DfE style guide
Helping make things clear and consistent across all of our services.
Mission patches
Archive of patches created to celebrate milestones in the development of our different services.
Teacher services map
How the ‘becoming a teacher’ services relate to other services in the teaching journey
Find postgraduate teacher training
A service for candidates to find courses by location, provider or subject
- Alpha
- UCAS course examples
- UCAS teacher training (search)
- Private beta
- Folded courses research 8 June 2018
- Just the UCAS data
- Just the UCAS data – 25 July iteration
- Subjects, bursaries and SKE courses
- PGDE and further education courses
- What we launched – 2 October 2018
- Results on a map – Early design with tweaks
- Results on a map – Full screen
- Results on a map – Full screen iteration
- Results on a map – User research 18 October
- Results on a map – Text on labels
- Showing a map in the filters column
- Special educational needs (SEN) filter
- Static failover service
- Iterate course titles
- Maps for providers with many partner schools
- Choose how to apply
- SEND survey and updates
- Choose how to apply – Iteration and research
- Performance report - March 2019
- Financial incentives
- Performance report - May 2019
- An end of cycle notice
- Closing search for the end of cycle
- Find as of December 2019
- Updating Cookie policy and banner
- Make it easier to find university courses
- Universities as an area
- Course page workshop
- Placement schools in search results
- End of cycle notices for 2020
- Prompting for feedback
- Searching by location
- Searching by location (iteration)
- Standardising entry requirement content
- New ‘International students’ section
- Visa sponsorship filter
- Finding courses at the end of the 2021 cycle
- New subject flow
- Degree requirements filter
- Removing 2 filters
- Updating the ‘International candidates’ section
- Exploring selected filter tags
- Making the service more browseable
- Improving the content on the search results page and course page
- Enhancing the browsable Find concept prototype
- Adding an ‘Engineers teach physics’ filter to the results list
- Filterable Find postgraduate training courses (Find) concept
- find-updated-bursaries-and-scholarships
- Extending the browsable Find concept with provider details pages
- Adding guidance for international candidates if the course is a teaching apprenticeship
- Fixing the ‘Engineers teach physics’ content in the ‘Qualifications needed’ section
- find-error-pages
- Expanding abbreviations to improve accessibility
- Adding a submit button to the ‘sort by’ form to improve accessibility
- Updating the service to improve accessibility
- Adding and updating links to Get Into Teaching
- Including information about subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) courses
- Improving the HTML page titles on the course results page
- Adding information about relocation payments to course pages
- Sorting by course name in the search results
- Making school placements content more accurate and consistent
- Redesigning the content in the ‘International candidates’ section and improving visa information
- Adding content about Get Into Teaching events
- Updating ‘Entry requirements’ content in line with policy
- Changing ‘locations’ to ‘schools’ in the school placements section
- find-renaming-accredited-body-to-accredited-provider
- Including a link to the Get Into Teaching bursaries and scholarships page
- Removing school placement vacancies
- Showing course funding information
- Filtering courses by funding type
- Improving the content above school placements and in the provider search
- Showing ‘Study sites’ on the course details page
- Improving the information on a salaried course page
- Adding visa sponsorship information to the summary list on a course page
- Including a question about visa sponsorship in the find a course flow
- Reordering the filter list
- Highlighting fees for international candidates
Apply for teacher training
A service for candidates to submit an application to their chosen teacher training courses
- Apply – April 2018
- Apply – May 2018
- Apply – August 2018
- Apply – December 2018
- UCAS Teacher Training
- Free form application and qualifications
- Progressive application
- Prototyping with paper-based application forms
- Creating our first interactive prototype
- Apply – June 2019
- Sign up and log in using a magic link
- Picking courses to apply to
- Submitted application
- Work history - August iteration
- Equality monitoring
- Removing the teaching profile
- Cover letters
- Asking for an undergraduate degree
- Apply – September 2019
- From Find to Apply
- Amending and withdrawing
- Apply as launched on 26 November 2019
- Give a teacher training reference
- Giving details about disability
- Accessibility audit report from DAC
- What we ask for and why
- Give a teacher training reference (iteration)
- Working patterns for part time jobs
- Suitability to work with children
- Work history and volunteering guidance
- User research with first Apply candidates
- Interview needs
- Gather feedback from referees
- Replace a referee
- Replace both referees
- International address
- International qualifications
- Residency status
- Giving details about disability (iteration)
- Asking candidates to nominate referees
- Declaring any safeguarding issues
- Signing back into the service
- Add another course
- Choosing which service to apply through
- Stop applications to full or unavailable courses
- Work history breaks
- Give a reference (second iteration)
- Courses that become full after submission
- The summary card component
- Adding academic and other relevant qualifications
- Application dashboard
- Applying again (Apply 2)
- The troubles with amending (or editing) your application
- What needs to change if you’re applying again
- Informing candidates about the impact of coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Capturing feedback about the service
- Structured data for degree qualifications
- Applying again (iteration)
- Reason for withdrawing
- Improving the references user journey
- Apply again: Choose a course first
- Apply again: Accept or decline an offer and withdrawing
- Making the references process faster
- Structured data for pre-degree qualifications
- Courses that become full after submission – our initial approach
- Opening up the service to international candidates
- Is your English good enough to be a teacher?
