Are you using How2? The Quality Team asked us to put this blog together as a way to support staff in making the most of the platform. HOW2 is a web-based professional development platform for educators. It provides visual, evidence-based teaching strategies that are quick to access and easy to …
Did you know you can grant students extensions on Turnitin assignments? There are many situations where a student might need extra time – personal circumstances, accessibility or reasonable adjustments, or even unexpected technical issues. Turnitin’s Grant Extension feature makes this easy. It lets you give individual students additional time to …
Public speaking is a vital skill for every student, whether they’re preparing for workplace presentations, apprenticeships, interviews, or confidence‑building in the classroom. Speaker Progress, one of Microsoft’s Learning Accelerators, is built to help educators create structured speaking assignments, track progress over time, and give students meaningful, personalised feedback on their …
The new Discover Pathway is now available for all curriculum staff. Building on the Digital Essentials, this structured programme serves as a foundation for new colleagues and offers valuable development opportunities for existing staff seeking to enhance their digital literacy and pedagogical practice. A key component of the programme is …
Wooclap has recently launched their new AI integration, and we have invested in a site license so that everyone can benefit from Wooclap’s AI time saving features. Designed to enhance the learning experience by leveraging the power of artificial intelligence. Create an event in 3 simple steps AI is integrated …
We are excited to announce our new AI prompt tool AI.loucoll. AI.loucoll.ac.uk offers a range of prompts to help streamline workflows for most common tasks including Admin tasks, lesson planning, resource creation, research and more. Alongside this, you will find some easy access links to other AI-enabled tools. AI.loucoll makes …
Now you have heard of and hopefully used ChatGPT but have you heard of Bing AI? Bing, more than just a search engine?! Bing is not just a search engine, but an intelligent assistant designed to make information accessible and useful. With its advanced capabilities, Bing AI can understand and …
We introduce a new ChatGPT prompt every month. Each prompt will follow the PREPARE framework so that you can maximise the responses from ChatGPT and save precious time. This month’s prompt is to save time crafting the perfect reply to your emails. In our example, we have asked Santa to …
We have been promoting Dan Fitzpatick’s PREP framework as an effective way for teachers to engineer AI prompts to effectively create lesson plans, rubrics, handouts, or other educational materials. Based on the latest research Dan has recently extended his framework from PREP to PREPARE by adding confidence, clarification questions, and …
In this blog, we will guide you through your initial journey into the realm of generative Artificial intelligence—starting from account creation to having your first conversation with an AI. Along the way, we’ll make you aware of the progression steps to take and the policies you should be aware of. …
