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Life Skills GO is an easy-to-use emotion and wellbeing data collection tool that measures readiness to learn through empowered student voice, displays real-time dashboards, reports and insights enabling educators to make informed decisions, and provides quality evidence based and curriculum aligned resources and adaptive lessons to support social and emotional literacy and foster wellbeing.
It collects and analyses student data in real time at an individual, class, stage and school level providing succinct analysis in simple reports and customisable dashboards.
GO supports educators to:
Make data-informed decisions about wellbeing programs across the school
Assess support in place for individual students
Triangulate readiness to learn data with attendance, behaviour and academic outcomes.
Any K-12 school can use GO to collect student wellbeing data, with a focus on primary education. Hundreds of Public, Catholic, Independent schools and Specialist settings across Australia have been using GO since 2020.
Educators that use GO include:
Classroom teachers
Wellbeing & support staff
Executive leadership teams
The wellbeing data collected by GO is based on student-led emotional responses and related contexts.
How are you feeling today? “I’m feeling happy.”
Why are you feeling that way? “I’m happy because of something that happened at home”
GO provides up to 48 emotional responses cross-referenced with 5 common school-based contexts.
Any wellbeing data themes or trends identified can be triangulated with more traditional school wellbeing data such as behaviour or attendance to provide a wholistic picture of student wellbeing. This can be used to quantify program impact and prevent disruptions before they happen.
Educators can easily access the right wellbeing information at the right time to take informed actions to support their students based on their real needs.
Customisable Emotion Check-in
Individual student accounts create a safe place for empowering student voice and enable the psychologically safe collection of student wellbeing data and context
Dynamic real-time insights, metrics and dashboards
Real time displays of student emotions, context such as online, playground and in the classroom plus monitoring of student readiness to learn. These dashboards are dynamic and customisable so educators can easily access the right information at the right time to take informed actions to support their students
Automated reporting
Periodic reports (weekly, fortnightly, 5 weekly, termly, semesterly and annually) are generated for class, stage, school and individual students. These reports analyse the patterns and trends of student emotion check-ins and surface insights for educators. These reports can easily be embedded in strategic planning, evidence against School Excellence and Wellbeing Frameworks and as part of whole school processes such as Learning Support Team and stage meetings
Evidence-based and curriculum-aligned resources
Life Skills GO provides a comprehensive library of evidence based & curriculum aligned resources and adaptive lessons, to support social and emotional literacy and foster wellbeing.
GO can be used on any device connected to the internet. Most commonly schools check-in with their students using laptops, tablets (iOS or Android) and interactive white boards.
We recommend using Google Chrome as your browser as GO is a web-based application. We don’t have an iOS or Android app.
If you’re a K-12 school we can help.
Most schools take part in a free 14-day trial which we will set up for you. This trial will give you practical and technical insights into how GO works so you can experience it seamlessly slot into your existing processes.
Here is a selection of case studies from our customers if you’d like to investigate how we’ve solved their student wellbeing problems across Australia.
You can also watch recordings of expert webinars which feature our customers sharing their experiences.
Our successful trials usually go like this:
14 days
1-3 trial teachers across the class stages and student age groups
1 executive or wellbeing leader
1 mid-trial meeting for 15 minutes to collect feedback and share initial data themes in your school
1 end-of-trial meeting for 30 minutes to discuss your decision and a potential implementation process
The trial is free and there is no obligation for your school to subscribe after the 14-day trial period ends. We will also provide you with your wellbeing data download as a thank-you for taking part in the trial.
GO costs between $9.99 - $15.99 per student per year depending on the license you choose. There are two different types of licence.
There is also a one-off onboarding fee, which includes professional development and tech support throughout the lifetime of your subscription - these vary between $290 - $990 depending on how many students are in your school.
If your school has less than 100 students there is a flat fee of $1100 including onboarding.
These prices exclude GST.
Please see our pricing page for more information.
Yes. We integrate directly with Sentral & School Bytes SIS platforms.
Collecting student wellbeing data as part of marking attendance results in no teaching and learning time lost. It also means you can easily triangulate wellbeing data with your existing attendance, behaviour and other student data stored in your system.
Click here for more information about the Sentral and School Bytes integrations.
Other integrations will be announced in due course. Watch this space!
