Keep up with all of the latest news and stories coming out of Blippit this year.
Blippit Boards has teamed up with Values-based Education (VbE) to help schools in England and Wales streamline evidence gathering for VbE assessments. Schools can now use the Blippit Boards app and Dashboard to manage and present their evidence more efficiently. This collaboration has also introduced a new 'Guest Access' feature, allowing assessors to view evidence directly. Just in time for the VbE Annual Conference on 18th October...
We're pleased to be able to offer this new tagging category via Blippit® Boards to all schools who want it. The new UNICEF RRSA tagging category aims to speed up collating, monitoring, reporting and understanding how schools progress towards the silver or gold levels. The tag category will appear this month in the app so keep an eye open for it next to Eco-Schools. The new tags appear automatically in the Blippit® Boards app when adding new or editing existing boards. Like all of our other...
We'll be doing this again! What an absolute delight it was to run a prize draw for schools that would directly impact children in a difficult-to-resource subject like music. This summer we added all schools who registered with Blippit Boards for trial into our prize draw and a couple of weeks later we picked two winners for the two prizes.a 12-pack of ukeleles and a 4-pack of djembe drums. We want to congratulate Mr Knight who originally joined the free trial resulting in the 1st prize win!
How can subject leaders see more of what's happening in their subjects? Over the last few years, a strong case has been made for having videos included in Blippit Boards with questions like this (below) being asked more frequently by schools."How can I more usefully capture a music performance, drama, spoken piece of learning, collaborative problem-solving learning scenario?" As great as photographs are, they can't always convey what's happening and how. A photo is permanently paused.
In some early years settings, we hear more and more that there is a growing trend, since 2023, towards using Blippit® Boards as a replacement for traditional floor books. Is this something that we set out to achieve? Honestly? No! But when you put open-ended tools like Blippit® into schools you can guarantee that creative applications will come up and this is one of them. Blippit® is making the documentation process easier and consequently saving teachers time. Teachers are no longer