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Documenting and Communicating Learning in Ontario Made Easy
Discover the all-in-one platform that makes documenting and communicating learning in Ontario a breeze. We empower educators to easily collect, communicate, and report on learning, work habits, and learning skills through a simple, easy-to-use ePortfolio.
Our mission? Equip every Ontario educator with simple, easy-to-use tools to capture student learning and work habits, communicate growth with families, and support evidence-based reporting.
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Documenting and Communicating Learning in Ontario: Support Kindergarten Teachers With Assessment that Fits Their Classroom Needs
- Effortlessly capture and organize multimedia evidence of learning, on the go, with a dedicated mobile and web app, tagging it to individual or multiple students at once.
- Tag student learning with curriculum expectations and the four frames to track coverage, identify trends and gaps and plan the next steps.
- Simplify reporting by bookmarking evidence of learning in real-time for easy reference during report card season.
- Provide a window into the classroom with dedicated family accounts and messaging tools, ensuring families are kept up-to-date and engaged in their child's education
- Provide families with evidence of learning alongside report cards with a dedicated, visual Reporting Space
"Documenting the evidence of learning is the most important aspect of assessment in Kindergarten and is, indeed, an integral part of all assessment approaches."
Engage Ontario Families in Their Child’s Learning
- Keep families informed with real-time updates—no more daily recap emails. Dedicated family accounts provide instant access to their child’s progress.
- Streamline communication with one-way and two-way messaging built-in to the same platform used for collecting evidence of learning.
- Foster meaningful and active family engagement with options to react and comment on their child’s learning.
- Customize family visibility and interaction settings and the classroom level to meet unique needs.
Explore How Our Partners Uses SpacesEDU
School District 35 uses SpacesEDU to strengthen core competency integration in educational frameworks
School District 46 uses SpacesEDU to support meaningful core competency reflection and goal-setting
Document Learning Skills and Work Habits in Real Time
- Empower Ontario students to document and reflect on their learning skills and work habits, making them visible across classrooms and schools.
- Share learning skills and work habits with families and, in later years, have students share alongside post-secondary and job applications through URL Portfolio Sharing.
Track evidence of the six learning skills and work habits in real time, with a Skills Report to identify gaps at the individual student and classroom levels.
Simplify report card comments by easily referencing specific examples of demonstrated work habits and learning skills.
"Students benefit when teachers discuss and model these skills, and when teachers and parents work with students to help them develop these skills. Students also benefit when teachers work with them to explain how these skills will be assess and evaluated."
FAQs: Documenting and Communicating Learning in Ontario
How does SpacesEDU support documenting and communicating learning in Ontario?
SpacesEDU supports documenting and communicating learning in Ontario through simple and easy-to-use tools that help educators quickly capture and organize multimedia evidence of student learning. Our documentation and assessment tools enable educators to quickly tag evidence of learning to curriculum outcomes and the four frames of the Kindergarten program, view coverage at a glance for individual students and at the classroom level, and bookmark evidence in real time for easy reference during report card season.
How does SpacesEDU support family engagement in Ontario?
SpacesEDU supports family engagement in Ontario by offering dedicated family accounts that provide families instant access to their child’s progress. Built-in one-way and two-way messaging capabilities make it easy to communicate learning updates, and customizable visibility and interaction settings allow educators to foster meaningful and active family engagement that suits their unique classroom needs.
How does SpacesEDU support the documentation of learning skills and work habits in Ontario?
SpacesEDU supports the documentation of learning skills and work habits in Ontario through district-created templates. Once created and published, teachers and students can capture evidence of learning skills and work habits, assign it to the appropriate skill in their Portfolio, and reflect on it. Teachers can leverage a Skills Report to identify gaps, and at the school and district levels, administrators have access to learning skills and work habit data by grade level, and skills/habits.
Can SpacesEDU be used to track progress on the Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations (OCSGEs)?
Yes! SpacesEDU allows schools to document and monitor student progress toward the can Ontario Catholic School Graduate Expectations. School boards can create a Portfolio Template aligned to the OCSGEs, enabling students and teachers the ability to add multimedia evidence, tag it to the expectations, and reflect on their growth.
Can SpacesEDU be used to support documentation and reflection on the four Creating Pathways to Success inquiry questions?
Yes, SpacesEDU is ideal for documenting evidence and reflecting on the four Creating Pathways to Success inquiry questions. Educators and students can easily upload evidence related to each question—Who am I? What are my opportunities? Who do I want to become? What is my plan for achieving my goals?—and reflect on their learning and growth. Teachers have access to a powerful report that gives a clear view of progress and insights at a glance.
What does the typical onboarding and roll-out process look like to support documenting and communicating evidence of learning, work habits, and learning skills in Ontario?
We’ve spent the past 20 years working with school boards across Ontario to meet the goals outlined in their strategic plans, and have defined a proven roll-out and implementation strategy that engages all relevant stakeholders.
When an Ontario school board decides to work with us, they will partner with a dedicated Partner Success Specialist to define their goals for family engagement, reporting on work habits and learning skills, and documenting and communicating evidence of learning using SpacesEDU. They will work closely with their Partner Success Specialist to create custom training and communication plans to ensure the successful roll-out and adoption of the software.
We work with each Ontario school board to tailor their strategy, including offering a proof of concept term, to effectively evaluate the software for each use case and unique population of students.
We already license myBlueprint for career education. Is there a discount for adding SpacesEDU?
Yes, absolutely! We offer a 10% discount to all Ontario school boards that already use myBlueprint to support their Individual Pathway Plans, Course Selection, and SHSM Management.
