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Company

Lyfta

Founded: 2016
Country: United Kingdom 

GCSEPod

Founded: 2010
Country: United Kingdom 
Description

Lyfta

An impactful, captivating and accessible way for students to experience a world of real human stories.
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GCSEPod

What makes GCSEPod different is that it is proven to improve your student results whilst reducing your teacher's workload....
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Educational Impact

Lyfta

build student knowledge88%
improve teaching efficiency81%
reduce teacher workload78%
increase student collaboration92%
reduce attainment gap92%
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GCSEPod

build student knowledge92%
improve teaching efficiency87%
reduce teacher workload84%
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improve attainment90%
improve teacher knowledge74%
 
Recommended Usage
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Increased usage over time is linked to improved attainment above predicted grades.

Most Helpful Reviews

Lyfta

Roberts, Assistant Headteacher: Implementing Lyfta across Bridgewater High School & The Challenge Academy Trust has had a transformative impact on both our students and teachers. It has broadened our students' global perspectives, nurtured empathy, and provided a dynamic and engaging learning environment.
Paul Bush, Year 4 Teacher and Science Lead: Lyfta is slickly presented and students are able to explore the content intuitively. Perhaps there could be more links to the curriculum and when I first set it up for the students, we had some technical difficulties.
Graham Macaulay, Director of Innovation and Growth: A resource which provides children with exceptionally high quality resources to help them develop a deeper understanding of the diverse nature of our world.
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GCSEPod

Maggie Paule, Teacher / Coordinator: I gave the score 10/10 since GCSEpod has been our main source of lessons ever since. It is also updated every now and then that gives us recent topics for the subjects given.
Adam Speight, Acting Assistant Headteacher: Having used many different e-learning platforms to date in my career, GCSEPod is by far the leader in terms of interface design and the processes they adopt in order to ensure quality assurance of the materials they provide to users.
Richard Ward, Director of Science: Whilst GCSEPod has everything a teacher and a student needs, feedback from colleagues and students is that it is not the most user friendly interface compared to other platforms they use like Sparx. The quality of the resources is exceptional and the new KS3 format is perfect for students to easily navigate but the original content is still a little cluttered. The most common request I receive from Pod Leads is the desire to find all Check and Challenge questions in one place or the ability to assign them. Disengaged students will not work through the modules and then find the tasks themselves. For engaged students however, GCSEPod is fantastic as they appreciate exactly what the platform provides creating their own revision playlists. If the GCSE content could be assigned to flow like the KS3 content then I would award it 10 stars. I'd also like to add that the team at GCSEPod are phenomenal. They take on board suggestions and provide support immediately. They assist with setting bespoke competitions for our academies and the platform runs without any glitches or issues.
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Subjects

Lyfta

#4 in RSE
#6 in PE
#3 in RE
#5 in PSHE
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Age Range

Lyfta

5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18 

GCSEPod

11-13, 14-16, 17-18 
Features

Lyfta

Immersive SpacesMonitor Student Progress300+ Lesson And Assembly PlansEngagement Manager Support 

GCSEPod

LearningAssessmentLearning ContentHomeworkPlaylistsMarkingReady-made AssignmentsStudent Progress 
Languages

Lyfta

English 

GCSEPod

English 
Accessibility

Lyfta

Robust features 

GCSEPod

Robust features 
Policies

Lyfta

Privacy PolicyGDPRTerms of Service 

GCSEPod

Privacy PolicyGDPRTerms of Service 
Requirements

Lyfta

Available OfflineInternet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - AndroidRadioTelevision

PC, laptop or IPad with internet connection. Students access lessons with a passphrase generated by the teacher.

 

GCSEPod

Available OfflineInternet - Low BandwidthInternet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - AndroidRadioTelevision

A sound IT manager to white-list a few URLs in school and integrate GCSEPod with MIS. For teachers and students, using GCSEPod is very simple - like using Netflix or Spotify

 
Training

Lyfta

In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos

We offer highly-rated free CPD training to help teachers can get the most out of the platform.

 

GCSEPod

In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos

Presentations, best practice sharing platform, idea generation with Project Manager, YouTube videos

 
Set Up

Lyfta

Instant access to a Lyfta Starter account.

GCSEPod

Setting up is very straightforward. Simply add your teacher and pupil accounts and you are ready to go!

Support

Lyfta

24/7 Live RepPhone SupportEmail/Help DeskFAQs/ForumKnowledge Base 

GCSEPod

24/7 Live RepPhone SupportEmail/Help DeskFAQs/ForumKnowledge Base 
Home Learning

Lyfta

Not available To parents 

GCSEPod

Not available To parents 
Screenshots
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Lyfta

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Pricing

Lyfta

Free VersionFreemiumFree TrialPaid SubscriptionOne-Off FeeHourly Rate

Lyfta pricing starts from £5 / per-pupil

We understand that each school and trust’s approach to using Lyfta is different and structure our prices accordingly. Please book a call on our website to discuss your priorities and for us to outline our pricing structure.

Free instant access to 2 storyworlds is available when you sign up for a Lyfta Starter account. Free access to the whole platform is available for 30 days when you join our free training webinar.

GCSEPod

Free VersionFreemiumFree TrialPaid SubscriptionOne-Off FeeHourly Rate

GCSEPod pricing starts from £7.95 / per-pupil

Prices from as little as £1 per student per month. Prices based on students in Year's 10 & 11, all other students and teachers get it for free.