Your whole observation on one page

The form lists 41 teaching elements — a menu of what someone might notice in a classroom, not a checklist anyone works through. Your observer marks what they saw; the rest stays blank. This brings the marked ones to the front, with everything they wrote, onto one page you can read and print.

Your report never leaves your computer. This reads the report already open on your screen and rearranges it. No accounts, no login, no cookies, no personal data. It sends nothing anywhere, saves nothing, and cannot change your observation. Close it and your report is exactly as it was.

Put the button on your browser

Once. About twenty seconds, and nothing can break.

Drag the button below onto your bookmarks bar
Check it landed

Chrome gives it a plain globe icon and may shorten the name. Right-click it and choose Edit to rename it — it works the same.

Observation Digest

Drag me up to the bookmarks bar — clicking me here does nothing.

A browser bookmarks bar with Observation Digest sitting in it beside the other bookmarks.

I don't see a row of bookmarks under the address bar

It is hidden. Hold Ctrl and Shift and press B and it appears. (On a Mac: ⌘ Shift B.) The same keys hide it again afterwards if you would rather not keep it.

The drag won't work

Use this instead. It gets you to the same place.

Press Copy below.
Press Ctrl Shift O (the letter O) to open the Bookmark manager.
Click the three dots at the top right of that page, then Add new bookmark.
For Name type Observation Digest. Click in the URL box and press Ctrl V to paste.
Save, then close that tab.

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Using it on the one you just got

Click the link in the email from iObservation Every completed observation sends you one, and the link goes straight to that report.
Wait for the report to finish drawing itself It can take a few seconds. If you click too early the digest will tell you it is still loading — that is all it is, so wait a moment and click again.
Click Observation Digest on your bookmarks bar The summary appears over the top. Print / Save as PDF gives you a clean copy. Esc, Close, or clicking the bookmark again puts you back on the full report, untouched.

Finding an older one — three ways

Every observation anyone has ever done on you is still in there. Any of these gets you back to one.

A. Search your email.

Search Outlook for iObservation. Fastest route by a mile, and the link lands you straight on the report.

B. Let the digest find it.

Anywhere on the iObservation site, click Observation Digest. When it cannot see a report it offers a button to all my observations. Press that.

C. Start at your iObservation home page.

Go to ieobservation.com and find the card headed Observations conducted on me — it lists every observation anyone has ever done on you, going back years. Click View on that card, then View on the row you want.

The left-hand menu is not the way in — Observations › Conduct Observation is for people who observe others, not for finding your own.

Two steps: on the iObservation home page find the card Observations conducted on me and click View; then click View on the row you want, in a list where every row carries your own name.

If the page looks cut off, it is the zoom

iObservation's home page is built from fixed-height cards that 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 — so it can look like you have had two observations when you have had ten. Nothing is missing; it is folded up.

Zoom out a step or two — hold Ctrl and press − (on a Mac, ⌘ and −). At 80–90% the whole card fits. Ctrl 0 (zero) puts it back.
Or scroll inside the card. The scrollbar is in the box, not on the page, and the list is longer than it looks.
Better still, use the full list from C above — a proper page-width table that never clips.

The iObservation notification email in Outlook: sender no-reply@ieobservation.com, subject New Observation Activity, a blocked-image banner, and a View Feedback link. — This is the email, and this is what searching for it looks like. The sender is **no-reply@ieobservation.com** and the subject is always **New Observation Activity**. **View Feedback** takes you straight to the report. Names blurred here; yours will show.

The email looks half-broken, and that is normal. Outlook blocks the iObservation logo because the sender isn't on your safe list, so you get an empty box where a banner should be. The View Feedback link still works. You can press Trust sender if the missing image bothers you.

If nothing happens, you are probably not on a completed observation page yet, or it hasn't finished loading. Wait a moment and click again. If it still does nothing, the report page may have changed — tell Educational Technology and it gets fixed.

What you get

The elements your observer scored, with the rest of the form set aside.
The level ladder for each one, with the rung you were given filled in.
The evidence your observer ticked, split into what they saw you do and what they saw students do.
Everything they wrote, in full — the lesson notes, the observations, and any questions they asked you.
Your own acknowledgement reply, if you left one.
Print / Save as PDF that drops the toolbar and prints clean, one element per block, nothing split across pages.

The same observation, before and after.

What you're looking at

Why were so few elements scored?

Because an observer watching one class period can only see a handful of the 41 things the form lists. Scoring a few and leaving the rest blank is the instrument working normally. A blank element is not a zero and not a gap in your teaching — it means it wasn't what this visit was looking at.

What do the levels mean?

Each scored element gets one of five levels, from Not Using up through Beginning, Developing, Applying, and Innovating. The digest shows the ladder with your level filled in. The framework's full wording for each level is behind the View Scale button on the original report — this tool deliberately doesn't paraphrase it.

The levels all look the same. Is that the useful part?

Often not. Scores tend to cluster, which means they carry less information than their position at the top of the report suggests. The part that tells you something is what your observer wrote in their own words — especially any questions they asked. The digest puts that at the bottom, in full, where it's easy to find.

Can my observer or anyone else tell I used this?

No. Nothing is logged, sent, or recorded anywhere. The tool runs inside your own browser on a page you already have open. There is nothing to see from the other side.

What to do with it

Reading the report is the easy half. The Professional Development course has a page on the harder half — answering your observer's questions, taking one element up a rung instead of five, and reading an observation next to what your students said.

Reading Your Observation Report →