Understanding an observation in TeachScribe
An observation in TeachScribe is displayed in an observation card. An observation card displays information about a given observation and let you edit, delete, or dive deeper in to that observation to find out more details.
By default, an observation card displays:
In the top left, the child that an observation relates to in the top left
Below that, an AI generated summary of the action that the child performed
Then below that, the early learning goals which the observation is related to
In the bottom left, the name of the teacher who made the observation
In the bottom right, the date and time the observation was made
On the left hand side, it displays the sentiment of the observation (whether the child is demonstrating positive or negative progress towards the goals displayed).
You can see all of these different elements in the card below.
The observation card also contains a number of buttons (in blue). From left to right, these are:
The "share with parents button", this button allows you to share the observation with parents if you have enabled that functionality within the app. Sharing observations with parents is described in more detail here.
The "ai sparkles" button, this button expands the observation card to let you see the original transcript and the subgoals that the observation was linked to. These subgoals are each categorised under the most relevant goal category for categorisation purposes.
The "add media" button, this button allows you to quickly add a photo or video from your camera roll to the observation without having to open up the main observation editing page.
The "edit observation" button, this button allows you to open up the edit observation screen. The edit observation screen is described in more detail here.
The "three dot" button, this button opens up the menu which allows you to delete an observation. The deletion of observations is described in more detail here.
The "more details" button opens up the observation overview page where you can see more details about, or edit the observation as you want.
To view the media attached to an observation, you have two ways of doing this. If an observation has media items, they will appear on the observation card. You can tap the media item to make it full screen and scroll through the other media items if there are more than one.
You can also click the "more details" button to view the media items side by side. You can also add or remove the media items in this view.
How to edit an observation:
To edit an observation, click on the edit icon (shown below) on the observation card.
This will bring up the observation editing screen. Here you can edit the observation summary, the goals that an observation is linked to, and the photos that are attached to it. To edit them, you'll just want to click on the relevant section. The video below shows how to do this. Once you're done making your edits, either click the Apply Changes button in the top right of the page, or the Discard button in the top left. You can then click the back button in the top left to go back to the list of observations you came from. (This example uses sample cartoons to represent pictures of children that you'd have on your camera roll, TeachScribe doesn't generate these!)
How to delete an observation:
To delete an observation, you'll want to click on the three dot button "..." on the observation card as shown in the image below. Doing so will bring up the delete observation button. Click on that button, and the observation will be deleted. Please be aware that deleted observations can't be recovered, so only do this when you are sure that you don't want that observation in your list.
