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Attender – Fast registration and lower student absence

2 February|

With the mission to save teachers’ precious class time by making attendance registration fast and fun, Attender motivates students with gamification and rewards to reduce absence and dropouts. Let’s learn more about Attender!

In Skolon’s library, among thousands of different tools, you can now find Attender. We spoke with Heine Jensen, CEO & Co-founder of Attender to hear how students and teachers can use Attender in their classrooms.

Heine, what is Attender and how does it work?

Attender’s mission is to save teachers’ precious class time by making attendance registration fast and fun and these are our key features:

Mark attendance faster and save time
Attender is built to make attendance registration fast. This ensures there is more time for teaching. We have 4 unique interfaces to mark attendance. And the option for students to use self-registration with QR codes.

Motivate students to attend with gamification
Attender uses gamification to motivate students to attend and rewards their presence with Attender Badges, Attender Streaks, Attender Coins and Attender Rewards.

Intelligent statistics
Attender contains intelligent statistics. Teachers see live statistics while they register. And our algorithm `Movers N´ Shakers`automatically shows you who you should take notice of.

Attendance registration anywhere
Attender is available in web, app and in Microsoft Teams. So, no matter where you are, you have easy access to Attender. This ensures absence registration can be done even if you are not in the classroom. Registration is made super easy via 4 different interfaces. You can register absences for a single lesson or for an entire day at a time.

Attender is also made for Microsoft Teams, so you do not need to change from one system to another. Attender can automatically mark attendance in online classes. This saves the teacher a lot of time.

Attender can also work with Google.

Who can use Attender?

Attender is built for all types of roles at a school. Teachers can mark attendance easy and track absence, while students can follow their own absence and earn rewards to motivate them to attend. Guidance Counselors, school leaders or admins can see intelligent statistics and guardians, parents or caseworkers can gain access to report students sick and see statistics.

Attender is built for all types of schools. Everything from primary schools and all the way to universities can use Attender. The built in settings of Attender makes it very easy to adapt Attender to your school type, needs, language and much more.

What are the opportunities for using your tool in teaching?

Attenders main goals are to make attendance registration easy and thereby freeing up more time that can be used for teaching. And we use gamification to motivate students to attend class and promote wellbeing. Students today respond better with motivation and encouragement.

Attender is also quite unique because by lowering the amount of dropout a school gets, the more money it gets. This also saves a lot of money for the state or municipality and ensures the student actually finishes an education. So Attender is not only a useful tool, there is also a great business case for it as well.

Why Attender is a part of Skolon:

We really like the vision of Skolon that schools can pick the tools that works best for them. Attender also chose to be a part of Skolon to make it is easier for schools to purchase and implement Attender.

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This is how you can try Attender for free on Skolon:

Did you become curious about Attender? All logged-in Skolon users have the opportunity to try it for free! Here’s how:

1. Go to Attender free demo in Skolon’s library here.

2. Click the Add tool button. Here, you can also choose whether you want to add the tool as a test for yourself, or whether you also want to distribute it to one or more classes and groups.

3. Now, Attender is available as a demo version in “My Collection” along with your other digital educational tools and materials! – you’re ready to start testing!

Buy Attender directly through Skolon:

In Skolon, your school can easily purchase digital tools and educational resources, with the ability to grant users access to licenses with just a few clicks. This means that your school has the opportunity to make planned purchases and control when a license becomes active for teachers and students, for example, at the start of a semester.

Attender is available for purchase in Skolon’s library. Go directly to Attender in Skolon here to buy licenses or learn more about Skolon’s library here.

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Skolon is an independent platform for digital educational tools and learning resources, created for both teachers and students. With Skolon, accessing and using your digital educational tools is easy – security increases, administration decreases, and there’s more time for learning.

The digital educational tools come from both small and large providers, all of whom have one thing in common – they create digital educational tools that are beneficial for the school environment.

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Amazing People Schools – let your pupils develop skills to face t...

