Useful Links
Here you can find a directory of useful links to organisations, software platforms, websites and tools which you may find useful.
Cloud, Coding, Computing Curriculum
AWS (Amazon)
Start building on AWS today. Build, Deploy, and Manage Websites, Apps or Processes On AWS' Secure, Reliable Network.
EdTech, Education
Association for Learning Technology
A collaborative community for individuals and organisations from all sectors including Further and Higher Education and industry and provide professional recognition and development.
Digital Safety, Digital Skills
BBC Own Iit
Featuring top celebrities and vloggers, BBC Own It gives tips on how to improve digital skills, and advice for things that might be worrying children, like bullying or body image.
Digital Skills
BCS - Digital Literacy
If you feel left behind or are looking to update your IT skills, taking a recognised BCS qualification is a great way to update your skills.
Digital Safety
Be Internet Legends
Helping children be safe and confident explorers of the online world
Professional Development
British Computer Society
The chartered IT professional body for computing.
Coding, Computing Curriculum, Education
CSTA
The Computer Science Teachers Association supports, promotes and educates regarding pedagogy and other disciplines within computing.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
Cambridge Coding Academy
Cambridge Coding Academy develops affordable, personalised solutions to make computing education accessible to everyone, whatever the differing aptitudes, interests and learning styles.
Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT
Web Tools, eLearning
Class Dojo
ClassDojo connects teachers with students and parents to build amazing classroom communities
Coding, Computing Curriculum
Code Club
Code Club aims to enable all children aged 9–11 to learn to code, to build and share ideas, to actively create rather than passively consume.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
CodeBug
The wearable CodeBug helps even complete beginners create programs in minutes and can also be used to teach the fundamentals of physical computing. “Hands on” workshops are available.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
Codea
Codea is built on the Lua programming language. A simple, elegant language that doesn't rely too much on symbols — a perfect match for iPad.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
Codio
Educational technology company Codio has partnered the OCR exam board in a cloud platform where key stage 2–4 pupils can apply theory in real-life situations, using any computing language.
eLearning
CourseLab
CourseLab is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, e-Learning authoring tool that offers a programming-free WYSIWYG environment for creating high-quality interactive e-Learning content that can be published on the Internet, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CD-ROMs and other devices.
Blog
Data in Government Blog
UK Government blog about our work with data and the way we’re using performance analysis and data science techniques to improve service delivery and policy outcomes.
Web Tools, eLearning
Easelly
Easel.ly is a simple web tool that empowers anyone to create and share powerful visuals (infographics, posters)... no design experience needed! We provide the canvas, you provide the creativity.
Web Tools, eLearning
EdPuzzle
Choose a video, give it your magic touch and track your students' comprehension.
Digital Strategy, EdTech
EdTech Demonstrator Programme
A free national peer-led network of demonstrators helping schools & colleges
in England to develop and improve their digital strategies
EdTech, Digital Strategy
Education Technology
Free, subscription-only monthly magazine featuring the latest edtech news, opinion, and event information from across the entire education sector
Education
Education and Training Foundation (ETF)
The expert body for professional development and standards in Further Education (FE) and Training in England.
Digital Skills
Enhance (ETF)
The Enhance Digital Teaching Platform hosts two fully-subsidised training offers to support teachers and trainers in using educational technology (EdTech) and developing their digital skills.
Web Tools, eLearning
Evernote
Evernote capture, organize, and share notes from anywhere. Your best ideas are always with you and always in sync.
Web Tools, eLearning
Explain & Everything
Make yourself clear with world’s best digital whiteboard
Web Tools, eLearning
Explain Everything
Explain Everything is a powerful tool, but sometimes it’s hard to just start from an entirely blank canvas. Check and try out new whiteboard templates!
Web Tools, eLearning
FlipGrid
Simple, free video discussions to make learning fun, fulfilling, and empowering.
Web Tools, eLearning
Floop
Empower Student-Led Learning. Students get the feedback they need, when they need it.
Web Tools, eLearning
Flubaroo
Flubaroo is a free tool that helps you quickly grade multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments.
Web Tools, eLearning
Formative
See students work in real-time, give feedback, track student success, and collaborate with your fellow teachers
Professional Development, Digital Skills
Future Learn
Learn 100% online with world class universities and industry experts.
Web Tools, eLearning
GimKit
A game show for the classroom that requires knowledge, collaboration, and strategy to win.
Web Tools, eLearning
GoBoard
GoBoard is an online tutoring platform that combines video conferencing with an interactive canvas.
Digital Skills
Google - Applied Digital Skills
The Applied Digital Skills curriculum consists of free resources designed to build digital literacy in education and for jobs.
Digital Skills
Google - Digital Garage
Learn at your own pace, with flexible and personalised training courses designed to build your confidence and help you thrive.
Teaching Resources, Digital Skills, Professional Development
Google Edu - Digital Skills - Teaching Resources
Explore resources and tools created by Google to inspire creativity, encourage hands-on learning and equip your students with digital skills.
