Curriculum Builder - FAQs

If you're unsure how your curriculum will look, we recommend previewing it before going live. If you've chosen Save and upload, you can turn it on in Settings temporarily to see how it looks in observations and assessments.

You can link observations and assessments to top level learning areas and pillars, but not to individual statements or subareas.

The Curriculum builder works with the existing child development setup, meaning you can create your own version of what you currently see, including browsing reference material (such as Development Matters and Birth to Five Matters), linking to learning areas (such as the EYFS areas), and creating assessment configurations based on those learning areas.

Yes, you can set up your own assessment configurations to assess against your custom learning areas. Find out how to set up an assessment configuration in our Curriculum builder article, or take a look at our Curriculum types and examples article for inspiration.

The only difference is that the template gives you a starting point to edit from. Both options offer the same functionality and will produce the same result.

The template is based on the structure of Development Matters, so if your curriculum follows a similar structure it makes sense to start from there. If you do use the template, make sure to update the placeholder pages we've added, otherwise these will appear in your reference material when you upload the curriculum.

No, parents cannot see the curriculum.

Staff can only view the curriculum if they have permission to Manage observations. With this permission, they'll be able to view curriculums that have been saved and uploaded, but not drafts.

All roles with permission to Manage curriculum will also be able to view, edit, delete, create, and upload curriculums.