Baseline assessment is Doodle's way of determining your child's current level of learning, by identifying gaps in their knowledge, and then using this information to create a personalised work programme for your child.

This may sound a little scary, but we promise it’s not! Doodle’s baseline assessment uses fun, interactive exercises to help it understand what your child already knows and what they need extra support with.

When your child logs into their Doodle account for the very first time, they'll need to complete a baseline assessment.

At the beginning of the baseline assessment, your child will first need to confirm their birth month and year.

Next, your child will be asked to select how confident they feel with the subject.

Your child is now ready to begin their first baseline assessment exercise by tapping on the purple, baseline icon within their Learning Zone. They will then be asked a series of questions (there will be up to 10 sets of five questions). Question sets do not have to be done all at once, they can be broken up over several days.

It is really important that your child answers questions without help – this will make sure that their learning needs are fully understood. If they are finding a question too tricky, they can skip it by selecting the yellow arrow in the top corner.

Finally, after each baseline assessment exercise is completed, your child will be asked if the questions they received in this particular exercise were 'too hard', 'too easy' or 'just right'.

Once the Baseline is complete Doodle will work its magic to create a completely personalised learning experience tailored to the needs of your child. There’s no need to set any questions – it’ll automatically target tricky topics, fill their learning gaps and consolidate their knowledge as they go along!

Throughout your child's baseline assessment you can begin to track their progress within your Parent Dashboard account.

Here you'll be able to see how many baseline assessment exercises your child has completed each day. Simply hover over a column in the graph to see a breakdown of the work completed on that date.

Please note: you will not be able to view how many DoodleStars your child has earned in their baseline assessment until the final baseline exercise is completed. DoodleStars earned throughout all exercises in the baseline assessment will be awarded in full, at the time of completion.

It is important to note that you will not be able to see any data for baseline assessments that are still in progress. Once your child has completed their baseline assessment, you can view your child's current level of understanding for year group AREs or age related expectations.

You may find that a child's DoodleAge goes down after a baseline assessment - this is totally normal and to be expected. This will happen if the Doodle feels that your child needs to consolidate their learning on a few topics to ensure that those areas are fully embedded before moving them on to new learning, resulting in a stronger foundation for them to build their learning upon.

💡 Need more help? Feel free to contact our lovely customer support team by using the chat bubble in the bottom right corner of the screen, they will be happy to help!