CONGRATULATIONS! on receiving a KIDDO Healthway scholarship!

Your service and all your educators and children will benefit from 12 months of KIDDO membership, workshops, resources, equipment, and support over the value of $2000.

Follow these simple steps to start using KIDDO and gaining the benefits of the scholarship program:

 

1. Register for your KIDDO membership

Register on the KIDDO website to get your membership started and access the incredible online platform. Please follow the steps below to register: 

  • Go to kiddo.edu.au/join
  • Select Early Learning Service, enter ‘1’ in the number of approved places and click 'get started'
  • Complete your details to create your account
  • When you are in the Payment Details section, select 'Pay by Invoice' (please see note below)
  • Complete your Early Learning Service's details
  • Confirm your purchase and you are good to go
  • Within the next 12 hours, a member of the KIDDO Team will activate your membership, and you can get started!

Note: You will receive an email confirming your purchase by invoice, however this is not a tax invoice, and no payment needs to be made as this membership is part of your free 12-month KIDDO Healthway Scholarship. 


2. Set up your Rooms

  • Login to the KIDDO website
  • Click on the  ⚙ ‘cog’ icon to access the Management menu
  • Click on ‘Rooms’
  • Click on ‘Add Room’
  • Allocate each room a name i.e. Babies, Toddlers, Kindy and an age group
  • Click 'Save'
  • Repeat for all rooms you would like to add

 

3. Add your staff

  • In the Management menu (access via the ⚙ ‘cog’ icon) click on ‘Staff’ ·
  • Add any new staff by clicking 'Add Staff Member'
  • You can choose to allocate new staff members as 'Managers' or 'Educators'. When you are allocating their role consider the following:
    • Educators will only have access to the rooms and children for the room you have allocated them
    • Managers have access to all the rooms and can add new rooms, view professional development completions, pay membership, add staff members, etc...
  • Allocate each new staff member to their room(s)

All staff that you add will receive an email with a link to log in and set up their password. If they don't receive this email, please check spam folders, ensure you entered the correct email address, and if still not received, please contact julia.andrew@uwa.edu.au

 

4. Complete the Professional Development

Encourage as many staff as possible to complete KIDDO's interactive Certificate of Physical Literacy. This course takes 2-3 hours to complete and you can do it in sections, saving your progress as you go. Follow the instructions below to access the professional development:

  • When you are logged in to the KIDDO website, go to the dashboard and click on ‘Professional Development’ in the left side menu. As the manager you will be able to see which staff have completed it.  
  • As part of your KIDDO scholarship you have committed to a minimum of 4 staff completing the professional development.
     

5. Explore & have a go at the variety of activities.

Get going and explore and play with the simple, fun and engaging physical development activities. Explore all of KIDDO's activities here.


6. Attend a 30 minute webinar 

A Getting Started with KIDDO Webinar will be scheduled in the next few weeks. The webinar will help your service start using KIDDO with an introduction to KIDDO, Physical Literacy and the KIDDO Website. We will be in touch with a link to register. 

 

Once you have completed the six steps your service will be ready to receive your KIDDO equipment starter kit valued at $250. Get in touch with the KIDDO team on 6488 1181 or julia.andrew@uwa.edu.au if you need a hand getting started with any of the steps or have any questions.