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How can I view planning insights for the PYP curriculum?

Anukruti Singh

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Planning insights on Toddle help you understand how units, standards, and learning goals are planned across subjects, grades, and classes. These insights make it easy to identify gaps and ensure every student experiences a well-planned curriculum.

In this article:

Navigate to planning insights

School insights

View by department

View by subject

View by grade

View by course

View by class

View by student

Manage courses and units

Download insights

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Navigate to planning insights

To access planning insights, navigate to your school homepage and select Planning insights.

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On the Planning insights landing page, you will see the following sections in the left sidebar:

School insights: Provides a school-wide overview of curriculum coverage. Within this section, you can explore insights across all grades on:

Programme of Inquiry

Approaches to Learning (by grade and by theme) - with a course count, unit count, and task count

Theme descriptors - with a course count and unit count

Key concepts and Learner profile attributes - with a course count, unit count, and task count (in the overview by grade)

Subjects - with a course count and unit count

Custom datasets (if enabled)

View by department: View insights for each department, including:

All units planned across grade levels, with associated planning elements

Standards coverage, with associated courses, associated units, tasks planned, and tasks taught

Coverage of Approaches to Learning, key concepts, and learner profile attributes - with a course count, unit count, and task count

Custom datasets - with a course count and unit count (if enabled)

View by subject: View insights for each subject, including:

All units planned across grade levels, with associated planning elements

Standards coverage, with associated courses, associated units, tasks planned, and tasks taught

Coverage of Approaches to Learning, key concepts, and learner profile attributes - with a course count, unit count, and task count

Custom datasets - with a course count and unit count (if enabled)

View by grade: View insights for each grade level, including:

All units planned across subjects, with associated planning elements

Standards coverage, with associated courses, associated units, tasks planned, and tasks taught

Coverage of Approaches to Learning, key concepts, and learner profile attributes - with a course count, unit count, and task count

Custom datasets - with a course count and unit count (if enabled)

View by class: View insights for each class, including:

All units within the class, with associated planning elements

Standards coverage, with associated units, tasks planned, tasks taught, and tasks assessed

Coverage of Approaches to Learning, key concepts, and learner profile attributes - with associated units, tasks planned, tasks taught, and tasks assessed

Timeline of units across the academic calendar

Custom datasets - with associated units (if enabled)

View by course: View insights for each course, including:

All units within the course, with associated planning elements

Standards coverage, with associated units, tasks planned, and tasks taught

Coverage of Approaches to Learning, key concepts, and learner profile attributes - with associated units, tasks planned, and tasks taught

Custom datasets - with associated units (if enabled)

View by student: View the planned curriculum for each student based on their enrolled classes, including:

All units the student is engaged in, with associated planning elements

Standards coverage, with associated courses, associated units, tasks planned, tasks taught, and tasks assessed

Coverage of Approaches to Learning, key concepts, and learner profile attributes - with associated courses, associated units, tasks planned, tasks taught, and tasks assessed

Timeline of units across the academic calendar

Custom datasets - with associated courses and associated units (if enabled)

Note: View by student is available to school administrators only.

At the bottom of the sidebar, you will find Manage courses and units, which allows you to configure which courses and units are included in planning insights.

Let’s learn about these insights in detail.

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School insights

School insights gives teachers and admins an institution-wide view of curriculum coverage across all grades and transdisciplinary themes. Use the dropdown next to the section title to navigate between school-level insights: Programme of Inquiry, Approaches to Learning, Theme descriptors, Key concepts, Learner profile attributes, Subjects, and Custom datasets.

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Programme of Inquiry

The Programme of Inquiry (PoI) matrix displays your entire school’s PoI in a single interactive view.

Rows represent grade levels

Columns represent the 6 transdisciplinary themes

Each cell shows the units planned for that grade and theme combination, with duration displayed in weeks

Click any cell to expand it and view the unit’s central idea, key concepts and related concepts, lines of inquiry, and learner profile attributes. Click the unit title to open the full unit planner in a new tab.

Note: Duration is displayed in weeks and reflects the planned length set in the unit planner.

To explore other school-level insights (e.g., Approaches to Learning, Specified concepts, Subjects), use the dropdown menu next to the section title.

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Approaches to Learning (ATL)

The ATL section gives you 2 ways to view skills distribution across your curriculum, accessible via the tabs at the top of the section.

