Milestone 1: Welcome to Playground Onboarding

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Set Up Your Teachers:
• Check / Create Child Permissions for Playground

Set Up Your Teachers:

Before You Begin:

Teachers must be added in Discover with the correct settings before they can use Playground.

Step 1: Add or Update Teacher Profiles in Discover

1. Log into Discover

2. Go to Staff Menu

3. Enter an email address into the Personal Email field — this connects to Playground

4. Make sure No Access is unticked

5. Scroll down and click Save
   !! The “Enable Staff for Playground” checkbox will appear once you add in an email address !!

Step 2: Enable Staff for Playground

1. Tick Enable Staff for Playground

2. The staff member will receive an email to set up their Playground login

Step 3: Set Up Child Permissions for Playground 

    Part a: Add Playground Permission Field

    (i)    Go to Centre Settings > Child Fields

    (ii)    Create a permission:

            “I consent for my child’s image to be used in Playground”

    Part b:  Update Individual Child Permissions

    (i)    Go to the Children tab

    (ii)    Click on a child’s name

    (iii)    Tick the new Playground permission

    (iv)    Scroll down and click Save

**Print the enrolment form and ask parents to update this permission if needed. Then you can update the child profile permissions.

Step 4: Decide on which Frameworks and Templates you would like set up in Playground & Send them to your Onboarding Specialist. 

Ready-to-Go Frameworks

These frameworks are preloaded and ready to be copied into your platform.

Let your Onboarding Specialist know if:

• You’d like all of them

• Just some

• Or want to add a specific one not listed below (send it through!)
  
  Available Frameworks
  

  • Early Childhood Education Curriculum Framework

  • Educational Leadership Capability Framework

  • He Māpuna te Tamaiti – Supporting Social & Emotional Competence

  • National Education and Learning Priorities (NELP)

  • Our Code Our Standards – Ngā Tikanga Matatika Ngā Paerewa

  • Standards for the Teaching Profession

  • Talking Together | Te Kōrerorero

  • Tapasā

  • Tātaiako – Cultural Competencies for Teachers of Māori Learners

  • Te Ara Māori 2024

  • Te Ara Poutama

  • Te Whāriki 2024

  • Te Whāriki a Te Kōhanga Reo 2024

  • Te Whāriki – Principles

  • Te Whāriki – Strands & Outcomes

  • The Code of Professional Responsibility
    
    Templates
    Have templates you use or love?
    Send them through and we’ll add them in for you — with a locked version so they can’t be accidentally changed.