Chris Jupp - E-Learning Manager

As a member of the Local Authority Innovations Group, I first saw ClickView in 2006 at our local City Learning Centre and immediately recognised its potential for the school. ClickView has proved to be the one software product that excites staff throughout all departments. Teachers can easily learn the basics of how to use ClickView, including how to add short extracts to PowerPoint slides and to our Managed Learning Environment. Students also use ClickView to export video to enrich their presentations and web publications. As well as using the resources provided, we add materials to our ClickView Library almost daily either by recording whole programmes or by adding short news clips. We have added teachers’ favourite material from old VHS tapes, making it more versatile and enabling several classes to have access to the same resources at the same time. We are very excited by the new ClickView Exchange which enables us to download material recorded by other schools and to add some of our own for partner schools to share. We are now starting to use ClickView to organise original photos and other images for students to use on a copyright-free basis. Whether taken by students, staff or parents, these are building up into a resource that students can easily search and use for exam coursework where they would otherwise be penalised for infringing copyright if they simply copied images from the Internet. Similarly, teachers can prepare materials that they can then share with other schools without concerns over copyright. We have found that ClickView staff have a real understanding of education; they offer free training for teachers at whatever level is required. Their technical support is genuinely helpful and responsive. We are looking forward to trialling the new ClickView Home service which will enable students to access material in the ClickView Library from home. Together with the introduction of the Managed Learning Environment and a scheme to give some students laptops for home, ClickView is helping to transform our students’ learning. In summary, a ‘must have’ service!” ClickView and the MLE Lead to Exam Success (PDF, 220Kb)

Clifford French - Head of ICT

ClickView has become a terrific asset to the Humanities department in our school. Many of our Religious Studies and Citizenship lessons use video as part of the lesson and it has been so useful to show the film on a large screen, be able to go straight to the part of the film you want to show, and go forward and back without trying to guess where the video needs to be. ClickView has helped us to widen the availability of our resources – it means that more than one teacher can show a sought-after film simultaneously, when previously we had to juggle around with lessons because there was only one copy of the resource. But best of all, we have been able to share resources with other schools through the ClickView Exchange scheme, and so increase our own library of film.

Terry Spencer - Teacher

We recently subscribed to ClickView because we quickly recognised that this was not only the solution to the problem of storing our ever-increasing library of video content that was rapidly filling up the network, but would also provide our students with a much richer multimedia learning experience. We can now easily embed video into documents such as PowerPoint and Word quickly and effectively to provide more personalised and independent learning in school and at home. The setup process ran very smoothly indeed. In partnership with our network manager, a ClickView technician came in to school and within a couple of hours, high quality video was accessible to all students and teachers within our 1250 pupil strong secondary school. While Broadgreen’s implementation of ClickView is still in the early stages, teaching staff are already very enthusiastic about the features they now have at their disposal and its positive impact on learning. Across our broad and rich curriculum many teachers have already commented on how it has enhanced teaching and learning. Most teachers start by just using the digital videos from the extensive pre-installed ClickView Library, but others are now adding their own and pupils’ video files, viewing video exemplars of teaching for professional development purposes and podcasting. All of this is providing a library of rich media for creative use and ownership by our staff and pupils. What is particularly reassuring about ClickView is that their learning advisors are actually teachers who have years of experience of embedding ICT for learning. Consequently training is of a high standard which ensures that the use of digital media will become entrenched in learning and teaching. What struck me very early on in our ClickView journey was how easy ClickView is to integrate with our VLE, you simply copy and paste a URL or embed all or part of a video into a document and pupils have rich-media to complement their curriculum studies at home or anywhere else they choose to log on.

Peter Banks - Assistant Head Teacher

1. How has ClickView changed your teaching methods? ClickView has really enhanced the way we use video and digital media at Kirkcudbright. We have found that we can all watch sought-after videos by digitising them and storing them in our ClickView Library, rather than having to share VHS tapes and audio visual equipment among the department. This means that all staff and pupils can access resources at any time, as ClickView allows you to deliver all your media across your network. 2. Has ClickView influenced the type of lessons you offer? In Science, we have found that ClickView has helped us to solve problems with staging experiments in class. If there is an experiment that is too difficult or potentially dangerous for class teachers can record themselves doing the experiment using a camcorder, and then add the video to ClickView – pupils still benefit from watching the experiment, and learning can begin straightaway as time is saved in not having to set up the experiment. 3. What ClickView elements help student learning? We have found the content that comes with ClickView to be really good. We can assign class work to students that engage them with their subject matter by asking them to complete the worksheets that accompany the videos. In PE, we can show school sports matches that have been added to ClickView to encourage students to analyse their performance – we find this particularly useful at Standard Grade level. 4. How are you expanding your digital library? Teachers regularly use ClickView Exchange, a free service that allows teachers to upload and download content added by other schools. There is so much that we have found useful on there. For PE there are episodes of ‘Question of Sport’, as well as most recent matches that have been on TV. Science teachers also find the content on Exchange invaluable – there are lots of programmes from trusted sources, such as Science in Action, Scientific Eye, Science in Focus and Science Bank, as well as recent scientifically relevant programmes captured from TV, such as ‘Horizon’, ‘Planet Earth’ and ‘Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe’. “ClickView was easy to integrate with our VLE” The future of ClickView at our school is further integrating ClickView with Glow. This means that students can access content anytime, anywhere. ClickView is much more than just a storage and management solution. The flexibility that the system allows, coupled with the ability to add your own content, as well as the ClickView Library and ClickView Exchange, make it a real benefit to learning at Kirkcudbright.

