Tags Power All Charts and Reports in Blippit Boards
July 17, 2024
Blippit Boards: Major App Features
Charts and reports are powered by the tags added to everybody's boards in your school.
If a board is not tagged, it can't appear in the relevant chart or in filtered reports, even if the content clearly relates to that area. The more thorough the tagging, the clearer the curriculum picture you get. Tags can be added at any time however it's recommended that they're added when a curriculum moment is added to a board. Without tags, moments exist, but they remain undiscoverable to other teachers.
Where you have already made a board, but know your tags aren't great, you can always go back and tag any time.
open an existing board
tap Edit
swipe left to Tags -> +Manage Tags
select the categories and apply tap tags
tap X -> tap the tick icon
Tagging a new board
You need to create a board and add a tagged curriculum moment to it.
tap the + circular button -> tap + Add a moment
add your title, any description, photos etc.
swipe left to Tags -> +Manage Tags
select the categories and apply tap tags
tap X -> tap the tick icon
Tagging matters
Tagging makes sure that:
your moments appear correctly in charts in the app
filters return accurate sets of boards
reports reflect the real picture across the school
Subject Leaders can see how their subject is surfacing
Tagging matters
Here are two key areas where tagging really matters.
1. Filtering what's on the timeline by specific tags so that you can run a report on everything that you see. (fig 1)
(Fig. 1) Filtering what you see on your timeline is easy. Tap the tags icon (top right) and select the tag(s) you want to filter by. You are only going to see tags that teachers have added to their boards.
Filtering curriculum chart data by specific teachers so that you can understand coverage in particular classes, across the whole school or even see your own more clearly.
(Fig. 2)
Minimum tagging
We recommend every board is tagged with at least
Key Stage (England) Progression Steps (Wales)
Year Group
Subject
Teachers can also add:
award or framework tags (Eco-Schools, RRSA, Global Neighbours, etc.)
whole-school priority tags
bespoke school or Trust tags
More detailed and accurate tagging leads to:
clearer patterns in charts
stronger discussion in subject reviews
better identification of strengths and gaps
less manual “chasing” of evidence later
Admins and Subject Leaders can, where needed, edit colleagues’ boards to improve or complete tagging so that the data reflects reality.
Example:
a SENDCo may supplement Inclusion tags into a somebody else's board where they notice opportunities have been missed, strengthening inclusion insights across the school.
When tagging should happen
Tags can be added or edited at any time, but best practice is to:
apply tags when creating the board
review or add additional tags soon after publishing
If tagging is left until later, boards may be overlooked, which can misrepresent subjects or themes in charts and reports.
The key principle
This applies to every tag and every chart: a board will only appear in a chart or report if the relevant tag has been applied. For example:
if a board is about Science but is not tagged Science, it will not contribute to Science chart data.
