Assessing Pupils Progress (APP) is a great way to keep track of learning in your classroom but if you have ever tried lugging around a full class set of APP grids for reading, writing and maths to keep track then you know it’s a bit cumbersome. There’s also the need of evidence to support your assessments. Some people write this into the children’s books, others photocopy pages of work and cross reference that with the APP grid. I wanted something different, something that would allow me to use my iPhone in class. I had been taking photos of children’s work then attaching those to emails which I would then send to a specially created assessment email I set up in our school Google Apps domain. It works fine but it requires taking the photo, then opening the email then attaching it. Not much I hear you say but then what if an app can do it all in the same instant?

Captio is just that. It’s a very simple app that you can open up, write notes, take a photo and when you’re finished you press send. Done. I tried it today and it was immediately obvious that it will become a very useful tool for APP in class.