John Firth - Science and PE Faculty

1. How is ClickView being used at your school? After ten months with ClickView in place, our media library is still growing at a rapid rate through the enthusiasm and demand from our staff. We are fast approaching 2800 items in our media library and have just made a further upgrade to our server to cope with the storage requirements. ClickView’s video compression makes storage much more efficient than many other formats and allows our storage array to stretch much further. It has serviced our two sites and three schools with over 2500 pupils and over 500 staff seamlessly and continues to do so. 2. What was the reaction from staff after setting up ClickView? Initially there was some reluctance to the system especially from more mature members of staff who were unsure of their abilities with the technology, but after using ClickView opinions have changed and it is now a valued learning tool which makes structuring lessons much easier. It also cuts out having to book out videos or being unable to teach a topic due to lack of access to the required resources. The player is extremely stable and very easy to use even for our most inexperienced users. There is still a lot of excitement about the system and a lot of positive feedback from users saying how helpful it is. 3. How have you found the management of ClickView? From a technicians point of view it is an extremely easy system to implement and maintain and comes with excellent support. Our ClickView installation got off to a great start and everyone is extremely happy with the facility and with what it can do for them. Also we have implemented, alongside ClickView, a PC based Sky recording system which adds further to our library with a steady flow of requests from staff and the high resolution digital quality is maintained even when added to ClickView.

Lee Duncan - Audio Visual Technician

I recently moved from another school to Girvan Academy. My previous school did not use ClickView, and I had no experience of the system. My first introduction to ClickView was when our Learning Advisor, Carol Parish, visited to provide AV training. I at first thought that ClickView was just a storage facility for digital media, which is useful in itself, but I was amazed when I was shown all that ClickView can do. It really ticks all the boxes for manipulating digital media – not only does it solve storage problems, but it allows teachers to take clips out of videos, and use videos with their interactive whiteboards. I’m also excited by ClickView 24-7 and the ability to extract any programme that has been broadcast over the past week, and ClickView Exchange which has about 1000 extra programmes to add to our library. In my last school, I spent a lot of time converting VHS tapes into a more manageable MP3 format, but had no way of managing and delivering this media across the network. If only I’d had ClickView at my previous school, I could have saved so much time! I will definitely be recommending ClickView to the last school I worked at, and to other schools in the area – it’s great to have an area to share all of our resources for learning among staff, and to make digital media more accessible for everyone.

Lawrence Grace - IT Technician

The arrival of ClickView 24-7 has made a big impact on Stowe School. It has revolutionised the way in which we can harness the power of the media to enrich our educational offer. So often in the past we only heard about good television programmes the day after from colleagues, or realised something would be excellent half way through watching it. At times it may only have been a clip lasting a few minutes, but by the time a clear video tape had been found the moment had been lost. This is no longer an issue as we can dip in to all programmes that have been broadcast over the past week to capture the moment and make it available to all of our students. ClickView 24-7 is a gem, and is something that we wanted and needed for a long time, but never dreamt possible. The potential to use ClickView 24-7 in all subjects is immense and allows us to make what we teach seem far more relevant and up to date. There is a huge amount of superb material available on television and now we can harvest the best and use it to great effect in our teaching.

James Tearle - ICT Director

We subscribed to ClickView because, as a school, we are constantly looking to engage our students and enhance their learning through the creative and innovative use of ICT. Video is now accessible to every student and every teacher at the click of a mouse. The feedback I have had from staff has been very positive. The broad range of rich media content gives them immediate access to over 1000 pre-installed videos. We are also starting to add our content to the library captured from free to air television and those created in-house. What I particularly like is that both students and teachers can take ownership of this content and use the software to take clips from videos and add them to PowerPoint or their interactive whiteboard pages. Another impressive feature is how easy ClickView is to integrate with our VLE. You simply copy and paste a link or embed all or part of a video into a VLE page and pupils have rich-media to compliment their curriculum studies at home or anywhere else they choose to log on. I am very excited about the potential ClickView has for our learners and I would highly recommend this rich media solution to all schools.

Dale Jones - E-Learning Manager