23 January|

Amazing People Schools’ mission is to inspire and unlock the potential of every young person through the power of positive role models and great storytelling. The award-winning primary and secondary platform has character strengths and diverse role models at its core. Schools can use it to build an inspirational, inclusive school culture where every young person is supported to be a confident, resilient and respectful citizen, skilled to face the future. Stay tuned and we’ll tell you more!

Amazing People Schools supports schools to provide valuable opportunities for pupils to grow a deeper understanding of themselves, their character strengths and the world they are part of so they can be even more Amazing. By developing these strengths in themselves, pupils learn to enhance their own wellbeing through developing their self-efficacy. We had a chat and asked questions to Frances Corcoran, Managing Director at Amazing People Schools, to learn more.

Frances, for those who don’t know – what is Amazing People Schools?

Imagine a digital platform developed with schools to support every member of staff and to nurture every pupil, whilst adding huge value in key areas such personal development, diversity, wellbeing, cross-curricular learning and school improvement.

Amazing People Schools’ award-winning platform is backed by over 20 years of research and is powered by world-changing role models and character strengths such as creativity, perseverance, and kindness. Schools can use it to embed values and build an inspirational school culture where every young person is supported. It has been carefully designed with teachers to support schools and to thrive and grow.

Featuring both primary and secondary zones, it includes all the content, tools and resources needed, supporting an inspirational approach in many areas of school life and curriculum and helping schools embed diverse role models right across the curriculum. Research shows that developing a strengths-based approach supports positive mental health and wellbeing.

Highlighting influential figures such as Frida Kahlo, Martin Luther King Jr., and Greta Thunberg, it underscores their resilience, optimism, and perseverance as inspiring strength.

Sounds like useful tools! But how do you use it?

We work with all our schools year-round and new content, stories and resources are added throughout the year. Amazing People Schools offers whole school support for both primary and secondary schools (supporting students Early Years – 16), for both teachers and students. It features primary and secondary zones which feature differentiated content across year groups.

The Teacher Zone
With log-in details for all teachers and senior leaders included in a school subscription, teachers get access to everything they need to develop a bespoke plan of action for their school for all year groups. We know every school is different. Our planning resources are designed to help your school achieve its individual goals. Whether that be to meet School Improvement objectives, underpin your Personal Development curriculum or accurately reflect school values and mission across the curriculum, Amazing People Schools has you covered.

The Student Zone
Students have individual access to an interactive story library of Amazing People where they can read, watch, listen and learn about how these trailblazers changed the world. As they progress through the story library, students collect accessories from each Amazing Person for their own avatar. Older students receive positive social action prompts connected to the game changer they have been studying.

What possibilities are there in using your tool in teaching?

Amazing People Schools is a story-powered learning platform supporting young people from Early Years – 16, carefully designed to inspire the Amazing People of tomorrow.

More important than ever
In this age of new tech and AI, the strengths that make us human are more important than ever. Frida Kahlo knew all about resilience and the need to bounce back after adversity. Martin Luther King Jr. knew that optimism was essential for bringing change and building a more just future. Greta Thunberg knows she will need perseverance in her ongoing work as a global role model fighting to protect our planet.

Amazing People stories, content and resources provide valuable opportunities for pupils to grow a deeper understanding of character strengths. By developing these strengths in themselves, pupils learn to enhance their own wellbeing through developing their self- efficacy.

Why Amazing People Schools is part of Skolon:

We very much understand the challenges schools face day-to-day and do all we can to support. Skolon is a great fit for us because they also prioritize getting high quality content to schools in a way that makes the lives of teachers easier. The Education sphere faces new challenges daily and schools need the support and resources to tackle these. Accessing high quality content in a simple and accessible way is critical in schools. We have seen the challenges schools have to face daily and love how Skolon makes access so easy. We are absolutely thrilled to be part of Skolon’s brilliant platform.

