Tag: Storypark Tools & Features
How Storypark benefits our practice and operations
Written by Kim Hiscott, Executive Director, Andrew Fleck Children’s Services We’ve always been committed to engaging with families to share their child’s early learning experience; we do this through daily interactions but also through purposeful documentation. Our “traditional” approach included educators spending hours creating amazing portfolios that while appreciated by parents for the most part, by the time they were...
Educator Portfolios – Nurture the Growth of Your Team
With so many administrative tasks to do, you find that working on your professional growth, development, and appraisal sometimes has to wait. Good things take time. It is challenging to find an effective system of gathering evidence of your progress, linking it to professional requirements, connecting it to your practice, and reflecting on it as well. If only there was...
A few changes with the planning feature
Improvements to the Storypark planning feature The Storypark planning feature is one of the most used tools available on Storypark. With that comes a whole lot of feedback from you, our educators, on ways we can tweak the functionality, even more, to meet your needs and make your job easier. Well, sit down because you are in for a treat. ...
iOS educator’s app updates
iOS educator’s app updates Near the end of April, the old iOS educators app will no longer be available. Many of you will already be using the new iOS app which was released in April 2020. For those of you that aren’t, now is the time to get it from the app store! You can read more about the new...
Meet compliance requirements and legislation using learning tags
How learning tags help you to meet (and exceed) compliance requirements and legislation Trying to meet compliance requirements and legislation can be challenging! But it can be much easier with the help of learning tags. Meeting the National Quality Standards does not need to be incredibly stressful, or time-consuming. In fact, collecting the evidence that you have met the standards...
Storypark Troubleshooting/FAQs
These are some of our most frequently asked questions. For a comprehensive guide to Storypark please see our extensive library of help articles. Educators I’m trying to start a plan from a template, but the template doesn’t show in the room Does the template have any children included in it? If so, you will only see that template in rooms...
10 reasons why Storypark sets up educators with individual account logins
10 reasons why Storypark sets educators up with individual account logins Storypark was created with the intention of educators having individual logins. We designed individual logins to support the following: Building an online professional relationship is paramount in this day and age. In Storypark this consists of a profile photo and name so parents, family and other educators can tell...
Daily Routines – 4 ways Storypark can help you with compliance requirements
Meeting the National Quality Standards requires a lot of work, but the most frustrating thing is, this is work that you are already doing! Yes, you are meeting all of the standards in practice, however, providing evidence that you are indeed meeting the Quality Areas is a whole other kettle of fish. Now, we have some good news and some...
What’s new at Storypark – June 2020
Over the past months, we have released a few new features that we want to share with you. Part of the process for working on Storypark improvements and new features involves collating, reviewing and prioritising the feedback you give us. Knowing what matters to you, and more importantly, WHY it is important to you, helps us to understand, and help...
How Storypark works with different CCMS platforms
At Storypark, we pride ourselves on being led by our purpose. Helping our customers make the biggest difference they can for children, families and educators is why we get out of bed in the morning. With a lot of change currently happening in the world, we continue to be committed to and driven by our values. These are all centred...