For programme managers & coordinators
Run your whole play-quality program from one place.
COPA gives you a single workspace to coordinate projects, assign auditors, track every audit in progress, and turn fieldwork into board-ready reports - across one playspace or thirty.
Research-informed · Expert-reviewed · Field-tested
The coordination gap
Coordinating playspace assessments shouldn't mean chasing spreadsheets.
You're responsible for the program - the sites, the people, the deadlines, and the evidence at the end. The work is hard enough without the tooling getting in the way.
Fieldwork scattered everywhere
Paper forms, photos, and spreadsheets spread across auditors and inboxes - with no single place that shows what is done and what is still open.
No consistent method
Every assessor measures a little differently, so results can't be compared across sites, seasons, or team members.
Nothing you can defend
When a board or funder asks for evidence, you're left assembling a story by hand instead of exporting one.
COPA puts the whole program in one workspace - so you spend your time on decisions, not on assembling the picture.
Your command center
See your entire program at a glance.
The web dashboard is where you run the program. Projects, places, auditors, and completed work are organized the moment you sign in.
Every project and place in view
See active projects, the places connected to them, and where each assessment stands - without opening a single spreadsheet.
Live Play Value & Usability scores
Submitted audits roll up into account-level scoring, so program health is visible the moment work comes in.
Your team, organized
Track auditors, assignments, and recent activity from one account view instead of a dozen message threads.
Total oversight
Know exactly where every audit stands.
Sort by status, auditor, or score. Spot what's in progress and what's been submitted at a glance - so nothing sits unfinished without you knowing.
Build and manage your auditor team.
Invite auditors, assign them across places, and watch workload and progress in one roster. New team members start delivering audits without a steep learning curve.
- Invite auditors and onboard them in minutes
- Assign work across multiple places
- Track assignments, activity, and completed audits
What you give your team
Equip your auditors with a tool they'll actually use.
The mobile field app is the kit you hand your team. It keeps onsite work consistent and reliable - and protects the data you depend on for reporting.
Guided, structured audits
Auditors work through the COPA instrument step by step, with prompts that cover the whole playspace - not just equipment.
Works offline, in the field
Assigned audits are stored on the device, so a lost signal never means a lost day of fieldwork.
Resume and sync automatically
Drafts pick up where they left off and submissions sync the moment connectivity returns.
The deliverable
Reports that move decisions forward.
Every submitted audit becomes a clear, structured report. Merge an audit and a site survey into a single combined place report, then export it for the conversation that needs it.
Walk in with evidence in hand.
Bring structured findings to any board meeting, funding review, or design charrette. The same scores you see in the dashboard are what your stakeholders receive.
Export in the format you need
The method underneath
Built on a rigorous, research-informed framework.
COPA scores aren't a checklist tally. They're grounded in research on children's play, affordance theory, and inclusive design - so the evidence you present holds up to scrutiny.
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Core constructs
Play Value and Usability - what a space offers, and who can truly take part.
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Scoring lenses
Provision, Variety, Challenge, and Sociability, applied across the whole playspace.
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Playspace elements
From natural features to pathways and amenities - the environment as a whole system.
Developed through expert review and field testing with researchers Dr. Thomas Morgenthaler and Dr. Janet Loebach, and designed for knowledgeable practitioners who bring professional context to the assessment.
Pricing
Access that matches your assessment scale.
Every plan includes both the web dashboard and the mobile field app. You coordinate; your auditors deliver assessments in the field.
Web dashboard
For you and your coordinators
Plan projects, manage places and assignments, review submitted work, and generate and export reports.
Mobile field app
For your auditors onsite
Complete assigned audits in the field, save drafts offline, resume interrupted work, and sync when connectivity returns.
Field Pilot
Contact for quote
One playspace or a small team testing COPA
- Complete the COPA audit, site survey, or both
- Assign auditors to specific playspaces
- Save mobile drafts offline for onsite work
- Review automated Play Value and Usability scores
- Export individual audit reports as PDF or spreadsheet files
Coordinated Programme
Custom access
Multiple playspaces and a coordinated team
- Everything in Field Pilot
- Invite managers and onboard field auditors
- Assign auditors across multiple places
- Track project, place, and audit progress from the dashboard
- Merge audit and survey submissions into a combined place report
- Save selected place reports for future review
Portfolio & Research Partnership
Contact for partnership quote
Large portfolios, agencies, and research teams
- Everything in Coordinated Programme
- Export organization-wide raw data as structured ZIP bundles
- Organize data by project, place, audit, and saved report
- Support GIS, statistics, and external research workflows
- Discuss instrument and administrative configuration with the COPA team
COPA is currently scoped through pilots and partner conversations, so public monthly prices are not listed.
Bring your whole play-quality program into one place.
Coordinate the sites, equip the team, and leave every assessment with evidence you can act on.