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Developed by Encyclopedia Britannica, Britannica School is a trusted, reliable online resource providing teachers and students with a safe...... Show more

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build student knowledge87%

improve attainment68%

reduce teacher workload67%

improve parent engagement49%

Excellent educational resource

Best information source for our students

#1 in English

Free TrialPaid

0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18

143 reviews

13 case studies

1 award

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SAM Learning is an online learning resource for secondary schools that caters for all major GCSE and KS3 subjects and...... Show more

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build student knowledge86%

reduce teacher workload85%

improve attainment81%

reduce attainment gap73%

I like it a lot. Good exercises, the way I can received the marking and reminders

Ease of use, cost effective and accessible for all. The improvements keep getting better.

#2 in English

Paid

11-13, 14-16

120 reviews

3 case studies

1 impact report

1 award

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Educake is an award-winning online assessment and revision platform for science, English, geography, history, computer science, PE and maths. We...... Show more

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reduce teacher workload91%

build student knowledge86%

improve teaching efficiency81%

improve attainment75%

Very useful, good value resource that is easy to use.

Just feel it can be a bit outdated needs wider aspects for KS3 also key vocabulary like spelling tests etc would be welcomed to support SPAG and bridge the literacy gap as well it might be useful to have watch a video and answer questions

#3 in English

Free TrialPaid

11-13, 14-16

94 reviews

6 case studies

1 award

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build student knowledge91%

reduce teacher workload87%

provide school data85%

improve teaching efficiency84%

improve attainment79%

I had a fantastic experience with Century and highly recommend it to other educators. Fay Allen, the liaison for Century, has been incredibly supportive and I am excited to continue working with her in the future. I introduced Century to my Year 7, Year 8, and Year 10 ESL classes, and the response from students was overwhelmingly positive. One of the standout features of Century is its ability to keep students engaged throughout their learning journey. Unlike other literacy platforms, Century breaks the monotony and offers fresh and engaging content that students truly enjoy. The platform’s intuitive AI plays a crucial role in differentiating instruction, which is essential in my classroom. With students of varying ability levels, it is crucial to have approaches that cater to their individual needs. Century’s AI adapts to each student’s strengths and weaknesses, providing personalized learning pathways that ensure optimal progress for every learner. I must also commend Fay Allen for her exceptional support in getting started with Century. The learning curve was brief, thanks to her assistance and guidance. Currently, Century is my favorite literacy program, and I look forward to a continued relationship with Fay and the Century team.

Century has provided both the college and the learners are great platform to develop and improve English and maths skills which is individualised to each learner. For the college it enables good tracking of progress at both course and strategic level.

#4 in English

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5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18

103 reviews

2 awards

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Trusted by over 5000 schools, ClickView is the leading interactive educational video platform for Primary and Secondary learning... Show more

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build student knowledge87%

improve teaching efficiency84%

reduce teacher workload84%

improve attainment71%

It is an excellent resource . The films are fantastic and are always appropriate. They fulfill objectives.

ClickView is a tool which supports a range of subjects, providing high-quality resources with an effective interactive element to analyse student engagement.

#5 in English

Free TrialPaid

0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18

54 reviews

3 case studies

1 award

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Lexia® Core5 Reading® and Lexia® PowerUp Literacy® provide scalable, personalised learning to students of all ages and abilities without impacting...... Show more

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reduce attainment gap100%

improve attainment85%

build student knowledge79%

provide school data74%

improve teaching efficiency73%

I love My Lexia. An easy, adaptable and accessible program for all. The level of engagement is extremely high for our pupils and the program is tailored perfectly to each individual child. I would recommend My Lexia to all schools The training we have recieved has been exceptional and nothing is ever too much.

supports and challenges children at their level, targeted support, impacts on attainment (reading and writing), supports with home / school link, provides gap tasks, supports the bottoms 20% (ofsted focus), analyses data (cohort, SEND, PP)

#6 in English

Free TrialPaid

5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18

23 reviews

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An online system to cover the new KS2 and Year 6 SATs curriculum for English and Maths.... Show more

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reduce teacher workload86%

improve teaching efficiency79%

improve attainment76%

save school money59%

I have loved using it and seen how well it can work if used consistently and embedded into your daily teaching and learning. I do think there are a few tweaks that could be made to make the platform even better. Happy to elaborate on this if needed.

SATsCompanion does everything that we need it to, through setting SATs style questions to identifying gaps in knowledge and creating a competitive edge for the children.

#11 in English

Paid

8-10, 11-13, 14-16

25 reviews

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Spellzone is an online resource that unlocks the mystery of English spelling and adapts to all abilities including SEND, SLD...... Show more

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build student knowledge84%

reduce teacher workload83%

improve attainment81%

reduce attainment gap79%

provide school data74%

Pupils need to fully understand what they have read. However there is sometimes too much writing on one page and they move straight to the activity rather than read what the purpose is.

A useful, accessible resource.

