The Blippit Blog

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

July 12, 2022

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Deputy Headteacher Mrs Jackson is from Saighton CE Primary School in Chester where the school started using Blippit Boards in 2022. Who better to share their experience and this new approach to supporting subject leaders in their monitoring role? We're happy to be able to share with you four 1-2 minute videos from a Zoom call with Mrs Jackson in July 2022 that focus on speed & ease of getting started, how it's revolutionised the way they work, where the benefits are felt

June 21, 2022

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The best way for us to say thank you to the schools using Blippit Boards is by listening to their feedback and ideas so that we can continue to improve in the most helpful ways. The next best way to say thank you is by expressing our thanks in the form of 'time'. It's what Blippit Boards is all about. Recognising, saving and optimising people's use of time in school, particularly subject leaders. Our reward program is simple.

June 13, 2022

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Going for the Green Flag Award is a big deal. It calls for eco-leadership, coordination, action and monitoring across the school. We talked to teachers leading their schools toward the Green Flag Award status and as a result, could see a way that we might help make it easier for them to monitor and pull together the evidence they needed. We sought out the advice and expertise of Eco-Schools themselves, on whether we could help schools in the way we imagined, and...

June 1, 2022

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We got creative, got to work and ultimately built a brand new Blippit Boards Reports feature to ensure that it would be both fast and easy for teachers to extract from Blippit Boards what everybody had put in. To use reports, teachers use the DashBoard, view all boards, click the tags icon and select what to report on. Reports are personalised to every school and emailed to whoever creates them automatically. Sometimes it's easier to see what you have when it's in one document instead of...

May 12, 2022

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Thanks to Christian Aid's expertise and advice, schools using Blippit Boards can now simply hit a button to build their Christian Aid Global Neighbours PDF or editable Word report containing all Global Neighbours tagged Boards, ready to be uploaded to form part of their submission evidence. There's a smart interactive chart in the Blippit Boards Dashboard that makes monitoring the Global Neighbours evidence being captured by colleagues via the app a very quick job, with simple filtering to...