ActiveLearn Digital Service is the service that combines time-saving planning and assessment
materials, front-of-class teaching resources, and online auto-marked homework and practice
to help you plan, teach, track and assess, all in one place.
With tens of thousands of teachers and their learners, just like you, logging into ActiveLearn
Digital Service every day, ActiveLearn Digital Service has been described by Teach Secondary
Magazine as 'actively brilliant... an incredibly well-thought-out online innovation that is
rich in content, support and learning'. So what's all the fuss about?
Great teaching starts with good planning. ActiveLearn Digital Service provides plenty
of materials to help you. These include downloadable and editable lesson plans for every lesson,
videos and other media giving hints and tips on how to tackle the course content, and Schemes
of Work for delivery over different time periods and levels of achievement.
Once in the classroom, our front-of-class resources are there to help you deliver personalised,
inspirational lessons. The presentation materials include online versions of the Student books,
packed with useful extra features and functionality. You can zoom in on individual questions and
reveal and annotate the answers, to discuss solutions in more depth. You can also access
hundreds of front-of-class resources, including prior knowledge worksheets, lesson starters,
explanatory videos, games, short quizzes and deep-learning activities.
The teacher support materials provide invaluable back-up to the presentation resources. There
are a host of invaluable resources, including lesson plans, teacher and technician preparation
notes, activity packs and assessment materials. This all adds up to A LOT of content. To help
you easily target what you want, we've created a simple time saving playlist feature. This
allows you to bring together the specific questions and resources you need to deliver
a particular lesson. You can add your own resources too, either files from your computer
or weblinks so your lessons are fully personalised and customisable to you and your learners'
needs.
Once you've taught the lesson, you can set homework from the front of the class by simply
selecting the pre-prepared questions either from the front-of-class Student Book or from
the Homework, Practice and Support part of the site.
This area allows you to easily set work for classes, groups or individual students. Exercises
can be set as homework to reinforce classroom work, or you can set intervention work to
a group or an individual, to improve understanding of a specific topic. The Homework Practice
Service includes a huge range of online student exercises, ranging from specific problem-solving
questions to self-marked exam-style questions.
The student-facing homework area provides a unique, supportive environment to encourage
student learning. Exercises are available at different levels, to enable students to
work at their optimum level. Hints, learning aids and targeted feedback gives students
support when they need it.
This greatly improves learning and retention and helps to encourage success and further motivate learning
I find that it's much easier and you get more support because of the learning aids, and
it will provide you with the text books, as well, to have a look through.
When the homework is due it is automatically handed in, automatically marked and you are
sent an email summary of results. You can review the results of individual students
or groups with easy-to-use traffic-light reporting, and also review student progress over time.
Reports for sharing with colleagues or parents, or to add to other reporting software used
by your school, are available for download. Don't take our word about how motivating and
time-saving ActiveLearn Digital Service is! Watch staff and students from Crookhorn College,
Hampshire describe their experience of using the service in our online video.
It's just really useful, it's really intuitive, and it looks really nice and smart on the board.