As an MYP student, you can use Toddle to work on and manage your MYP Community project (CP), adhering to the IB guidelines. You can easily submit your community project proposal on Toddle to be reviewed by your supervisor, get feedback from your supervisor, keep track of submission deadlines, submit your final CP presentation and run a plagiarism check on it, keep a record of process journal entries, and much more!

In this article, we will cover the following:

The Community project dashboard is where you will see an overview of your community project progress. To reach here, click on the ‘Community project’ card located under Projects on your homepage

💡 Please note that the Community project card will appear on your homepage only if your school administrator has invited you to the Community project module on Toddle.

On the landing page, you will see the project title (if you have added it), your CP supervisor’s name, overall progress and status of your CP as indicated by your supervisor, number of meeting notes completed for the Academic Honesty form, and a list of deadlines set by your community project coordinator along with their completion status.

To guide you through your community project journey, the ‘Guidance’ tab at the top stores all the CP learning material shared by your school coordinator and those provided by Toddle.

Clicking on the community project card on the ‘Your progress’ dashboard will take you to its detailed view as shown below. Use the left-hand panel to navigate between different sections, each representing a particular aspect of the community project. If you notice a numbered red badge next to any section in the left pane, it indicates that your supervisor or fellow collaborators, if any, have left a comment for you or made updates in that section. Additionally, a red dot on the comment icon, will tell you the exact field where a comment has been added.

Let us get into the details of each section visible in the left pane.

As a student, your first step is to choose a title for your community project and identify the community the project targets.

Under the ‘Learning goals and global context’ section, you can give a brief about the purpose of the project, select the global context guiding inquiry and research, mention the prior learning contributing to the implementation of the project, along with outlining a proposal for action to achieve the goal of the community project.

After filling out these sections, you can request your supervisor to review and approve your proposal. The status, as determined by your supervisor, will be displayed at the top of your screen.

Every time your supervisor updates your community project status, you will receive a notification about the same that can be viewed by clicking on the bell icon on your homepage.

Under the ‘Project plan’ section, you can create your own community project timeline with intermediate milestones and deadlines. Please note that this timeline must be in sync with the overall deadlines set by your coordinator, visible on your dashboard.

The ‘Process Journal’ is where you can document the entire journey of your community project. This can include your primary and secondary research, a record of reflections and feedback, evidence from brainstorming sessions, etc.

To add a journal entry, click on the ‘Add’ button at the top, choose a media type, type in a brief description about the journal entry and upload the evidence. You can also tag ATL skills and community project MYP objectives in your process journal entries. If you wish to make any changes to an existing entry, use the three dot-menu to edit or delete it. Your supervisor can view these reflections and comment on each one.

The ‘Reflection’ section is where you can reflect upon the knowledge that you have acquired throughout your community project. You can also reflect upon the ATL skills that you have developed while working on the project.

The community project presentation marks the culmination of your journey with the project, summarizing your experiences and highlighting the skills you utilized or developed throughout the process. The presentation is organized into clear sections that align with the MYP community project objectives and includes excerpts from the process journal, showcasing the development of the community project.

You can upload the draft and final submissions for the presentation under the ‘Project presentation’ tab. If provided by your coordinator, you will see an option to use a presentation template in order to draft your presentation. The integration with Turnitin allows you and your supervisor to run a plagiarism check on your work.

💡Please note that Turnitin integration must be enabled by your school administrator for you to do a plagiarism check on submitted files.

Additionally, if the setting is enabled by your school administrator, your submitted files will be automatically locked within 15 minutes of upload. You will not be able to make any changes to the locked file unless your supervisor unlocks it for you.

The ‘Academic honesty’ section is where you can document the 3 compulsory meetings that you are supposed to have with your supervisor as per IB requirements. Begin by updating basic details such as your student code and uploading your signature. These details will reflect on the Academic Honesty form when it is downloaded by the supervisor for submission to the IB. Click on the ‘Add’ icon to record your meeting notes for each session.

You can indicate the date of the given meeting and add the details of what was discussed. Click on ‘Add meeting notes’ to finally save the interaction details.

Once your supervisor has approved the same, they will lock the entries so that no further edits can be made. Or if auto-locking is enabled by your admin, the meeting notes will be automatically locked within 15 minutes of upload. You will not be able to make any changes to the locked notes unless your supervisor unlocks it for you.

To further enhance your community project journey, Toddle has built-in features that make keeping track of your progress an easy task. You can view your overall progress as indicated by your supervisor in the top right corner of the screen. Further, click on the purple icon in the right pane to view the interim deadlines set by your school’s CP coordinator and the ones that have been marked as achieved by your supervisor.

Throughout your community project journey, you will receive notifications when your supervisor makes a change in the status of your overall progress.

Review log is a new addition that promotes collaboration between you and your supervisor by letting you easily request a review from them and seek their feedback on your work.

To request a review, click the 'Request review' button in the top left corner. This opens a modal where you can type your request. Click 'Raise a request' to send it.

You will receive notifications and see numbered badges to stay updated on any comments/edits to these review requests made by your supervisor. You have the option to comment, resolve, or delete these requests. Simply click on the ‘Resolved’ tab to see the requests that have been resolved.

Furthermore, you can easily engage in a one-on-one conversation with the supervisor about any CP element, using the chat icon placed right next to it.

Once you have submitted the final presentation, and added all 3 meeting notes, your supervisor can mark your community project as complete after which no edits can be made to any of the community project elements. This update will appear at the top of your screen and you will see your CP status as ‘Completed’.

You will also be notified about this update which will be visible under the ‘Notifications’ on your homepage.

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