Digital Lead 

An overview of documents/processes your school could have in place, and the reason why they may support you.

Support for creating a Digital Education Strategy for your school. Identify how your school will continue to ensure that digital opportunities are maintained in your school. 

What infrastructure do you have in place and how do you cater for stakeholders in the school?

This page will take you through what starting from the beginning could look like. 

Schools will need to consider several factors when embarking on their digital journey and this page may help with thinking about what that journey could look like for your school. 

There is an example of a 3-year plan to implement the apps found on the HWB platform.

Support for understanding the Digital Journey a school may need to go on. 

Looking at aspects from when tools are introduced, the staff support and how that was implemented.

When the school started to track the DCF, use e-portfolios and identify the progression of applications.

When the school admin team made the move from paper to digital.

On this page there is a spreadsheet which could be used by a school to track or map its DCF coverage. 

Teachers can identify the learning experiences which have allowed their learners to develop their digital skills and understanding.

It also allows the school to identify which AOLEs the DCF skills are being experienced. 

Support for schools to identify the level of the skills for year groups, these should be skills that learners have the opportunity to develop and not skills which learners are assessed against. 

In schools that make use of Chromebooks the school's Google Admin can deploy applications to be installed on the devices. 

Here is a set of screenshots which will support the deployment of apps to be used in the classroom. e.g. Minecraft for Education

Developing a way for learners in your school to curate and reflect on their work in school.

E-Portfolios can be used through several online platforms and your school can choose which caters for your learners most effectively. 

This page will support you in creating a template to share with learners and support purposeful reflection against the four purposes. 

Using Chromebooks in school can be a cost-effective way to ensure that you have enough devices for learners to make effective use of technology in their learning.

This page will explain how to use the basic gestures on the trackpad effectively.

It will also explain some of the more commonly used keyboard shortcuts to support learners in what they are trying to achieve.

This page has support when creating policies for your school. What considerations should be made when writing a policy for your school?

Pupil- Acceptable use policy

This page looks at the questions that could be asked to digital leads, staff and pupils.

The Answers given are dependent on having certain procedures in place, the support for implementing these can be found within this website and are linked within the possible answers.

This page does not give exact answers but will give a base which you could start with.