Hundreds of public, catholic and independent schools across Australia have been using GO since 2019.
Here is a selection of case studies from our customers if you’d like to hear how we’ve solved their student wellbeing problems across Australia.
You can also watch recordings of expert webinars which feature our customers sharing their experiences.
GO encompasses over 500 stage-based digital lessons, mapped to the NSW & Australian curriculum and accompanied by printable lesson plans. This content is organised into units of work including a library of 200+ printable resources, activity cards and posters plus adaptive self-regulation, cognitive behaviour therapy & mindfulness video activities. All content is evidence-based and trauma-informed.
Activities can be targeted to individual students, cohorts, classes, or the whole school based on the wellbeing data collected during the check-ins or to support your existing wellbeing strategy.
Life Skills Group has been delivering professional workshops face-to-face and online since 2012. Hundreds of thousands of students and thousands of educators have been taught expert wellbeing techniques and emotional literacy skills in schools across Australia.
Yes, in addition to the GO platform Life Skills GO runs professional workshops for school staff. Equipping teachers and school leaders with expert tools and techniques for introducing and developing social, emotional and physical learning in the classroom. Find out more here.
Yes. We have been officially approved by the Education Department of NSW to support student wellbeing. We also collaborate on their state-wide anxiety project, which is delivered using GO.
We have also participated in the Safer Technologies 4 Schools survey and been assessed under this program. Results of this assessment are available from your Department of Education. For more information see our Safer Technologies for Schools update.
All data is stored securely on Australian servers, is de-identified and encrypted for optimum security. You can view our privacy policy here.
Life Skills GO shares minimal information with third parties in order to provide certain key functionality or features. Any information shared is the minimum required for the third party to provide their service on behalf of us, and all third party providers are selected based on their respective privacy policies and treatment of user data.
Our successful trials usually go like this:
14 days
1-3 trial teachers across the class stages and student age groups
1 executive or wellbeing leader
1 mid-trial meeting for 15 minutes to collect feedback and share initial data themes in your school
1 end-of-trial meeting for 30 minutes to discuss your decision and a potential implementation process
The trial is free and there is no obligation for your school to subscribe after the 14-day trial period ends. We will also provide you with your wellbeing data download as a thank-you for taking part in the trial.
Yes. Most schools start with a morning check-in around their roll call time because this slots nicely into existing processes, however you can check-in at any time during the day. This means you can track how students are doing after recess and lunchtimes, for example, or other times in the day that matter to your school. Please note that if you’re using the School Bytes or Sentral integrations you can only mark the roll with Life Skills GO as part of your compliant attendance process.
Yes, you can add co-teachers, itinerants, casual and other school colleagues to any class so they can login and carry out a check-in in your absence.
Yes, students are each given their own profile that includes a username and password that can be bookmarked for easy access in a web browser. They also get a unique QR code that can be scanned on a camera app for a quick direct login. If using a shared device students must log out before the next student does a check-in.
The context question is turned off as a default setting for all users, everyone starts with the Foundation Emotion questions. But it’s really easy to add the context question in the ‘Check-In Settings’ menu. This short video shows you how to do it. Adding the context question helps schools understand the key areas of their school that students are responding to. Meaning they can deliver support in these areas. It also helps students understand some of the motivations behind their emotional status.
Yes, there are a total of 48 emotions. Which can be offered to your students as part of the ‘Character Illustrations’ mode in the check-in settings. This video will show you how to do it. You can also customise the number of emotions offered to individual students based on emotional literacy and age.
No, the context options are currently fixed at the 5 available; home, the classroom, with my friends, on the playground and online. This ensure data integrity and consistency so you know the key areas of your school to focus on.
No, you cannot currently change the emotions offered as part of the check-in. However you can choose to offer from between 6-48 emotions in total which covers the full range of emotions a child can experience as part of their emotional literacy journey.
Full customisation is coming and will be launched with some expert guidance in Term 2, 2024.
This is an automatically updated group of students who are regularly sharing emotional
responses in their check-ins that may mean they need support from a teacher or other staff member. This stops students from slipping through. You can manage the students you see on this feed, adding or removing as you see fit.
This helps you identify student groups that can potentially become focus points for your internal meetings to ensure they are getting the wellbeing support they need.