See more of Amazing People Schools:

Buy Amazing People Schools through Skolon:

Amazing People Schools is available in Skolons library. Go directly to Amazing People Schools in Skolon here to buy licenses or learn more about Skolons library here.

This is Amazing People Schools:

The Amazing People Schools Team has been working with primary and secondary schools since 2017, supporting their Amazing People (staff and pupils) through our award-winning platform and resources developed by listening to and working closely with schools. Schools know better than anyone else what they need, and what works for them, and this of course continues to evolve.

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Welcome back – useful tips for starting the new year

9 January|

We welcome teachers, leaders, and students back from holidays to a new semester – and a new year! We hope that everyone has recharged their batteries and feels prepared for everything that an exciting fall term entails. We have gathered all the useful links you need to get started in the best possible way for the start of the semester with Skolon and all digital tools!

Skolon gathers all of the school’s digital educational tools, materials, and services in one place and makes them function smoothly and securely together for administrators, teachers, and students. Bringing together all digital educational tools allows all users to clearly see which tools they have access to and ensures they are easy to initiate and work with.

For those of you who are new to Skolon or need a little refresher before the start of the term, we have gathered all the useful links here that you need to get started in the best way possible. If you have any questions or concerns, our support team is, of course, ready to assist you!

Useful links for students and teachers

How do you make the most of your digital tools and educational materials? Here, we provide you with five fundamental links to get started with Skolon and your collection of digital tools!

1. Create a folder

Do you have many tools in your collection or do you simply want to get better at organizing? Then you can create folders!

2. Add tools in My Collection

Tools that you have chosen to remove from My Collection or that your administrator has chosen not to add to your collection can be found via the Tools icon at the top right of the My Collection page.

3. How to share links and tools to other users

Sharing links and tools to other users is a smart feature of Skolon and you can do this directly from your collection!

4. Sort and/or remove tools in your collection

Do you want better order in your tools in your collection? Or maybe remove a tool?

5. Teacher’s room – an overview of your students

With the function Teacher’s room, which all teachers and administrators have access to, it’s possible to get a clear overview of the students and classes / groups that are connected to you as a teacher.

Useful links for administrators in Skolon

As an administrator in Skolon, you can manage and administer the content within Skolon. Here, we provide you with four useful links to get started with the admin interface.

If you want to delve even deeper into the features available in Skolon, you can access all our articles for administrators here. This way, you can learn more, for example, about how you can make purchases of digital tools and educational materials directly in the library and how you can manage all your user data in accordance with GDPR.

1. How to configure the school settings

Within the school settings, you can adjust settings related to how Skolon will be experienced by other users, upload the school’s logo, and more.
Read more about setting you can do here.

2. Assign organisation administration rights

This article applies to organisation administrators.

3. Pseudonymisation – That´s how it works

With the pseudonymisation function, it ensures school organisations who use Skolon, to be granted a tool that can help them be GDPR compliant.

4. How to add a local tool in Skolon

In Skolon, you as an administrator can add your own local tools. This means that you post a link to something that you want users to be able to reach and use in Skolon together with other digital tools and teaching aids.

More help and support

Our support center with help articles is open around the clock, and if you have any questions or concerns, our support team is, of course, ready to assist you. Feel free to access all the help articles here or contact us here!

Visit our support center here.

This is Skolon – we collect Sweden’s best digital school tools and make them work in the classroom

Skolon is an independent gathering place for digital school tools and learning resources, created for both teachers and students. With Skolon, it is easy to access and use all your digital school tools – security increases, administration decreases and there is more time for learning.
The digital school tools come from both small and large suppliers who all have one thing in common – they create digital school tools that are good for the school world.

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BeyondLuna – improve the classrooms dynamics and study envi...

8 January|

With BeyondLuna, you can quickly and easily create the foundation for improving group harmony, both inside and outside the classroom, in combination with improved studies and study results. Stay tuned and we’ll tell you more!

