for educators
Share what you notice. The support team takes it from there.
Teachers, integration aides, education support staff and anyone else at the school sign in to the educator portal and tell the support team what they see about a student. You see only your own notes and when the team has reviewed them, never the case.
What you don’t need
- Any training
- To chase the support team by email
- To send anything you haven’t checked
The educator portal
Write-in only: you share what you see, and you see your own submissions and their status. Your own sign-in at your school, so everything you share carries your name and lands in the right place without anyone forwarding emails.
Sign in like the rest of the team
Your school invites you from its staff list or its Wonde staff data. Staff sign in like the rest of the school team: a password (plus two-step verification if your school requires it), or Google/Microsoft. Relief staff can be given an account that ends on a set date.
My students
Students in your classes appear when your school connects Wonde, and you can add others. Search the whole school by name: you see a student’s name, year level and home group, nothing more.
Share in one form
An observation, an adjustment you’ve made, support you’ve given, a work sample or data, or feedback on a plan. Attach PDFs or photos. A concern still goes through Raise a concern.
Asked for your input
When the support team needs to hear from you, the request appears in your portal with any due date, and you get an email that names no student. You answer in the same form.
Plan summaries, only if shared with you
Nothing is shared by default. A support-team member can choose to send you a checked summary of a student’s plan: goals, what’s in place and the next review date. You mark it read, and can send feedback on that plan.
Your own submissions and their status
The portal is write-in only: you see what you sent and where each one is up to. Submitted, More information requested, or Reviewed by the team (for example Wellbeing or Inclusion) on a date, with any short note they write to you. You can withdraw it until it’s reviewed.
Since you last signed in
When you come back, a notice tells you who opened and reviewed what you sent, and when. It’s about your own submissions only, never the student’s case.
For the support team
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One inbox
What educators share arrives newest first, routed to the student’s open case team or, with no case, to the people the school chose for wellbeing, learning support or behaviour. A hint shows when three educators share about one student within 14 days.
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One click to act
Add it to the file, attributed and dated. Use it as NCCD evidence through the usual nominate-and-approve step, or as inclusion evidence the combined summary can draw on. Ask for more, close with a reason, or say thanks.
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Ask and share, then track
Ask a student’s teachers for input and see who has answered. Share a plan summary and see who has read it. Send a reminder to the rest with one click.
What educators never see
- Case notes, referrals or reports
- Safeguarding, risk or mandatory report records
- Contacts, addresses or former names
- AI drafts or AI output about a student
- What other staff have shared
- Whether what you sent was filed, or why it was closed
- Anything about a student beyond name, year level and home group, unless a support-team member shares a plan summary with you
Asked for your input? Sign in to answer
Any staff member signs in and adds observations or concerns about any student: relief staff and aides too. When the support team asks you about a student, the request waits for you in the portal.
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Get the email
It comes from your school’s student support team. It says there is something to answer and names no student.
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Sign in
Staff sign in like the rest of the school team: a password (plus two-step verification if your school requires it), or Google/Microsoft. New to Descant? The email invites you first, and accepting takes a minute.
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Answer in the portal
The request is waiting under Asked for your input. Type what you’ve noticed (or speak, when your school allows it), and attach a work sample if it helps.
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Check it
Read it back and fix anything that isn’t right before you send it.
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Send it
It goes to the support team with your name and the date. You see when they have reviewed it, never the case.
why it matters
You see the student every day. The support team doesn’t. What you notice in the room — the adjustment that’s working, the change others may not have seen — is often the missing piece when the team decides what to do next. Sharing it in Descant means it reaches them instead of staying in a corridor conversation.
Classroom educator
Templates for classroom notes
You don’t need a template to share in the portal. These are the templates filed under Classroom educator, for staff who write notes in Descant. See them on the templates page.
Questions educators ask
Something we haven't answered? Ask us and a person from the team will reply.
Ask a questionDo I need an account?
Yes, and it takes a minute. Your school invites you, or a request from the support team does, and you sign in like the rest of the school team: a password (plus two-step verification if your school requires it), or Google/Microsoft. Nothing to install: it works in the browser on a phone or computer.
Who reads what I share?
The student support staff working with that student, or the people your school chose to look at new contributions. Nothing you share changes the student’s file until one of them adds it.
Can I speak instead of typing?
In the portal, yes, when your school has the AI add-on and doesn’t require AI consent first. Otherwise you type. Either way you check the words before you send. The recording is turned into text and not kept.
What if I get something wrong?
You can withdraw it until the support team reviews it. After that, it stays as you sent it, with your name; tell the support team and they can follow up.
Do the emails say which student it’s about?
No. Emails say there is something to read or answer, and link to the portal.
Does the AI decide anything about the student?
No. People on the support team decide what what you share means and what happens next.
Think your school should use Descant?
Tell us about your school and we’ll talk to your student support team.
- A made-up school like yours to explore for 14 days
- We check each request by hand and reply within two school days
- Made-up students only: no real student information needed
Prefer email? Write to [email protected].