The Return of Edsby’s Learning Story
Edsby’s Learning Story feature is back.
In the new school year starting in September 2018, in an attempt to harmonize the user experience between Edsby’s browser interface and its mobile apps, Edsby began making shared evidence items visible in students’ portfolios, an area where significant enhancements had just been made in the mobile apps. The Learning Story concept was intentionally excluded at the time.
Edsby has received feedback from educators about the benefits of separating out formative evidence assessment data collected by the teacher, which has a pedagogical component and demonstrates effort, progress, achievements and competencies within a term. The portfolio, educators argued, should remain student curated and be used to invite peer review or simply showcase personal academic achievements. So the Learning Story concept has been reintroduced.
Learning Story Access
Edsby now provides an easy way of accessing the Learning Story and Portfolio on all devices.
In the web user interface: A new panel is now available on the home page (below the Classes panel) to provide easy access to both the Portfolio and Learning Story. This is the same for both students and parents.
In the mobile app user interface: Convenient buttons for the Portfolio and Learning Story are now provided on a new mobile home page. Parents can see links for these in each child’s section in their parent mobile home page.
Learning Story Content
The Learning Story presents students and parents with a scrolling list of shared evidence items. Newest items are shown first.
Each item includes the teacher’s observation, any conversation with the student (if captured), and the media (usually one or more pictures). Items also show a list of the learning expectations/standards associated with the item which are displayed when students and parents hover on the item.
Finally, there is a conversational feed to enable the teacher, the student, or the parent to reflect and discuss the learning associated with the item.
