A Snapshot is an assessment of a single Participant at a specific point in time. It captures a Participant’s emotional health, wellbeing and executive functions .

Put simply, a Groupshot is an efficient mechanism for collecting Snapshots for more than one child at a time. Therefore, the questions in Snapshots and Groupshots are EXACTLY the same.

Key Message: Remember; a Group is more than one Participant brought together for observation and action through the Motional tool. They are generally in the same place at the same time - a good example is a class. Remember though that participants can be in more than one group, e.g. a class and an after-school club.

There are at least 6 major benefits to using the Groupshot function in Motional:

  1. Firstly if you set up your classes as groups you have whole class data
  2. By default, if you set up all classes you have whole school data
  3. Groupshots give you group average scores - really helpful for benchmarking and showing change over time and progress (remembering that of course emotional health and wellbeing doesn't always develop in a linear fashion and is affected by biological, relationship and environmental change)
  4. Using the Program feature, we can respond to the needs of the group or class and can tie this in with the PSHE and curriculum approach
  5. We can also identify those most in need of support either by score or changes in score (by filtering in the Participant page)
  6. Using the Groupshot feature is far more time efficient than undertaking a series of individual snapshots! Remember, although the layout on the screen is different the underpinning Questions, Subdomains and Domains are the same!


Key Message: A Groupshot is a collection of Individual Snapshots taken at the same time.

You cannot retrospectively create a Groupshot from existing Snapshots. This is because Snapshot scores are impacted by changes in 'relationship' and 'environment' and this will be a new group… with new relationships and new environment!