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An Experience is ChimeEdu’s field trip tool. You plot the route, schedule the stops, record the travel plan, introduce the staff, attach the paperwork, and write up the journey as it happens — all on one page you can share with students, colleagues, and families.
Experiences are available on the Plus and Premium plans (paid or comp’d) — creating one requires Plus or Premium. An Experience you’ve already created stays open to view and edit if you later move to Free; only creating a new one is gated. See Plans & Pricing.
Experiences are authored by you. Students, parents, and colleagues read an Experience; they don’t contribute to it. There is no student check-in, no student journal submission, and no approval queue — every location, entry, and resource is created by the Experience owner.

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Try it live

Explore a finished field-trip experience: locations on a map, journal entries, staff, and the family view. Every example is a real activity in read-only mode, no account needed.

Field Trip: Enchanted Rock

A one-day earth-science trip from Austin — five locations, three entries, six posts.

All live examples

One example for every activity type and sub-type.

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Creating an Experience

1

Start a new Experience

From your dashboard, choose New Experience. Give it a title and description, set the start and end dates, and choose who can see it (see Access and sharing below).
2

Plot your locations

Add each stop on the trip — up to 30. A location carries a name, a description, map coordinates, scheduled dates and times, and an optional photo. You control the order they appear in.
3

Add the travel plan

Record how the group moves between stops: airplane, bus, school bus, ferry, or boat, with provider, booking reference, and departure details where you have them.
4

Introduce the staff

Add up to 10 staff profiles — name, role, email, and photo — so students and families know who’s leading the trip.
5

Attach resources

Link Google Drive files to the Experience: permission slips, packing lists, itineraries, reading. Requires a Plus or Premium account.
6

Write it up as you go

Add entries for the trip and fill them with journal posts — rich text with a featured image, and an optional author byline so a post can be credited to a colleague or a group.
Staff profiles are display-only. Adding a colleague’s name and email does not create an account for them or give them edit access to the Experience — only the owner can edit.

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Tracking the trip

Each location shows as Upcoming, Current, or Visited. Status is computed from the schedule you set and can be overridden manually as plans change on the day, so anyone following the Experience can see where the group has got to.

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Journal entries

Journal content is organized in two levels: entries act as chapters (a day, a city, a theme), and each entry holds up to 20 journal posts. A post supports formatted text and a featured image, and can carry an author name in the byline.
The 20-post limit is per entry, not per Experience. If a day is running long, add another entry rather than trying to squeeze more posts into one.

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Access and sharing

Visibility is set for the whole Experience, not per person: You can additionally hide the travel plan and the resources sections independently — useful when booking references or family paperwork shouldn’t be public.
Linking an Experience to a classroom controls where it’s listed, not who may open it. A public Experience is readable by anyone with the URL, whether or not they’re enrolled. If a trip’s details are sensitive, set it to restricted and share the password directly.

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Frequently asked

No. Journal posts are authored by the Experience owner. If you want student reflections on a trip, collect them separately — an assessment with long-answer questions is the closest fit today.
Not currently. Staff profiles are informational only, and editing is limited to the account that owns the Experience.
The Experience stays on your account until you delete it, so you can update the dates and reuse the structure. There’s no one-click duplicate for Experiences yet.
No. Your plan limit counts activities and assessments; Experiences and study guides sit outside it.