Every childcare center is unique, and your child development approach should be too! With Famly's Curriculum Builder, you have the flexibility to create a curriculum that perfectly fits your center's needs. Whether you prefer starting from a template or building your curriculum from scratch, the power is in your hands. This guide will walk you through the process of setting up your own personalized curriculum, but remember—how it turns out is entirely up to you!

Before you begin, make sure that any staff responsible for creating curricula have the right permissions. To do so, head to Settings → Staff → Roles and permissions → Compare roles → scroll down to the Learning section → and check Create, edit and delete child development curriculum. You're good to go!

It's time to start creating a custom curriculum. Head to the Learning tab in your sidebar and click on Curriculum builder. If you haven't created any curricula before, click the Create curriculum button.

Next up, choose whether you'd like to Use a template or Design your own curriculum. If you're using a template, you can click on the suggested learning areas and edit if needed. If you choose to design your own, give your learning areas a color, name, abbreviation and choose whether you'd like to be able to link them when you make observations and assessments.

Pages can be added to provide more information for your curriculum and additional reference material. In each learning area, you can create subareas. For example, you may want to have Chemistry and Geography as subareas under your Science learning area, for example. Create as many subareas as you like, and add pages for each one.

Once you've created your curriculum, you can add it to your settings to enable for Reference material and for Learning frameworks. If you'd like to edit this information later down the line, you can head back to your Settings → Child development → Learning frameworks or Reference material and toggle your curriculum on or off from here.

With your curriculum enabled, you're all set to start using it in Assessments and Observations. When you create an Observation or Assessment, your custom curriculum will be available as an option. Once selected, you can add specific learning areas and consult your reference material to write a detailed report on the child's development.

In Child development → Overview, you'll see your Observations and Assessments listed and the abbreviations for your Learning areas attached to each one.