What is SchoolOnline?
SchoolOnline provides top quality, digital exam revision in English and Maths through our innovative EdTech platform, which harnesses the benefits of digital distribution to scale access to some of the UK’s top examiners and tutors. In a market where 25% of children receive private tuition to achieve their optimal results at KS2 and GCSE, we set out to level the playing field by developing a solution for the remaining 75% of children that would allow them to access all the benefits that private tuition brings to exam outcomes.
A library of bite-sized tutorials created by the UK’s leading, most experienced examiners provides the backbone of our software. Every single video is produced and animated by an experienced film production team to optimise engagement with children at both GCSE and KS2 levels providing concise, highly targeted tuition.
In 2021, we relaunched our platform to include powerful new features for both schools and home users. This new functionality allows schools to set detailed, auto-marked revision assignments for their students with high levels of insight into student engagement and analytics on strengths and weaknesses while supporting students in their learning with our targeted video explanations to each question.
Our platform can be used independently by home users (directly purchasing an individual membership) and within a school environment through our enhanced product, SchoolOnline Classroom. Within schools, our English and Maths tutorial videos can be used within a classroom setting to support the curriculum, or assignments can be set for students to work through independently, either at home or at school.
We ran trials in Summer 2020 for both GCSE and KS2 students learning at home, over six weeks and four weeks, respectively. Students in the trial spent 30-60 minutes a week revising Maths using the videos on our platform and were set assessments at the outset and the end of the trial. GCSE students improved their test scores on average 34.6% and KS2 students 28.6%.
We recently ran another community-based trial collaborating with Charlton Athletic Community Trust, where KS2 students used our platform for 30 minutes each in English and Maths at the CACT centre over six weeks. The students improved their Maths scores on average by 76.7% and their English by 100.5%.
Recommended Usage
We advise a minimum of 1 hour per week for 6 weeks to start seeing improvements
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 Company | Business Name: SchoolOnline HQ Location: United Kingdom Founded: 2018 Website: Twitter: @SOClassroom LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/55042833/ Phone: +44 800 048 7418 |
| Age Range | 8-10, 11-13, 14-16 |
 Features | Auto MarkingUniversal SearchInteractive QuestionsClass TrackingDevice AgnosticProgress DashboardCurriculum AlignedStudent AssessmentGcse MathsGcse EnglishSatsKs2 EnglishKs2 MathsIntervention GroupsBooster GroupsPlenary ResourcesHomework ResourcesDistance LearningHome LearningVirtual LearningIndependent LearningDisengaged Learners |
 Languages | English |
 Accessibility | Robust features |
 Policies |  Terms of ServicePrivacy PolicyGDPR |
 Requirements | Internet - High BandwidthDesktop - MacDesktop - WindowsDesktop - ChromebookDesktop - LinuxMobile - iPhoneMobile - iPadMobile - WindowsMobile - Android None other than a standard desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone device. A user is able to register on the website with an email address and password to gain access to the platform. |
 Set Up | The product can be used immediately following login. |
 Training | In PersonLive OnlineWebinarsDocumentationVideos |
 Support | EmailPhone Support In addition to these elements we also have a Live Helpdesk ready to take your queries and questions. |
| Home Learning | Parent Access Anyone can create the account. There is a parent/home version available from our website: www.schoolonline.co.uk |
 Tags | MathsEnglishSATsMaths GCSEEnglish GCSEMaths ResourcesEnglish Resources |
SchoolOnline PricingPricing Plans Free TrialPaid Subscription SchoolOnline pricing starts from £0.87 / per-pupil Primary Schools: > £1.04 - £1.67 per pupil/month. The lowest price is calculated for a school with 4 form entry using the product across both Year 5 & Year 6 Secondary Schools: > £0.87 - £1.25 per pupil/month. The lowest price is calculated for a school with 8 form entry using the product across both Year 10 & 11 Discounts are available for central procurement through Multi Academy Trusts For parent/home user accounts please visit https://www.schoolonline.co.uk/pricing to find out more.  Optimised for a quick response | |
 Special Offer | Please contact our team for our latest promotional offers include demo and pilot incentives. |
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SchoolOnline Reviews
from 15 Verified Reviews
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George Maenami
Teacher
Used SchoolOnline occasionally for 4-6 months
May 2023
The idea of the system is fantastic, however, the system still seems to have noticeable glitches that don't allow for accurate assessment. We have experienced problems with deleting classrooms and creating courses. The children often been left confused as the answer inputted has been marked wrong when it is clearly correct. The children do not use the whiteboard feature as it is too small.
