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Understanding trainee withdrawals
We conducted data analysis and desktop research to understand what we know and what we don’t know about why trainees withdraw from teacher training
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Collecting all trainee data directly from providers
We are designing tools to allow all providers to efficiently provide information about their trainee teachers directly to the Department of Education
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Uploading bulk placement data
We created a bulk upload tool to help ITT providers make changes to multiple trainee records at the same time
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Recording trainee placement data
We added trainee placement data to collect, analyse and better understand how to meet the placement needs of both providers and trainees
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Making it clearer that a trainee is waiting to be awarded teaching status
We added content to be shown after a trainee is recommended for teaching status but before they get the award.
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No longer asking for a trainee’s home address
We’ve stopped importing, collecting and displaying home addresses.
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Allowing providers to import applications with conditions pending
Making it possible to register trainees whose status in Apply has not yet changed to recruited.
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Highlighting problems with trainee records
Helping providers fix their own data so that they do not need to contact the support team.
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Allowing users to edit records imported from HESA in Register
We’ve made it easier for users from higher education authorities to correct mistakes in their data.
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Bulk awarding of teaching status
Letting providers bulk recommend trainees for qualified teacher status or early years teacher status.
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Asking providers to sign off trainee data for the previous academic year
We created a way for providers to confirm which trainees qualified, withdrew and deferred in the previous academic year.
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Collecting more useful information about why trainees withdraw
We made it possible for providers to give more accurate and detailed information about why trainee teachers withdraw from courses.
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When everything’s gone wrong
A look at our ‘maintenance page’, to be used when the service is offline
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Helping HEIs find trainees from a single year
Improving ways providers can find everyone who was in training in an academic year
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Updating Register’s guidance pages
We updated Register’s guidance pages to help different training providers find what they need quickly
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Adding support for iQTS
Adding support for registering trainees studying international qualified teacher status (iQTS)
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Updating the ‘ITT end date’ field
Renaming the field and prompting for it to be updated so it stays up to date
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Updating our support user interface
Improving the tools and interface our support staff use to administer Register
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Adding reports to Register to help users check their data
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Revisiting how we identify current and past trainees
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Showing providers the funding they receive
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Changing route and courses for registered trainees
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Improvements to our autocompletes
Looking through individual improvements we’ve made to our autocompletes to better support our users
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Using analytics to understand where our autocompletes could be improved
An investigation in to where users struggle with our autocompletes
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Highlighting invalid answers
Exploring patterns for showing answers that are invalid
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Preventing browser auto-fill
Our solution to disabling browser auto-fill
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Apply integration - version 1
Exploring how we’ll import records from Apply
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Giving Register users service updates and latest news
Another way to keep users up to date about the transition to Register
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Removing the highest academic qualification question
Why we think we do not need this question and an alternate design if we do.
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Courses with multiple subjects
Adding support for a second and third subject on a course
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Searching for a school (part 2)
Designs for our non-JavaScript school search
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Initial placements findings
Initial findings on placements show they are more complex than we initially thought.
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Setting the withdrawal date for deferred trainees
Improving how we collect this data
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Investigating free text responses from Apply
Looking at data submitted to Apply and how it might impact Register
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Searching for a school (part 1)
Exploring using an autocomplete to pick schools
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Adding school direct routes
Expanding the routes we support
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Collecting placement details
A first pass at collecting a trainees’ placement details
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Initial support for users who work for multiple providers
Dipping our toes in to the complex world of organisations, providers, and schools
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Reflect how providers work through the task list
Our previous iteration of the task list did not reflect the way our users think and behave.
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Selecting which degree a bursary was awarded for
Helping providers pick between multiple degrees to tell us which one attacted a bursary.
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Bulk actions on a group of records
Letting providers do common actions in one go
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Recording training outcomes (iteration 2)
Removing the option for failure when recording training outcomes
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Picking courses from Publish
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Collecting trainee start date
Adding a second date in addition to the course start date
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Beta prototype research (round 3)
Continuing research into the provider-led journey
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Recording training outcomes
An early attempt at recording training outcomes
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Beta prototype research (round 2)
Research into provider-led user needs and continued testing of the prototype
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Beta prototype updates
How the prototype looked for round 2 of research
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Beta prototype v1
Building a new prototype from scratch
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Beta prototype research (round 1)
Validating existing assessment only user needs and testing the prototype