6 Steps for getting started with your KIDDO Tasmania scholarship

CONGRATULATIONS! on receiving a KIDDO Tasmania scholarship!

Your service and all your educators and children will benefit from 24 months of KIDDO membership, webinars, resources, equipment, and support.

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

1. Register for your KIDDO membership

Go to kiddo.edu.au/join
Select Early Learning Service, enter the number of approved places and click 'get started'
Then, 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 made as this membership is part of your KIDDO Tasmania scholarship.

Any problems, please just reach out to the Move Well Eat Well team on 03 6166 0617 or movewelleatwell@health.tas.gov.au and we can help you join up.

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 admin@kiddo.edu.au

4. 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

5. Register and attend the Introductory Webinar

Webinar 1: Introduction to KIDDO

Date: Wednesday 23rd July 2025

Time: 12pm-12:45pm (Eastern Australia Time)

Register here

Two other webinars are also offered as part of the scholarship. Webinars will be recorded, and are able to be accessed on the KIDDO Tasmania webpage.

Webinar 2: KIDDO for Educational Leaders

Date: Tuesday 19th August 2025

Time: 12pm-12:45pm (Eastern Australia Time)

Register here

Webinar 3: Using Milestone Reporting

Date: Tuesday 16th September 2025

Time: 12pm-12:45pm (Eastern Australia Time)

Register here

6. 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 Tasmania scholarship you have committed to a minimum of 2 staff completing the professional development.

Once you have completed the six steps your service will be ready to start!

Your equipment pack will be sent out to you by mail.

If you need a hand getting started with any of the steps or have any questions, please reach out to the Move Well Eat Well team: movewelleatwell@health.tas.gov.au Phone: 03 6166 0617