Most schools will have purchased a mishmash of digital resources over the years, which together represent a rich potpourri of teaching, learning and assessment support.
Managing these resources, however, can be a challenge for even the most efficient coordinators – and the workload is certainly too much for just one individual. When you are using different platforms, disparate systems and rogue resources, data silos can be burdensome to monitor and collate and very problematic to interpret.
Ensuring data quality and accuracy is crucial to making impactful decisions. Poor data quality leads to inaccuracies in your analysis, which in turn can cause you to make misguided next-steps decisions.
A centralised solution
To improve and streamline communication, collaboration and pedagogy, a powerful solution is to buy into a single learning platform with all resources concentrated within one hub. For complex school infrastructures, a centralising educational engine can drive wide-reaching change and improvement because resources, assessments, and insights are all talking to each other.
But does an all-singing and all-dancing hub even exist?
Well, yes, it does! Pearson’s ActiveHub is an engaging and highly versatile digital learning platform that brings together comprehensive teaching resources, interconnected assessments, data-driven insights, and interventions in a single space. It ensures that key components are interconnected, learner-centric, learner-savvy and effectual.
ActiveHub not only promotes a more efficient way of working but also brings together the whole school community by transforming the way your school presides over and orchestrates its technical tasks, teaching, learning and assessment tasks, policy and vision, and administrative tasks. This is a platform with pedigree which facilitates a team-oriented approach that is data-driven, supportive and time-saving.
“Ensuring data quality and accuracy is crucial to making impactful decisions.”
Simple, flexible, effective
So what exactly does ActiveHub do? Firstly, as a dedicated hub and one-stop teaching repository, it will help you find the resources, information, and support you need to effectively share digital learning in your school.
It is multi-layered, versatile and well rounded, featuring a fully integrated interactive curriculum, and encourages teachers to think strategically and critically about data.
You can access a plethora of trusted materials, including e-Books, courses, videos, class and independent intervention resources, ready-made PowerPoints, worksheets, and auto-marked activities developed by subject experts to support intervention and deeper understanding.
You can also select which subject or subjects you want to focus on and then access front-of-class teaching resources with online homework and practice, together with planning and assessment materials.
But that’s not all. Teachers can watch videos of teaching ideas, download schemes of work for most subjects, download prior-knowledge worksheets, and send content to students in class. They can then access options to set online homework, review answers and run data insight reports.
Powered by Insight
ActiveHub also features a whole library of ready-made assessments and past papers, with the option to create your own bespoke tests, so you can customise assessments to your curriculum for use in end-of-unit, termly, or annual evaluations.
Results are then fed into an Insights Dashboard, which in turn generates powerful performance indicators with next-step suggestions or assignable resources for resolving deficits in learning. This enables you to zoom in at an individual, group or class level and see grade breakdowns, question-level analysis, topics and skills analysis, and next steps.
Leveraging data is an essential part of making strategic decisions and driving growth in your school, and ActiveHub can help by providing detailed and rich data insights by analysing assessment, intervention and homework results. The intuitive Insights Dashboard offers a clear picture of learner and class performance and progress, allowing you to see instantly those who need support to bridge learning gaps and those who could be challenged further.
A selection of KS3 and KS4 packages for the core subjects are offered on ActiveHub, and it also provides KS4 packages for the new 2024 MFL GCSEs, as well as GCSE history and geography.
Boost student & teacher progress
ActiveHub can meet the demands of a school’s size, culture, and geography and help teachers and leaders find consensus, analyse strengths and weaknesses, implement decisions effectively, and ensure students are on the right track. It facilitates fast and efficient team communication and is ideal for sounding-board groups, focus groups, and working groups engaged in data-driven decision-making.
The platform can feed into the professional development of teachers by supporting them to improve their pedagogical-didactical skills. It can be used to help deliver workshops and training sessions, enthuse colleagues, provide advice, and act as educational guides. It can also support key staff to become change agents and ‘technovators’ able to communicate the latest educational resources.
Students themselves stand to benefit the most as the resources are calibrated to help them succeed educationally and personally. They are especially well suited to helping some learners to train as ‘digileaders’ and take on pedagogical roles, helping teach their peers and familiarise them with new materials. ActiveHub can therefore play an important role in boosting knowledge-sharing, experimenting, and strengthening the school community.
“Both students and teachers stand to benefit from ActiveHub because it promotes the enablers and removes the barriers in your school.”
Guided by you
ActiveHub recognises that the starting point for growth must be the needs in the classroom and is goal-orientated as a result.
The platform can be used to develop a central school Digital Development Plan in response to identified needs and be at the heart of a school Digital Activation Plan. It is an unambiguous framework to support change initiatives and can form a key part of your pedagogic vision.
Another way to use ActiveHub is to improve the quality of teaching explanations and modelling. It offers ways to improve the impact of pupil practice and can play a vital role in improving assessment and feedback.
This is a polished and professional data-driven solution that provides you with a continual cycle of support for digital teaching and learning. It comes with prolific content, personalised learning, rich insights, and stellar resources for ‘joining up the dots’, allowing everyone in your school to be on the same page, working towards the same goals and key performance indicators.
The future of digital learning
Effective decision-making requires high-quality data, data literacy, actionable insights, and practical strategies. Data-driven decision-making in school informed by ActiveHub can transform classrooms, profoundly improving teacher responsiveness to students, saving time, and ensuring teaching is timely and fitting.
Both students and teachers stand to benefit from ActiveHub because it promotes the enablers and removes the barriers in your school. It has the capacity to positively transform the teaching, learning, and assessment environment by enhancing success and promoting equitable outcomes.
Brace for impact!
