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Video has been a much-anticipated addition to Blippit Boards in June/July 2024 and has taken off with schools. As hoped, video is picking up the slack where photos don't quite manage to capture what's happening and demonstrate progress in quite the same way. Feedback on the use of video in oracy, music, PE and even assemblies has been very positive. But, while watching videos is easy enough on the app and in the Blippit Dashboard for subject leaders, when it came to running subject reports...

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We'll be doing this again! What an absolute delight it was to run a prize draw for schools that would directly impact children in a difficult-to-resource subject like music. This summer we added all schools who registered with Blippit Boards for trial into our prize draw and a couple of weeks later we picked two winners for the two prizes.a 12-pack of ukeleles and a 4-pack of djembe drums. We want to congratulate Mr Knight who originally joined the free trial resulting in the 1st prize win!

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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...

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We're pleased to be able 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 open 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...

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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.