- Asking for nationality
- Making the recruitment process transparent at the end of the year
- Asking for degree grades
- Helping candidates work on an application across 2 recruitment cycles
- Getting references before submitting an application
- Prompting for feedback throughout the application journey
- Simplifying the feedback form
- Improving work history
- Changing “Conditions met”
- Encouraging candidates to add A levels
- Dashboard changes
- Apply again changes
- Prompting candidates to review their answers before submitting
- Selecting references
- Allowing candidates to apply again earlier
- End of cycle 2021
- Changes to the GCSE questions and guidance
- Moving the personal details section to the top
- Updating the 'Choose your courses' flow for the new cycle
- Content improvements for international candidates
- Degree grade requirement warning message
- Updating the referee flow
- Apply again to 3 courses
- Simplifying the sign up page
- Changing the order of the initial degree questions
- Degree autocomplete changes
- Supporting foundation degrees
- Showing fee and salary information in offer details
- Helping providers assess a candidate’s fee status
- Improving the email sent to candidates about new interviews
- Updating the emails sent when users create an account or sign in
- Requesting references after offers have been accepted
- Asking candidates for reference details when they apply
- Asking candidates to confirm who reference requests should be sent to
- Letting candidates deal with reference requests after accepting an offer
- Changing how we ask people for a reference
- Changing how we ask about disabilities and health conditions
- Asking candidates if they received free school meals
- Asking if rejection feedback is helpful
- Telling candidates they need to do a subject knowledge enhancement course
- Merging the personal statement
- Changing how we ask candidates why they withdrew an application
- Changing the application process for candidates
- Adding a navigation bar
- Changing the way candidates choose courses
- Moving the equality and diversity survey
- Exploring ways to integrate multiple services in the becoming a teacher journey
- Improving the content in the ‘Interview needs’ section
- When Francis felt frustrated
- Allowing candidates to edit their application form after they’ve submitted it
- Testing new designs for the personal statement
- Changing how we ask candidates about what location they are applying to
- Improving the content when a candidate selects a course from Find
- Explaining to candidates when they can start applying to courses
- Making the right to work or study and immigration questions clearer
- Stopping candidates from applying for courses that do not sponsor visas
- Making changes to email notifications for candidates
- Helping candidates prepare for the 2023 to 2024 recruitment cycle
- Helping candidates understand why they cannot submit an application
- Helping users navigate between their task list and submitting applications
- Grouping and ordering applications for candidates
- Giving applicants the best chance of success
- Improving the designs when a candidate submits an application
- Improving the visa and immigration status question
- Enhancing the user experience and interface for application pages
- Identifying and prioritising problems and riskiest assumptions for 2024
- Highlighting fees for international candidates on apply
Publish teacher training courses
A service for training providers to publish and manage their courses
- Experimental new course wizard
- Course with parts
- Original onboarding
- Courses and tabs
- What is a course?
