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Skill Tracker
Technical Questions
Yes you can! Students can choose to export some or all of their skills that they have logged. This is particularly useful if you want students to have ATL skills in a portfolio or if students are preparing for student/parent/teacher conferences. Skills are exported in PDF format.
Skill Tracker will work in your school if you have IB programmes and students and teachers have access to the internet. Skill Tracker works best when students are able to access the app or web portal on their smartphone, tablet or laptop.
Yes! We have iOS and Android versions. Students can also access their Skill Tracker account via a web browser if they are using their laptops to log skills.
No yet but we are working on it. We know that a lot of schools use ManageBac to plan their curriculum. We have set up our app structure to align with the structure used by ManageBac and are in ongoing discussions about how we can have better integration with learning management systems and Skill Tracker. If you have a learning management system and you’d like to include Skill Tracker data within it, we are very happy to collaborate with your LMS provider to try and make this happen.
Simply contact info@tracker-apps.com to get started. You’ll be connected with our tech department who will request student, teacher and class data to personalize Skill Tracker for your school. Once the data is entered, you are ready to go.
- Student, Teacher and Class-related data.
- Student: Student ID, First & Last Names, Grade, Email Address and Birthdate.
- Teacher: Teacher ID, First & Last Names and Email Address.
- Class: Class name, Teacher name, Student list, Subject, Grade.
- School data: School Type, Programs they use, School name, Region & Country, Description, Address, Contact number, and Contact email.
This data is only viewable by the school. We don’t share any of this information.
Our software archives school data each year which means that you can view data that has been logged in the previous years at your school.
You can easily add, remove or edit users (students, teachers and administrators) by using the School Admin portal. We have designed this so schools can do their own administration without having to lodge a request with Tracker Apps support. Of course, we are here for you if you need help with this process!
We have designed the software to be as intuitive as possible. During the setup process, students and teachers can access guides for registration and use of the software. We provide teachers with support on how to use Skill Tracker in the classroom as well as guidance on data analysis. We can also provide virtual training sessions for teachers to help them get started with Skill Tracker.
All your school data is stored in our Firebase database, which is protected by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Firebase terms include data processing and security terms and they are also certified under major privacy and security standards. You can read more about it here: Firebase privacy and security
- We collect: Student ID, First & Last Names, Grade, Email Address and Birthdate
- The data students enter when logging skills: Title of Work, Category, Cluster, Skill Level, Notes & the attachments uploaded
This data is only viewable by the student and their teachers. We don’t share any of this information.
Content Questions
In the teacher web portal, you can see the files students have logged as evidence when you are in the ‘Skills Logged’ view. Just click on the particular log entry that you’d like to see then click on the file icon.
This is a great opportunity for a conversation with the individual student about their skill development. Ultimately, it is the student’s responsibility, but your input and guidance may help them to better evaluate their progress.
Skill Tracker uses the same names as the IB for the five ATL categories and the same names for the ten ATL clusters contained within the categories. The app has been developed by IB teacher practitioners who have thorough knowledge of the IB programmes.
There are two elements to this question. One aspect could be that students have not been learning the skills that you have planned to teach. In this case it can serve as valuable feedback for your planning and teaching so that you can explicitly address specific skills. Secondly, students may not have been aware that they had learned particular skills. Your class discussions and individual chats with students are an opportunity to make the skill development more explicit and to guide the students as to which skills they may have learned, then give them time to log them. Students may need more explicit instruction or guidance to log their first few skills but once they become more self-aware and familiar with the app, they will easily be able to log skills on their own.
Students may also need additional support in understanding the language of Approaches to Learning. Guided logging with Skill Tracker can help your students understand when they are learning a skill, what this skill is called, and how they can collect evidence of their skill development.
Application Questions
On the teacher portal you can view individual student data and review the spread of skills logged across subjects. You can also see an overview of which skills have been logged in which subjects. This is useful to reflect on balance and spread of skill development. Use the ‘My School’ button and then choose the filters you want to apply eg year, subject or student.
The IB requires that ATL skills are planned and monitored. Skill Tracker enables teachers and coordinators to easily view which skills have been learned, which goes beyond simply planning to teach them. The IB requires evidence of monitoring, and Skill Tracker is a perfect tool with which to provide that evidence of ATL implementation. Additionally the IB requires that students can articulate their ATL journey and demonstrate metacognitive skills, Skill Tracker is set up to do just that!
Skill Tracker has been designed for the MYP. However, PYP uses the same five categories of ATL skills so PYP students could use the app with guidance from teachers. Teachers would need to remind students of the MYP sub-division of ten clusters, but the categories and specific skills remain the same across programmes.
