Glow is the Scottish Schools National Intranet. This is a major national ICT and telecommunications programme managed by Education Scotland. The funding for Glow came from the Scottish Government and the project is a collaboration between local authorities, Education Scotland and RM Education.
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Initial rollout
Preparation for Glow began with an investigatory phase known as Phase Zero, which involved checking that Glow could interface with the management information systems of the 32 Education Authorities in Scotland in order to provision the anticipated 800,000 accounts. Glow was then piloted over a number of stages, and at each stage further functionality was introduced and tested.
Up and running by 2009, it became the world's first national education intranet.
According to Education Scotland "The main purpose of Glow is to enhance the quality of learning and teaching in the classroom by fully supporting the delivery of Curriculum for Excellence."
Features
The full Glow service is web-delivered and browser-based, enabling access from school, home or anywhere that internet access is possible.
The Glow system provides access to a variety of collaboration tools within a secure, password authenticated environment. These include: