As a DP student, you can use Toddle to work on your TOK essay requirements, including submitting your essay proposal, sharing drafts and final essay with your TOK supervisor, raising review requests, receiving feedback, documenting your TK/PPF interactions, tracking your deadlines and much more!

In this article, we will cover the following:

The TOK essay dashboard is where you will see an overview of your essay progress. To reach here, click on ‘Theory of Knowledge - Essay’ (under DP Core) on your homepage.

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

On the landing page, you will see your essay title selected by you, your supervisor’s name, overall progress, and status as indicated by your supervisor, the number of TK/PPF interactions completed, and a list of upcoming deadlines set by your TOK coordinator along with their status.

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

The first step for you as a student entails putting together a proposal and selecting a topic for your TOK essay. The ‘Proposal’ section on Toddle allows you to indicate which title you will be addressing from the list provided by the IB and add additional remarks. Your proposal status as marked by your supervisor will be indicated in the top bar of your screen.

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

To have a one-on-one conversation with your supervisor about any TOK essay element, simply click on the comment icon located above the respective field. If you notice a red badge next to any section in the left pane, it indicates that the teacher has 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. This behavior applies to tracking comments in other sections as well.

The ‘Reflection space’ is where you can record reflections throughout your writing process to improve your work. Click on the ‘Add’ button to add a new reflection. You can also use this space to prepare for interactions with your supervisor. You may document reflections as notes, photos, videos, links, and more. If you wish to make any changes, use the three dot-menu to edit or delete. Your supervisor can view these reflections and comment on each one.

Under the ‘TOK essay’ section, you can submit draft essays and a final essay for your supervisor’s review. If provided by your coordinator, you will see an option to use a template to draft your essay. Utilize the ‘Word count’ field to indicate your essay’s word count to your supervisor. 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.

Furthermore, you can easily check if your supervisor has annotated your essay by clicking on the bell icon on your homepage. As you click on the notification, you will be taken to the TOK essay page, where you can find out where your supervisor has provided feedback by looking for a red dot next to the annotated file and a notification badge on the left pane.

The ‘TK/PPF’ section is where you can document the 3 compulsory interactions that you are supposed to have with your supervisor as per IB requirements. Click on the add icon to record your interaction for each session.

You can indicate the date of the given interaction and add the details of what was discussed. Click on ‘Add interaction’ 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 reflections will be automatically locked within 15 minutes of upload. You will not be able to make any changes to the locked reflections unless your supervisor unlocks it for you. When the entire form has been completed, your supervisor can download it from Toddle for submission to the IB.

To further enhance your TOK essay 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 TOK coordinator and the ones that have been marked as achieved by your supervisor.

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

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

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.

Once you have submitted your final essay and the TK/PPF has been reviewed and locked by your supervisor, your supervisor can mark your TOK essay as complete after which no edits can be made to any of the TOK essay elements. This update will appear at the top of your screen and you will see your essay status as ‘Completed’.

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

At Toddle we aim to make your TOK essay journey seamless and fun. We hope that you were able to find what you were looking for. Explore other articles for more!