GOLD Documentation

Teaching Strategies, LLC

About this app

Capture the moment—and set preliminary levels directly from the app!

The GOLD® Documentation is a free app created exclusively for teachers using the GOLD® assessment system. It enables teachers to easily capture documentation in the moment using their favorite mobile device. This user-friendly app is free for all GOLD® users and can save teachers valuable time in the classroom.

With the GOLD® Documentation app, teachers can
• capture photos, videos, audio clips, and text notes;
• tag documentation with objectives, dimensions, and children’s names;
• assign preliminary levels for each piece of documentation; and
• upload documentation to GOLD® online with one touch.

Assess with confidence. Use your iPhone®, iPad®, or iPod touch® to capture photos, videos, audio clips and text notes. Tag documentation and assign preliminary levels. Use a wireless or cellular connection to send data directly to GOLD®. Then log in to the GOLD® Web site to individualize and review documentation and share information with families.

Security/Confidentiality
To maintain security and confidentiality, all documentation captured within the app remains in the app until it’s uploaded to GOLD®. Any photos, videos, or audio files taken within the app will not mix with your personal camera roll. Files captured using the app cannot be sent anywhere other than to GOLD®. Files captured using other apps cannot be transferred into the GOLD® Documentation app.

Who Can Use This App
This app is designed for use with the GOLD® online assessment system. Users must have a GOLD® account.

The app is for teacher use only. Family Central users will not be able to log into the app. At this time, some Team Central members may not be able to log into the app.

About GOLD®
The GOLD® online assessment system offers a streamlined, simplified way to conduct accurate, authentic, ongoing assessment of children’s development and learning from birth through third grade.

What's New in Version 3.0
For use with GOLD®, Birth through Third Grade

Ratings and reviews

This app keeps losing my documents during uploading. Sometimes it stays in my phone uploading and it never transfers. Other times it appears to go through and on the computer it is a blank document. On my phone or tablet it still says uploading and you can't interact with the document at all. You have to delete the app and reinstall and you lose everything.

I'm so frustrated with the tech support of this company. I have not been able to use the app on my phone since the beginning of the school year. I have reached out twice, and both times I was told they had elevated my problem to "teir 2 support" it's now almost the end of September and I still have not received an update about why the app is crashing on my phone. *Update: I tried to use this app on my Surface Pro and it crashes the same way. Im wondering if this app works with any Android device

I have found that the app works great when it is not stuck in uploading a document. Something that has work for me is to logout when it gets stuck on the first upload and then log back in. Give it a few seconds before going into a new document and usually the other uploads will disappear. If you continue to try to upload and get many of the documents stuck in uploading, you will not be able to scroll. So it is best to log out and log in right away. That's what I have found to work for me.

What's new

As part of routine maintenance, Teaching Strategies regularly updates Teaching Strategies GOLD to ensure we are delivering products that meet the needs of our customers.

This version includes minor UI enhancements, including a notice about new the Teaching Strategies Teacher App.