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Teacher Home: The Forms Tab

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The Forms tab on Teacher Home generates ready-to-print documents for you — permission slips, RAMS (risk assessment) forms and lesson plans. You fill in the details on screen and the tab produces a PDF or Word document to download; nothing is stored in edge/Helix and no responses are collected online. Permission Slips and Lesson Plans are feature-switched and must be enabled for your school — contact support if you cannot see them. The RAMS form is always available.

The Forms tab on Teacher Home generates ready-to-print documents for you — permission slips, RAMS (risk assessment) forms and lesson plans. You fill in the details on screen and the tab produces a PDF or Word document to download; nothing is stored in edge/Helix and no responses are collected online. Permission Slips and Lesson Plans are feature-switched and must be enabled for your school — contact support if you cannot see them. The RAMS form is always available.

Choosing a form

  1. Open Teacher Home and click the Forms tab.
  2. In Select Form Type, choose Permission Slip, RAMS Form or Lesson Plan.

Screenshot: Forms tab with the Select Form Type dropdown open

Permission Slips

Generates a printable PDF with one permission slip per student, ready to send home for a caregiver signature.

  1. Under Select Students, choose how to pick students: Students, Year Levels, Classes or Groups, then move your choices into the Selected list.
  2. Under Specify Particulars, complete:
  • Trip Activity — the name of the trip or activity (required, up to 50 characters).
  • Payment Amount — optional; printed on the slip along with the Payment Due Date. No payment is collected through the form.
  • Date of Trip.
  • Hyperlinks — optional links to print on the slip (separate multiple links with a comma).
  • Include Medical Data Check — tick this to add a medical table to each student's slip listing their recorded conditions (Condition, Details, Severity, Medicine Held, Hospitalisation Required) with a Confirm column for caregivers to check.
  1. Click Generate Form. A PDF named after the activity (for example "Camp Permission Slips.pdf") downloads, with one page per student including Parent/Caregiver and Student signature lines.

If you have not selected any students you will see Please select at least one student; if the activity is blank you will see Please input the Trips Activity.

Screenshot: Permission Slip form with student selection on the left and particulars on the right

RAMS Form

Generates a risk analysis and management (RAMS) document for a trip, with AI-suggested risks you can edit.

  1. Complete the trip details: Trip Name, Trip Location, start and end dates, Trip Leader, number of supervisors, number of students and a trip description.
  2. Click Generate Risks. Suggested rows are created with a Risk, a Risk Level (High / Medium / Low) and Mitigation steps.
  3. Edit the suggestions freely — use Add Risk, Add Mitigation and Remove to shape the table.
  4. Download with Generate Form as PDF or Save as DOCX. The document includes an approval block (Approve Trip Yes/No, Approved By, Date Approved) for sign-off.

Because the risks are AI-generated, always review them before use.

Screenshot: RAMS form showing generated risk and mitigation rows

Lesson Plans

The Lesson Plan Generator drafts a lesson plan against the New Zealand curriculum using AI.

  1. Enter the Class Size, Class Duration (minutes) and approximate Student Age.
  2. Work down the curriculum dropdowns — starting at Learning Area and narrowing to a specific achievement objective. Each selection loads the next level.
  3. Optionally add Additional Instructions, for example "Make use of visual aids" or "Use The Whale Rider as the example text".
  4. Click Generate Lesson Plan. The draft appears in an editable text area; use Regenerate Lesson Plan if you want a different version.
  5. Save your plan with Generate PDF, Save as DOCX or Copy to Clipboard.

A disclaimer is shown with the output: large language models are not always entirely accurate or appropriate, so review the plan before teaching from it. Lesson plans are not saved in edge/Helix — download or copy anything you want to keep.

Screenshot: Lesson Plan Generator with curriculum dropdowns and a generated plan