In Skolons library, you will now find BeyondLuna, together with over 5,000 digital school tools and learning materials. A tool that helps teachers improve group dynamics in school. We had a chat and asked questions to Sara Arnell, a teacher and also product developer at BeyondLuna, to get to know the tool better.

Sara, for those who don’t know – how does BeyondLuna work?

BeyondLuna is a digital tool that helps teachers create good group dynamics and currently consists of 3 different modules: sociogram, self-assessment and classroom seating plan.

With the sociogram module, you never have to create a sociogram with paper and pencil again. By collecting the answers digitally, you can involve your students in a fun way. Do it either with your computer, tablet, phone or email by a link to the students so they can answer completely themselves via their device. The tool then helps you draw up a sociogram that simply gives you an insight and overview of how the relationships are within the group. It is easy to filter and visualise the different constellations of the group, but most important of all to identify which students are excluded.

In the self-assessment module, you can send out questions where the students can estimate their abilities and make personal rates on different topics. Its easy to follow up on the students answers, both at group level and individually. Since everything is saved digitally, you can easily go back and compare with previous estimates to see if the measures put in place helped. The collection is beneficial to combined with the collection of sociograms.

In the seating planning module you can have all your placements for different groups digitally stored in one place. Set up which rules should apply, for example which students should or should not be allowed to sit next to each other, and then let our generator optimize the classroom placement. If no rules are needed, a completely random placement is generated. Then export the placement as an image, either from the student’s or the teacher’s perspective. Perfect when a new group is meeting, when changing places or for substitute teachers.

Sounds like useful tools! But who can use BeyondLuna?

The tools suit you as a primary school teacher or your colleague who works with student health to help students with special needs. The questions for sociograms and self-assessment are created in the tools, which means that the field of use is almost unlimited. Likewise, the layout of the classrooms is designed in a design tool. This makes the tool as valuable for the teacher as for the students.

What possibilities are there in using your tool in teaching?

With BeyondLuna, you can quickly and easily create the basis for improving group harmony both inside and outside the classroom, with associated study relaxation and improved study results. This makes the tool useful in all subjects.

This is why BeyondLuna is part of Skolon:

To be able to reach out to users more easily, but also that we have seen how we supplement the existing library of tools in Skolon in a good way. We think Skolon seems to be a fantastic platform for teachers and students. We are convinced that this type of collective administration of students and class structures and common logins between all the school’s tools is necessary.

See more of BeyondLuna:

This is how you can try BeyondLuna for free in Skolon:

Did you become curious about BeyondLuna? All logged-in Skolon users have the opportunity to try BeyondLuna for free during 30 days! Here’s how:

1. Go to BeyondLuna in Skolons library here.

2. Click the Test button. Here, you can also choose whether you want to add BeyondLuna as a test for yourself, or whether you also want to distribute it to one or more classes and groups.

3. Now BeyondLuna is available as a demo version in My Collection along with your other digital educational tools and materials! – you’re ready to start testing!

Buy BeyondLuna directly through Skolon:

BeyondLuna is available for purchase in Skolons library. Go directly to BeyondLuna in Skolon here to buy licenses or learn more about Skolons library here.

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Mindomo – collaborative diagramming that helps students understa...

18 September|

Mindomo is a collaborative diagramming tool that helps students understand information easier, review and memorize knowledge, develop critical thinking, plan and write essay structures, take notes, synthesize courses, and prepare for exams. Let´s learn more about Mindomo!

In Skolon’s library, among all 5,000 different tools, you can now find Mindomo. We spoke with Silvana Carpineanu, marketing specialist at Mindomo to hear how students and teachers can use Mindomo in their classrooms.

Silvana, what is Mindomo and how does it work in school?

The software supports creating many types of diagrams, such as mind maps, concept maps, fishbone diagrams, timelines, bubble maps, outlines, etc. Each diagram can be customized by changing the structure, text, colors, and relationships. Adding multimedia files, such as images, links, documents, videos, and audio files.

