Xplor Feature Requests

The Playground app doesn’t feel secure. All educators seem to have access to documentation and posts from every room, not just their own. The opening dashboard is quite messy – everyone’s posts are visible, which can be confusing and overwhelming. It would be better if educators could only access their own classroom’s posts and documentation on their dashboard. Also, it’s concerning that documents from other educators can be shared with parents – I believe only the authorised educator should be able to share their documents. Overall, the documentation is very disorganised. Everything is scattered, and it takes a long time to create program templates or complete analyses and learning stories, especially when they all require separate formats. Why can’t we have one streamlined document that includes the program, reflection, and analysis together? Additionally, the medication forms are frustrating – once something is typed in by mistake, it can’t be edited or deleted.

It would be great to have the option to send a link to families for an expression of interest. We offer enrolments to families each year so this would a great option to be able to provide. Currently we use a google form but would be great to be able to provide this from Xplor.

Last year our families who were picking up other children at the same time could sign in / out both children on the hub in the same login. This stopped working months ago. We have multiple families trying to sign in/out other children. This needs a fix ASAP. They currently need a 2nd email and to use either the app and hub or on the hub signing in / out twice.

Because educators see "SLEEP CHECK" it can be easy for staff to see that the child is still asleep from across the room, and log the check, rather than actually physical checking on the child's well being by checking their breathing, skin colour, lip colour and temperature while they are asleep. Renaming the Sleep Check to "HEALTH CHECK" will give a better understanding to educators of what they need to check before logging each check. It has a stronger language for the expectations, and allows for fuller follow up if Centre managers need to do performance management discussions with educators who are not doing physical checks of children while they sleep. It also gives a fuller picture to parents when they receive a "Health check" notification during the period their child is asleep.

We have received a request from parents regarding the display of gender information on their child's profile. Please note that while the original enrollment form must retain the gender assigned at birth, there is an option to indicate the child's gender identity as preferred. However, when parents request that gender not be displayed on their child's profile such as on incident reports in Playground. We will respect their preference and ensure it is removed from the visible section.

How exciting would it be to have pop up notifications for childrens birthdays?

The removal of 'spellcheck' on the Admin version of Xplor (and possibly iPads too) has made approving/writing posts etc very challenging. I have, conservatively, as many as 40 posts A DAY to read over and not everyone spells or punctuates correctly. The removal of that red wiggly line under words spelt wrong just adds so much time to my day. I have to rely on my own spelling prowess and read things very very carefully. The spellcheck feature used to exist and it was removed, PLEASE return it, for the sanity of all Ed leaders, 2IC's and coordinators Aus wide. Thanks.

The QKLG learning need to be updated to the 2024 version.

Looking to have the ability to add pictures and text underneath the pictures. (For example a blurb, then some pictures, some more paragraphs, more pictures etc) Ability to post more than 1 video per story. Photos to upload as they are selected, as they are selected in a specific order, but they upload randomly.

We have parents, who are also emergency contacts for other children at the centre. But they have to create a completely new profile with a different email and different phone number. This is incredibly frustrating for families. One login that gives sign in/out option for all children (own chil, plus emergency contacts) will be ideal - like in Qikkids.