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What is Storypark Assist?
Storypark Assist is a set of AI-powered tools designed to support educators in documenting, communicating, and reflecting on children's learning and development.
Think of it as a tool that meets you wherever you are in the writing process:
When you have nothing → it helps you start
When you have rough notes → it helps you shape them
When you have a draft → it helps you refine it
When you're nearly done → it helps you strengthen it
To understand more about how these tools are powered and Storypark's commitment to safe, responsible use of AI, we recommend reading our Storypark Assist Fact Sheet.
Storypark Assist is an add-on that can be purchased on top of the standard per-child Storypark cost. How you get started depends on your setup:
Services on a network should speak to their network administrator, who can contact your account manager to arrange a trial.
Independent services can add Storypark Assist themselves from the Account page, starting with a free seven-day trial.
What can Storypark Assist do?
Storypark Assist lets educators draft and review their stories with AI, and access writing tools across stories, community posts, and child notes.
In stories
While creating a new story or editing an existing one, you can access the following tools:
Draft - create an AI-guided first draft (via the sparkle icon ✨)
Review - get pedagogical feedback on your story (via the sparkle icon ✨)
Writing tools - spelling, grammar, and translation (via the A icon in the toolbar)
Summary of learning - bring a child’s learning over time together into a curriculum-aligned summary (via the sparkle icon ✨)
In community posts
When creating or editing a community post that has been published, you can use:
Writing tools — spelling, grammar, translation, and tone (via the A icon in the toolbar)
In child notes
When creating or editing a child note, you can use:
Writing tools — spelling, grammar, translation, and tone (via the A icon in the toolbar)
Drafting stories with Storypark Assist
Storypark Assist's drafting tool guides you through creating an editable first draft of a learning story. It asks simple, open-ended questions about a learning moment, and shapes your input into a structured draft that you can review, refine, and make your own.
To get started, select the sparkle icon (✨) in the story editor toolbar and choose Draft.
For a detailed walkthrough of the drafting process, including how to customise your settings and use linked stories as context, see Educators: Drafting with Storypark Assist.
Creating a summary of learning
Summary of learning is rolling out gradually to services with Storypark Assist. If you can’t see it yet, it’s on its way. Talk to your account manager if you’d like to be added sooner.
A summary of learning brings together months of a child’s documentation into one clear, curriculum-aligned picture of their learning over time. Where a learning story captures a moment as it happens, a summary of learning steps back to ask a bigger question: what has this child learned, and how have they grown?
It’s well-suited to end-of-year summaries, transition-to-school handovers, and any time you need to reflect on a child’s progress across a term or year. Storypark Assist draws the threads together, working only from the stories and notes you’ve linked, so the summary stays grounded in your own documentation. You review, edit, and decide what’s shared.
What a summary of learning uses
A summary of learning is only as good as the documentation behind it. Storypark Assist writes from the content you link, so before it drafts anything it checks what you’ve linked and shows you what it can and can’t work from.
Content it can use appears in blue. This is linked documentation with written text. Storypark Assist can read: individual learning stories with written content and child notes. This is what the summary is built from.
Content it can’t use appears greyed out, under a heading that shows it’s been left out of this draft. These items stay linked to the story for your records; they’re just not used to write the summary. Tap the reason alongside an item to see why it’s been left out.
Storypark Assist leaves content out when:
It’s a group story. A group story captures a shared experience across several children, so drawing on it risks describing another child’s learning as this child’s. To keep a summary accurate, group stories aren’t used.
It has no written content. A story that’s only photos or video, or a PDF attachment, has no text for Storypark Assist to read – so there’s nothing for it to summarise.
A summary of learning needs written evidence to work from, so you’ll need at least one usable story or note linked before you can start. If everything you’ve linked is greyed out – for example, all group stories, or stories with only photos – you’ll be asked to add some individual learning stories or notes before you can continue. The more relevant content you link, the richer the summary.
How to create a summary of learning
Choose the stories and notes this summary will draw from. Link them to the story first – you’ll need at least one. These links are what Storypark Assist uses to bring together learning, progress and key moments over time.
Open the story editor and tap the sparkle icon (✨) in the toolbar.
Tap Draft and choose Summary of learning from the story type options.
Tap Get started. Storypark Assist checks your linked content and shows you what it will and won’t use (see above). Add more if you’re prompted to.
Assist reviews the linked stories, notes, learning tags and curriculum outcomes, then asks a few questions to understand what you’d like the summary to capture.
A draft summary is generated, organised by learning outcomes or developmental areas and drawing on evidence from the child’s documentation.
Review and refine the draft. Add your professional judgement, adjust the language, and make sure it reflects what you know about the child.
When you’re happy with it, share the summary with the child’s family or use it for transition-to-school documentation.
Use the date-range filters when linking – presets for the last week, month or term, or your own custom dates – to quickly find documentation from the period you’re summarising.
A summary of learning works alongside your professional judgement; it doesn’t replace it. Storypark Assist synthesises and structures what you’ve already documented; it won’t create observations from nothing, and nothing is shared with a family until you choose to publish it.
Make a summary of learning sound like your service
Storypark Assist drafts a summary of learning based on your educators’ input, but you can shape the tone and style so drafts sound more like your service.
