A powerful platform for professional educator
Built in collaboration with early years experts, our online learning journal tool is quick to set up and easy to customise.
Why practitioners love iConnect
Avoid rushed conversations with parents at the end of the day, centralise your processes and save hours of admin time –
so you can spend more time with the children.
Sustainable
Reduce your carbon footprint and stop
spending so much on ink,
paper and printing. iConnect can be accessed via the web so you can leave your folders on the shelf, ditch your
post-it notes and get things done quickly and paper free.
Accessible
Promote staff well-being and take
a more inclusive approach. With
enhanced accessibility options for
dyslexic users, everyone can enjoy the
web app. Improve accessibility by changing
the colour of free text fields, and
amending the line height of the text..
Secure
Safeguard your staff and child data
with robust, industry-leading security.
Ensure data can only be accessed by
those with a professional need with
role-based permissions. Add extra
layers of security with out-of-hours
approvals from your safeguarding
officer.
Improve staff wellbeing, child development
and parent partnerships with iConnect…
Shine a spotlight on child development
Observations
Record snapshots and ‘wow’ moments including pictures, videos and links to a range of trustworthy early years frameworks and guidance.
Learning Journals
Create online learning journals taking account of contributions from a range of perspectives. Add notes, include the child’s voice and even link to observations
shared from home.
Staff Reflections
Review and edit draft learning journals before they are published to parents. Reflect on everyday events and a child’s interests to help with in-the-moment planning.
Effortlessly communicate with parents
Daily Updates
Send daily updates straight to your parents. keeping them up to date on feeds, naps, meals, bottles and nappy changes.
Conversations
Share the positives about a child’s learning, behaviour and experiences through direct messages – helping to build relationships with parents.
Learning Updates
Involve parents in assessments, celebrate wins and support them to guide child development at home. Identify areas where children may need intervention, monitoring or staff support.
The benefits of a highly engaged childcare setting
Take a look at just a few of our stats…
1
Logins last month
1
Observations logged last month
1
Child development reports generated last month
See the bigger picture
Digital Check In & Out
Track child attendance and oversee ratios within the web app. Use the staff register to log your staff’s check-in and out times, breaks, absences and holidays for payroll.
Development Reports
Get a complete and up-to-date overview of the areas of learning where progress is being made, and spot patterns to help develop your pedagogy.
Productivity Reports
Review how many events have been completed by staff members in a certain timeframe to ensure staff are meeting the requirements of your policies.
Keep your setting safe and compliant
Medicines
Log when medicines have been administered to a child including the date, time and dosage, keeping the parent/ carer informed on the same day..
Accidents
Log when and where an accident has taken place, complete with notes. Monitor areas of your nursery that have the highest accident rate to help assess any risks.
Emergency Contacts
Access emergency contacts and view child health information such as medications, dietary requirements and permission questions with a tap, all in the app.
On its own, iConnect is powerful software, but the real magic happens when you use our fully integrated nursery management solution.
How else can iConnect help your childcare settings
to save time?
Offline Mode
Access registers when
you’re out and about
and sync them when
you get back online.
Bulk event
uploads
Daily events can be
logged quickly and
even bulk uploaded
for multiple children.
Useful
dashboards
Have a view of site
closure days and
child and staff markoffs
on the Today
Screen
Reminders
Set reminders, for
your staff, celebrate
birthdays, and room
movements.
Parent
Signatures
Parents can sign a
child in and out of
the nursery using the
app.
“Any nursery thinking of investing in an integrated system should look at the benefits for the business. With Connect and iConnect, it’s all intertwined. You input your information once and it’s all there.”
Heidi WrightBrook Farm Children’s Nursery “For us, using the Connect system means less paperwork and reduced fear of losing confidential information. I’ve worked at nurseries where documents are piled up on paper, but here it’s all locked in an iPad.“
Julia MaynardHappy Orkids “Our advice to other settings migrating to Connect is to allow a little time to get the move right. We achieved it over a summer, getting to know how the software worked before using it. It’s fair to say we were anxious about the shift but once we were familiar with the features we needed to use, we never looked back. We are with Connect Childcare for the long-term and feel like we’re in it together.”
Bella MehtaThe Oaks Childcare CIC “The EYFS framework is accessible at the click of a button – we don’t have to print it off and get the hard-copy policy documents out. This means the team can refresh their knowledge at any point at the click of a button – saving both time and valuable paper resources.”
Bradley HutlerBlackberry House Day Nursery See it for yourself. We’re sure you’ll love it!
Request a demo and our team will show you why so many nurseries choose Connect Childcare to
manage their settings.
Or call us on 01282 507 945