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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. Uploading bulk placement data

    We created a bulk upload tool to help ITT providers make changes to multiple trainee records at the same time

  4. 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

  5. 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.

  6. No longer asking for a trainee’s home address

    We’ve stopped importing, collecting and displaying home addresses.

  7. Allowing providers to import applications with conditions pending

    Making it possible to register trainees whose status in Apply has not yet changed to recruited.

  8. Highlighting problems with trainee records

    Helping providers fix their own data so that they do not need to contact the support team.

  9. 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.

  10. Bulk awarding of teaching status

    Letting providers bulk recommend trainees for qualified teacher status or early years teacher status.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. When everything’s gone wrong

    A look at our ‘maintenance page’, to be used when the service is offline

  14. Helping HEIs find trainees from a single year

    Improving ways providers can find everyone who was in training in an academic year

  15. Updating Register’s guidance pages

    We updated Register’s guidance pages to help different training providers find what they need quickly

  16. Adding support for iQTS

    Adding support for registering trainees studying international qualified teacher status (iQTS)

  17. Updating the ‘ITT end date’ field

    Renaming the field and prompting for it to be updated so it stays up to date

  18. Updating our support user interface

    Improving the tools and interface our support staff use to administer Register

  19. Adding reports to Register to help users check their data

  20. Revisiting how we identify current and past trainees

  21. Showing providers the funding they receive

  22. Changing route and courses for registered trainees

  23. Improvements to our autocompletes

    Looking through individual improvements we’ve made to our autocompletes to better support our users

  24. Using analytics to understand where our autocompletes could be improved

    An investigation in to where users struggle with our autocompletes

  25. Highlighting invalid answers

    Exploring patterns for showing answers that are invalid

  26. Preventing browser auto-fill

    Our solution to disabling browser auto-fill

  27. Apply integration - version 1

    Exploring how we’ll import records from Apply

  28. Giving Register users service updates and latest news

    Another way to keep users up to date about the transition to Register

  29. Removing the highest academic qualification question

    Why we think we do not need this question and an alternate design if we do.

  30. Courses with multiple subjects

    Adding support for a second and third subject on a course

  31. Searching for a school (part 2)

    Designs for our non-JavaScript school search

  32. Initial placements findings

    Initial findings on placements show they are more complex than we initially thought.

  33. Setting the withdrawal date for deferred trainees

    Improving how we collect this data

  34. Investigating free text responses from Apply

    Looking at data submitted to Apply and how it might impact Register

  35. Searching for a school (part 1)

    Exploring using an autocomplete to pick schools

  36. Adding school direct routes

    Expanding the routes we support

  37. Collecting placement details

    A first pass at collecting a trainees’ placement details

  38. Initial support for users who work for multiple providers

    Dipping our toes in to the complex world of organisations, providers, and schools

  39. 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.

  40. Selecting which degree a bursary was awarded for

    Helping providers pick between multiple degrees to tell us which one attacted a bursary.

  41. Bulk actions on a group of records

    Letting providers do common actions in one go

  42. Recording training outcomes (iteration 2)

    Removing the option for failure when recording training outcomes

  43. Picking courses from Publish

  44. Collecting trainee start date

    Adding a second date in addition to the course start date

  45. Beta prototype research (round 3)

    Continuing research into the provider-led journey

  46. Recording training outcomes

    An early attempt at recording training outcomes

  47. Beta prototype research (round 2)

    Research into provider-led user needs and continued testing of the prototype

  48. Beta prototype updates

    How the prototype looked for round 2 of research

  49. Beta prototype v1

    Building a new prototype from scratch

  50. Beta prototype research (round 1)

    Validating existing assessment only user needs and testing the prototype