How assessments work

An assessment is a coach's honest snapshot of a player, taken skill by skill on a five-step scale: Needs Support · Developing · Competent · Strong · Excellent. Adults who work with the record see the numbers 1–5 behind those words; players and families only ever see the words and dots.

• Templates shape the sheet. The club decides which criteria a coach is asked, per context — a training session, a match, or a formal review.
• Blank means “not observed”. A coach never has to score everything; anything left blank is simply skipped, never counted as a zero.
• Nothing is overwritten. Every assessment is a new entry. Improvement is the difference between two honest snapshots.
• The player has a voice too. After a session or match, the player (or their guardian) can say how it felt. That record sits beside the coach's, not inside it.

Open Templates in the header. Each template names the criteria for one context, and can be pinned to age groups — the demo club ships with a training template (the core six plus the week's picks), a match review, and two formal reviews split by age.

1. Click New template, or Edit on an existing one.
2. Tick the criteria the coach should be asked. Every criterion is one of the club's own skills.
3. Mark the always-scored ones core — they lead the sheet in their own section.
4. Optionally pin it to age groups (U9, U10), or make it the context's default.

Removing a template is soft — sheets already recorded with it keep its name. Every change lands in the audit log. Coaches can pick templates but never edit them.

From a team page, open Assess squad. The sheet arrives already shaped by the template for the context you pick — Training, Match, or Formal review — with the core criteria first and everyone's last scores under each skill.

1. Pick the context. The sheet reshapes itself; the scale legend reads 1 Needs Support → 5 Excellent.
2. Tap a score per skill. Leave blank anything you did not observe — tap again to clear.
3. For each player, optionally name a Strength today, a Development point, a Next focus, and a one-line note. These are the words the family will read.
4. Record assessments saves the whole round at once — all of it lands or none of it does.

Next time, each player's card opens with what you said last time, so the pitch-side conversation continues where it left off. Team managers run the roster and fixtures but never see any of this.

Your child's page opens with their level, streak, and — when the coach recorded picks — a Coach's picks card: what stood out, what's next, and the coach's own words.

Progress is always words and dots, never marks out of five: Developing, Competent, Strong. “Getting better” shows what moved since the last assessment.

You see your own child and nobody else's, and never a coach's private notes. You can also record How did it go? on your child's behalf after a session — it is saved as the family's words, distinct from the child's own.

Your page shows your superpowers, the one thing to work on next, and what your coach said — always in words, never numbers. After training or a match, tell your side with How did it go?.

1. Pick whether it was training or a match.
2. Say what went well, what was difficult, and what you want to improve — a line each is plenty.
3. Rate effort, confidence and fun, then Save. It appears in “In their own words” and on your story.

• Owner / Admin / Director — edit templates; read and record assessments across the club.
• Coaches — record and read assessments for their own teams; pick templates, never edit them.
• Team managers — roster, fixtures and availability; never the development record.
• Parents & players — their own child / themselves: labels and dots, coach's picks, and the self-assessment. Never raw scores, never private notes, never teammates.
• Sponsors, supporters & fans — nothing about any child, ever.

The full matrix lives in the role guides — see How to use ClubHub for your role.