Are you ready for Bradford Schools Online?

Education Bradford’s Bradford Schools Online website is expected to go live during September and will be the new one-stop-shop for all Bradford schools.

This is an exciting development which will streamline resources and make information gathering easier for schools. The new site has many attractive features and offers schools a range of new possibilities online.

It will also mean that School News ceases to be published during September and Bradfordschools.net – the schools e-portal – will become more of a learning website than a learning and information site as it is at the moment.

The Bradford Schools Online site will become Education Bradford’s primary tool for communicating with schools and will offer a single source for relevant information and guidance. The site has been designed and the content is being written with school staff and governors in mind and will, therefore, have a more focussed feel. This can be seen in features such as the ability to customise your own front page to suit you

Benefits, such as secure access to data about your school, constantly updating news to which you can contribute, the framework for providing online solutions and sharing pupil level data, will not only put the new website on a par with those in other areas of the country, it will surpass many. The information you see will be the regularly updated; so no more waiting around for it to arrive. To ensure this stays up-to-date the site will automatically remove any data which has not been checked within the past six months. This means that the content will be monitored frequently by Education Bradford staff and altered when necessary.

Most important of all everything will be available to you all of the time through any Internet linked computer.

Schools will be invited to share good practice with each other and the site provides a space for users to add news to the front page. This gives Bradford Schools Online a community feel which will hopefully be a useful addition to schools. If, for example you were looking to arrange an inter-schools tournament then the Bradford Schools Online site offers the prefect communications tool for such an event.

As a result of this new site, news will be uploaded onto a Latest News section on the front page of the site daily/when applicable. This means that schools will be updated regularly rather than weekly.

Education Bradford staff will be on hand to assist with any queries and to help guide you through this transition. We hope you will all join us in welcoming Bradford Schools Online and support the site so it can reach its full potential.