Journal View Student Progress

View student progress in the Journal

Summary: The Journal is where you see at a glance where every child in your classroom stands across the curriculum. Select your classroom, then click Journal in the left-side navigation. The Journal opens with three tabs — Lessons, Trackers, and Personal Growth Skills — and your students listed across the top. From the Lessons tab you can drill from categories into subcategories and individual lessons, read the completion percentages, and see each child's assessment level for every lesson and element. It is the view teachers lean on most when preparing for conferences and progress reports.

Who can do this

Any assigned teacher can view student progress in the Journal for the children in their classroom. Owners and Administrators can view it for any classroom. No special role is required.

Step-by-step

1. Open the Journal. Select your classroom, then click Journal in the left-side navigation. The Journal page opens.
2. Choose a tab. The Journal has three tabs: Lessons, Trackers, and Personal Growth Skills. See "What the three Journal tabs do" below. This walkthrough focuses on the Lessons tab.
3. Use the student list. Your students are listed across the top. Click any child's name to open their student profile.
4. Sort the students. Sort by name, last name, or age to change the order of the children in the list.
5. Filter the view. Filter the Journal to focus on a subset of children — for example, show only your kindergarten students and hide the rest.
6. Open a category. Click a category to drill into its subcategories. See "Reading the completion percentages" below for what the numbers mean.
7. Open a subcategory. Click a subcategory name to list all the lessons within it. You can see where every child stands assessment-wise on each lesson.
8. Drill into a lesson. Click into a lesson to see where every child stands within each element of that lesson.
9. Jump between areas. Use the dropdowns at the top to switch quickly to a different subcategory or to a different category altogether.
10. View lesson information. Click the information (i) icon next to a lesson name to see its description and elements. See "The information icon and the For Parents tab" below.

What the three Journal tabs do

The Journal opens to three tabs, each for a different kind of record keeping:

• Lessons — where you view and record lesson progress across the curriculum.
• Trackers — where you record daily routines for your children, such as snacks or nap times.
• Personal Growth Skills — where you assess children's social and emotional development. This is typically used when preparing for conferences and progress reports.

Reading the completion percentages

The percentages shown on the category and subcategory screens represent the percentage of lessons in that category or subcategory that have been recorded for the child. The figure only factors in lessons that are relevant to the classroom view you are looking at, so it reflects that classroom rather than the entire curriculum.

The information icon and the For Parents tab

The information (i) icon next to each lesson name opens the lesson's description and elements. Inside, the For Parents tab shows the description and photos that would be made visible to parents if you record this lesson for their child and share it on an activity report. In other words, what you see on the For Parents tab is what is eligible to reach parents through an activity report — it is not pushed to them automatically.

What the light bulb means

The light bulb icon lets you see which lessons are planned. A light bulb next to a lesson indicates a planned lesson for that child.

A few things worth knowing

• The percentages always reflect the classroom view you are in, not the whole curriculum, so the same child can show different figures in different views.
• Sorting and filtering only change what you see — they never change a child's records.
• The Journal is read-and-record in one place: the same screens you use to view progress are where you record lessons, trackers, and personal growth skills.

Related articles

• Recording a lesson from the Journal
• Recording a tracker from the Journal
• Recording personal growth skills
• The Planned Lessons page
• Reports: rosters, activity summaries, and lesson distribution

Watch the video

Here is a short video covering this topic for additional reference.