{"id":1069,"date":"2026-09-03T19:31:05","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmarys\/?page_id=1069"},"modified":"2026-09-03T19:31:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T19:31:05","slug":"the-glow-launchpad","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmarys\/the-glow-launchpad\/","title":{"rendered":"The Glow Launchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You need a username and password to access Glow. All pupils have already been issued with their username and password, but if you need support with this, please let you child&#8217;s teacher, or the school office know.<\/p>\n<p>When you log in to Glow, you will see a Launch Pad similar to this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4065\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/glowconnect.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Launch-Pad.jpg?resize=960%2C469&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you look at the left hand side of the screen, you should see four icons \u2013 one for each level of the Launch Pad:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Personal Launch Pad<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This is the top icon and looks like a person. This can be customised by each individual user, or by a teacher to help a student. We would recommend that pupils should have a \u2018Tile\u2019 (or app shortcut) for the apps they use most often \u2013 particularly Mail, Office 365 and Teams.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Establishment Launch Pad<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013This is the second icon, and\u00a0 is the default Launch Pad for each Glow establishment (in your case, it is linked to Saint Patrick\u2019s PS). The school has already added a number of \u2018Tiles\u2019 (or shortcuts) to different apps that may be useful or interesting for our pupils.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Local authority Launch Pad<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The third icon is the Launch Pad for all schools within local authority.<\/li>\n<li><strong>National Launch Pad<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>(Scotland)<\/strong> \u2013 The last icon is available nationally and configured by Education Scotland. nationally and configured by Education Scotland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You need a username and password to access Glow. All pupils have already been issued with their username and password, but if you need support with this, please let you child&#8217;s teacher, or the school office know. When you log in to Glow, you will see a Launch Pad similar to this: If you look &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmarys\/the-glow-launchpad\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Glow Launchpad<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4780,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1069","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmarys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmarys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmarys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmarys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmarys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmarys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmarys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1069\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/stmarys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}