The observation form, showing only the elements you came to watch

For the chair or administrator filing an observation.

The Conduct an Observation screen puts 41 elements and several hundred checkboxes in front of you before you have written a word. This hides the ones you are not using, puts the eight chair elements one click away, and brings the rubric out from behind the View Scale panel so you can read Applying and Developing side by side while you decide.

Put the button on your browser

Once, about twenty seconds. The worst that can happen is you delete a bookmark and try again.

1. Drag the button below onto your bookmarks bar That is the row just under the address bar. Click and hold, move up to that row, let go. Do not click it — drag it.
2. Check it landed You should see Observation Console up there with your other bookmarks. That is the whole setup.

How to use it

1. Open the observation From the iObservation home page, Conduct an observation — pick the teacher, pick Standard 3: Models Ignatian Pedagogy, press Start. Or press Continue on a draft you already began. Let the form finish loading before you do anything else.
2. Click Observation Console on your bookmarks bar A dark green bar appears across the top, and the form immediately drops to the eight chair elements. Everything else is hidden, not deleted.

3. Clear the red chip Click Type: not set and it becomes Formal. Check the chip beside it shows the evaluation flag. Type opens unset on every observation, which is what makes a draft show as N/A in the lists — the field sits above the elements and is easy to scroll past. What you set these to is your call.
4. Work down the form as you normally would Tick the evidence you saw, choose a level, write the comment. Every control you touch is the real iObservation form — the console only decides what is on screen.

The teacher's name is blurred in both pictures. These are real screens from a real draft, which is why.

5. Read the rubric where you are deciding Each element header carries a Show rubric button. Press it and the actual scale text drops in under the checkboxes — Applying and Developing in full, the other three greyed — instead of you opening and closing the View Scale panel. Press it again to put it away.
6. Save or Review from the bar Those two buttons press the form's own Save and Review, so you don't scroll back to the top hunting for them.
7. Close when you're done Close — or clicking the bookmark a second time — puts every hidden element back and leaves the form exactly as it was.

What the green bar gives you

• Elements — the full list of 41, searchable, with the chair eight marked. Tick to show, untick to hide, click a title to jump straight to it. Your choice is remembered on that computer, so the next visit opens the way you left it.
• Chair 8 / Walkthrough 9 / All 41 / None — one click each.
• What I have done — your own observation history, read from iObservation: how many you have finished since August, which teachers you have seen and when, a month-by-month count, and any drafts you left open with their age in days. It works on any iObservation page, not just the form.
• iObservation's own element list on the left is filtered to match, so the navigator and the form agree.
• Type and evaluation flag — the bar shows both. Type unset goes red; clicking it sets Formal. The second chip sets the evaluation flag to No. Type opens unset, and an unset Type is what makes a draft show as N/A in the lists. What you set them to is yours to decide.
• Show rubric — on each element, drops the actual scale text in under the checkboxes, Applying and Developing in full and the other three greyed. No panel to open and close three times a visit.
• Comment — jumps to that element's comment box and puts the cursor in it. The box is taller than the vendor's.
• Next unscored — scrolls to the next element you chose but haven't rated yet, and the bar keeps a count.
• Two levels ticked — the scale row is checkboxes, not buttons, so nothing stops you marking two. If you do, the element says so in red.

The part it cannot help with

Finding what you have already done

iObservation keeps all of this; it is just scattered. Four places, in the order you will want them.

1. The console's own What I have done Fastest. Click the bookmark on any iObservation page and press the button. Teachers you have seen, most recent first, a count per month, and any drafts still open — with the old ones flagged.
2. Observations › Conduct Observation, then toggle to Completed Observations The menu item says Conduct, which is why nobody finds this — the second tab on that screen is the archive. Name, status, observer, type, Date Submitted (click the arrows to sort), form, and View on every row, plus a Search user or ID box, a Filters button and paging.
   
   It runs both directions: the observations you conducted and the ones conducted on you, with the observer named on each row. A Needs Attention badge marks the ones still waiting on the teacher.
   
   Skip the clicks — bookmark these two. They open the right tab straight from a cold start:
   Past observations → ieobservation.com/app/observations#completed
   Anything still in progress → ieobservation.com/app/observations
   The difference is the #completed on the end. Without it you land on Conduct, which is your drafts.
3. Observations › My Stats How much, not which: a From/To date range, an Evaluative / Non-Evaluative toggle, a form picker, and counts of observations and scores. Useful when someone asks how many you have done this semester.
4. Reports › All Reports My Count of Scores by Form is yours — your scores by teacher and form, where you were the observer. Completed Observations with Details and Element Scoring by Observer sit alongside it.

If the screen looks cut off, it is the zoom

iObservation's home page is built from fixed-height cards, and they do not grow with your browser. At 100% zoom on a laptop the Observations conducted on me card shows about two rows and clips the date column, and the draft list gets a horizontal scrollbar. Nothing is missing — it is folded up.

• Zoom out one or two steps — hold Ctrl and press − (on a Mac, ⌘ and −). At 80–90% the whole table fits and the cut-off columns come back. Ctrl 0 puts it back to normal.
• Or scroll inside the card itself. Those little lists are longer than they look — the scrollbar is inside the box, not on the page.
• The full tables never clip. The Completed Observations tab is a real page-width table, which is another reason to work from there rather than the home page.

The things worth knowing about this form

• Type opens unset, every time. That is what makes a draft show as N/A in the lists. The field is at the very top of the form, above the elements, which is why it gets scrolled past.
• Every element you score needs a level on it. Where the teacher sits on the scale is the answer the observation is being asked for, so an element left rated-but-blank isn't finished.
• The scale row is checkboxes, not buttons. Nothing stops you ticking two levels on one element, and the console flags it in red if two are on.
• Applying versus Developing. Same strategy. The only difference is whether you saw the teacher check that it landed. Beginning is the level for a strategy done wrong or half done — not Developing.
• No report reads comment text. Every report in the platform returns counts, averages and distributions. The comment field is invisible to all of them — so whatever the ticked boxes are meant to mean, the comment is the only place it can be said.
• The message box at the bottom. Under Notifications, whatever you type goes into the email the teacher receives. It is often the first thing they read.
• Student interviews are optional. Nine blocks, one per design question, hidden by default in the console. Leaving them blank costs nothing on a short visit.

When something is wrong

• The site is ieobservation.com. The old iobservation.com domain lapsed and now serves something else. Any old bookmark or district document pointing there is dead.
• Vendor support is 814-283-5804 — passwords, accounts, form changes. Not the old 1-877 number.
• The console stops working if the vendor changes the page under it. Tell Educational Technology rather than working around it.

Privacy

• No accounts, no login, no cookies, no personal data, no ads.
• Nothing you enter is transmitted anywhere. It reads the page already rendered on your screen.
• The only thing it stores is which elements you like to see, in your own browser.
• It cannot tick, submit or send anything. Save and Review press the form's own buttons when you press them.
• Nothing is logged, so there is no way for anyone to tell you used it.

If it stops working

The vendor can change the page under it at any time. If the bar appears but the elements do not collapse, or Show rubric sits on loading, tell Educational Technology and it gets fixed. If nothing at all happens, you are probably not on a Conduct an Observation screen yet, or it hasn't finished loading — wait a moment and click again.