George Maenami found SchoolOnline:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“System can be quite tricky to manage and navigate. Some glitches to the system which make it difficult to organise classrooms, groups and courses.”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The booster questions have a positive impact. It helps the children to develop their fluency.”
Julian Davies
Assistant Headteacher
Used SchoolOnline weekly for 4-6 months
Apr 2023
It is really good to support pupils with the final push before the exams
Julian Davies found SchoolOnline:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Good for intervention lesson”
- Slightly reduces attainment gap
- Slightly improves teaching efficiency
- Slightly improves attainment
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Allows pupils to watch model answers”
Mar 2023
I would recommend it to other Year 6 teachers who are looking for a service that enables children to revise at their own pace and on specific subjects that help them. I would also recommend it for homework as it is easy to use
Becky found SchoolOnline:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“It is a great tool for children to revise the content previously taught and the children can pick what they want to focus on individually”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Where children are working towards the expected standard and need additional practice so that they are confident with applying knowledge to the test style questions, it can help them close the attainment gap. As long as children have access to it at home, it can also reduce the gap as parental support and knowledge is not needed.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“It is easy to set homeworks and tasks on there and see the results quickly”
- Moderately improves attainment“It helps children to feel confident applying knowledge to different questions so that they can raise their attainment”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“The videos are good at explaining the concepts that children need to apply to the questions.”
Mar 2023
It's a fantastic revision tool.
Louisa Sanghera found SchoolOnline:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“marking and assessment”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“For children working at age related expectations it helps to fill gaps in knowledge through frequent practice.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“The videos are a good teaching tool for children working at age related expectations.”
- Moderately improves attainment“It helps children who may not feel confident initially see immediate feedback and feel able to celebrate their successes.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“The videos can be watched as many times as the children need to.”
Chris Jones
Executive Headteacher
Used SchoolOnline weekly for 4-6 months
Sep 2022
An excellent resource for pupils and staff. very easy to use
Chris Jones found SchoolOnline:
- Slightly reduces teacher workload“Less marking”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Lower ability children gap closing”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Encourages teacher to challenge pupils”
- Significantly improves attainment“Some pupils have moved one term”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Children remember more”
Ben Thomas
Deputy Head
Used SchoolOnline daily for 1-2 years
Sep 2022
School Online has really helped shape the way we revise and refine the core skills for our oldest pupils alongside quality first teaching. It allows our children to experience SATs style questions interactively and at their own pace, developing self confidence in the process. I can’t thank School Online enough for allowing us to use the platform and develop our children further.
Ben Thomas found SchoolOnline:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“We have used the platform for our eldest pupils’ home learning tasks which has maximised outcomes and dramatically reduced teacher workload in setting the home learning.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“We have been able to use the platform rigorously for all pupils but have been able to target those pupils who were adversely affected academically by the pandemic.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“The speed at which interventions can take place and be resourced for has improved greatly.”
- Moderately improves attainment“We were able to target specific children and “boost” them in record time using the platform itself.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“We found that students were able to practice and refine their core skills across the curriculum at increasingly regular and targeted intervals.”
