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Trace

Planning and reflective journalling — entries, planning panels, and mentor agreements that build a student’s thinking trail over time.

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What Trace is for

Trace is for planning and reflective journalling — student artefacts over time, not a one-off quiz. It sits in the Lab family as a process and reflection tool.
Trace — planning and reflective journalling· click to enlarge

Use Trace when you want students to plan, journal, and revisit thinking across a unit — not only to submit a finished answer. Entries become a trail you can mentor against: what they intended, what they tried, and what they learned.

  • Planning panels — structure the work before they write or make
  • Journal entries — reflective writing tied to the class activity
  • Mentor agreements — shared expectations between teacher and student where you set them up

How you use it

  1. Open your Module → Lab → Create Trace activity.
  2. Configure prompts, planning structure, and any mentor agreements, then publish.
  3. Students open the activity from the Module Workroom.
  4. Review progress from class Trace views and Workroom — coach the thinking trail, not only the final product.
Trace pairs well with Spark or Flux: students plan and reflect in Trace, then produce the assessed response in a writing app.