Students can work in groups, collaborating on the same diagram and editing it in real-time. They also have access to a library with hundreds of templates, organized in categories for different subjects, for example geography, grammar, history, literature, etc. Teachers can create, share, review, and grade students’ assignments. They can also see a full history of changes made on a diagram by their students to evaluate each student’s contribution.

Moreover, they can give students timely feedback on their performance and clear guidance for improvement. Mindomo also has a grading report containing an overview of all the students’ grades. Each diagram can become a slideshow presentation for different projects the students may present to their colleagues.

What are the opportunities for using Mindomo in teaching?

Due to the ease of rearranging and restructuring the information, using Mindomo saves a lot of time for both students and teachers. Mindomo helps students understand and memorize information learned in class from any subject, making the whole process fun and engaging. This tool also develops students’ creativity and helps them identify connections between concepts. By creating diagrams, they also learn to synthesize and structure information.

Teachers can use Mindomo to explain concepts using the visual elements, help students develop critical thinking, decision-making, summarizing information, and evaluate how students understood the lessons. They can also use it to lay out lesson plans and prepare lectures for classes, as well as organize and manage their courses, exam materials, and more.

Who can use Mindomo?

Mindomo can be used by both students (from K-12 to university) and teachers. Students can create diagrams individually or collaborate in real-time with their classmates for group projects, assignments, or brainstorming sessions. Besides the predefined templates, students can create their own diagrams from scratch to take notes during classes, prepare for an exam, review and memorize information, plan and write essays, create book summaries, keep digital resources in one place to easily access them, etc. Teachers can use Mindomo to organize their academic work and resources, explain and present information to their students, prepare assignments, and evaluate and give feedback on students’ assignments.

Why Mindomo is a part of Skolon:

We believe that Mindomo is a highly effective teaching tool, and we wish for as many people to have access to it as possible. With Mindomo, teachers can easily manage students’ assignments, projects, and grades. For students, Mindomo becomes easily accessible from within the Skolon platform. With the partnership between Mindomo and Skolon, both teachers and students can easily access Mindomo and get all the benefits of the numerous features our tool offers.

See more material for Mindomo:

This is how you can try Mindomo for free on Skolon:

Did you become curious about Mindomo? All logged-in Skolon users have the opportunity to try Mindomo for free for 10 days! Here’s how:

1. Go to Mindomo in Skolon’s library here.

2. Click the Test button. Here, you can also choose whether you want to add Mindomo as a test for yourself, or whether you also want to distribute it to one or more classes and groups.

3. Now, Mindomo is available as a demo version in “My Collection” along with your other digital educational tools and materials! – you’re ready to start testing!

Buy Mindomo directly through Skolon:

Mindomo is available for purchase in Skolon’s library. Go directly to Mindomo in Skolon here to buy licenses or learn more about Skolon’s library here.

GO TO MINDOMO IN SKOLONS LIBRARY

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The digital educational tools come from both small and large providers, all of whom have one thing in common – they create digital educational tools that are beneficial for the school environment.

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Kubo – Playful coding

13 September|

Introduce the concept of algorithms and coding with KUBO Play, a digital coding platform that allows students to write algorithms for a virtual robot, providing a means for teachers to introduce coding and computational thinking in a virtual setting at school and encourage practice at home.

In Skolon’s library, among all 5,000 different tools, you can now find Kubo Play. We spoke with Helena González Antón, product manager at Kubo to hear how young students and teachers can use Kubo in their classrooms and introduce coding in a fun, interactive way.

Helena, what is Kubo play and how does it work in the school?

Before we start… Coding for preschool and elementary school is actually much simpler than you think! Believe it or not, a 5-year-old kid is already aware of the basic coding concepts, even if they don’t know what they are specifically.

In their daily routine, they all use coding concepts without even thinking about them! Every morning they: open their eyes, wake up, get out of bed and has a breakfast. By following this sequence in that specific order, they achieve the task of starting the day. Congratulations! Every morning 5-year-old kids are using the term “algorithm” by having an ordered sequence of steps to achieve a particular task.

