Mana Journeys is designed to support you to do the cycle of planning end-to-end, without the support of other ECE software. Mana Journeys gives you a clear, streamlined way to manage each childβs cycle of planning or individual learning plan (ILP).
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However, we completely understand that your centre may use multiple systems and you may be currently focused on using Mana for help with documentation while you are using another system to do your cycles.
This article will help you understand how the benefits of getting Mana Journeys set up properly so that your work in Mana is easy to copy and paste into other ECE systems if required by your centre.
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Why each child needs a Journey in Mana
In Mana, each child has one journey at any given time. This helps you track their learning progress over a specific period of time and becomes the home base for everything you document about their learning and development.
Journey = Cycle of planning or Individual Learning Plan (ILP)
You may already have a system set up on paper or another platform-there is no need to copy-paste and double up your workload.
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You can simply set up the same system on Mana to help you do all your documentation in one place and simply share any as needed on your family sharing platform (if not Mana Families).
Benefits of using Journeys
1. Clear documentation and ensures full cycles/ILPs
Each child's observations, follow-ups, plans, and reflections can be clearly documented and viewed at a glance against the corresponding stage of a cycle/ILP.
2. Tracks the Cycle of Planning/ILP
Each stage is automatically marked off when completed, for real time feedback and to help stay on track and manage next steps. You can see at a glance where you're at with each child each time your planning so you can pick-up from where you left off.
π Read more: How does Mana track the cycle/ILP?
3. Provides guidance
Coach Sue gives guidance throughout the cycle by suggesting next steps at each stage.
4. Helps manage workload & supports compliance
Built-in AI detects journeys that need your attention by flagging any children without a journey, and any journeys that are off-track or overdue- so you don't spend time checking this manually.
You can be confident that every child has an active journey and your journeys are on track.
This helps with assessment and rating, internal audits, and quality improvement.
π Read more: What does 'falling behind' mean?
5. Makes end-of-period reporting simple
Easily generate summative assessments or progression of learning documents by pulling together linked documents in a child's journey.
Ready to make the shift?
1. Match your journey stages
Set up your journey stages in Mana to reflect the same categories or stages you use elsewhere (e.g. Observe & Assess, Plan & Implement, Evaluate & Reflect).
π Read more: How to customise the stages of your Journey
2. Create your documents in the child's journey
A journey will walk you through every step of the planning cycle with coaching, AI support, and smart features built right in.
π Read more: How to begin a Journey
π Read more: Guide to completing a Journey from start to end
3. Copy & paste to share on family sharing platform
Use Manaβs copy function to quickly copy content from a journey entry into another platform.
If you need help setting up your journeys or customising stages, there are several ways to learn more or get in touch:
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