Moments of 'free play' are important in the classroom. It allows children to choose independently, to plan, to discover.
But did you know that you can get much more out of these moments? And that you can also organize them faster and easier?

Observing is equally important. But where do you record all those observations? And how do you keep an overview? How quickly can you find something back?

And do you really know who has already worked on certain objectives? And how often and how long?

Discover here how Smart Symbols helps you to better streamline your classroom activities, enables you to keep track of time spent, observations and goals in a coherent way with one app, and how it provides you with a maximum of insights with a minimum of administration.

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The top features

Efficient planning of your (themed) week

Agenda

Planning is often necessary, but it is preferably done in a smooth and time-efficient way. That's why we have developed an agenda tailored to primary and preschool teachers, where you lose as little time as possible. Without hassle, quickly and easily schedule lessons and activities. A short description, a complete lesson plan, or duplicating a lesson or week from last year. Choose what works best for you.

Themes

Assign themes to your weeks. This way you can easily find lesson weeks later.

Lesson plans

Put the description of your lesson, together with the goals, attachments and supplies in a handy lesson plan. Lesson plans can also be bundled in your own library and grouped by theme, project or activity. Changing schools, just take your lesson plans with you.

The Smart Symbols Free Play Choice Board

Velcro and magnets are quickly forgotten with our digital choice board: a simple and fun way to let your pupils choose from a planned range of activities independently.
You can use the choice board on your digital board, but also on a regular touch screen device like a tablet. And even on multiple devices at the same time.

Flexible

Quickly and easily add an extra activity, change the number of available places, make an activity unavailable for certain students, or pause the choice board for a while. It's all possible.

Automatic (time) registration

The time the children spend on an activity (and goals) is automatically registered and displayed in handy insights. This way you can let the children work independently/self-directing, and if necessary take action based on their time spent.

Collect feedback

How did the student experience the activity? We just ask it afterwards via a simple choice screen and put the results in a handy overview. This way you can respond quickly to situations that may require extra attention.

Reflection Board

With the Reflection Board you can look back on the day together with the pupils. What did they like? What was difficult? Who has divided the time neatly?
The board supports the conversation with a clear overview of the activities and the time spent by the pupils.

Observe, register and evaluate

Digital observations

You can capture an observation, whether or not linked to a specific activity, in no time on your computer, tablet or smartphone. And because a picture often says more than 1000 words, you can also add photos to your observations.

Everything connected

Pupil, activity, goals, observation, evaluation, and time, they are all connected to each other. This is how you get a complete picture of a pupil over time.

The pupils help

Pupils can take a photo themselves when they have finished their work. They also do an extra effort for the photo, and it stimulates working with digital tools!

Overview of observations

You can find all observations for a certain period, or for a certain pupil in a handy overview. Browse through the photos per student to visually support the parent-teacher meeting.

Insights you never had before

Thanks to the automatic registration via the digital choice board, you not only get a better picture of the time spent by your pupils...

Social interaction

We visualize who plays together. This way you can monitor the social interaction in the classroom.

Popularity of activities

Which activities are chosen most often? Are there activities that are hardly ever used? What is the average time spent by pupils on an activity? With Smart Symbols you get an answer to all these questions.

Insights per pupil

By letting pupils choose independently and registering their time spent, we find out if they are 'fluttering', if they avoid certain activities, or maybe change activities too little. This way you can adjust your approach.

Customizable for your specific classroom

Icons and symbols

In Smart Symbols you will find a wide library of symbols for both students and activities. Prefer your own symbols? Create a library for your classroom, or share a common library with your colleagues.
You can also easily print the symbols from the overview.

Grouping of pupils

Add a color to the symbol of the pupils. For example, to help the youngest pupils recognize their symbol more quickly, or to work across classrooms.

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Smart Symbols BV

Provinciebaan 51, bus 6

8880 Ledegem, BE