Category Archives: CLPL

CLPL, CR-IS, Glow Connect, News & Updates

Set a recovery email address in Glow

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This functionality is available to both adult users and learners within Glow and can be found within their Glow profile.

What is a recovery email address?

It is a secondary email address (different from your primary Glow email address) used solely for account recovery purposes.

Why is it important to have a recovery email address?

  • Having a recovery email address registered is important because it acts as a primary safety net for maintaining access to your Glow account.
  • It enables you to recover your account if you forget your password, get locked out, or if your account is compromised.

Think of a recovery email as your digital spare key. If you ever forget your password or get locked out of your account, this is the fastest and safest way to get back in.

Glow Connect Post

  • The news post below outlines how users can set up a Glow recovery email address and reinforces that this should be a non-Glow email address.

Setting a Glow recovery email address – Glow Connect

Accessibility, CLPL, News & Updates, Read&Write

Read&Write for Windows – in Class and in Exams 25/02/26

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Join us on 25 February at 4.00 pm for an informative online session exploring how Read&Write for Windows can be used to support learners every day in the classroom and during exams. We’ll walk through key tools that help boost reading, writing, and confidence for students with literacy challenges or English as an additional language. You’ll also see how Read&Write can be used in exams, helping reduce reliance on human readers and scribes, while meeting access arrangement requirements.

Whether you’re looking to create a more inclusive learning environment or ensure equity during assessments, this session will offer practical demonstrations and guidance you can use right away. Sign up via CPD Manager, Course ID: 93954.

CLPL, Glow Connect, News & Updates

Change to resetting Glow passwords

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As part of our ongoing information security improvements, we would like to inform you of a change when resetting a users password.

What’s changing?

  • When you reset a users password, you will no longer be able to tick the box that allows users to log on using the password you have reset the account to.
  • This means that all users will be prompted to create a new password, once their password has been reset.

When is this change happening?

RM will implement this change on the Monday 2nd March 2026

Why is it important to create your own password?

  • When an administrator resets a password, there are no complexity checks which may result in very simple passwords being set for an individual or even a whole class.
  • Every Glow user should create their own password that is difficult for other people to guess but easy for them to remember.
  • To help young people and children to stay safe online we want to make sure they understand what makes a strong password when using Glow.

Glow Password Guidance

  • The Glow Connect links below can be used to support Glow users with information about this change, guidance outlining how to create a strong password, how to reset passwords and how to stay safe online.
  • Password Guidance – Glow Connect
Adobe Express, CLPL, News & Updates

Adobe Express Latest News

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Scotland flag with Adobe Express logo.

Here’s the latest Adobe Express update to get you through February. Safer Internet Day coming up!

1.                     Live lessons (English & Cymraeg)

75 minutes long with a natural half time break if you need to leave early. Register for the recording if the dates or times don’t suit and to get pupil certificates. Ideal for ages 7-13.

·       5/10/11 Feb – Safer Internet Day

·       9/12 Feb – Children’s Mental Health Week

·       13 Feb – Welsh Language Music Day

All account registrations were reset at new year so you may need to register as if for the first time J

2.                     Special Events

·       ONLINE – Thurs 12th Feb @ 10am – Free webinar: ‘For the Love of Art’– Drawing with Express (browser & ipad) and Fresco (free on iPads)

·       BELFAST – Saturday 14th March, 2-4:30pm, Methodist College Belfast, McArthur Hall

Sketch and Sip with local ACE Innovators, Debra Adams, Louise Kerr and Catherine Stewart.

Register for free: bit.ly/ACE_SketchAndSip

3.                     Adobe Creative Educator Teacher Training

Join the ACE Leader community here to access extra teaching resources, online community meets and creative challenges with swag prizes.

Sign up for your next Adobe Express teacher training session by clicking below.

·       11 February 2026 – Build Your Skills: Templates & Classrooms

·       16 February 2026 – Get Started with Adobe Express: The Edit Tab

·       23 February 2026 – Build Your Skills: Animation and Video

All account registrations were reset at new year so you may need to register as if for the first time J

4.                     Tutorial & lesson plans

·       Ebook – Relevant spring topics include – Cyber Safety Superhero, The Water Cycle.

·       Click your country for aligned planning – Wales / Northern Ireland / Scotland / England

·       Northern Ireland eBook has been updated with CCEA Progression Levels!

CLPL, News & Updates, Promethean

Promethean Drop-in 11 February

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Our next drop-in for Promethean is on 11 February from 2 pm in Room 5 at Abercorn Centre, West College Scotland. Do you have a new ActivPanel? Or have you had one for a while and are wondering what more it can do? Why not pop into one of our Promethean Drop-In sessions. These sessions will be informal, drop in, stay for as long as you want sessions where you can share experiences with others, revisit some of the panel and software functionality and gain further insight for use in the classroom with Janice Prandstatter from Promethean, Territory Manager for Scotland.

AI, CLPL, CR-IS, News & Updates

Safer Internet Day 10 February

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There are lots of activities happening for Safer Internet Day 2026. Here are a couple of Education Scotland’s key activities:

  1. Digital Youth Work Conference: A day of insights, discussion and networking, with new resources, keynote speakers, workshops and plenty of interactivity. Key topics include Exploring AI, Developing ethical partnerships with the tech sector, Digital Youth Work Research Hub, and Supporting young people’s digital lives. The Conference is at Heart of Midlothian Football Club, Edinburgh. Book at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/digital-youth-work-conference-edinburgh-2026-tickets-1975274568407.
  2. Sky Up Academy Studios Event for Schools: Sky Up Academy Studios in Livingston will host visiting schools in an immersive experience that supports online safety, digital wellbeing and responsible media creation.  Pupils will step into the role of content creators, producing news reports, films and creative media. The sessions are designed to prompt meaningful discussion and critical thinking around staying safe and respectful online, digital footprints, identifying misinformation and using technology positively to share stories and ideas.  This experiential model links learning directly to the ways students consume and create content, fostering safe, empathetic and responsible digital behaviour.  More information and booking at:  https://www.skyup.sky/academy-studios.

For more resources, see Safer Internet Day 2026 Education resources.