As a setting we use Eylog for our online learning journeys and as a way of communicating with our parents

Eylog keeps you in touch with your child’s day wherever you are

 

We are using a system called Eylog (early years log) which allows staff to capture a photo, video or voice recording using a tablet and assign this to one or more children. These observations are uploaded to a secure we-based learning journey to which you as a parent will also have access to. We believe using online learning journeys will allow both a rich body of evidence to support our parent partnership and to hep s pan for individual children’s development, and of course a wonderful keepsake for you to share with your child, as you can download the content at certain times of the year.

Parents will rightly have questions about the security of such an online system and the tablets that are used to record observations have McAfee to keep viruses out. But also, no data is stored on either on the tablets or on the nursery computer. As soon as an observation has been recorded and uploaded to Eylog server, it is automatically deleted from the tablet. All data is held in encrypted form and is accessed subject to secure login and password. The only people who can access a child’s learning journey are the relevant nursery staff (manager, room leaders, key persons) and you, the child’s parents.