David Harrop
Headteacher
Used SchoolOnline weekly for 7–12 months
Jul 2022
Ease of use, challenge and support in preparing for end of KS2 SATs
David Harrop found SchoolOnline:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Additional intervention sessions require no prior planning from staff”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Accelerated progress evident for several groups in Y6 during the year.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“School online provides individual support for all children enrolled”
- Moderately improves attainment“Evidence of children exceeding targets that had been set at the beginning of the year”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Student knowledge identified as a strength during recent Ofsted inspection”
Marilyn
chair
Used SchoolOnline weekly for 7–12 months
Feb 2022
Partnership working has added value and a flexibility in approach has facilitated the development of a wrap around package to assist targeted pupils in learning and to achieve their best
Marilyn found SchoolOnline:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Provides additional targeted support to those pupils who struggle with learning”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Our pilot indicated significant progress in maths and English for all targeted pupils”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“A partnership approach - adds value”
- Significantly improves attainment“Our pilot was evaluated and has robust outcome improvement data”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Pupils more confident in learning independently to gain knowledge”
David
Director of Education and Sport
Used SchoolOnline weekly for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
CACT have found both the Schoolonline platform and staff excellent and look forward to expanding and developing this partnership work.
David found SchoolOnline:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Hugely useful support, with resources and tutorials having a positive impact upon Teacher workload.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“CACT ran a pilot Tutoring programme with Schoolonline in Spring 2021, within which KS2 students showed huge improvements in English and Maths attainment.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Teachers reported being able to better provide focussed support for young people, whilst others learn via the online platform.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Young people that took part in the CACT Tutoring pilot showed significant improvements in attainment.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Students reported increased knowledge and confidence as a result of using the Schoolonline portal.”
Christopher Perrott
Vice Principal
Used SchoolOnline weekly for 3-4 years
Feb 2022
SchoolsOnline is a beneficial tool that has continually improved throughout the years to make it a must have resource to use alongside current teaching practice.
Christopher Perrott found SchoolOnline:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Over the past three years, the use of SchoolOnline has dramatically supported the teaching of Mathematics, providing teachers with a bank of step-by-step video tutorials and resources whilst reducing teacher workload. What was originally used as a tool to supplement key concepts through guided practice has now been embedded into daily teaching lessons both as whole class activities, independent work or to help correct misconceptions that may arise. As content is quality assured, teachers feel confident in using the resources provided, especially as it has helped reduce the time that it originally had taken to find, locate and tailor to the needs of their children.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“Within the school, pupils across Year 6 have access to the SchoolOnline platform. Children are encouraged to watch tutorials and discuss the methods used before applying them to a series of questions. Furthermore, being able to revisit videos and resources, has allowed children to consolidate their learning before moving on too quickly. By providing open access, it has allowed children to develop greater ownership over their learning as they actively seek out the necessary resources to develop their understanding and reduce the attainment gaps.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Actively seeking out necessary resources can be time consuming for all teachers, especially when children are working at different levels of ability. SchoolsOnline provides teachers with the relevant tools required and as such has reduced the time it may have originally taken to plan and resource. Being able to personalise the learning has also allowed teachers to stretch their more able whilst also helping to consolidate the learning when misconceptions or errors may have arisen.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Individual needs of the children can be carefully considered through the online resources provided. They can be used to work alongside the lessons being taught, enhancing the delivery and consolidation task or they can be pushed out as extension tasks to stretch learners. Because of this, we have seen attainment continually improve year on year ensuring better outcomes for all learners.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Open access for our Year 6 children has meant they can revisit and review areas taught in school anywhere, any time. Whether it be through the teacher directing children explicitly to resources or children actively seeking out areas to improve, children have shown to be more confident and shown through their improved subject knowledge.”
Graham Macaulay
Director of Innovation
Used SchoolOnline daily for 1-2 years
Feb 2022
School Online is an amazing resource! It has transformed teaching and learning and more importantly, has improved outcomes and opportunities for our pupils.
