Category: Support
Types of device
Support for your school digital learning journey
When your school is looking to move forward in its digital learning journey, where do you start?
You may be reflecting on where you are, where you want to be, and what needs done to move further along the road in embedding digital technology across the school, at all stages and across the curriculum to make a positive difference to learning and teaching – and every school will be different.
The signposts below to the resources you may find useful, whatever your starting point, will help you gauge where your school is right now, help your school define a vision, map out the steps to take to move forward, identify the strengths, experiences and roles of everyone in your school community, set markers to track your journey, and celebrate the successes.
Microsoft Teams: using more than one account on the same device
Are you using Microsoft Teams with more than one account on the same device? If you are then you may find the following helpful:
Apple Teacher: getting started
If you are using iPads in a classroom setting then you may find the free online Apple Teacher professional learning programme provides you with support for making more effective use of more features of iPads for learning and teaching.
Glow: steps for staff users moving establishment or authority
Microsoft Teams: managing notifications
Microsoft: connectivity troubleshooting
Don’t panic – it happens with any online tool!
Every online platform hiccups from time to time: you might get error messages, things don’t update, you can’t upload files, you can’t share what you need to share – and you can probably add to that list!
And, of course, it happens when you are trying to do umpteen different things.
Take a breath….and don’t panic – it really can happen when you are using any online tool, to anybody, anywhere. So don’t rush to change platform or switch tool. There are a few steps to try to see what you can do, and sometimes it’s doing things a slightly different way.
Remote Learning: advice and reflections


“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”