Throughout the semester, interns are required to keep a daily log specifying their activities, impressions, feelings, and questions regarding their practical learning experiences. Student interns are also advised to describe in some detail how they handled complicated situations. Logging of your hours is also required. These logs are submitted to the faculty supervisor for review each week. Students are to code or disguise clients' names to preserve client confidentiality.

The logs allow the faculty supervisor to monitor the student's growth and concerns. The faculty member may suggest additional readings; may meet with the student to discuss problems; and may arrange a meeting with the agency, the intern and the field instructor to discuss any problems the student is having. In cases of difficulty, the faculty supervisor initiates more frequent contact with the intern and the agency supervisor.

Logs are also an excellent opportunity for interns to reflect on their learning experiences at agencies, and are a vehicle to examine ideas and questions with an outside person. If an agency supervisor also requests to review the log, the intern should first contact their faculty supervisor to make appropriate arrangements.

Interns should write in their logs daily, since it's difficult to later reconstruct what happened in any particular day. The log is important not only for what the student did in any particular day, but also for the thoughts, ideas, feelings, and reflections that he/she is having while going through these experiences. Failure to turn in these logs to the faculty supervisor will result in a failing grade for the placement.