#7 in English

Free TrialPaid

5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+

27 reviews

1 independent evaluation

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By combining the best of pedagogy and technology, Kognity provides educators with an effective approach to teaching.... Show more

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reduce teacher workload90%

build student knowledge89%

improve attainment83%

I would expect to have more topic specific practice questions taken from the past papers to support students learning and their achievement levels

Because it is very good

#8 in English

Free TrialPaid

14-16, 17-18

56 reviews

1 impact report

1 award

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Leading tuition provider of enthusiastic and engaging tutors for schools, academies and private pupils across the UK and internationally - in person and online. driventutors... Show more

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build student knowledge100%

improve attainment100%

increase student collaboration100%

reduce attainment gap100%

Excellent lessons with regular feedback

Tutors get the best support in Driven as they are fully briefed and tested beforehand to make sure they are committed and well prepared. Driven has helped me personally grow as a tutor, by pulling me outside my comfort zone and teaching a wide age range of students. Enabling students to learn from each other in the group sessions has been the best part of tutoring at Driven, as it encourages students to believe in their own knowledge and help them gain confidence in the subject.

#9 in English

Free TrialPaid

8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18

8 reviews

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Reading Plus is an online reading development programme that engages pupils and makes it easy to evidence impact - whilst...... Show more

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provide school data80%

build student knowledge75%

reduce attainment gap75%

reduce teacher workload75%

improve attainment74%

User friendly, reduces teacher workload, students enjoy it. Data on progress is pending.

Staff support from Reading Plus has been great, children are motivated with the program and encourage their peers to read texts they have enjoyed and impact is evident.

#10 in English

Paid

5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18

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Pickatale is a reading app designed to empower children to read for pleasure everyday, and help teachers keep track of...... Show more

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build student knowledge81%

save school money73%

improve parent engagement68%

We use it as a way of showing reading for pleasure

Its easy, accessible, a wide range, children as well as teachers can choose books

#12 in English

Free TrialPaid

0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13

29 reviews

3 case studies

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

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build student knowledge92%

improve attainment89%

improve teaching efficiency84%

reduce teacher workload80%

improve teacher knowledge68%

Easy to use short answer low stakes assessments with related pods

An excellent resource to use in and outside of the classroom. High quality content and great retrieval activities.

#13 in English

Paid

11-13, 14-16, 17-18

80 reviews

9 case studies

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COCO THINKS and COCO MOVES is a groundbreaking tablet-based educational program for primary school children and special needs individuals, empowering...... Show more

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improve teaching efficiency99%

Improves Behaviour / Wellbeing97%

improve teacher wellbeing96%

I did not find such a complete program, adapted to children with special needs but also to the culture of the territory and in difficulty.

I have not yet found such complete and suitable programs and applications, which work without internet and for a derisory cost.

#14 in English

Free TrialPaid

5-7, 8-10

17 reviews

1 case study

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Curriculum-aligned Question Sets and immediate feedback to super-charge learning.... Show more

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reduce teacher workload95%

build student knowledge92%

provide school data92%

improve attainment88%

reduce attainment gap84%

Just brilliant - children and teachers love it and the results are evident.

Such a great resource to use. Thousands of question sets at the click of a button that our children from Y1-Y6 love using.

#15 in English

Free VersionFree TrialPaid

5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16

54 reviews

4 case studies

1 award

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

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increase student collaboration92%

reduce attainment gap92%

build student knowledge88%

improve teaching efficiency81%

reduce teacher workload78%

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.

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.

#16 in English

FreemiumFree TrialPaid

5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18

64 reviews

5 case studies

1 independent evaluation

Certified

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Free online learning & 11+ Exam Prep platform for KS2 ... Show more

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reduce teacher workload89%

build student knowledge83%

provide school data82%

improve teaching efficiency76%

reduce attainment gap70%

Amazing resource with explanatory videos and explanations for pupils to refer back to during exercises.

Free platform with excellent service and follow-up

#17 in English

Free Version

5-7, 8-10, 11-13

29 reviews

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A student reads a book, takes an online quiz, and gets immediate feedback. Students respond to regular feedback and are motivated to make progress with their reading skills. Accelerated Reader gives teachers the information needed to monitor students’ reading practice and make informed decisions to guide their future... Show more

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build student knowledge88%

improve teaching efficiency82%

reduce teacher workload80%

Students are encouraged to read books and accelerate their reading levels via the assessment/quizzes, making this is an exciting process and motivating path for them to progress.

I wish that there were more modern books covered by accelerated reader. The choice of books that students can read sometimes feels limited.

#18 in English

Paid

0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18

57 reviews

1 award

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Pobble provides award-winning digital tools for improving writing. ... Show more

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improve attainment89%

improve teaching efficiency87%

reduce teacher workload78%

improve teacher knowledge78%

reduce attainment gap75%

It’s a fantastic resource

Pobble has been a constant in my teaching for around 4 years now. Without it, I lose the attainment of all children within the class to try their best in writing. They want their work to be celebrated, no matter how small the progress is. With the help of Pobble presentations, resources, high quality stimuli, moderation, WAGOLLs and more teachers are able to get the children there!