That’s all part of the process. Don’t worry, sometimes the check-ins may not be completely accurate but it’s still an opportunity to make an acknowledgment and ask the student why they responded that way? It can also be used for explicit instruction as part of your emotional literacy program. Teachers can leave comments to provide objective insights into any check-in made. This develops each students wellbeing profile which is great for communication with the school community. Please note it’s also not possible to delete check-ins.
Yes, wherever you see a speech icon or ‘leave comment’ you can type your response and click submit to leave a comment. Students don’t see these comments. This is a great way to build out the profile of your individual students for school meetings and also conversations with parents, carers and the wider school community.
Life Skills GO is a tool for educators to know which students need wellbeing support and why, in real-time. How you decide to utliise the data provided by the platform should align with your teaching practice and your agreement with your schools' duty of care. We provide curriculum aligned content as part of our subscriptions so you can respond to specific emotional responses with expert videos and resources that compliment your existing processes.
These are short (2-3 minute) videos that can be used in direct response to a student’s emotional check-in. They are available in a group setting (via an interactive whiteboard) or on individual devices. They offer a great way to realign focus with cognitive behavioural theory, brain breaks or breathing exercises. You don’t have to use them but we’ve had great results because they’re matched the student response.
For teachers, your classroom dashboard will give you real-time data on who has checked in, which students may need additional support and how ready-to-learn your class is (as a %). You will also be able to see your daily ready to learn % compared to your year-to-date average. This is so you know if the current day is up or down from a student wellbeing perspective.
The student insights will tell you any important changes to individual student wellbeing based on their current check-in. If a student normally checks in happy but they check in sad or tired, Life Skills GO will tell you.
Leadership teams are sent weekly reports via email with a summary of their wellbeing data. These are also available for each student. The executive dashboard will give a whole-school insight with a class overview so you can see which classes
Yes, we offer weekly sessions that anyone can register for as part of the free trial process. Go to this link, pick your session and time. One of our experts will then run through the practicalities of the check-in and give you an opportunity to ask questions.
We can provide you and your school with a letter that explains the theory, process and data security of Life Skills GO. We are accredited by Beyond Blue, Safer Technology 4 Schools and work directly with the Department of Education, NSW.
It’s important that we meet with your leadership team to discuss your wellbeing strategy and how the Life Skills GO wellbeing data will complement and enhance it. This 30-minute executive onboarding session is included in your subscription. It is used to establish the goals and timetable for the rollout. Your Customer Success Manager will provide expert support throughout this process.
See the executive implementation guide here.
The next step is a 30-minute schoolwide PD and Q&A so we upskill your staff on the check-in practicalities, how it can be introduced to the students and how it well help them in the classroom. The session will be aligned to the outcomes from the exec session above. This often includes the teachers who participated in the trial to share their experiences and processes.
GO costs between $9.99 - $15.99 per student per year depending on the license you choose. There are two different types of licence.
There is also a one-off onboarding fee, which includes professional development and tech support throughout the lifetime of your subscription - these vary between $290 - $990 depending on how many students are in your school.
If your school has less than 100 students there is a flat fee of $1100 including onboarding.
These prices exclude GST.
Please see our pricing page for more information.
Yes. We integrate directly with Sentral & School Bytes SIS platforms.
Collecting student wellbeing data as part of marking attendance results in no teaching and learning time lost. It also means you can easily triangulate wellbeing data with your existing attendance, behaviour and other student data stored in your system.
Click here for more information about the Sentral and School Bytes integrations.
Other integrations will be announced in due course. Watch this space!
We also offer weekly sessions that anyone can register during their subscription. Go to this link, pick your session and time. One of our experts will then run through the platform and key features. We offer both classroom and leadership sessions.
We can provide you and your school with a letter that explains the theory, process and data security of Life Skills GO. We are accredited by Beyond Blue, Safer Technology 4 Schools and work directly with the Department of Education, NSW.
Yes. Most schools start with a morning check-in around their roll call time because this slots nicely into existing processes, however you can check-in at any time during the day. This means you can track how students are doing after recess and lunchtimes, for example, or other times in the day that matter to your school. Please note that if you’re using the School Bytes or Sentral integrations you can only mark the roll with Life Skills GO as part of your compliant attendance process.