Skill Tracker has been designed for the MYP. However, DP and CP uses the same five categories of ATL skills so DP and CP students could very easily use the app. Teachers would need to remind students of the MYP sub-division of ten clusters, but the categories and specific skills remain the same across programmes.
Price Questions
Absolutely! Please contact use to organise a 30-day free trial.
You can decide the length of your subscription from as short as one month. The power of Skill Tracker is in data collection over an extended period of time so we encourage schools to subscribe for at least one semester.
Teachers and administrators use the app and web portal for free. We only charge you for the number of student users.
Yes! We offer discounts for schools who want to register 100 students or more, and for schools that subscribe for a minimum of 12 months. If you’d like to use Skill Tracker and Service Tracker, you’ll receive a 50% discount on the second product.
Service Tracker
Technical Questions
Yes you can! Students can choose to export some or all of their projects that they have logged. This is particularly useful if you want students to include service learning in a portfolio. Projects are exported in PDF format.
Service Tracker will work in your school if you have IB programmes, and students and teachers have access to the internet.
Yes! We have iOS and Android versions. Students can also access their Service Tracker account via a web browser if they are using their laptops to log skills
Not yet but we are working on it.
If you have a learning management system and you’d like to include Service Tracker data within it, we are very happy to collaborate with your LMS provider to try and make this happen.
Simply contact info@tracker-apps.com to get started. You’ll be connected with our tech department who will request student, teacher data to configure Service Tracker for your school. Once the data is entered, you are ready to go.
- Student and Teacher data.
- Student: Student ID, First & Last Names, Grade, Email Address and Birthdate.
- Teacher: Teacher ID, First & Last Names and Email Address.
- School data: School Type, Programs they use, School name, Region & Country, Description, Address, Contact number, and Contact email.
This data is only viewable by the school. We don’t share any of this information.
Our software archives school data each year which means that you can view data that has been logged in the previous years at your school.
You can easily add, remove or edit users (students, teachers and administrators) by using the School Admin portal. We have designed this so schools can do their own administration without having to lodge a request with Tracker Apps support. Of course, we are here for you if you need help with this process!
We have designed the software to be as intuitive as possible. During the set up process, students and teachers can access guides for registration and use of the software. We provide teachers with support on how to use Service Tracker in the classroom as well as guidance on data analysis. We can also provide virtual training sessions for teachers to help them get started with Service Tracker.
All your school data is stored in our Firebase database, which is protected by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Firebase terms include data processing and security terms and they are also certified under major privacy and security standards. You can read more about it here: Firebase privacy and security
- We collect: Student ID, First & Last Names, Grade, Email Address and Birthdate
- The data students enter when logging skills: Title of Work, Category, Cluster, Skill Level, Notes & the attachments uploaded
This data is only viewable by the student and their teachers. We don’t share any of this information.
Content Questions
The teacher portal provides several different data views. You can see data related to all service projects as well as view individual student projects, including files that students have uploaded
This is a great opportunity for you to meet and discuss this with a student. The data provides a basis for your conversation and helps both you and the student understand what the concerns may be.
Application Questions
The five stages offer a framework of process for students undertaking service learning as they consider what they would like to do, make plans, and carry out their ideas. The five stages are inspired by the work of Cathy Berger Kaye and are outlined in the documentation for MYP, DP and CP. Students follow a process where they investigate, prepare, take some form of action, reflect on what they have done along the way, and demonstrate their understandings and the process. By using these five stages students have a structure they can then apply to future situations with confidence.
The IB uses the term CAS experience to describe a specific event, which may be a one-off. It describes projects in terms of longer term applications with students initiating, investigating, planning, taking action and reflecting. Service Tracker uses the five stages of service learning that the IB attaches to CAS projects (in the DP), although they can very easily be applied to one-off events too. In such cases we want students to consider what they wish to achieve and to reflect upon what they learned and how they felt. We would recommend that schools use Service Tracker for both longer and shorter term projects and experiences, even when the students haven’t planned or investigated.
In conducting service learning projects and experiences students will develop learner profile attributes and learn and practice ATL skills. It is important that students appreciate this fact and the app helps them to gain that awareness and understanding.
In MYP, DP and CP the IB asks that students work towards achieving seven prescribed service learning outcomes. They are almost exactly the same across IB programmes. The app enables students to be aware of the outcomes and to reflect against those that they are developing. This is crucial for coordinators in the DP and CP when they need to judge a students’ progress against the outcomes.
Students may also need additional support in understanding the language of Approaches to Learning. Guided logging with Skill Tracker can help your students understand when they are learning a skill, what this skill is called, and how they can collect evidence of their skill development.
