Printing and Exporting Your Journey

Your Journey page brings together recorded activities, journal entries, photos, and materials on past and current planned days. Print or export your recorded learning to share with family or keep physical records. Materials that are only planned are left out of prints and exports.

How to Access

1. Open Journey on the web.
2. Select the date range, students, subjects, and kinds of learning you want, then select Update view.
3. Beside Days worth remembering, open More and choose Print learning records or Export learning records.

Browse photos and earlier months

1. Under Date range, select Choose a Month and set Jump to month to the month and year you want.
2. Turn on Has photos to browse only activities with saved photos, then select Update view. Turn it off to include the other matching entries again.
3. Select a photo in an activity's collage to open the full-screen viewer. Use Previous photo and Next photo, the left and right arrow keys, or swipe to move through that activity's photos.
4. Select Zoom in for a closer look, Fit photo to return, and Close photos to go back to Journey.

Has photos only changes the Journey feed on the web. Prints and exports still include all eligible learning records and journal entries matching your other filters, including entries without photos.

Printing Your Journey

Print learning records creates a clean, print-friendly version of your journey that's useful for:

• Creating physical records
• Sharing with grandparents
• Submitting to review boards
• Portfolio reviews

Print Features:

• Smart Warnings - If you have 20+ images, you'll get a heads-up about print time and paper usage
• Clean Layout - Removes navigation, filters, and other screen-only elements
• Photo Management - Multiple photos are listed (not in sliders) and sized appropriately for printing
• Professional Format - Includes header with team name, date range, and filter information

Tips for Better Prints:

• Filter to specific date ranges to reduce page count
• Select specific students or subjects if you don't need everything
• Consider printing in black & white to save ink
• Use "Print to PDF" if you want a digital copy

Exporting Your Journey

Export learning records creates a downloadable ZIP file containing:

• HTML File - Standalone webpage that works offline
• JSON Data - Machine-readable export of all your data
• Images Folder - All photos from your filtered journey
• README - Information about the export contents

Export Process:

1. Open More → Export learning records with your desired filters applied, then choose whether to receive an email when the export is ready
2. The export job queues in the background (won't slow down your screen)
3. Check progress in Pathfinder → Reports → Exports tab
4. Download when ready (expires after 48 hours)

What Gets Exported:

• Eligible recorded activities and journal entries matching your filters
• Student names, subjects, activity details
• Time spent on each activity when recorded
• Session notes and grades
• All photos (organized and numbered)
• Complete activity information

Activity time is included in both the readable HTML file and the JSON data file. When no duration was recorded, the HTML file shows Not recorded and the JSON value is empty.

Perfect For:

• End-of-year record keeping
• Sharing complete records with evaluators
• Backing up your homeschool journey
• Creating offline archives
• Transitioning to new systems

Filter Options

Both print and export respect these filter selections:

• Date range - Last 7 days, last 30 days, this month, a chosen month and year, or a custom range
• Students - Select specific children or all
• Subjects - Filter to particular subjects or show everything
• Activity Types - Choose which types to include (journal entries, planned activities, masterpieces, etc.)

The Has photos switch is a browsing filter and does not limit prints or exports. If More says there are too many images, narrow your date range or other filters to fewer than 50 images.

Managing Your Exports

All your exports (from Journey and Portfolio pages) are tracked in one place:

1. Go to Pathfinder → Reports → Exports tab
2. See status of pending/completed exports
3. Download when ready
4. View file sizes and expiration dates

Exports automatically expire after 48 hours to save storage space, so download them promptly when you're ready!

Tips & Best Practices

• Start Small - Try printing/exporting a week first to see the format
• Use Filters - Only export what you need to keep file sizes manageable
• Regular Exports - Create quarterly or semester exports for your records
• Name Files - Downloaded files include the date range in the filename for easy organization
• Keep Track - The Exports tab shows all your exports in one convenient place

Need help with something else? Check out our other tracking and reporting articles or reach out to support!

Update: October 5, 2025

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