- Course with variants and field guidance
- Course folding and UCAS course details
- Sign-in: Invite a user
- Sign-in: User registers themself
- Contextual guidance on course fields
- Show details from UCAS
- A university’s view
- School direct view
- School direct view – Iteration
- Draft of the QA process
- Draft of a read only version
- Iteration 26 June 2018
- Check your UCAS data (Initial launch)
- Iteration 28 June 2018
- Request access
- Managing multiple organisations
- Shared organisation details
- Templates
- When a user is not recognised
- Salary and fees
- UCAS course status
- Validating on publish
- Story map – 1 August 2018
- Course statuses – 3 August iteration
- Success messaging
- No more course folding
- Formatting
- Copy content from another course
- Fields we ask for and why
- Terms agreement
- Preview course
- Who did what and when
- User research – 22 August
- Iteration – 23 August
- Iteration – 24 August
- Contact details
- Enrichment release – 6 September
- Welcome email
- Copy content from another course (Live)
- Copy content – 14 September iteration
- Course statuses – 15 October iteration
- Edit a course outcome
- Hide discontinued training locations
- The location problem
- Location labels and survey research
- Schools autocomplete
- UCAS onboarding form
- New course wizard
- New course wizard – 6 December iteration
- New course wizard – Training locations
- Specific course requirements for UCAS Apply
- New course wizard – Minimum course requirements
- New course wizard – Confirming course title
- Rethinking the publish workflow
- Vacancies
- Migrating publish statuses
- Course page – 11 January iteration
- New course wizard – 14 January iteration
- Vacancies – 14 January iteration
- New course wizard – Further education
- Edit course information workflow
- Preparing for more features
- Add training location wizard
- Add a region or area workflow
- Minimum viable Add training location
- New course wizard: Accredited body – 5 February iteration
- New course wizard: Languages – 5 February iteration
- Status logic before UCAS transition
- Rollover reckons
- Add a location – 13 February iteration
- Email announcing UCAS transition
- Rollover wizard
- Onboarding workflow and wizard
- UCAS Apply preferences
- UCAS Apply preferences: Letters and alerts
- Postcodes
- Explaining transition
- Email asking for providers who are available 15-18 April for our first UCAS transition group
- UCAS settings and contacts
- Deleting and withdrawing courses
- Email about Publish changes in April
- Requesting a title
- Tabs on course pages
- New course wizard – As a Google Form
- Minimum course requirements – iterations
- Age ranges
- New location as a Google form
- An MVP for the first cohort transition from UCAS
- Email with video of new vacancies feature
- New course wizard – 9 April iteration
- Problems with a course
- Type of location MVP
- Tabs on locations
- Logic mapping UCAS eligibility questions to API codes
- Onboarding wizard as a Google form
- In what order should we build the Edit screens?
- Publishing during rollover
- What we shipped for UCAS transition
- Support for missing features
- Courses as an accredited body
- Highlighting the multiple organisations feature
- UCAS GCSE requirements – A read only MVP
- Show allocation policy on a course
- Emails for the new 2019/20 cycle
- Allocations process for 2020 – 2021
- Rollover – what we did in 2019
- Accredited bodies research - Reporting
- Accredited bodies research - Reporting round 2
- Accredited bodies research - Round 3
- Notifications MVP
- New course wizard as launched for accredited bodies
- Allocations alpha
- Managing notifications
- Managing users
- Managing notifications – feedback from universities
- New features for accredited bodies
- How will candidates apply for this course?
