To the right of the story editor, you'll see a panel that says Children in this story. Click this to see a list of children:
Educators have the option to choose children from their entire service, or just from a room. You can select children by room from the drop-down menu above the list of children:
Family members will only see one option - My Family.
Educators will see the name of their centre, any rooms they've set up, and if they also use Storypark for their own children, 'My Family'.
Once you have chosen the group from the drop-down menu, you will see the children displayed. Select those to include in the story by clicking them.
Individual stories
If you’re creating a story about an individual child, find and click on the child, and select Done:
Group stories
If you’re creating a group story, find and click on all the children to include in the story. If it’s a story about all children at your early learning service, click Select all. Then select Done:
Cannot select a child?
For educators, there are three possible reasons why children may be greyed out or are unable to be selected in a group story. The reason why the child can not be selected will automatically show underneath their name.
1. If there are children at your service who cannot appear in group stories (admins can select this option on a child's Edit page) then they will not be able to be selected along with other children in the story:
(This image shows that the child Eve has had her settings changed, so she cannot be added to group stories).
2. If there are children whose parents/guardians have not been invited to their profile yet, then they will also be greyed out and will not be selectable:
(This image shows that the child Shannon cannot be added to group stories as her parents/guardians have not been invited to access her profile yet).
3. The child's parents/guardians have accepted your invite but not the digital consent form - the child will show as unconsented:
(This image shows that the child Zavier's parents/guardians have not accepted Storypark's digital consent form).
Publishing the story
Once you've made your selection, back in the story editor, the children's profile images will be displayed in the right-hand panel. Hovering your mouse over their profile images, you'll see child names come up if you need to confirm before publishing.
Before publishing, if you want to change who is in the story, simply click the area with the children's profile pictures again and then deselect any children you don't want in the story and select the children you do want in the story:
When you publish the story, it will be published to the profiles of the children you selected and accessible by their families straightaway.
Admin family members also have the option to remove their child from the story. If there was only one child in the story, the story will revert to the Draft stories folder of the educator who published the story.