Digital Transformation Tool - FAQ's

The DTT is an audit tool to baseline, assess and inform the strategic leadership and development of technology for everyday T&L and support school systems. It can be revisited to track progress with a schools/MATs Digital Strategy. 

• To support schools in considering all the ingredients for successful technology adoption and application within their community

• To help provide quantifiable evidence of progress in strategic leadership and technology adoption/impact 

• To help develop a broad understanding of the different elements for consideration within digital transformation of schools/colleges

Initially Senior Leaders to support the management of effective change required for adoption of impactful use of technology within school communities. The hope then is the results will be shared with stakeholders and on the School Development Plan. 

• Questions have been grouped into sections that logically cover the key areas requiring management 

• There are many ways in which the questions could have been grouped; we hope the tool offers a logical presentation of questions within clear sections and subheadings

• There are approximately 70 questions in total with level descriptors for each to aid standardisation

• A balance has to be achieved between not asking too many questions but asking enough to provide an accurate snapshot of current position on a complex set of issues in schools

• Some users of the toolkit will complete it in isolation in the context of their knowledge of the status of the school at a point in time. Other users may use the toolkit completion as an activity to engage all key stakeholders and may even ask different stakeholders to complete different sections.

• Feedback suggests on avrage it takes 30 mins to complete thoroughly but it is difficult to estimate how long it would take to complete 70+ questions.
  It depends on whether the person completing the survey knew the scores for each question in advance. That is why we have provided a summary of all the questions to be viewed prior to survey completion here 

• It will allow them to assess their current position and provide quantifiable evidence of progress towards strategic change management and technology impact (when completed more than once) and could inform the school development planning cycle

• Many users of the toolkit have commented that some of the questions contained within helped them consider topics or issues that had not previously even considered which in itself they found valuable.

The current database of questions and level descriptors have been created by:

• Members of the LGfL Teaching and Learning group

• Experts in the field of EdTech working in partnership with LGfL

• Internal LGfL Inspire/Curriculum Team

• MAT and LA Senior Advisors

• Complete initially to establish a baseline of current Digital Strategy

• Then complete periodically (termly or every academic year) to identify progress made

• Use the report to inform decision making and school development planning

• If supplying a Google email address; you will have access to a school/MAT Data Dashboard. This will allow you to compare your data each time you complete the DTT and also compare to other schools/MATs who have completed it.