Get started with Personalisation by Pieces

Please contact us by phone or email and we will register your school on the PbyP site. Then, once you have uploaded your staff and student details and downloaded their usernames and passwords, you are ready to go.

Our record so far is a school who came across this website in the morning and had all their children submitting work by that afternoon. Allowing a week is probably more advisable however!

Here is a step by step guide :

1 Decide you would like to use PbyP.

To help you decide, we would recommend going to the 'quick links' page. Here you can; watch the BECTA case study and hear pupil's views; watch Dan Buckley present the theory behind PbyP; download the powerpoint explaining what PbyP is or try the demonstration site for free.

2. Phone us or email us to register your school.

Call us on 01223 463757 and ask for Kevin Vallis or Liz Hearmon. Email us using . You will need the following information to hand.

Institution details: DCSF number, postcode, phone number and address.
Administrator details: Name, DOB, Gender, email address, Initials or staff code they use
Lead Teacher (champion) details. As for the administrator.
Which set of skills you would like children to use. Click here for guidance.
How many licenses you would like. Prices are; £150 initial set up cost, £100 annual school licence + £3 per user per year. Prices are the same whichever skills set you choose.(all figures ex VAT).

3. Log on to PbyP.

After you have registered with us, the administrator and champion will each receive an automated email containing their username and password. You can then log in to the teacher site ( www.pbyp.co.uk/admin ) the learner site ( www.pbyp.co.uk ) or if you are using PbyP Foundations, the class site (http://www.foundations.pbyp.co.uk/login.asp )

4. Upload your staff and students.

An Excell spreadsheet of user details needs to be uploaded to the PbyP website. (A sample spreadsheet is provided on the site.)

Click here to download the detailed guide for administrators explaining the process of uploading users. A small number of schools prefer to ask us to do this for them. Most manage to extract the data from their MIS and upload it into PbyP and report that the process is fast and efficient.

5. Start using PbyP with classes.

If you are using PbyP Foundations you can skip this step.

For standard PbyP, as soon as your administrator gives you the list of usernames and passwords, allocate these to learners and ask them to go to www.pbyp.co.uk to log in and get started. They can then start selecting skills targets and submitting evidence for peer assessment.

On the learner login page there is alink to the userguide. This userguide has been extensively trialled with children and most can follow the tour of PbyP independently and submit work.

6. Get personalised!.

PbyP is such a flexible tool that where you go from here is up to you but here are some ideas schools have shared with us which have worked well

Asking learners to submit a piece a week as homework into PbyP on any topic or skill they like. The teacher then goes to the teacher site and looks at 'view submitted evidence' to check homework has been done.
Using PbyP as the assessment tool for a skills based project the school is already doing such as a transition project, thinking skills course or enrichment activity
Ask a teacher to start highlighting opportunities in their lessons.

7. Watch them start submitting work!

This can be work they have already completed or new work and in pretty much any format. E.g. Sound, visual, written. With the PbyP framework in place, add your own innovation piece by piece. Try out ideas and use the tools in PbyP to see the impact, come on a training course, see what other schools have done on our website or just sit back and witness the amazing collective innovation of a worldwide community of children.

The system does the rest. (Allocates work to an assessor, nominates a mentor and notifies youwhen work or assessment is received.)

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