Pre-service teachers · APST Graduate · Any Australian university

Your whole prac, organised and evidenced.

Upload your university's handbook and forms, and the Prac Teacher Companion builds your requirements checklist and templates. Log days, lesson plans, reflections, observations and reports against the Graduate Standards, then export the PDFs your university asks for. It runs offline in your browser, and nothing is ever uploaded.

Works with any university One-off price, no subscription Windows, Mac & Chromebook
25/37 Graduate focus areas evidenced
Names redacted ✓
01Watch the tour

See the whole Companion in one minute.

From uploading your university's documents to the finished PDF, recorded in the Companion's demo account. No sound needed.

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1Your university's documents2Plans & observations3Feedback & the APST tracker4Whole or piecemeal PDFs
02Sound familiar?

Prac is full-on. The paperwork shouldn't be.

Between planning, teaching and debriefs, you're also tracking days, chasing signatures, writing reflections and gathering evidence against 37 focus areas, all in your university's own format.

Forms in five places

The handbook PDF, emailed proformas, a placement portal, photos on your phone and a reflection doc you started in week one.

Requirements buried in a handbook

How many observations? When is the interim report due? It's on page 14 of a 40-page PDF. Somewhere.

Evidence you can't share

Great student work and classroom photos, but they've got names and faces on them.

There's a tidier way: one tab that reads your handbook, holds your whole placement and exports exactly what your university asks for.

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03Try it

Paste your handbook. Watch the checklist build itself.

A cut-down version of the Companion's requirement finder, running right here in your browser. Use a sample, or paste a paragraph from your own placement handbook. Nothing leaves this page.

Your placement handbook

The full Companion reads whole PDFs and Word files, and builds templates from your proformas too.
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Your requirements checklist

Each one quotes the sentence it came from. Tap a button to log progress, the way you would during your placement.

  • Choose Find my requirements to build your checklist.
Requirement finder

Like the full Companion, it looks for patterns and can miss or misread things. Your university's official documents always take priority.

In the full Companion, progress ticks itself as you add days, plans, observations and reflections.

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04How it works

From handbook to finished folio in four steps.

Clips from the Companion's demo account. Each step plays in turn, or tap one to jump to it.

Your documents
05PDF exports

Flip through a real placement folio.

Actual pages from the demo account's whole-folio export. Attachments are embedded page by page, using your redacted versions, and exports carry only your content. Click a page, drag the slider or use your arrow keys to turn.

Folio page
Cover pagePage 1 of 16
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06Inside the Companion

Everything your placement needs, in one tab.

Built around the APST Graduate Teacher Standards, and shaped by your own university's documents.

University documents

Reads your handbook so you don't have to

Requirements become a checklist that quotes the sentence each came from. Proformas become templates. Key dates, rating scales and the systems your university uses (e.g. InPlace, PebblePad) are picked up too.

University documents and requirements in the demo account
Edit and redact

Black out names. Blur faces.

Redact, blur, crop, rotate and adjust any photo, scan or PDF page before it reaches your folio. Redaction is permanent in the saved copy, and exports use your edited versions.

Redacting a student work sample
Lesson plans

Draft to Evaluated

Type into your university's template, upload a completed plan, or both. Track each one from Draft to Shared, Approved, Taught and Evaluated.

Reflections

Your choice of model

What? So what? Now what?, the 5Rs, Gibbs' cycle, post-lesson evaluation, or your university's own proforma, with a live word count.

APST 6.3

Feedback you can prove you acted on

Log feedback after each debrief and move actions from Open to Done. Export the board as a feedback and follow-up log.

1.1 → 7.4

The APST tracker

All 37 Graduate focus areas, coloured by how much of your evidence speaks to each one, with descriptors and evidence ideas for the gaps.

Guided demo

Learn it in three minutes

A complete demo account for a fictional pre-service teacher shows every feature before you start your own.

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Every placement

Your whole degree, one file

Add each placement across your degree, and move computers safely with one backup file that holds everything.

Private by design

Your evidence never leaves your computer.

Student work, classroom photos and your supervisor's reports: the things you collect on placement are sensitive. The Companion is a single file that runs in your browser with every outgoing connection blocked, so nothing is ever uploaded.

No loginNo account, no password, no subscription.
No internet neededWorks fully offline once downloaded.
No AIYour words stay yours, and nothing is analysed or sent.
You hold the backupOne file, kept wherever you choose.
07Get the Companion

What you get

  • The Prac Teacher CompanionOne file that opens in Chrome or Edge. Documents and requirements, attendance, lesson plans, reflections, observations, reports, evidence, feedback, the APST tracker and PDF export.
  • A complete demo account + guided tourA fictional pre-service teacher partway through a placement, to explore and edit freely.
  • 15-page illustrated user guideStep-by-step help, print settings, privacy tips and troubleshooting.
  • Yours for your whole degreeA one-off purchase for every placement. No subscription and no account.
Works with your university's own forms. Keep submitting through whatever system your university uses. The Companion keeps your records tidy and exports the PDFs you need.
Choose your licence
Buy now ·

One-off payment in Australian dollars through Payhip's secure checkout. Your download link arrives by email straight away.

Windows · Mac · ChromebookChrome or EdgeWorks offlineNot for iPad or phones

Each licence is for one pre-service teacher. Please don't share the file with classmates, or by email, USB, a network or cloud storage. Licence terms

08Questions

Before you buy

Still unsure? These are the questions pre-service teachers ask most.

Will it work with my university?
Yes. Upload your own placement handbook, guidelines and proformas, and the Companion builds your requirements checklist and templates from them. You can add, edit or remove anything. Your university's official documents always take priority.
Can I still use my university's forms?
Yes. Type into a template built from your university's proforma, upload the completed form (Word, PDF or a photo of a handwritten plan), or both.
Is anything uploaded?
No. The Companion reads your documents on your own computer and keeps everything in your browser. There's no account, no AI connection, and it blocks outgoing connections.
Will it work on my iPad?
No. It's designed for laptops and desktops (Windows, Mac or Chromebook) in Chrome or Edge. It isn't designed for iPad, iPhone or Android, and it won't save your work in a private or incognito window.
Does it write my lesson plans or reflections?
No. It organises, checks and formats your own work. The planning, teaching and reflecting are yours.
Does it guarantee a pass?
No. Your result is decided by your university and supervising teacher, based on your teaching and the content you supply. Tidy Tabs is not responsible for the outcome of your placement.
What files can I upload?
Handbooks and proformas as PDF, Word (.docx) or text. Photos and scans as JPG or PNG; iPhone HEIC photos need saving as JPEG first. Scanned PDFs can't be read as text, so use Paste text for those.
Can I buy copies for a cohort?
Yes. Each licence is for one pre-service teacher. The team pack covers pre-service teachers for , and each person keeps their own records on their own computer. You'll get an emailed receipt to pass to your finance team.
How do I get it after paying?
Checkout is handled by Payhip. Straight after payment you'll get an email with your download link and receipt: a ZIP with the Companion file and the 15-page user guide. Save it somewhere permanent, open it in Chrome or Edge, and take the guided tour.
What if it doesn't work for me?
Email and we'll help you get it running. If it can't be fixed, you'll get a refund. See the refund policy.

Walk into your next debrief organised.

Set up your placement tonight, and let the Companion keep track of the rest.