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The National CPD Team are delighted to be able to support the CPD and PRD of under-employed teachers by sponsoring their access to Glow in collaboration with LTScotland.

There are certain, legal requirements that  must be adhered to:

• I will only use my Learning and Teaching Scotland, Glow Guest Account for professional purposes.
• I will not disclose my Glow passwords to any third party.
• I will ensure that all electronic communications with other Glow Users are compatible with my professional role.
• I will not use Glow to browse, download, upload or distribute any material that could be considered offensive, illegal or discriminatory.
• I understand that my use of Glow can be monitored and logged and that should any abuse of guest account privileges take place my account may be terminated immediately and without notice.
• I will respect copyright and intellectual property rights.
• I will ensure that my online activity in Glow will not bring Glow or LTScotland into disrepute.

These requirements apply to CPDStepin members who received a Glow username and password from us. In addition, we reserve the right to terminate accounts of users who do not introduce themselves to the CPDStepin community.

We do hope that you appreciate that we cannot be expected to sponsor the Glow membership of someone we know little about.

Please note, other conditions may apply if your Glow username came from a local authority. Please check with your local Glow key contact.

Note the following instructions can help with I-intend on other CPD communities too.

To mark an intention as complete, all you have to do is edit the intention and change the Progress to Complete.

Here’s how:

1. Go to your CPDMe page on CPDCentral (or the I-intend page on your CPD community)
2. Look for the intention you want to change
3. Select the Edit icon above the intention. It looks like this
4. Scroll to the Progress column and change to Complete
5. Add evidence of completion of the intention. This will help other colleagues in the community
6. Scroll back up and select Save and Close

 If you need more time, then edit the date instead to a more suitable date.

I-intend is one of the services available to members of CPDCentral. Using this feature, you can declare intentions and share them with other members of CPDCentral. All items are dated so you know when you are due to complete the intention

As part of its CPD communities services, the CPD Team at Education Scotland will support you by email by:

1. acknowledging your intention

2. reminding you on, or around, the due date

3. thanking you for completion and reminding you of the power of sharing evidence!

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Visit the I-intend page on CPDCentral

The best type of CPD is collegiate and it’s no different on Glow. The CPD Team have developed an About Us system that lets colleagues introduce themselves once and then ‘appear’ in any CPD opportunity they take part in.

Here’s how it works:

1. You enrol in the CPDMeet or other opportunity

2. Our admin folk get an alert and we will add the CPD opportunity to your About Us entry

3. When you click on ‘See participants’ you will see pictures of all who have / are taking part

More:   Why should I introduce myself to a CPD community?    How do introduce myself to a CPD community?    See who has already joined About Us

Isn’t it great when you go to a CPD event in person and you see people and are introduced to them. To help us get that feeling, enrolling in one of our online CPD opportunities is in two parts.

Part 1 – All members of CPD communities on Glow must introduce themselves with a photograph and details using the About Us web part. If you haven’t already done so,  then please fill in this form as soon as possible. You only need to do this once!

Part 2 – for each of the CPD opportunities:

1. select the enrol button (eg for a CPDMeet).
2. the organiser will ‘add’ you to the opportunity just as if you are attending a face-to-face event.
3. When this is done, your details will appear on the About Us section for that opportunity
4. Note this may take a wee bit of time, so in the meantime, you can continue with the CPD opportunity or edit it yourself on your CPDMe page on CPDCentral! Look for the my participation section

More:   Why should I introduce myself to a CPD community?    How do introduce myself to a CPD community?

There are a number of actions you might want to take to follow up a CPD opportunity using Glow. This help post supports the use of the ‘follow-up’ panel on CPDMeets and other CPD opportunities on Glow

Say thank you

Select this to send a wee email to the CPD leader or organiser of the opportunity. Many colleagues do this already and this will save you a wee bit time!

Add an intention

Members of the CPD communities on Glow are encouraged to declare an intention to the all of CPDCentral. There’s less chance of you forgetting to do it. These are usually displayed in date order on the community. You can see the CPDCentral intentions here

Endorse this opportunity

If you think a CPD opportunity will have a real impact on your practice, then maybe you should think of endorsing this opportunity. Others can then be better informed about their choice of CPD. More : How do I endorse an opportunity on CPDFind?

Add to your CPD record

If you keep your CPD profile on CPDReflect, selecting this link takes you to the ‘quick add’ option for the CPD record section.  More : What is CPDReflect?

Find more …

Select this to find similar modes of CPD on CPDFind. For example, if you are coming from a CPDMeet it will list the CPDMeet opportunities catalogued on CPDFind.

Find more on this subject

Seelct this to search for the same subject on CPDFind. For example, if you are coming from a CPDMeet on interdisciplinary learning, it will list all the CPD opportunities that mention  interdisciplinary learning on CPDFind.

There are 2 options to speed up the addition of your supply teachers to Glow. The first option is to do a semi-automatic provision yourself. This is undoubtedly the best way for supply colleagues. Their details are added quickly and they automatically are added to the local authority area of Glow.

However, we appreciate that some key contacts may be pressed for time in supporting supply colleagues or, due to local policy, not be able to sponsor these colleagues.

In that case, there is a plan B!

• Send us some basic data in a CSV file (forename, surname, email address, DOB, GTCS registration number)
• CPDStepin admin staff will take this CSV file and upload it to Glow
• You will be be informed that all accounts have been uploaded but not activated
• We will email supply colleagues to confirm they still need Glow access
• On receipt of these replies, we will request completion of the Acceptable Use Policy form and in turn send out login details

If LA key contacts have any questions then please contact Con Morris (c.morris@ltscotland.org.uk)

In September 2010, we started a review of CPD providers details on the system. If a provider’s area contains a link to an out-of-date website and there is no evidence of opportunities, then they have been removed from the A to Z of providers.

The main reason for this was to avoid inconvenience to users who are clicking on broken links and out-of-date information.

Please note you are still a registered provider and to reinstate your listing and allow educators to see your details, all you have to do is:

• send cpdregister@educationscotland.gov.uk an email requesting reinstatement
• update your details immediately thereafter 

The answer is a qualified “Yes”.

Many CPD providers (such as local authority CPD managers) will be eligible to access Glow anyway.

There are contractual considerations that restrict unlimited access to Glow by other organisations (eg providers in the private sector).

However, CPD providers are allowed on Glow if they are working with one of the local authorities or other client groups of Glow (eg SQA, LTScotland, HMIE). It’s analogous to the CPD providers’ use of school premises. If they are doing a CPD session in a local authority, they will be given guest access to that room. Similarly, CPD providers who are working with an LA, can be given guest access to the LA Glow area at the discretion of the authority.

A CPD provider working with a national organisation, such as LTScotland, will have national guest access. Any provider using Glow in this way must have Disclosure Scotland status.

Many local authorities have procedures in place to allow guest access. Details of the key contacts for each LA can be found here:
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/usingglowandict/glow/glowinyourarea/index.asp