The ImpactLens App for field work
Installing it
When you open the website on a phone, a card at the bottom offers Get the ImpactLens app. It also appears inside the app, and on Me.
| Phone | How |
|---|---|
| Android (Chrome) | Tap Install app on the card. If it does not appear, open the browser menu and choose Install app or Add to Home screen. |
| iPhone (Safari) | Tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. |
Dismiss the card and it stays away for two weeks. Once installed it never appears again. If you installed an earlier version, remove it and add it again to pick up the new name and icon.
Signing in and what you see
Sign in with your own account. You land on My programmes — only the programmes you have been assigned to. If it says nothing is assigned, ask your programme admin to add you (see Field workers and areas). A field worker account opens the field app and nothing else; the first time you sign in you are asked to choose your own password. If you also work in the dashboard, open /field or tap Me → Open the full dashboard to switch.
The bar along the bottom changes with where you are:
| Where | Tabs |
|---|---|
| Inside a programme | Home · Due · Records · Alerts · Me (Due only if the programme tracks anything as due) |
| Everywhere else | Programmes · Alerts · Me |
Due: who needs an entry
Lists the children in your area who still owe a required entry — a monthly check, a follow-up — grouped by step. Tap a name to open the record. It shows a short list on purpose, never a total: finish those and refresh to see the next ones.
Records: find a child
Type part of a name or an ID in the search box. Results are limited to your area, show a few identifying details (such as school or class) so two children with the same name can be told apart, and continue with a Show more button.
Programmes with schools and students
When a programme has a school above its students, Records lists your schools first. Open one to see its students, add a new student to it, or fill a form about the school itself.
Schools
Your schools
Alande
One school
Student Registration
Student Name *
Class / Standard *
Roll Number *
School UDISE Code * Auto
Add a student
Add studentopens only the student's registration form, with the school already filled in and locked. If that student is already registered you are told before saving. See Programmes with schools and students for how it is set up.
One record: what is on file, and fixing it
Opening a record gives you two tabs.
| Tab | What it does |
|---|---|
| Recorded | Every entry ever made for this child, newest first, with its answers laid out against the questions. The newest is open; tap any other to open it. Entries show who made them and carry an Edited badge if they were changed. |
| Add entry | What can be recorded now — overdue first, then due. Steps already done show why ("already recorded for this month"). If an earlier period is still open for late entries, you can record into it. |
- 1Open the entry on the Recorded tab and tap Edit.
- 2The same form opens with the current answers filled in. Change what is wrong.
- 3Tap Save changes. If an answer is not valid, the problem appears on that question and nothing is saved.
| Rule | Detail |
|---|---|
| Who can edit | Set by the programme: field workers may be allowed to change nothing, only entries they recorded, or any entry in their area, separately for registrations and for visits. Editors and admins are never limited. The Edit button is not shown when it is not allowed. |
| Same checks as a new entry | Required answers, formats, calculated values and rules all apply, so an edit cannot leave a record in a state a new one could not reach. |
| Registrations | Correcting a registration updates the child’s name and searchable details. The identifier (such as a UDISE code) cannot be changed here — it is how the record is recognised; ask a programme admin. |
| Closed or paused | Nothing can be edited while the programme is paused, closed or archived. |
Copy from last time
For a step the programme has set up for it, a new entry on a child that already has one shows Copy from last time. It fills in the previous answers so you only change what moved. It deliberately does not copy dates, photos, signatures, locations or scans, or the fields that must differ between entries (a month number, say). Review everything before submitting.
Alerts and Me
- Alerts — reminders, new assignments, and a programme being paused, closed or reopened. A reminder opens the programme it is about. The red number on the tab is your unread count.
- Me — your name and account, install, a link to the full dashboard (if you belong to an organization), and Sign out. Sign out when you hand a phone to someone else: these are children's records.
If something looks wrong
| You see | Usually means |
|---|---|
| “Nothing assigned to you yet” | You have not been added to a programme, or it is not live yet. Ask your coordinator. |
| No “New …” button | The programme is paused, closed or not open yet — the banner at the top says which. |
| No Edit button on an entry | You are a field worker and a colleague recorded it, or the programme is not accepting changes. |
| A child you expect is missing | They are outside your area. Only a coordinator or admin can change that. |
| “No connection” | The request never reached the server. Move to a better signal and press Try again. |
| No install button | Already installed, dismissed recently, or the browser has no install option — use the browser menu’s Add to Home Screen. |
Keep reading
Programmes with schools and students
Two linked record types (a school and its students): how to set them up, and what a field worker sees.
Field workers and areas
Create field worker accounts, give each their schools or area, and choose what they can change.
Running a programme
Start and end dates, pause and close, the next cycle, archive and Trash — for a six-month pilot or a registry that never ends.
Steps
Ordering forms, repeating them, and making them conditional.