Graham Macaulay found SchoolOnline:
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Through our use of SchoolOnline, we have been able to transform our teaching whilst also reducing teacher workload. Staff are able to easily select resources and content and align this to their teaching, due to the content being high quality they don't need to spend excessive time quality assuring the content.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“As SchoolOnline is available to all of our pupils, children are able to access the resource anywhere, anytime and on any device. This has resulted in our children using the tool in their own time, to help them overcome difficulties and reduce the attainment gaps.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency“Teachers are able to spend less time selecting resources and planning time and indeed, teacher time as the resources on school online can not only reduce planning time but also speed up the delivery of in person teaching. This enables the lesson pace to increase, resulting in more time to provide further challenge.”
- Significantly improves attainment“Through saving time planning and teaching, teachers are able to ensure lesson delivery is fully aligned to the individual needs of children in the class. This has resulted in an increase in attainment and better outcomes for our children.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Whilst School Online is used brilliantly in teaching, it is also accessible at home and this has really helped improve our children's knowledge. They are able to access the resource and develop their understanding and knowledge beyond the content covered in class teaching.”
Heather Holmes
Regional Director of English
Used SchoolOnline occasionally for 1-2 years
Jan 2022
This is a first-class online platform that enables learners of all abilities to systematically prepare for exams.
Heather Holmes found SchoolOnline:
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“Video tutorials are geared to specific skills which can then be built on in the classroom.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“Home-based students do not have to be disadvantaged if they cannot be present in the classroom.”
- Moderately improves teaching efficiency“Skills are streamlined and presented in a logical order.”
- Moderately improves attainment“Primary school students have been shown to make significant progress as a result of Schoolonline.”
- Moderately builds student knowledge“Each video contains the key skills necessary to access every question on a GCSE English paper.”
Feb 2021
Having used a range of resources in the past to set home learning, develop intervention resources and give something for students to revise and refine skills, SchoolsOnline is definitely the best resource I’ve used in this respect. The video content, subsequent questions and monitoring all help to continually aid the pupil in achieving what they can at the end of KS2.
Ben Thomas found SchoolExams.co.uk:
- Significantly improves attainment“Allowing children to revise and recap skills and methods taught at school is invaluable.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Children are able to go at their own pace when revising and revisiting specific methods.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“We use the package as both an intervention but can also set children home learning which is very much in line with what we have done in school.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“It allows our intervention teachers to set meaningful and purposeful content for our pupils.”
- Moderately reduces teacher workload“In terms of home learning, yes, as the product allows for ease of use when setting tasks for independent learning at home.”
Oct 2020
Score based on my professional evaluation of the quality of content, the impact on test scores of using SchoolExams, and on feedback from students.
Dave Wilson found SchoolExams.co.uk:
- Significantly improves attainment“We ran a studenttrial over Summer, comparing results on a pre trial paper with those on a post trial paper. There was a 21% increase in marks on average for participants.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“Better recall of mathematical facts. Improved problem solving skills.”
- Moderately reduces attainment gap“We had pupil premium students who made significant progress over the course of the trial. Gap is diminishing in the class concerned.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Teachers can set work on School Exams and be confident that the explanations given in the videos are of a high quality, going into sufficient depth to develop understanding. The focus on selected topics/exam questions ensures that revision is targeted, time-efficient and personalised.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“Students can self mark attempts at exam questions, and fully comprehend where marks are awarded. Facilitates independent learning.”
Oct 2020
It is just a wonderful product that is: cost effective; simple to use; and will make a difference to children's learning.
David Page found SchoolExams.co.uk:
- Significantly improves attainment“After using product for a term, children improved on average by 4 points on the average point scores in Mathematics. They are more confident in answering reading questions and have a better idea on how to plan and what to include in their writing.”
- Significantly builds student knowledge“It gives an excellent way for children to consolidate skills learnt in school and to become more fluent and efficient with new concepts.”
- Significantly reduces attainment gap“We have used the product with pupil premium children and SEN children and it has helped to close the gap. Especially when there is limited support or engagement from home.”
- Significantly improves teaching efficiency and productivity“Study plans are already provided by their team of educational panellists so we has teachers can just press and go if needed.”
- Significantly reduces teacher workload“School exams can be self marking and reports generated that save teachers time. Study guards are already there for the children or you can create your own.”
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