{"id":997,"date":"2026-06-18T13:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/digilearnrenfrewshire\/?p=997"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:10:06","slug":"midweek-byte-19-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/re\/digilearnrenfrewshire\/2026\/06\/18\/midweek-byte-19-august-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Byte 19 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Week Commencing 19th August<\/h2>\n

\ud83d\udc4d\ud83c\udffbWelcome Back<\/h2>\n

We hope you all had a great summer break. This session we will be posting our Midweek Bytes<\/strong> every Wednesday to keep you up-to-date with all the latest digital news so keep checking every week!<\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd11Glow Password Reset<\/h2>\n

The pupil password reset took place on 11<\/strong><\/span>th<\/span><\/strong> August<\/strong> so if they arrive in class and haven\u2019t logged on, remind them to choose 3 random words. Glow Connect have a useful <\/span>post <\/a>to help with this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Remember Staff passwords change on 25<\/strong><\/span>th<\/span><\/strong> August<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfebUpcoming Professional Learning<\/h2>\n

All our Professional Learning (PL) can be found in our PL Calendar<\/a> which is available here. In addition, our Learning Loop<\/a> allows you to see what key PL is coming up in Term 1.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is still time to sign up for our PL Network if you are interested in applying for the Digital School Award, Course ID: 94473 or Digital Wellbeing Award, Course ID: 94474. If becoming an AI Champion is something you are interested in, sign up for our AI series, Course ID: 94446<\/span> – you have until 26 August!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Google in Glow<\/h2>\n

Renfrewshire has its own Google Tenancy within Glow. You can access this from your Launch Pad<\/strong> by clicking on the Google Drive tile<\/strong> or if you can’t see it, click on App Library<\/strong> and add<\/strong> it from there.\u00a0 This will automatically sign you into the Google tenancy where you can access all the great Google tools like Drive, Docs, Google Gemini and NotebookLM. If you want to access your Google account from the browser, when you sign in remember that the first part of the account is your Glow username<\/strong> then @re.glow.scot <\/strong>Why not check out our useful Staff Toolkit for Google to learn more?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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