Welcome to BLT Online

1. Welcome to BLT Online NQT Induction

2. Points We Will Cover: • What is BLT Online NQT Service? • What are the advantages of using it? • User roles on the site • Registering new NQTs • Submitting NQT assessments • What happens when an NQT finishes their induction? • Support

3. What is BLT Online NQT Service?

4. BLT Online NQT Service • BLT Online NQT Service is the new NQT area on our already very popular BLT Online site • Use BLT Online to book all of your courses and purchase all of your traded services • The BLT Online site can be accessed at www.learningtrust.com • The NQT website for all information regarding the induction process provided by Buckinghamshire Learning Trust, support forms, advice and guidance is at nqt.learningtrust.net

5. BLT Online NQT Service

6. What Are The Advantages?

7. The Advantages • Automatic sign-off process for assessments • All NQT records from each school stored securely online • No need to send anything in the post to us • No more huge email attachments • More efficient, stream-lined process for schools and the BLT NQT team

8. User Roles in the NQT Area of BLT Online

9. NQT User Role An ‘NQT’ can…. • View their registration form • Review, add comments and sign off each assessment • Add evidence (if they wish to)

10. Induction Tutor User Role An ‘Induction Tutor’ can…. • Add new users • Add registration forms • Write and sign off assessments • Have access to all NQTs’ records assigned to that induction tutor (even after the NQT has completed their induction) • Add evidence for their NQT (if they wish to)

11. Headteacher User Role An ‘Headteacher’ can…. • Add new users • Add registration forms • Read and sign off assessments • Have access to all NQTs’ records assigned to that school (even after completion of induction) • Add evidence for their NQTs (if they wish to)

12. What happens if I have mentors as well as induction tutors? • At present, a school can have as many Induction Tutors and Headteachers on the system as required but an NQT can only be assigned 1 Induction Tutor and 1 Headteacher. • If you require your mentors to have induction tutor access instead of the current induction tutor assigned to your NQTs but you still wish your induction tutor to have access to all of the NQT’s records we can provide the main induction tutor with reviewer rights (which work the same way as Headteacher rights). Please contact us at nqt@learningtrust.net if you would like more information.

13. Registering an NQT

14. To Register an NQT School contacts BLT Admin team to request information on registering an NQT The Headteacher signs and returns the Service Level Agreement The Induction Tutor/Headteacher can add the NQT as a new user (see below):

15. When logged in as Induction Tutor or Head, select ‘add NQT’ from NQTs’ dropdown list in order to set up a new user

16. You will then be taken to the NQT’s registration form. You do not have to complete this form immediately - you will be able to find the NQT’s account again (once you are ready to complete the registration form) by searching for them on the Manage NQTs page. Please don’t set up the NQT with a user account again otherwise they will have 2 accounts.

17. Complete the registration form including all mandatory fields (marked with a red *)

18. Induction end date will auto populate (therefore can be left blank) IF the following 3 conditions apply: 1) The NQT starts their induction period on 1st September2) The NQT is working full time AND3) The NQT has not served any part of their induction already. If these conditions do NOT apply, enter the completion date you believe to be correct and put a note in the ‘induction end notes’ field. The NQT admin team will be able to check this field when they authorise the form.

19. If an NQT Has Served Part of Their Induction Elsewhere • On the registration form, select ‘yes’ radio button in the ‘Has the NQT already completed part of their induction elsewhere?’ field: • Then click ‘Add new school’ to add details of previous school and number of assessments completed there. • After submitting the registration form, upload the previous assessment(s) into the evidence section (which can be found next to the NQT’s name on your list of registered NQTs).

20. Important: If you’ve added the NQT as a user but NOT fully completed their registration form, you can find their incomplete registration form by searching for them on the Manage NQTs page. You can then edit their registration form by clicking on ‘edit registration form’. Please don’t set up the NQT with a user account again otherwise they will have 2 accounts.

21. What Happens Next? • On saving the registration form, it will be submitted to the BLT NQT Admin team for approval. • Once approved, the Induction Tutor and NQT will be emailed confirmation, along with assessment due dates. • The first assessment will then be ‘unlocked’ for use.

22. Assessments

23. Find your NQTs via ‘Manage NQTs’ The default search dates can be amended or cleared Make sure you click search otherwise no NQTs will be displayed

24. Once you have selected your NQT… • Click on ‘Assessment dates and forms’ to be taken to the ‘NQT Assessments’ page where you can view and complete assessments for the relevant NQT:

25. The NQT Assessments page… • On the NQT assessments page you can complete assessments, download and print assessments, add evidence and see due dates for the 3 assessments • If you believe any of the assessment due dates to be incorrect please contact BLT NQT Admin on nqt@learningtrust.net

26. Important Point to Note • Please note you will be unable to move on to the next assessment until the previous one has been completed and signed-off by the NQT, the Headteacher and BLT’s NQT Admin. It will remain red until it is ‘open’ to edit.

27. To add text to an assessment • When logged in as the Induction Tutor, click on the relevant assessment form link (in blue) to add text to it.

28. Save continuously whilst writing the assessment. You can continue to write and save the assessment at any point up until the confirmation box has been ticked. • Mandatory enforcement for fields will be applied once you have ticked the final confirmation checkbox. • Once the assessment is ready for submission, tick the confirmation box at the end of the form and click ‘Save’.

29. The Sign-off Process Induction tutor ticks confirmation box and saves NQT receives email from the system and logs on to review, comment and sign-off form Headteacher receives email from the system then logs on to review and sign-off form NQT Admin team receive notification. Once they have confirmed the form, the Induction tutor and NQT receive email notification. The next assessment will be ‘unlocked’ for use at the next assessment point. Please note: If you (Induction Tutor) have completed an assessment but it hasn’t yet been signed off by NQT Admin you can check whether it is still awaiting confirmation by the NQT or Headteacher by looking at the confirmation/signature box at the bottom of the assessment.

30. The Evidence Area

31. Evidence • Evidence area can be used to store documents such as assessments from previous schools, action plans or lesson observations but is not mandatory. • From the Manage NQTs search results, navigate to the NQT and click ‘Evidence’…

32. You can then add, view, edit or delete evidence • Click on ‘add evidence’ to upload a document

33. What Happens When an NQT Completes Induction?

34. Completion of Induction • BLT NQT Admin team authorises final assessment. If NQT has successfully completed, a confirmation letter is emailed (from the system) to Induction Tutor, Headteacher and NQT. If the NQT requires an extension, NQT Admin can create an online extension assessment. • BLT NQT Admin Team update NQT’s record on the National College for Teaching & Leadership’s website and they (NCTL) will email confirmation of successful completion to the NQT directly, along with instructions on how to access their certificate. • Records of all previous NQTs(only those who started the process from September 2014) can be found by selecting ‘NQT Induction Complete’ (from the dropdown ‘NQT stage’) in search box on Manage NQTs page. BLT NQT Admin Team can also access all previous NQTs’ records in the same way.

35. Support

36. Support • User guides can be found on our website nqt.learningtrust.net and on the homepage of BLT Online when you have logged in • Please ensure users let us know if they change their email address/school • The BLT NQT team are available to help at nqt@learningtrust.net or on 01296 382859

37. Any questions?