Yes, you can add co-teachers, itinerants, casual and other school colleagues to any class so they can login and carry out a check-in in your absence.
Yes, students are each given their own profile that includes a username and password that can be bookmarked for easy access in a web browser. They also get a unique QR code that can be scanned on a camera app for a quick direct login. If using a shared device students must log out before the next student does a check-in.
The context question is turned off as a default setting for all users, everyone starts with the Foundation Emotion questions. But it’s really easy to add the context question in the ‘Check-In Settings’ menu. This short video shows you how to do it. Adding the context question helps schools understand the key areas of their school that students are responding to. Meaning they can deliver support in these areas. It also helps students understand some of the motivations behind their emotional status.
Yes, there are a total of 48 emotions. Which can be offered to your students as part of the ‘Character Illustrations’ mode in the check-in settings. This video will show you how to do it. You can also customise the number of emotions offered to individual students based on emotional literacy and age.
No, the context options are currently fixed at the 5 available; home, the classroom, with my friends, on the playground and online. This ensure data integrity and consistency so you know the key areas of your school to focus on.
No, you cannot currently change the emotions offered as part of the check-in. However you can choose to offer from between 6-48 emotions in total which covers the full range of emotions a child can experience as part of their emotional literacy journey.
Full customisation is coming and will be launched with some expert guidance in Term 2, 2024.
This is an automatically updated group of students who are regularly sharing emotional
responses in their check-ins that may mean they need support from a teacher or other staff member. This stops students from slipping through. You can manage the students you see on this feed, adding or removing as you see fit.
This helps you identify student groups that can potentially become focus points for your internal meetings to ensure they are getting the wellbeing support they need.
That’s all part of the process. Don’t worry, sometimes the check-ins may not be completely accurate but it’s still an opportunity to make an acknowledgment and ask the student why they responded that way? It can also be used for explicit instruction as part of your emotional literacy program. Teachers can leave comments to provide objective insights into any check-in made. This develops each students wellbeing profile which is great for communication with the school community. Please note it’s also not possible to delete check-ins.
Yes, wherever you see a speech icon or ‘leave comment’ you can type your responsed and click submit to leave a comment. Students don’t see these comments. This is a great way to build out the profile of your individual students for school meetings and also conversations with parents, carers and the wider school community.
Life Skills GO is a tool for educators to know which students need wellbeing support and why, in real-time. How you decide to utliise the data provided by the platform should align with your teaching practice and your agreement with your schools' duty of care. We provide curriculum aligned content as part of our subscriptions so you can respond to specific emotional responses with expert videos and resources that compliment your existing processes.
For teachers, your classroom dashboard will give you real-time data on who has checked in, which students may need additional support and how ready-to-learn your class is (as a %). You will also be able to see your daily ready to learn % compared to your year-to-date average. This is so you know if the current day is up or down from a student wellbeing perspective.
The student insights will tell you any important changes to individual student wellbeing based on their current check-in. If a student normally checks in happy but they check in sad or tired, Life Skills GO will tell you.
Leadership teams are sent weekly reports via email with a summary of their wellbeing data. These are also available for each student. The executive dashboard will give a whole-school insight with a class overview so you can see which classes
GO encompasses over 500 stage-based digital lessons, mapped to the NSW & Australian curriculum and accompanied by printable lesson plans. This content is organised into units of work including a library of 200+ printable resources, activity cards and posters plus adaptive self-regulation, cognitive behaviour therapy & mindfulness video activities. All content is evidence-based and trauma-informed.
Activities can be targeted to individual students, cohorts, classes, or the whole school based on the wellbeing data collected during the check-ins or to support your existing wellbeing strategy.
Yes, in addition to the GO platform Life Skills GO runs professional workshops for school staff. Equipping teachers and school leaders with expert tools and techniques for introducing and developing social, emotional and physical learning in the classroom. Find out more here.
All data is stored securely on Australian servers, is de-identified and encrypted for optimum security. You can view our privacy policy here.
Life Skills GO shares minimal information with third parties in order to provide certain key functionality or features. Any information shared is the minimum required for the third party to provide their service on behalf of us, and all third party providers are selected based on their respective privacy policies and treatment of user data.