- Request PE courses as launched for accredited bodies
- Researching the needs of users with access to multiple organisations
- Notifications for users with access to multiple organisations
- Notifications iteration
- User personas as test accounts in Publish
- Uncoupling UK and EU course fees
- Rollover – what we did in 2020
- Visa sponsorship
- Degree entry requirements
- Pending GCSEs and equivalency tests
- Placement schools and training centres
- Visa sponsorship question wording change
- Updating the visa sponsorship guidance
- Improving content on the course pages
- Changing ‘applicants’ to ‘candidates’
- Removing UCAS content
- Adding questions about visa sponsorship to courses
- Audit of email notifications and improvements to content
- Managing individual email notifications
- Financial incentives for ancient language courses
- publish-adding-primary-navigation
- Managing and communicating rollover in 2021
- Simplifying how organisations manage their users
- Viewing training partners and their courses if you’re an accredited body
- Managing accredited bodies if you’re a lead school
- Reorganising organisation details
- Changes to the welcome email
- Updating button labels and success messages
- Giving lead schools the ability to manage permissions for their accredited bodies
- Giving accredited bodies the ability to manage courses they ratify
- Emailing accredited bodies when they have been added to a lead school or their permissions have changed
- Showing academic year on the course details page
- Showing financial support from the government
- Updating how organisations manage their locations
- publish-switching-recruitment-cycles
- Moving the position of course status and course actions
- Emailing users to let them know that courses will be rolled over soon
- Allowing users to manually rollover courses not previously published
- Adding guidance on how to use this service
- Improving the guidance on the course description pages
- Indicating unanswered questions with ‘not entered’
- Improving the course summary examples guidance page
- Reviewing course statuses
- Changing ‘cycle’ to ‘recruitment cycle’
- Updating how providers manage course vacancies
- Separating the ‘Published’ status into ‘Open’, ‘Closed’ and ‘Scheduled’ statuses
- Improving the content on the add and edit course flows
- Making course previews consistent with Find
- Making the visa sponsorship questions clearer
- Updating the ‘Check your answers’ and course details pages
- Adding an ‘Engineers teach physics’ question to courses
- publish-updated-bursaries-and-scholarships
- Showing course title on the ‘Check your answers’ page
- publish-error-pages
- Revising ‘Engineers teach physics’ content
- Updating the error messages displayed in the add and edit course flows
- publish-renaming-accredited-body-to-accredited-provider
- Improving how providers add schools
- Renaming ‘locations’ to ‘school placements’
- Adding a school when there is no JavaScript available
- Improving the course preview
- Improving how training partners manage their accredited providers
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- Adding new guidance pages to ‘How to use this service’
- Managing and communicating rollover in 2022
- Removing course vacancies
- Updating organisation details
- Replacing the ‘Teaching apprenticeship’ question for accredited providers
- Adding ‘Study sites’
- publish-adding-study-site-no-javascript
- Including ‘Study sites’ in the course details
- Making international fees mandatory for providers sponsoring Student visas
- Hiding the ‘Add course’ button when organisation details are missing
- Improving the guidance above the salaried courses text box
- Adding a guidance page about schools and study sites
- Encouraging providers to open their course to receive applications as soon as possible
- Improving the guidance when a training provider withdraws a course
- Emailing providers to let them know ‘Study sites’ is no longer mandatory
- Managing and communicating rollover in 2023
- User needs for Publish
Manage teacher training applications
A service for training providers to see, manage and make decisions on applications they receive
- First designs for a minimum viable service
- Fewer statuses
- New panels and application tables
- Application states
- Make an offer
- An interface for minimal service provision
- As launched on 26 November 2019
- Filtering applications
- Marketing page for providers
- Adding users
- Withdrawing an offer
- Offer a different course
- Offer panel
- Improving check and confirm content
- Timeline
- Tracking conditions individually
- Card layout for application list
- Process and rules for changing a course
- Giving teacher training providers longer to make decisions on applications because of coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Application layout changes
- Reasons for rejection
- Improved header
- Breaking apart the application page (sub navigation)
- Making a decision iteration 2
- Setting up permissions
- Setting up permissions (iteration 2)
- Setting up permissions (iteration 3)
- Setting up permissions (iteration 4)
- Reasons for rejection iteration 2
- Setting user permissions: context and user research
- Reasons for rejection iteration 3
- Notifications
- More context for providers
- Sorting by reject by default (RBD) date
- Displaying safeguarding information
- Selecting organisation level permissions by type
- Adding a note for the first time
- Research - end of cycle (exploratory)
- Deferring applications to the next cycle
