What are the benefits of Glow?
Teachers
Glow is an investment in the future of Scottish teachers. Glow provides easy access to high quality teaching resources with material built specifically for the Scottish curriculum.
You can deliver and mark pupils' assignments online as well as using the assessment and tracking tools to save you time.
Using the personalised workspace in Glow provides the opportunity to collect resources in one easy-to-search area. Glow ensures that working and sharing resources with your colleagues is effortless.
Our Sharing practice section has examples of how practitioners are using Glow to enhance learning and teaching.
Learners
Children in primary and secondary education will have access to world-class, personalised learning opportunities, using a range of tools, together in one place, to work on at school or at home.
Learners can collaborate and share with others in their school, local area and other parts of Scotland. Glow breaks geographical and social barriers, allowing joined-up working the length and breadth of Scotland.
Learn more about how two schools 450 miles apart have joined up working through Glow: read Laura Kerr's story - My Glow.
Parents and carers
Through Glow, parents will be able to access reliable and up-to-date information, along with the chance to see what their child is doing at school and how they performed in class.
Parents will be able to collaborate online with other parents and carers, providing a secure communication channel.
Parents and carers can rest in the knowledge that the information provided on Glow is targeted and secure - only you will be able to see specific information about your child.
However, there are also public areas where parents and carers can view tailored school news. This information may include:
- timetables
- homework
- news targeted to parents.
To find out what stage Glow is at within your local authority, visit our Glow in your area section.
School administrators
Glow is designed to simplify and speed up almost every task related to running a school.
Glow will allow school administration to share important information quickly and easily, helping set the same standards across schools and local authorities.
Glow opens up new possibilities for: networking, collaborating, setting up working groups and simply sharing information about CPD. By communicating in this way, Glow will be able to continually improve resources and processes.
School managers
As well as enjoying the same benefits as teachers, school managers will find in-depth support for national initiatives. For example, Glow will include resources covering the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence.
From Gaelic language teaching to additional support needs, school managers will find the management support they need in Glow.
Information is easily shared with other school managers on Glow - on site, in your local authority and throughout Scotland.
Local authorities
Educational benefits will be available once the benefits realisation strategy is complete.
Technical benefits for local authorities include:
- faster and more reliable access to content
- fast delivery of content from the backbone
- opportunities for technical innovation
- greater efficiency of support.
Commercial and financial benefits for local authorities include:
- cost-efficiency through economies of scale
- adding benefit to your existing investment
- providing a focus for future investment.