Supporting school closures
We’ve had a number of enquiries surrounding the use of our software to help minimise any disruption to learning that may occur as a result of school closures due to Coronavirus (COVID-19).
Distance Learning with Satchel One (Teacher's Guide)
How to assist users with logins remotely
Whether you want to invite new users or help existing users with their forgotten passwords, you have many options for doing so remotely.
Have a look at our extensive guide here.
Recent releases for Distance Learning
Increased the maximum file size for attachments to 100mb
Made online submissions the default method
Made it easy to find timetables for colleagues and students
Made it possible to send password links en-mass, to support schools with password management remotely
Introduced clear read notifications to stay on top of important messages
Added filtering options and an increased number of notifications per page
Allowed teachers to add attachments to comments and return annotated work
Improved homework Insights to easily allow teachers to send a message to students who have not viewed a task
Added a new task type, Classwork, perfect for assigning lesson work to remote learners
Flexible issue dates can be set for same-day tasks
Improved Homepage Zones
Improved homework Insights
Teachers able to use emojis on the platform
Improved Timetables whereby teachers can attach video links to lessons, host staggered start times and view their agenda on the dashboard
Limit Quizzes to a single attempt
Seating report for easy student track and trace
Attendance Pro for identifying unauthorised absences and taking in-class and remote learners’ attendance
GCSEPod and Quizlet Integrations
Share to functionality with Microsoft Teams and Google Classroom
Set homework to individual students within a group to support those shielding or isolating
Seating Report that shows you all plans per class to help with track and trace
Homework Discussion to allow collaboration between students and teachers
Insights for Classwork and Flexible Tasks
For more information regarding recent changes, please check our Product updates.
Our infrastructure
At Satchel, we’re committed to helping our schools through this period and wanted to reassure you that;
Our system is built to deal with increased traffic as necessary
Our infrastructure will automatically scale to support a larger than expected number of requests
This academic year we have maintained 99.98% uptime of our system and we will ensure we can maintain this level through this academic year regardless of increased usage by schools
We regularly go through spikes of extremely high traffic during busy periods and are equipped to deal with this
Although this is an automated process, we also have monitoring systems in place to alert our engineering team.
Our offer to schools
We understand that this period of uncertainty is scary and we want to minimise the stress families and schools are experiencing by helping ensure all schools have a system that supports distance learning.
We are offering any school who doesn’t already use Satchel One an extended evaluation period of 3 months. There’s no upfront payment needed, no obligation to continue using the software after this period, and we’ll set you up as quickly as possible.
Feel free to share this offer with any schools who are in need, and to get in touch, please email info@teamsatchel.com
Content for our users
We have created guides for you to use which cover some of the ways Satchel One can be used to support distance learning, including how to check that students have seen classwork, implementing a distance learning strategy and providing feedback online to ensure that learning can continue at the same pace.
Read more here: https://info.teamsatchel.com/en/covid-19-school-closures