The Blippit Blog

Keep up with all of the latest updates and stories coming out this year.

October 4, 2024

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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...

August 30, 2024

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We're pleased to offer this new tagging category via Blippit® Boards to all schools who want it. The new UNICEF UK 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 out 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...

June 17, 2024

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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.

May 31, 2024

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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

May 20, 2024

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Hi there! Maybe you're the music subject leader? 🌞 Ready to jazz up your school's summer term? Blippit Boards is here to make it unforgettable with our Summer Music Prize Draw! We're giving away fantastic musical instruments to inspire your students and bring some rhythmic fun to your school! What’s Up for Grabs? First Prize: A set of 12 Soprano Ukuleles Second Prize: A pack of 4 Djembe Carnival Drums!