Education, EdTech, Cloud
Google Workspace (for Education)
Transform how educators and students learn, work and innovate together with free, secure tools from Google Workspace for Education.
Web Tools, Coding
HTML Online Editor
Real-time online HTML editor software kit with dynamic instant live visual preview and inline WYSIWYG editor and markup clean-up feature
Web Tools, eLearning
Hopscotch
With Hopscotch, kids can learn to think, improve their creativity and develop problem-solving skills while having fun creating and playing games on iPad and iPhone.
Digital Safety
Immobilise (UK National Property Register)
Immobilise helps Police identify the owners of recovered property thousands of times everyday.
EdTech, Digital Strategy
JISC
A membership organisation, providing digital solutions for UK FE & HE education and research.
Web Tools, eLearning
Kami
Empower your students and transform the way you teach, feedback, and assess.
Digital Skills, Computing, eLearning, Coding
Khan Academy
Practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning
Teaching Resources
LEGO Education
Rethink STEAM learning and spark joy in the classroom with the LEGO
Web Tools, eLearning
Labster
Labster is the world’s leading platform for virtual labs and science simulations.
Web Tools, eLearning
Lapse It
Lapse It allow you to take the best time lapse videos with your mobile device ! Time Lapse is a photograph technique that gives an accelerated view of slowly changing events Events such as movement of clouds, the rising and setting of the sun, a party with your friends, even individual activities or anything else that you can imagine.
Web Tools, eLearning
Learn Around the World
Virtual Field Trips | Guest Speakers | Collaborations
Coding, Web Tools
Learn-C Interactive Tutorial
Learn-c.org is a free interactive C tutorial for people who want to learn C, fast.
Digital Skills, Professional Development
LinkedIn Learning
Enhance Your Skills With Expert-Led, Online Video Tutorials. Sign Up Today! Get 24/7, Unlimited Access To Over 16,000 Business, Design & Tech Online Courses. Expert-Led Courses.
Digital Skills
Microsoft Educator Centre
Make learning inclusive, personalised, and student-centered by blending remote and physical classrooms.
Digital Skills
Microsoft Learn
Whether you're just starting or an experienced professional, our hands-on approach helps you arrive at your goals faster, with more confidence and at your own pace.
Computing Curriculum, Coding, eLearning
Minecraft Education
A gamebased learning platform that builds STEM skills, unleashes creativity and engages students in collaboration and problem-solving.
EdTech
Moodle
Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments.
EdTech, Digital Strategy
Naace
Naace is a community of teachers, school leaders, advisors, consultants and commercial partners working across all areas of UK education who share a vision for the developing role of technology in education.
EdTech, Computing Curriculum, Computing
National Centre for Computing Education
The National Centre for Computing Education is funded by the Department for Education and supporting partners. It is led by a consortium of STEM Learning, Raspberry Pi Foundation and BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT. We provide resources, training and support for teaching computing in schools and colleges from Primary through to A Level.
Web Tools
Natural Reader
Natural Reader is a professional text to speech program that converts any written text into spoken words.
Free Software, Web Tools
NearPod
Real-time insights into student understanding through interactive lessons, videos, gamification, and activities.
EdTech
Notion
Notetaking software and Project management software for Note-taking, Task management, Project management and more
Web Tools, Free Software
OBS Studio
Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.
Web Tools, eLearning
Peergrade
Online platform to facilitate peer feedback sessions with students
Computing, Computing Curriculum
Penjee
Penjee is a place where you can learn how to code with the python language.
Web Tools
Photopea
Like Photoshop, Photopea Online Photo Editor lets you edit photos, apply effects, filters, add text, crop or resize pictures.
Web Tools, eLearning
Plickers
Plickers lets you poll your class for free, without the need for student devices. Just give each student a card (a “paper clicker”), and use your Android smartphone or tablet to scan them to do instant checks-for-understanding, exit tickets, and impromptu polls.
Digital Skills, Professional Development
Pluralsight
With the technology skills platform, you can see where your skills stand and master the latest in software development, IT ops, AI and machine learning, security and more.
Web Tools, eLearning
Quizizz
Find and create free gamified quizzes and interactive lessons to engage any learner.
Web Tools, eLearning
Quizlet
an AI Learning Assistant and new expert explanations, get a suite of science-backed study tools at your fingertips.
Web Tools, eLearning
Quizlet Live
Live real-time online quiz. Enter your game code to play on a computer, tablet, or phone. Good luck!
Computing, Computing Curriculum
Raspberry Pi
The Raspberry Pi is a tiny and affordable computer that you can use to learn programming through fun, practical projects.
Blog
Reddit Education
The goal of r/Education is to provide a community in which educational stakeholders can participate in meaningful, reflective, and thought-provoking discourse about educational policy, research, technology, and politics.