- Reconfirming an offer for a deferred application
- Switching between cycles
- Exporting data
- Help users know what needs doing and what’s changed
- Showing international candidate and structured qualifications data
- Research – end of cycle (usability)
- Showing equality and diversity information to providers
- Managing applications across cycles (reconfirming deferred offers)
- Prompting users to set up permissions when changing a user’s access
- Prompting users to give feedback on automatically rejected applications
- Banner prompt iteration
- Deferring offers to the next cycle (iteration 2)
- Reconfirming a deferred offer (iteration 2)
- Data sharing agreement confirmation page
- Sub navigation iteration (moving away from tabs)
- Research - Notifications, Application List, Deferrals, Diversity Information, Data Export
- Deferring offers to the next cycle (iteration 3)
- Reconfirming a deferred offer (iteration 3)
- Who can make changes to offers
- Notifications iteration
- Account area and navigation
- Setting up notifications for the first time
- Dense application list layout
- Managing interviews
- Smaller headings
- Setting up permissions (iteration 5)
- Changing conditions iteration
- Tracking conditions individually iteration
- Banner prompt iteration 3
- Interviews iteration 2
- Making a decision iteration 3
- Changing an offer as of November 2020
- Changing an offer iteration
- Interviews iteration 3
- Reasons for rejection iteration 4 (emails)
- Timeline iteration 2
- Exporting data iteration 2
- Filter applications by full time or part time (study mode)
- Improvements for representing disability, safeguarding and interview information
- Let users turn email notifications on and off
- Search by candidate name or reference
- Closing an application (withdrawal versus rejection)
- Withdrawing an application
- Better feedback for automatically rejected applications
- Managing individual email notifications
- Show reasons why an offer is withdrawn
- Issues with changing an offer
- Application page improvements
- Showing when an offer will be automatically declined
- Filtering applications by subject
- Improving the activity log and timeline
- Removing the ‘future applications’ question from reasons for rejection
- Self-service registration for higher education institutions and their school direct partners
- Improving activity log and timeline again
- Show tuition fee status
- What to show when an application has been transferred to another provider
- Removing the subject field from notes
- Showing the automatic rejection date when setting up an interview
- Updating the name of the organisation which certifies international qualifications
- Cancelling upcoming interviews when making decisions
- Gathering school direct contact details from higher education institutions
- Withdrawing an application iteration 2
- Finding out what data our users need
- Adding a ‘cannot sponsor visa’ reason for rejection
- Improving organisational and user permissions
- Giving all users access to view their organisation’s users and permissions
- Let accredited body users set organisational permissions
- Creating a new permission allowing users to set up interviews
- Require users to choose an organisation before changing organisation settings
- Showing data about courses and candidates
- Providing a configurable course report and showing important data in one place
- Simplifying how we ask about and display permissions
- Providing status and progress reports alongside data exports
- Setting up organisational permissions when new partner courses are opened
- Moving organisational permissions guidance above the form
- Displaying permissions in the user list
- Clarifying that pages in ‘your account’ relate only to the current user
- Showing the organisation name when the user belongs to one organisation
- Showing partners when user permissions apply to all or none of the relationships
- Changing the filter labels for ‘courses run by’ and ‘courses ratified by’
- Application fraud research
- Application status and progress reports research
- Online chat research
- Organisation and user permissions research
- Changing ‘organisational’ to ‘organisation’
- Assigning applications to users
- Filtering applications by assigned user
- Helping users through online chat
- Unassigning applications when a user is deleted
- Telling users when a partner organisation sets permissions
- Adding user assignment to the timeline and activity log
- Application assignment research
- Data reports research
- Helping users check how candidates drop out of the application process
- Showing degree institution regardless of candidate nationality or application status
- Status label research
- Helping users check how quickly courses are filling up
- Swapping the ‘sign in’ and ‘get started’ calls to action on the service landing page
- Letting users download Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) data for the previous recruitment cycle
- Changing what we show to users who do not have permissions
- Changing the ‘accepted’ and ‘conditions met’ statuses
- Showing users where candidates choose to leave the application process
- Helping users check how diverse their candidates are
- Changing the terms for adding a user to and removing a user from an organisation
- Emailing users who are added to or removed from an organisation
- Emailing a candidate when the status of their conditions has been updated
- Removing ‘rejected by default’ from the email users receive when they do not make a decision in time