An algorithm is an instruction given in order to complete a certain task and receive the desired result. And how is that related to KUBO Play?

In a digital coding platform designed for early-age students (age 4-10+) named KUBO Play, a 5-year-old kid will use the TagTile® pieces to write an algorithm which will tell KUBO, the virtual robot, how to perform a certain task to produce that result. With KUBO Play and the standard-aligned and detailed curriculum, teachers will be able to introduce coding and computational thinking in a virtual setting at school and let students practice their new skills at home!

What are the opportunities for using Kubo play in teaching?

With KUBO Play as a teacher:

You will support your students’ unique needs and abilities with customized learning pathways. Assign tasks and challenges, tailored to the student’s individual skill level and learning style.
Your students will have personalized 1:1 learning that ensures that children thoroughly comprehend each coding concept before moving on to the next one and that learning goals and milestones are met.
You have full support and access to our educational resources including curriculum, and cross-curricular activities which are combined with coding and computation thinking.
You will encourage inclusion and innovation in a whole new generation of kids which will develop 21st-century skills.

With KUBO Play as a student:

You will have fun while learning how to code.
You will have the chance to be creative and explore different stories.
You will complete different missions and earn coins.
You will have your individual login to continue your learning at home.

Who can use Kubo play?

KUBO Play is easy to use for teachers as well as preschool and elementary students. With Classroom Management (available here), teachers can manage their class, assign specific tasks based on students´ skills —and follow their individual and group progression. It is great for having a deeper understanding of the class´s level, the tasks that have been completed and the tasks that have challenged them.

In the classroom, every student is going through the same levels for in-classroom discussion. KUBO Play, also enables students to work from home at their own pace, space, and time. This is both an opportunity to increase parent involvement, increase time spent on coding, and allow students unable to participate in class to participate at home.

How does the tool work?

Through three different modes – Free Play, Practice, and Story Mode – students can explore functions, subroutines, loops, variables, conditions, events, and random behaviors.

In Free Play Mode, teachers present coding concepts while students familiarize themselves with the TagTile® pieces. Practice Mode offers personalized learning journeys for students to strengthen their coding skills at their own pace. Story Mode consists of 84 levels connected by a larger narrative, allowing students to connect coding with storytelling and soft skills. The platform also provides a curriculum aligned with educational standards for teachers to integrate coding into their lessons.

Why Kubo play is a part of Skolon:

Kubo play is a perfect match to go along with the Skolon interface. Skolon provides access to a wide range of digital educational tools for teachers to choose from, and for primary school Kubo play is for sure the way to go, being a part of a portfolio suited for the future classroom.

See more material for Kubo play:

This is how you can try Kubo play for free on Skolon:

Did you become curious about Kubo play? All logged-in Skolon users have the opportunity to try Kubo play for free during 30 days! Here’s how:

1. Go to Kubo play in Skolon’s library here.

2. Click the Test button. Here, you can also choose whether you want to add Kubo play as a test for yourself, or whether you also want to distribute it to one or more classes and groups.

3. Now, Kubo play is available as a demo version in “My Collection” along with your other digital educational tools and materials! – you’re ready to start testing!

About Kubo play:

In a digital coding platform designed for early-age students (4-10+) named KUBO Play, a 5-year-old kid will use the TagTile® pieces to write an algorithm which will tell KUBO, the virtual robot, how to perform a certain task to produce that result.

With KUBO Play and the standard-aligned and detailed curriculum, teachers will be able to introduce coding and computational thinking in a virtual setting at school and let students practice their new skills at home!

Go to Kubo play in Skolon here.

GO TO KUBO PLAY IN SKOLON`S LIBRARY

This is Skolon – we gather the best digital educational tools and make them work in the classroom.

The digital educational tools come from both small and large providers, all of whom have one thing in common – they create digital educational tools that are beneficial for the school environment.

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