Educators: Storypark AI

In this guide learn about:
1. What is Storypark AI?
2. Story review

3. Spelling and grammar
4. Translation

5. Tone
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This is a set of AI-powered tools designed to support educators in documenting, communicating and reflecting on children's learning and development.
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To understand more about how these tools are powered and Storypark's commitment to safe, responsible use of AI we recommend reading our AI Fact Sheet.
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Storypark AI is an add-on which can be purchased in addition to the standard per child cost for Storypark. From the Account page, Admins can start a free, seven day trial for their service before purchase.
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​ In stories
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While creating a new story or editing an existing, published story, you can the following tools:

In community posts
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While creating a new community post or editing a published one, you can use the following tools:

​Giving feedback
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Your feedback will directly shape the future of our AI tools. We will be using your feedback to help refine our AI tools, so their outputs are better and more aligned with what educators want.
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Select Feedback or use the Was this helpful? button to let Storypark know how you think it could be improved.
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Story review offers friendly, pedagogically aligned suggestions around things that might be missing or would enhance the quality of the story.
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To get started, you’ll need to have already added some text in the story editor. Note: The minimum amount of text is ten words, but you'll get more detailed suggestions if the story is at least 3-4 sentences long.
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It can be found within the side panel of the story editor next to the collaborate tab:

Select the Assistant tab to display and utilise story review alongside the story:

​Tap the Review story button and once loaded you’ll receive suggestions on how the story could be extended, for example:

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These could be suggestions like making connections to your curriculum or adding more detail on how you are going to extend the learning.
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If you've added further detail and would like guidance on the updated story, select Review again underneath the suggestions to receive new ones:

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Feedback on suggestions
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Like a particular suggestion or think it needs some work? Use the thumbs up or thumbs down buttons. To give detailed feedback on a suggestion, select the speech bubble to the right of the thumbs:

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Spelling and grammar assistance allows you to have confidence in your work, as well as reducing review times.

To get started, you’ll need to have already added some text in the story editor or as you create a community post.

​Apply spelling and grammar to selected text

Click into the text and then highlight the part you'd like to work with. Select the sparkly A icon in the editing bar at the top and then Fix spelling and grammar:

​Once selected, the icon will momentarily buffer as it identifies the changes needed. The modified text block with any necessary spelling and grammar fixes applied will appear below for review.
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When ready, at the top of the screen, select Accept to apply the spelling and grammar changes or Discard to revert back to the original text:

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​Apply spelling and grammar to an entire story or community post
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Select the spelling and grammar icon in the editing bar at the top:

The icon will momentarily buffer as it identifies the changes it needs to make to the story. Once selected, the icon will momentarily buffer as it identifies the changes needed. The modified text with any necessary spelling and grammar fixes applied will appear below for review.
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When ready, at the top of the screen, select Accept to apply the spelling and grammar changes or Discard to revert back to the original text:

Translation allows you to write a story or community post in the language you feel most comfortable with and then translate it to suit your audience, peers and families.
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Stories and community posts can be written in any language, the current available languages to translate into are:

To get started, you’ll need to have already added some text. This can be typed or if your device has a dictation tool, this can also be used.

​Apply translation to selected text
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Click into the editor and then highlight the text block you'd like to work with. Select the sparkly A icon in the editing bar at the top, and Translate to...

A pop-up window will display a list of languages you can choose from:

​​Once selected, the icon will momentarily buffer as it identifies the changes it needs to make. The text block will then have the suggested translation applied.
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When ready, at the top of the screen, select Accept to apply the suggested translation or Discard to revert back to the original text:

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Apply translation to an entire story or community post

Select the sparkly A icon in the editing bar at the top, this will display a drop-down list of languages which you can select from:

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​A pop-up window will display a list of languages you can choose from:

While the translation tool works paragraph by paragraph, the icon will momentarily buffer. Once done, the whole body of the story will be translated into the language of your selection.
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When ready, at the top of the screen, select Accept to apply the suggested translation or Discard to revert back to the original text:

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​Reverting a translation
If you've accidentally applied a translation, simply use the undo tool (back arrow) in the tool bar to revert back to the previous version:

Note: Currently, it's not possible to include story titles in translations.
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Tone enables you to change the tone of text in a community post to suit any occasion.
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There are ten ECE-focused tone of voice suggestions to choose from:

Once you've added text to a community post, select the sparkly A button at the top right-hand side of the editor and Change tone:

Click or tap on the question mark alongside any of the tone options if you need more detail:

​Once you've selected a tone to change to, you'll see the original version alongside the new, suggested version. When ready, at the top of the screen, select Accept to the tone change or Discard to revert back to the original text:

📝 Other articles you may be interested in:
​Storypark Artificial intelligence (AI) Fact Sheet
​Artificial intelligence (AI) glossary