- Using clear and consistent file names for exported data
- Dividing the application process differently when we show how candidates choose to leave the process
- Anonymised applications research
- Finding the service research
- Personal statement research
- Reasons for rejection iteration 5
- Updating the service unavailable pages
- Adding guidance about dates and deadlines
- Changing the marketing page to a standard start page
- Iterating how we help users understand how diverse their candidates are
- Making it clearer that a candidate has chosen not to add A levels and other qualifications
- Adding a privacy notice for online chat
- Allowing a wider range of input formats for interview time
- Simplifying how we help users spot bias in their recruitment processes
- Helping users understand a candidate’s residency and immigration status
- Referring to recruitment cycles
- Review of provider emails
- Improving the qualifications section of the application details page
- Confirming a deferred offer iteration 3
- Deferring an offer iteration 3
- Making our prompts more consistent
- Emailing users when their permissions are updated
- Removing the complaints page and form
- Updating the personal statement questions on the application details page
- Reasons for rejection iteration 6
- Highlighting unexplained breaks in work history
- Letting providers change course before making an offer
- Updating make offer and change offer
- Finding out the effect of removing the reference number
- Emailing a candidate when their course details are changed
- Letting users turn off the email reminder to make a decision
- Hiding the sex, disability, ethnicity and age of candidates report
- Starting the Manage service on GOV.UK
- Changing an accepted offer
- Changing the way we use red warning buttons
- Making page titles consistent and more meaningful
- Changes to button labels and addition of warning text
- Changes to headings, caption text, success messages and timeline event titles
- Changes to the use and appearance of boxes
- Removing the phrase “through GOV.UK”
- Indicating unanswered questions with ‘not entered’
- Changes to the sign in flow when DfE Sign-in is unavailable
- Changing course when there are upcoming interviews or the training provider is changed
- Replacing reference number and candidate ID with application number
- Helping users find applications from the same candidate
- Sending users a weekly summary of notifications
- Improving the way we display who made changes in the timeline
- Withdraw an application iteration 3
- Helping users understand the effect of organisation permissions
- Sorting the application list in different ways
- Adding an overview page and filters to help users prioritise their work
- Comparing and processing applications across partner organisations
- Adding an interruption page to encourage users to give feedback on automatically rejected applications
- Only showing filters that return useful results
- Showing notes in the application list
- Helping users find applications which have not been looked at yet
- Explaining that notes are not shown to candidates
- Letting users change and delete notes
- Removing the individual note pages
- Moving the export data link to the application list
- Changing how notes are displayed
- Clarifying which notes are shown in the application list
- Emailing candidates about upcoming interviews when their course is changed
- Helping users decide whether to contact us about a sign in from a new device
- Changing how we show when an application was received on the application details page
- Changing the coloured boxes on the overview page
- Comparing and processing applications across partner organisations and training locations iteration 2
- Filters for prioritising important work (iteration 2)
- Filtering the activity log to show applications which were received recently
- Filtering the application list to show applications which were received recently
- Shortlisting an application
- Adding an application details bar to application pages
- Making references an offer condition
- Showing dates and deadlines for the next recruitment cycle
- Guidance about references when making an offer
- Adding a new page for references
- Revisiting reasons for rejection
- Helping users decide if candidates meet the initial teacher training criteria
- Rejection email previews
- Letting training providers recommend candidates to other providers
- Making subject knowledge enhancement courses an offer condition
- Adding a withdrawal reasons report
- Reporting on the diversity of applicants
- Letting training providers view their recruitment performance
- Removing the ability for applications to be rejected automatically or offers to be declined automatically
- Showing training providers when an application is updated by a candidate
- Updating email notifications for training providers
- Helping training providers prepare for the end of the 2022 to 2023 recruitment cycle
- Allowing providers to register candidates who still have to meet their subject knowledge enhancement (SKE) condition
- Adding a heading to the application list to help providers find older applications
- User needs for Manage
Register trainee teachers
A service for collecting and managing trainee teacher registration data
- Database of trainee teachers and providers
- Alpha prototype
- Beta prototype research (round 1)
- Beta prototype v1
- Beta prototype updates
- Beta prototype research (round 2)
- Recording training outcomes
