Assessments run across a whole term. Your part is at the two ends — setting up before the year starts, and reviewing reports at the end of it. This page is the order to take it in.

Watch this first

Share it with your teachers too. It explains the whole shape, not just your part.

Print these for your team

Bloomily · Assessments · Director pack.pdf

Who does what, your setup checklist, and the end-of-term steps for both sides.

Bloomily · Assessments · Classroom pack.pdf

For your teachers: who does what, the four ratings, and the seven steps for rating a skill.

The ratings page is the one that earns its printing. Laminate it and leave it next to the classroom device — it gets looked at more than everything else combined.

Before the year starts

Ten minutes of setup that prevents most of the problems people run into later.

1. Set up the year

Reporting periods for the whole year, your skills library, and the age ranges that decide which classroom sees what.

→ Assessments (for centers)

Setting up your assessment periods:

The one to get right: exactly one reporting period should be Current. If the wrong one is active, nothing looks broken — teachers just quietly see the wrong window of observations, and it can run that way for weeks.

2. Brief your teachers

They need to know two things: rating happens all term rather than in the last week, and who publishes reports at your center.

Send them Start here: assessments for teachers, and hand out the classroom pack above.

At the end of term

3. Reviewing and publishing

The review queue, sending a report back with a reason, publishing and sharing, and publishing several at once.

→ Reviewing and publishing assessment reports (for centers)

Review, publish and share:

The four states

Only the last one reaches a family, and it is also the step that tells them — guardians get an email, a push and an in-app notification when you share. Making a report final without sharing is silent, and so is taking a report back.

Three things worth knowing now

• Ratings on their own don't produce a report. You see nothing for a child until a teacher presses Generate, however much they have rated.

• Sending a report back needs a reason, and the teacher reads it on the report itself. Be specific — "needs more detail" sends them straight back to you asking which part.

• A report counts main skills; a checklist counts sub-skills too. That is why the two numbers never match, and it is the question you will get asked.

A week after your teachers start

Look at the observations counter on Learning > Assessments.

If it is near zero, the briefing did not land — and rewatching a video will not fix it. Sit with one teacher and record an observation together. That is usually all it takes.

If you get stuck

Every screen has a ? guide button that explains the page you're on. For anything else, email support@bloomily.app.