The P–10 Planning app in the QCAA Portal gives schools an efficient way to plan effectively for Version 9.0 of the Australian Curriculum across all year levels and learning areas, aligned to QCAA advice and resources.
Teachers are guided to complete purposeful curriculum and assessment planning, ensuring clear alignment between teaching, learning, assessment and reporting.
Benefits of using the P–10 Planning app
Video transcript
The biggest benefit of the planning app has been the fact that we have consistency across the school.
We've got a central storage location for all of our resources.
We're able to quality assure everything that goes into that.
It gives me the the curriculum for the department at my fingertips.
It allows for really good quality in-depth conversations with staff around planning. It's just saved huge amounts of time.
We've recommended the app as a way of guiding teachers through the planning process of ensuring they include all the relevant details in their work.
I know that as I'm creating those templates, the the risk of making errors has been greatly reduced. We also find that being able to review each year level plan and assessment that's being created is a great way of ensuring quality.
We can see our year level descriptors. We can see our content descriptors and how they all align.
I think the app really helps beginning and early career teachers by pointing them directly where they need to be looking to ensure that they're covering their curriculum.
Teachers that were unfamiliar with the planning process or found it a challenge were really able to come on board and be coached through each element of planning.
The feedback function is really effective and then being able to then send it for approval once they've made some further changes. Teachers in my faculty couldn't get over the amount of workload that was reduced. It meant that they reduced the amount of time they had to spend on creating assessment tasks.
There's no more cut and paste of all the things. It's simply working your way through the app and ensuring everything is covered.
I think the greatest thing from using the app is that we've gone away from traditional ways of planning in Word documents and we've moved it to a very interactive and supportive method and that's really broken down the barriers for some of those staff that do find planning difficult.
My piece of advice would be to go in yourself, have a play, don't be frightened of it. It is very user friendly and it's become more user friendly as more features and functionality has become available.
It's very intuitive. It's not like you need a lot of training.
For schools that do find quality assurance difficult, I think that this is one of the most positive things we've ever had in planning.
It is so user friendly, you won't regret having a try.
Unique functionality, including:
- Templates for year level/band curriculum and assessment plans, unit plans, assessment tasks and marking guides based on school curriculum decisions and user inputs.
- Functions that support planning for multi-age classroom contexts.
- Direct mapping to achievement standards and content descriptions — promoting strong alignment between the Australian Curriculum v9.0, what is taught and what is assessed.
- Free-text fields and in-built editing features designed to tailor plans and assessment tasks to a cohort's unique context.
- Consistent language and formatting in all templates across the school.
- In-app review and approval process for quality assurance.
- Built-in linkage to the QCAA's extensive suite of evidence-based advice and resources — ensuring quality design practices are followed by all staff.
- An easily accessible repository to access current and previous year level/band plans and assessments.
- Comprehensive dashboards, downloadable data summaries and assessment calendars to support analysis and evaluation.
Resources
Follow the steps below to gain access to the app.
Step one: Register
You will need to register for a QCAA Portal account if you don't already have one.
Step two: Role assignment
Contact your school’s Access Management Organisation Administrator for a P–10 Planning app role to be assigned to you, as these roles are not automatically granted. You will receive a confirmation email from the QCAA Portal once this role has been assigned to you.
If you do not know who your school’s Organisation Administrator is, please contact QCAA Client Services by email clientservices@qcaa.qld.edu.au or phone (07) 3864 0299.
P-10 Planning app roles:
- Teacher — create, view and print one's own plans and assessment tasks. Approve plans and assessment tasks allocated to them by other users.
- Application Administrator — the same functionality as Teacher role with additional administrative privileges such as:
- allocating subjects and year levels to the school
- configuring school terms and weeks for implementation years
- editing and deleting plans created by other users in the school.
- Data Summaries Viewer — aimed at school leaders, this role provides analytical data privileges such as:
- viewing data dashboards
- creating and downloading data summaries
- generating assessment calendars from approved plans.
Note: If your school does not have an Access Management Organisation Administrator, the school will need to submit a request for staff members to be allocated this role.
Step three: Access
Once the relevant role has been assigned to you, the P–10 Planning app tile will appear on your QCAA Portal homepage when you log in. Click on the tile to access the app and start planning.
Note: the Application Administrator is required to configure the school terms/weeks for implementation years, relevant year levels and learning areas/subjects for the school in the P–10 Planning app first before teachers can commence planning.
For help accessing the QCAA Portal, see the QCAA Portal help page, email clientservices@qcaa.qld.edu.au or phone (07) 3864 0299.
User guides, including FAQs and tips for constructing supervised assessments and examinations are available from the QCAA Portal help page for P–10 app.
To access the user guides when using the P–10 Planning app, please click on the Help link available at top-right.
Resources
Videos on the following topics are available on the P–10 Planning app help resources page.
- Accessing the app
- Administration of the app
- Approvals stages
- Data summaries viewer role
- Drafting stages
- In app messages
- Progressing through planning stages
- Review stage
- Roles and responsibilities
- Teacher role.
- Last updated:
- 3 September 2025
