child. The table shows the child's evaluations on lessons, with one column for each evaluation date or term.
11. How do I export an Excel report?
Child Development › Progress and Plan › Export report
Choose the filters you want, then click Export report. You have three options:
Row per exam: one evaluation on each row; you choose the columns and the title, then download in XLS or CSV;
Grade export (xls);
Weight export (xls).
12. How do I generate a progress report?
Child Development › Reports › New Report
The Reports page has three tabs: Unpublished Reports, Published Reports and Pending Reports. Click the green New Report button.
Step 1: fill in the Report name, choose the template and tick the term or date range. Click Next.
Step 2: tick the categories included in the report or select all categories. You can search or filter by category.
Step 3: choose the children the report is generated for. Filter by group or search by name.
Step 4: check the summary, add General Comments and, optionally, feedback for each category. Click Save.
Generating may take a few seconds. Until it's done, the report appears in the Pending Reports tab, then in Unpublished Reports.
13. How do I publish, edit or delete a report?
Child Development › Reports
Click the three dots in the Actions column: View report, Edit report, Publish report, Preview PDF, Download PDF or Delete report.
Note! A generated report is not visible to parents until you publish it.
To work with several reports at once, click the arrow on the left of the table and tick the reports. The Generate PDFs, Publish reports and Delete reports buttons appear.
14. How do I generate and download PDF reports?
Child Development › Reports › Generate PDFs
Tick the reports and click Generate PDFs. In the Generate reports window, choose:
View as: the report as a list or as a table;
Grouped by, Font size and Number of photos;
Report Elements: what appears in the PDF (report title, term or date range, template name, child group, school year interval, date of birth, age, head teacher, report date, description, general comments, evaluation criteria and more).
Confirm with the button at the bottom of the window. The way you set up the PDF here is the way the parent sees it in their account.
To see a report's PDF, choose Preview PDF from the report's menu. From here you can regenerate it with Regenerate PDF Report (after changing the evaluations) or download it with Download PDF Report.
15. How do I see the evaluation history?
Child Development › Evaluation history
The Evaluation history page shows all evaluations, with the category, lesson, criterion, date, child and author. Choose the template, the class and the child, then click Apply. The Individual evaluations tab shows each evaluation separately.
From the three dots of an evaluation choose View, Edit or Delete.
The Grouped evaluations tab shows the evaluations added at once for several lessons, with the number of lessons and categories.
16. How do I use Child Development in the Kinderpedia Teacher app?
Kinderpedia Teacher app › ☰ › Child Development
Open the ☰ menu and tap Child Development. At the top, choose the template. The page shows the number of categories, objectives, evaluation criteria and the age range, plus four buttons: Add observations, View history, View Template and Reports.
View Template
Tap View Template to see the template's categories, subcategories and objectives. Use the magnifier at the top right to search, and Filters to choose the categories shown.
View history
Tap View history. The Track History page has two tabs, Individual evaluations and Grouped evaluations. You can search the observations or use Filters.
How do I add an observation in the app?
Tap Add observations and select one or more children, then tap Next. Optionally, tap Add pictures to attach photos. Check the date, then tap Select lessons.
Open the category and the subcategory, tick the objectives evaluated and tap Next. The objectives appear in the observation, each with a + button.
Tap + next to an objective and choose the criterion (for example Expectations Met). With Add more items you add other objectives. Then write the text under Observation and, optionally, Next steps, and save the observation.
Note! If you go back before saving, the app warns you that all data for this evaluation will be cleared.
Reports
Tap Reports to see the template's reports. To create a report, tap the + button at the bottom right.
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