- Beta prototype research (round 3)
- Collecting trainee start date
- Picking courses from Publish
- Recording training outcomes (iteration 2)
- Bulk actions on a group of records
- Selecting which degree a bursary was awarded for
- Reflect how providers work through the task list
- Initial support for users who work for multiple providers
- Collecting placement details
- Adding school direct routes
- Searching for a school (part 1)
- Investigating free text responses from Apply
- Setting the withdrawal date for deferred trainees
- Initial placements findings
- Searching for a school (part 2)
- Courses with multiple subjects
- Removing the highest academic qualification question
- Giving Register users service updates and latest news
- Apply integration - version 1
- Preventing browser auto-fill
- Highlighting invalid answers
- Using analytics to understand where our autocompletes could be improved
- Improvements to our autocompletes
- Changing route and courses for registered trainees
- Showing providers the funding they receive
- Revisiting how we identify current and past trainees
- Adding reports to Register to help users check their data
- Updating our support user interface
- Updating the ‘ITT end date’ field
- Adding support for iQTS
- Updating Register’s guidance pages
- Helping HEIs find trainees from a single year
- When everything’s gone wrong
- Collecting more useful information about why trainees withdraw
- Asking providers to sign off trainee data for the previous academic year
- Bulk awarding of teaching status
- Allowing users to edit records imported from HESA in Register
- Highlighting problems with trainee records
- Allowing providers to import applications with conditions pending
- No longer asking for a trainee’s home address
- Making it clearer that a trainee is waiting to be awarded teaching status
- Recording trainee placement data
- Uploading bulk placement data
- Collecting all trainee data directly from providers
- User needs for Register trainee teachers
Support for Apply
A tool for support agents to manage the Apply for teacher training service
- Support for Apply as designed for MVP
- As launched on 26 November 2019
- Support – October 2020
- Improving the add user flow
- Updating the reasons for rejection report
- Improvements to the service performance dashboard
- User needs for Support for Apply
Support for Publish
A tool for support agents to manage the Publish postgraduate teacher training service
- support-adding-primary-navigation
- Updating organisation search and filters
- Adding users to an organisation
- support-switching-recruitment-cycles
- Adding multiple locations to an organisation
- Editing and removing organisation locations
- Adding and editing organisations
- Changing ‘locations’ to ‘schools’
- Managing accredited providers on behalf of training partners
- support-adding-accredited-provider-no-javascript
- Creating a new provider onboarding form and accompanying email
- Managing 'Study sites' on behalf of providers
- support-adding-study-site-no-javascript
- Adding questions about visa sponsorship to organisation details
- Improving how users add schools
- Adding a school when JavaScript is unavailable
- User needs for Support for Publish
Manage school placements
A service for training providers and schools to manage their mentors and placements
- Why are we working on school placements?
- Mapping our assumptions
- Problems with school placements
- Defining our problem statements
- Experiment 1a: Adding school placements if you’re a school
- Experiment 1b: Finding school placements if you’re an ITT provider
- Experiment 2a: Iterating how schools add school placements
- Experiment 2b: Iterating what we show to ITT providers when they search for school placements
- Experiment 3: Exploring how providers might report information about school placements
- Experiment 4: Finding mentors if you’re an ITT provider
- Experiment 5: Managing mentors if you’re a school
- Experiment 6: Managing school and mentor SEND capabilities
- Measuring the success of a school placements service
- The anatomy of a school placement
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- school-placements-support-managing-organisation-users
- school-placements-support-add-school-no-js
- school-placements-support-add-provider-no-js
- school-placements-support-managing-organisation-users
- What is a mentor?
- school-placements-adding-mentors
- school-placements-support-adding-organisation-mentors
- What is an ITT provider?
- Adding placements if you belong to a school
- Finding new school placements
- Viewing partner school placements
- school-placements-collecting-feedback
Claim funding for mentor training
A service for schools to claim funding for their general mentors’ training
- Why are we working on ‘Claim funding for mentors’?
- claim-funding-support-adding-organisations
- claim-funding-support-managing-organisation-users
- claim-funding-support-add-school-no-js
- claim-funding-support-managing-organisation-users
- Inviting Best Practice Network schools to participate in our private beta
- claim-mentor-funding-adding-mentors
- claim-mentor-funding-support-adding-organisation-mentors
- Submitting claims for funding
- Round 1 research findings
- Adding claims in Support on behalf of schools
- Starting the service on GOV.UK
- Updating the claim flow
- Round 2 research findings
- claim-funding-collecting-feedback
- Logging who submitted a claim
- Showing grant conditions
- Submitting draft claims
- claim-funding-service-error-pages