Web Tools
Remove Image Background
Remove image backgrounds automatically in 5 seconds with just one click.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
Rising Stars
Rising Stars publishes the award-winning Switched On Computing series of resources, covering Early Years to Year 6 with many creative and engaging projects. E-safety is embedded throughout.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
STEM Learning (Computing)
We provide high-quality support for the teaching of computing in schools and colleges, from key stage 1 through to A level.
Web Tools, eLearning
SchoolTube
SchoolTube is the premier, free video sharing platform for teachers, students, and their communities.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
Scratch
Scratch is the world’s largest coding community for children and a coding language with a simple visual interface that allows young people to create digital stories, games, and animations.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
ScratchJR
Coding for young children. Coding is the new literacy! With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) can program their own interactive stories and games.
Web Tools
Screencast-O-Matic
Screencast-O-Matic offers teams video creation solutions for faster, clearer communication. Videos for coaching, marketing, demos, training and more. Quickly create videos, manage content and collaborate with your team
Web Tools, eLearning
Showbie
From assignments to collaboration, Showbie helps you bring your classroom together in one simple, easy to use app.
EdTech, Collaboration
Slack
One place for everyone and everything that you need to get things done.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
Technocamps
An outreach programme across Welsh schools, Technocamps organizes Technoclubs, the Technoteach teacher-training programme, and interactive Playground Computing workshops.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
The Learning Machine
The Learning Machine is an awarding organisation producing innovative low-cost digital qualifications for schools. All supporting resources are free under non-restrictive licenses.
Web Tools, eLearning
ThingLink
ThingLink aims to radically improve engagement and learning results with interactive media: images, videos, virtual tours, 3D models and simulations.
Web Tools, eLearning
Thrively
Discover students' unique strengths, interests, and aspirations to build the skills they need for success
Web Tools, eLearning
TinyBop - The Everything Machine
The Everything Machine is a visual programming iOS app. Kids can invent and create anything they can imagine using their devices’ tools and sensors.
Web Tools, eLearning
Twinkl
All Twinkl resources are teacher-made and can be used by anyone, anywhere - making learning accessible to all.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
Tynker
The fun way to learn programming and develop problem-solving & critical thinking skills! Ages 5-18
eLearning, Computing, Professional Development
Udemy
Udemy is an online learning and teaching marketplace with over 183000 courses and 40 million students. Learn programming, marketing, data science and more.
EdTech
UfI VocTech Trust
Through grant funding, venture investment and advocacy we champion the power of vocational technology to improve skills for work.
EdTech, Digital Pedagogy
Unity
Unity is the ultimate game development platform. Use Unity to build high-quality 3D and 2D games, deploy them across mobile, desktop, VR/AR, consoles or the Web, and connect with loyal and enthusiastic players and customers.
EdTech, Digital Pedagogy
Upload VR
ploadVR (UVR Media, LLC) is a news organization focused on the intersection between people and VR/AR.
Web Tools, eLearning
View Pure
Removes all distracting comments and side-bar related videos. Removes distractions and "inappropriate content".
Coding, Computing
W3 Schools
W3Schools is a school for web developers, covering all the aspects of web development.
Web Tools, eLearning
Wakelet
Save your biggest inspirations, showcase your finest work, and plan that holiday of a lifetime, all on one platform, completely free.
Digital Inclusion, Web Tools
Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool (WAVE)
WAVE® is a suite of evaluation tools that helps authors make their web content more accessible to individuals with disabilities. WAVE can identify many accessibility and Web Content Accessibility Guideline (WCAG) errors, but also facilitates human evaluation of web content.
Web Tools, eLearning
Wonder Workshop (Make Wonder)
We’re helping you create tomorrow’s out-of-the-box innovators.
Assessment, Computing
Yacapaca
Any computing device will run Yacapaca - desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile phone. Use it for classwork, homework, topic tests or exams.
Web Tools, eLearning
Yacapaca
Set every kind of assessment from simple yes/no questions to lengthy essays. From multiple choice, to short-text, to essays. All auto-marked using artificial intelligence.
Web Tools, eLearning
ZoomNotes
ZoomNotes is the most versatile note-taking app, with smooth ink in eight different pens, text, unlimited zoom, sub-pages, linked sound recording, automatic palm rejection and much more. PDF, DOC and PPT annotation. I
Computing Curriculum
code-it.co.uk
Computing resources produced by Phil Bagge Computing Inspector / Advisor working for HIAS, Hampshire Inspection and Advisory Service.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
cs4fn
Computing is an inspirational subject to learn, even just for fun, and Computer Science for Fun’s website, magazines and resources emphasise this, particularly through unplugged approaches.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
iCompute
iCompute uses the latest technology to excite Primary children and teachers about the art and science of computing. Its scheme of work provides comprehensive lesson plans and materials.
Coding, Computing Curriculum
just2easy
just2easy brings the best technology into education in an easy yet powerful way. Its software includes j2webby, j2e5, and j2code. Pupils get free online access as part of a school licence.