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Going for the Green Flag Award is a big deal. It calls for eco-leadership, coordination, action and monitoring across the school. We talked to teachers leading their schools toward the Green Flag Award status and as a result, could see a way that we might help make it easier for them to monitor and pull together the evidence they needed. We sought out the advice and expertise of Eco-Schools themselves, on whether we could help schools in the way we imagined, and...

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We got creative, got to work and ultimately built a brand new Blippit Boards Reports feature to ensure that it would be both fast and easy for teachers to extract from Blippit Boards what everybody had put in. To use reports, teachers use the DashBoard, view all boards, click the tags icon and select what to report on. Reports are personalised to every school and emailed to whoever creates them automatically. Sometimes it's easier to see what you have when it's in one document instead of...

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Thanks to Christian Aid's expertise and advice, schools using Blippit Boards can now simply hit a button to build their Christian Aid Global Neighbours PDF or editable Word report containing all Global Neighbours tagged Boards, ready to be uploaded to form part of their submission evidence. There's a smart interactive chart in the Blippit Boards Dashboard that makes monitoring the Global Neighbours evidence being captured by colleagues via the app a very quick job, with simple filtering to...

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Senior leaders know how important it is for Governors to be able to answer the question: How do you know? Having sat through training for governors preparing for OFSTED ourselves, we wanted to help schools everywhere to support governors, as they carry out their monitoring role, in a very simple and accessible way. So, we chose to enhance Blippit Boards by creating a free upgrade, specifically to support School Governors who can now log in to the app (once invited by the school) and ...

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If you've been following the development of the Blippit Boards app (& dashboard) you'll know that one of its main reasons for being is to help schools, subject leaders in particular, to monitor and gather evidence across subjects. But, since collaborating with the Blackburn Diocese Board of Education we've also been able to share our passion for making a contribution to self-evaluation and SIAMS.To help spread the word with schools in York, Chester, Liverpool & Blackburn we put together this sh