Curricula has two new ways to help you plan individually even within a group context:
Suggest spots learning threads across your children and proposes group plans.
Group → individual tailoring lets you write one document for a group and have Mana create a personalised version for each child.
Here's how each one works, and when to reach for it.
Suggest: find learning threads across every child
Tap Suggest in your curriculum. Mana reads across every child's Journey goals, looks for threads of similar learning, and proposes group plans that serve those children together.
Each suggestion comes with the why- a short explanation of how the plan connects to each child's individual goal.
Why use it
Spots threads you might miss. Finding common threads across 20–40 children by hand is hard. Mana does the cross-child scan in seconds.
Stays genuinely child-led. Suggestions come from your children's actual goals, not generic activity templates.
Shows its reasoning. The why tells you which goals each suggestion is responding to, so you can sense-check it before you act.
Strong evidence for assessment. A clear line from individual goals → group experience makes intentional, child-led practice easy to demonstrate.
How to use it
Make sure your children have current Journey goals / content. Suggest reads from these.
In your curriculum, click Suggest.
Review each suggestion. You'll see the curriculum area it fits and the why behind it.
Accept a suggestion to create the group plan.
Link it to the relevant children with Add to journey to generate their tailored versions (see next section).
Group → individual tailoring
Write a plan, learning story, or any document once for a group. When you link it to the children involved, Mana creates a tailored version for each child inside their Journey- adjusted to their individual goals and learning context, with anything not relevant to that child filtered out.
Why use it
Write once, individualise everywhere. No more bulk group documents that lack individual learning.
Each child still gets a personal record. Their tailored version sits in their journey, ready for next steps and reflection.
Works for any document type. Plans, learning stories, observations- same flow.
Each child's privacy is protected. Context about other children is removed from each child's version.
Strong evidence for assessment. The link from group document → each child's individual journey is captured automatically.
How to use it
From your curriculum, open or create a group document and include children's names. Mana detects them automatically- you can always edit the list.
Tap Add to Journey for any child Journey you'd like the document tailored for.
Each child now has their own tailored version inside their journey, alongside the original group document. Tick off the group document and each child's version separately as the work happens.
Tip: Add to journey is a deliberate action. Only link a group document to the children it's genuinely for, keeping the Journey focused and meaningful.
Get the most out of these updates
Start with individual journeys. Suggest is only as good as the journey content it reads from. Keep each child's individual context current.
Link with intention. Use Add to journey on the children a document is genuinely for, not by default.
Use tailoring for stories, not just plans. Write one group learning story and let Mana individualise it for each focus child.
Reflect at completion. When you close a cycle, complete each child's tailored version first, then mark the group document done. That keeps reflection grounded in what actually happened.