Admin educators can adjust the writing preferences for summary of learning. Writing preferences are set per story type, so you can tune a summary of learning separately from learning story and magic moment. Once you’ve selected summary of learning, use the sliders to match your service’s style:
Formality: Casual to Formal
Expressiveness: Reserved to Expressive
Curriculum emphasis: Subtle to Strong
Access writing preferences via the Writing preferences link at the bottom of the Storypark Assist panel.
For more on writing preferences and how they shape your drafts, see Educators: Drafting with Storypark Assist.
Reviewing stories with Storypark Assist
Storypark Assist can review your story before you publish, offering friendly, pedagogically aligned suggestions on things that might be missing or would enhance the quality of your story.
To start a review, select the sparkle icon (✨) in the story editor toolbar and choose Review.
Note: Your story needs a minimum of ten words (ideally 3–4 sentences) for a review to be generated.
Once loaded, you'll receive suggestions organised into sections — for example, making connections to your curriculum or adding more detail on how you plan to extend the learning.
If you've added further detail and would like guidance on the updated story, select Review again to receive new suggestions.
You can give feedback on a review using the thumbs up or down, or share more detailed feedback via the speech bubble icon.
Writing tools
Writing tools are accessible via the A icon in the editor toolbar. They're available across stories, community posts, and child notes.
Spelling and grammar
Spelling and grammar assistance helps you write with confidence and reduces review time.
Note: Spelling and grammar support is currently available for English language documentation. For content written in English and additional languages, we recommend selecting specific portions of text rather than applying it to the entire content.
Apply to the selected text
Highlight the text you'd like to work with, then select the A icon in the editing toolbar and choose Fix spelling and grammar:
The corrected version will appear below for review. Select Accept to apply the changes or Discard to revert to the original.
Apply to an entire story or post
Select the A icon in the editing toolbar without highlighting any text. The entire content will be checked, and a corrected version will be presented for review. Select Accept or Discard as above.
Translation
Translation allows you to write in the language you feel most comfortable with and then translate for your audience, families, or peers. Stories, child notes, and community posts can be written in almost any language.
Apply to the selected text
Highlight the text you'd like to translate, select the A icon, and choose Translate to...:
A pop-up will display the available languages. Select one, and the translation will be applied to the selected text.
Choose Accept or Discard at the top of the screen.
Apply to an entire story, child note, or post
Select the A icon without highlighting any text and choose your language. The entire content will be translated paragraph by paragraph. Select Accept or Discard when ready.
Note: Story titles are not currently included in translations.
Reverting a translation in stories - If you've accidentally applied a translation, use the undo tool (back arrow) in the toolbar to revert to the previous version.
Tone
Tone enables you to adjust the voice of text in a child note or community post to suit any occasion.
There are ten ECE-focused tone options to choose from:
Tone | Description |
Advocacy | Purposeful and motivating, used to gain support for initiatives or invite families to get involved |
Caring | Warm and empathetic, used to offer support, appreciation, or reassurance |
Celebratory | Energetic and uplifting, used to highlight achievements, milestones, or positive events |
Clear | Straightforward and respectful, used to share reminders, updates, or practical information |
Encouraging | Motivational and inclusive, gently inviting families to take part or contribute |
Formal | Structured and neutral, used for service policies, procedures, or official updates |
Friendly | Light, casual, and conversational, used for day-to-day updates and relaxed communication |
Informative | Practical and helpful, used to share useful information or explain something clearly |
Reflective | Thoughtful and narrative, used to share learning or reflect on experiences |
Urgent | Clear and direct, used for time-sensitive updates that require prompt attention |
Once you've added text to a community post or child note, select the A icon and choose Change tone:
Select a tone from the list — tap the question mark alongside any option for more detail:
You'll see the original text alongside the suggested version. Select Accept to apply the change or Discard to revert to the original.
What's coming next:
Summary of learning is the first of several new capabilities we’re building to support the whole learning cycle, not just individual stories. We’re exploring how Storypark Assist can help with the parts of the cycle that are easiest to leave undone:
Learning focus – coached goal-setting. This is the step that’s most often skipped, and without it there’s little to reflect on or evaluate later. Assist would guide you through setting meaningful, curriculum-connected goals for a child, grounded in their existing documentation.
Follow-up story – covering the implement and evaluate phases. This closes the loop many services leave open: did we act on the goal, and what happened? Assist keeps context across each stage, so a story can move through multiple phases as a living document.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why can’t I use a group story in a summary of learning?
A group story captures a shared experience across several children. If Storypark Assist drew on it for one child’s summary, it could describe another child’s learning as theirs. To keep summaries accurate, group stories are omitted from the draft – but they remain linked to the story for your records.
Why is one of my linked stories greyed out?
A greyed-out item is one Assist can’t write from – usually a group story or a story with no written text (for example, one that’s only photos or video or a PDF). It stays linked to the story; it’s just not used to create the summary. Link an individual learning story or note with written content to give Assist something to work from.
Feedback and support
Your feedback shapes how we improve Storypark Assist. You can share feedback through the dedicated feedback options within each tool, or via the "Was this helpful?" button at the bottom of this article.
You can also email our customer support team directly at hello@storypark.com