Overview by grade: shows how ATL skills are distributed across year levels:

Rows represent ATL skills and skill clusters

Columns represent grade levels

Each cell shows how many units address that ATL skill in that grade

The Total units column shows the total number of unique units across all grades where the skill was addressed

Overview by theme: shows how ATL skills are integrated within each transdisciplinary theme:

Rows represent ATL skills and skill clusters

Columns represent the 6 transdisciplinary themes

Each cell shows how many units under that theme address the ATL skill

The Total units column shows the total number of unique units across all themes where the skill was addressed

Use the following controls at the top of the page:

Use the Course count or Task count tabs to switch what the table displays. The task count is only available in the overview by grade. Tasks include learning experiences and AI tutors linked to the ATLs.

Use the search bar to find a specific ATL skill.

Use Configure columns to show or hide grades and the total count column.

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Click any number in the table to open a pop-up listing all courses, units or tasks where the ATL skill was addressed. Click any item to navigate directly to the course, unit planner, or task.

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Key concepts and Learner profile attributes follow the same structure as ATL skills: overview by grade and overview by theme, with a course count, unit count, and (in the overview by grade) task count. Click any count to view the contributing courses, units, or tasks.

Theme descriptors

The Theme descriptors section shows the coverage of IB-defined transdisciplinary theme descriptors across grades.

Rows represent theme descriptors, grouped by transdisciplinary theme

Columns represent grade levels

A green checkmark indicates the descriptor has been addressed in that grade; a grey icon indicates it has not been covered

The total count column shows the number of unique courses or units across all grades where the descriptor has been addressed. Click any number to see the associated courses or units.

Use the Course count or Unit count tabs to switch what the total column displays.

Use the search bar to find a specific descriptor.

Use Configure columns to show or hide grades and the total count.

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Subjects

The Subjects section shows how courses and units are distributed across your subjects. Use the tabs at the top to switch between the overview by grade (columns represent grade levels) and the overview by theme (columns represent the 6 transdisciplinary themes).

Rows represent subjects

Columns represent grade levels or transdisciplinary themes, depending on the selected view

Each cell shows how many courses or units are planned for that subject in that grade or theme

Use the Course count or Unit count tabs to switch what the table displays. Use the search bar to find a specific subject. Use Configure columns to show or hide columns. Click any count to view the contributing courses or units.

Note: If your school uses custom datasets, for example, UN SDGs or school values, these appear in the dropdown and follow the same view as Key concepts and Learner profile attributes. Custom datasets show unit coverage only; task counts are not available. Custom datasets must be enabled by a school administrator and included for planning insight calculations.

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View by department

View by department lets coordinators and department heads review how a specific subject group addresses curriculum elements across all grades. The landing page displays all departments as cards with the number of classes in each. Click any department card to view its insights.

Note: In the department view, units and elements are not grouped by subject. ATLs are shown across all subjects without subject-level breakdown, and standards reflect all standards from the department’s courses without course-level mapping.

The tabs available at the top of the department view are:

Unit

Standards

Approaches to Learning (ATL)

Key concepts

Learner profile attributes

Custom datasets

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Unit

The Unit tab shows all units planned for the selected department across grade levels. The left panel lists all grades, and under each grade, all classes associated with the department. The main table displays one row per unit with columns for unit title, transdisciplinary theme, central idea, learner profile attributes, and specified concepts.

Note: All fields inside a unit planner are included in the insights, including any custom fields added by the school.

Use the following controls:

Use the search bar to find a unit by keywords.

Use Filters to narrow down by grade.

Use Sort to sort classes and units alphabetically, by created date, or by last modified date. You can also choose to apply your sorting preference across all unit insight views.

Use Configure columns to show or hide and reorder specific unit information.

Click any unit title to open it in a new browser tab.

Note: To explore insights for other departments, use the dropdown next to the department title to switch departments.

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Standards

The Standards tab provides visibility into how subject-specific standards are addressed across grades within the selected department. The left panel lists all standard sets from the subjects tagged to that department. You can switch between standard sets to view their corresponding standards and coverage.

Rows represent individual standards, which can be expanded to view sub-standards. For each standard or sub-standard, you can track:

Associated courses: the number of courses that address the standard

Associated units: the number of units aligned to the standard

Tasks planned: the count of draft assessments not yet assigned to students

Tasks taught: the count of assessments assigned to students

Use the search bar and Configure columns to manage the view.

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Approaches to Learning (ATL)

The ATL tab shows the distribution of ATL skills across grades in the selected department.

ATL skills appear as rows; grades appear as columns

The numbers in each cell indicate how many units addressed each ATL skill in that grade

The total count column shows the aggregate across all grades, and updates when you switch tabs

Use the following controls:

Use the Course count or Task count tabs to switch what the table displays.

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