Students may undertake a service project over the course of many weeks or months, which shows a different level of commitment than something that lasts for hours or days. In the reflection section, the fifth stage, of the app it is important that students state their time commitment. There is no special section for it as the app design looks to place an emphasis on quality of service and reflection over quantity.
Not yet. We recommend face-to-face feedback or written feedback that is constructive and encouraging. Feedback can be based upon the reflections written in the app. If teachers or supervisors have provided feedback to the students, the students can include this in the app by uploading the feedback as a PDF, audio file, document etc.
Not yet! There are a minimum of three interviews between a student and the coordinator where
student progress is discussed. Encouragement and advice is given. The interviews should
occur at least twice in the first year of the Diploma Programme and once in the second year with each interview outcome documented. This final and third interview is a discussion of
the student’s engagement and their achievement of the seven service learning outcomes. The planning and reflections logged on Service Tracker are very useful to provide discussion points in each interview.
The handbook is a useful tool for understanding the overview of CAS and to know how to contact key people and organisations, and to know deadlines. For everything else, the app has you covered! It is best to use them in conjunction with each other.
The IB has highlighted different forms of reflection that are evidenced in other parts of the MYP, DP and CP. From service learning we look for affective reflection, so students should write about, and provide evidence for, ways in which they have changed and how it made them feel.
Students can provide evidence of their learning outcome development in many ways – word processed documents, video, audio, powerpoint, photos and many more! Students using Service Tracker should log in via the web portal to be able to upload all file types.
In many schools students may be asked to demonstrate what they have achieved in a particular experience or project. This could be in the form of an assembly, presentation or website article. Whichever it is, this can be uploaded in the demonstration stage. If there was no demonstration, students can move on to the reflection stage, as this stage is the only one that is optional and can be missed out.
The purpose of service learning is that students engage in inquiry and planning before carrying out actions. This supports meaningful engagement in service learning experiences, and encourages students to reflect on the reason why an action may be required.
Price Questions
Absolutely! Please contact use to organise a 30-day free trial.
You can decide the length of your subscription from as short as one month. The power of Service Tracker is in data collection over an extended period of time so we encourage schools to subscribe for at least one semester.
Teachers and administrators use the app and web portal for free. We only charge you for the number of student users.
Yes! We offer discounts for schools who want to register 100 students or more, and for schools that subscribe for a minimum of 12 months. If you’d like to use Skill Tracker and Service Tracker, you’ll receive a 50% discount on the second product.
CredsPo
CredsPo is for anyone who wants a simple way to create a digital portfolio of their learning. You can use the app no matter where you study or work. You are in control of what you add, the learning experiences you want to remember, and the goals you want to set.
Tracking your learning, especially the development of your skills and attributes, can help you achieve your goals in study and work. Employers look for people who can explain how their life experiences have helped them develop qualities such as resilience, collaboration, creativity and ingenuity. CredsPo helps you record these significant learning experiences so that you are able to share your achievements when applying to schools, university, apprenticeships and jobs.
CredsPo is a way for you to help your child document their learning – helping you.
Only you! The app is designed for individual users as a private learning record. What you upload cannot be seen by anyone and the app is not connected to other social media, your contacts or any other software that could read your information.
We use multiple layers of password protection and data encryption to ensure your data is as safe as we can make it. Your data is stored on our secured cloud servers that are located in Germany.
This feature is coming soon! If you’d like to tell us more about the features you’d like, please use the feedback form in the app or contact us at credspo@tracker-apps.com
Tags are a way to categorise your learning experiences. Most experiences help you learn and develop certain skills or attributes, or their are an experience that is marked by a waypoint such as a diploma, certificate or degree. Using tags helps you say what the most important things were that you learned from the experience. It then makes it easier to search and find certain experiences that you’ve uploaded.
This feature is coming soon! If you’d like to tell us more about the features you’d like, please use the feedback form in the app or contact us at credspo@tracker-apps.com
Your subscription expires after 12 months from the date of purchase. Your subscription will automatically renew via the App/Play store unless cancel your subscription and delete your account.
Use your CredsPo data when you’re applying for a job or preparing for an interview. Remind yourself of all the amazing things that you have achieved and the skills and attributes that make you ‘you’!
We are always interested in hearing about other ways you’d like to share you best learning achievements. If you want to tell us more about the features you’d like, please use the feedback form in the app or contact us at credspo@tracker-apps.com
Go to your profile page in the CredsPo app and scroll down to the ‘delete my account’ button at the bottom of the page. Note that once you delete your account, all your data will also be deleted and you will not be able to retrieve it or undo the action of deletion.
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