Adding activities to your activities collection

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If you have an activity that you would like to keep for future reference then it is possible to upload them to "Our Activities Collection" section. 

Once you have logged in to your Tapestry account via the browser, navigate to the "Activities" area (1) and then "Our Activities Collection" (2). Selecting "Add an Activity to Our Activities Collection" (3) takes you to the area where you can start adding your own activity. Please note if you are a staff member, your ability to add or edit activities here may not be permitted due to your setting's user permissions. This tutorial explains this in more depth. 

 

 

This will open the "Add an Activity to Our Collection" page.

As with most pages on Tapestry, you will not be able to save the Activity without giving it a title (1). In the notes section (2) you can add an explanation as to what the activity is and from the "options" box, you can change the status of the activity to be a draft or published (3) and the author (4). 

Depending on where the Activity fits into the curriculum, you can select different "Categories" (5). The options available here are: 

• For Early Years Foundation Stage, you can first choose the EYFS Area from "Personal, Social and Emotional Development", "Communication and Language" or "Physical Development". You will then be given the choice of the following Stage - "Any", "Birth to 3", "Preschool" or "Reception". 
• For Special Educational Needs, you can choose a SEND Subject from "Physical Development", "Personal, Social and Emotional Development", "Cognition" or "Communication". 
• For Key Stage 1, you can first choose the Key Stage 1 Subject from "Maths" or "English". You will then be given the choice of the following Year Group - "Any", "Year 1" or "Year 2".
• For Key Stage 2, you can first choose the Key Stage 2 Subject from "Maths" or "English". You will then be given the choice of the following Year Group - "Any", "Year 3", "Year 4", "Year 5" or "Year 6".

The selections made here will help with the filters from the main "Our Activities Collection" page.

 

 

You can also add media, which includes photos, videos, audio files and documents to the Activity. To do this you just need to click on the "Add Files" button (1) to select the media and then "Start Upload" to upload it (2).

You can crop or rotate any images using the "Edit" button (3) and if you have mistakenly added any media, they can be deleted individually or in bulk (4). 

Finally, you can change the order of media using the up and down arrows next to each item (5). Videos, audio clips, and pictures will still sit separately to documents when the page is saved, but you can change the order of them in each of their groups. 

 

 

In the "Links" section it's possible to link the activity to observations (1), reflections - if you have this feature enabled (2), planned activities (3) and activities from your own collection (4). 

Once you are happy with everything, you can then "Save & Add Another" or "Save" (5). This will then add it to the "Our Activity Collection" page. 

 

 

From here, you will then be able to add it to your "Planned Activities" by following this tutorial. 

 

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