Nursery and School Admins
Head here to find out about setting up your site, adding users and more.
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Teachers
Find out how to get started with Arc Pathway if you’re a teacher.
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Parents
If you’re a parent, head here to find out how to get started
8 Articles
Apps
Using our iOS or Android app? This is where you'll find more information.
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Onboarding Video for Teachers
Head here for the onboarding video for teachers!
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Troubleshooting and FAQs
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Logging in to Arc Pathway
How to find the right place to login
Adding, Editing and Deleting Teachers
How to add your staff to Arc Pathway
Adding, Editing and Deleting Children as a Manager user
Adding children to Arc Pathway
Adding, Editing and Deleting Parents as a Manager User
Adding parents to Arc Pathway
How to Review and Approve Items in Arc Pathway
Arc Pathway’s approval system helps you ensure that content shared with parents meets your school’s standards. Here’s how it works for you as a Manager.
Tracking Parent Engagement
How to invite and manage parents and guardians on Arc Pathway
Access Levels
The different access levels on Arc Pathway
New Academic Year - moving children/classes
How to move children/classes, ready for the new academic year
How to remind users of their usernames if they have forgotten
How to remind your users of their usernames
The Care Diary for Early Years Setting Manager Users
How to use the Care Diary to record and share a child's care information as a Manager user.
Messaging parents as a manager
Sending messages to Parents using Arc Pathway
Reporting on Arc Pathway: An Overview
How to use reporting on Arc Pathway
Reporting - Age Related Analysis
How to generate Age Related Analysis reports
Adding Observations: Approvals for Teachers
If your school uses Arc Pathway’s approval system, some of your items may need to be reviewed by your manager before they appear in the Learning Journal. Here’s what you need to know.
How to Filter Observations by Date Range
You can adjust the date range to view only the observations created within a specific time frame, such as this academic year or term.
How to Add Children to Your My Children View
This feature helps teachers maintain focused oversight of their key children while retaining access to all students through the Other Children tab.
Teachers: ALG & ALG+ explained
Within the Arc Pathway assessment, there are Arc Learning Goals (ALGs) and Arc Learning Goals Plus (ALG+). Find out how these differ from the Early Learning Goals (ELGs) in the EYFS.
The Teacher Dashboard
An overview of the Arc Pathway teacher dashboard
Reading the Arcs: results and Age Reached
What Reached, Nearly There, Not Reached, Gone Back and Not Set mean, and how Age Reached is worked out
Taking your first profile (assessment)
How to complete an Arc Pathway Profile (assessment) for a child
How to Use Learning Pathways & Update Children’s Progress through the Learning Pathways
Learning Pathways in Arc Pathway help track a child's developmental progress.
Adding observations
On Arc Pathway, you can add observations for individual children, groups of children or even whole classes of children.
The Learning Journal
The Learning Journal in Arc Pathway allows educators to securely share important updates with parents and carers.
How to generate a PDF report of observations
You can generate PDF reports of observations to send home to parents or to keep yourself
Sending messages to parents
How teachers and managers send messages to one family, several families or a whole class
Adding Children as a Teacher User
How to add children if you’re a teacher
Adding and Deleting Parents as a Teacher User
How to add parents if you’re a teacher
Comments and Likes on Observations & Moments from Home
How comments, likes and notifications work on observations and Moments from Home.
Arc Pathway at School - Introduction for Parents
The heart of Arc Pathway is to truly understand and nurture every child’s development.
How Parents Can Add Special Moments from Home in Arc at school
You can add special photo or video moments from home to celebrate your child’s achievements.
Logging in as a parent for the first time
How to get access when your child's school or nursery uses Arc Pathway, and what to do if your welcome email hasn't arrived
Reading messages from your child's school
How to read messages your child's school or nursery sends you
What can I see about my child?
The observations, photos, profiles and reports your child's school or nursery shares with you
Which Arc app do I need?
Arc Pathway at School or Arc at Home: which one is right for you
What does ALG and ALG+ mean?
For parents, what does ALG and ALG+ mean on Arc Pathway?
What if my child has scored low in the arcs on an Arc Pathway profile?
Find out what it means if your child has scored low on a particular Arc
The Arc Pathway at School App
How to download and log in to the Arc Pathway iOS and Android app.
What is Arc at Home?
What Arc at Home is and how it can help your family
Getting Started with Arc at Home
How to get started with Arc at Home
Arc Pathway Onboarding for Early Years Providers
A comprehensive video guide to getting started with Arc Pathway
I’ve forgotten my password!
Find out what to do if you’ve forgotten your password.
I’ve forgotten my username!
Find out what to do if you’ve forgotten your username.
This username does not exist in our system error
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