During this final term of the session, now is a good time to start thinking about a clear out of your Glow drives. The Glow Community rules provide some useful pointers to help you with this. Check them out here:
Glow Community Rules
Category Archives: Glow Connect
Teams Chat Hint!
I love a wee tip – do you? Check out this handy tip from Glow Connect when sending Teams chat!
Choose your ‘Enter’ key behaviour in Teams Chat Settings
Glow Connect
Did you know that Glow Connect sends out a monthly newsletter which has all sorts of useful information about Glow? To sign up, all you need to do is click on the Scotland tile and scroll down to the Glow Newsletter tile. Click on this to take you to the sign up page and you will get all the information sent directly to you!
Set a recovery email address in Glow
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.
Change to resetting Glow passwords
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
Glow Updates
Unsure where to check when something in Glow appears to be not working? Education Scotland have a very useful page – the Service Status page – which alerts users to any issues affecting Glow Services, the Education Scotland websites and also Education Scotland managed SWAN circuits.
Staying up to date via the Service Status page may save you time if something isn’t working for you when trying to access any of these services. If the issue is not highlighted in this page then you know it is a local issue and can take appropriate action.
Use the link below to access it. You could bookmark this so you can access it quickly.
Back to School with Glow! #Glow_Scot
Glow Connect publishes lots of helpful hints and tips. They also have a termly newsletter. Check out their latest collection.
Glow Connect
Looking for information on all things Glow? Look no further than Glow Connect which provides all the information you need. Their Knowledge Hub has guides to all the tools within Glow, including useful infographics to help you understand more about the tools, like this great guide to Notebook LM which we have shared with our AI Champion Educators.
Back to School News @GlowScot
Did you know that you can now sign up to the Glow Connect newsletter? This is a great way of staying up-to-date with all things Glow. Follow the link below and get “glowing”!
Glow Community Rules @GlowScot
As we approach the summer break, it is a good time to remind staff of the community rules within Glow. This post from Glow Connect includes information on what you can do in Glow and what you can save in Glow. Well worth a read!