#19 in English

Free VersionFree TrialPaid

5-7, 8-10, 11-13

56 reviews

1 case study

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Award-winning online platform providing curriculum-aligned full lessons, activities, multimedia resources and live lessons with a focus on STEM and global...... Show more

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build student knowledge86%

improve teacher knowledge82%

Its an exceptional resources to seed ideas. however since the Pan-Canadian expectations vary from the original source documents some triage of the content is required. This takes time. The one thing teachers claim not to have a surplus of. The score of 9 accounts for this 'slight' inconvenience.

I think this is an important part of children learning and the video and live lessons are amazing.

#20 in English

FreemiumFree TrialPaid

5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16

45 reviews

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Individualised supported learning from KS1-KS4 covering core subjects and a broader curriculum with assessment and baseline testing. Our vocational, wellbeing...... Show more

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build student knowledge96%

improve attainment90%

reduce teacher workload89%

This is a great service to use as an educational platform and also as a safeguarding children at home tool

I would recommend EDClass for a number of reasons. The first being the that the customer service team are extremely helpful. No matter which member of the team answers the phone, everyone is always there to help no matter what the query. Genuinely really nice people who are very helpful. Requests are always followed up straight away with no delay which is especially helpful for a school as it is really fast paced and things need to be put in place quickly. The second being the accessibility for staff. The daily attendance alerts you receive via email and text mean that you don't have to make time to look at student attendance on the account. This is helpful for me as I have such a busy schedule and don't have time to look everyday.

#21 in English

Free TrialPaid

8-10, 11-13, 14-16

32 reviews

8 case studies

1 independent evaluation

1 award

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Classroom Secrets offers a choice of thousands of high-quality, affordable resources that children love and teachers trust... Show more

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build student knowledge86%

reduce teacher workload86%

improve teaching efficiency84%

improve teacher wellbeing76%

improve attainment74%

It has good things to use to support lessons

Right now I only use one section Phonics Factory which is good, but I know there is more for me to discover. Once I have done this and use it on a wider basis I think my score may be higher.

#22 in English

Free VersionPaid

0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13

33 reviews

1 award

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The only professional development platform schools, trusts, nurseries and colleges will ever need.... Show more

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improve teacher knowledge85%

improve teaching efficiency75%

save school money75%

improve attainment55%

improve school processes50%

National College is a great platform where anyone can find courses on their taste and needs.

Informative and engaging CPD - value for money.

#23 in English

Free TrialPaid

0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18

5 reviews

6 case studies

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An educational, creative and inspiring tool for children aged 3 to 11.... Show more

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build student knowledge87%

improve teaching efficiency87%

reduce teacher workload85%

increase student collaboration75%

improve parent engagement53%

Good and engaging but not accessible for deprived children

I find it very difficult to follow

#24 in English

Free TrialPaid

0-4, 5-7, 8-10

32 reviews

2 impact reports

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Computer-adaptive Star Assessments for Reading and Maths are used by over 6,000 schools across the UK and Ireland... Show more

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improve teaching efficiency79%

reduce teacher workload77%

build student knowledge72%

Has some positives, but equally needs careful management within school not to add to workload for staff.

I like the transparency of results, easy to sue reports, individualised test for students

#25 in English

Paid

0-4, 5-7, 8-10, 11-13, 14-16, 17-18

33 reviews

3 case studies

1 award

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Nightzookeeper.com is an online learning program that helps children with reading and writing, and unlocks their creativity.... Show more

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improve teaching efficiency87%

increase student collaboration77%

improve attainment76%

I value the creativity of your program and find it to be the most unique literacy program I have ever used. I am really disappointed that staff are not interested in any online program that they need to pay for.

We enjoyed the material. Some direct contact line of communication which is more personal would be helpful. Also the option to pause a student rather than cancel would be better.

#26 in English

Free TrialPaid

5-7, 8-10, 11-13

54 reviews

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An adaptive learning program helping schools impact on attainment levels in Science, English and Maths at KS3 and KS4.... Show more

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build student knowledge95%

improve attainment90%

reduce teacher workload82%

improve teaching efficiency80%

provide school data76%

Student and teacher really enjoy using tassomia and helps teachers work load

I have already recommended it to Maths and English as well as the trial for Business and Computer Science. It definitely suits certain subjects more than others.

#27 in English

Free TrialPaid

11-13, 14-16

43 reviews

6 case studies

1 impact report

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Classoos is a digital textbook service for UK & International schools and colleges providing eTextbooks from all leading British education publishers... Show more

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customer service100%

service delivery100%

education knowledge75%

technical knowledge75%

pricing value50%

it's early days but it's making things easier for my students to access the text book remotely

For our visually impaired student, the online textbook is essential. He can enlarge it on his tablet. It's super.

#28 in English

Free TrialPaid

11-13, 14-16, 17-18, 19+

24 reviews