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  1. Adding a subject to a placement

    We changed the way that school users add the subject to a placement.

  2. Adding date of birth to the ‘Add mentor’ flow

    We updated the ‘Add mentor’ flow to include the date of birth when searching for a teacher to improve information security

  3. Adding a placement before adding mentors

    We updated the service to allow placements to be added before mentors.

  4. Service error pages

    We added error pages shown when a page is not found or when there is a problem with the service

  5. Managing an ITT provider’s partner schools in Support

    We added a way for support users to manage partner schools on behalf of ITT providers

  6. Managing a school’s partner providers in Support

    We added a way for support users to manage partner ITT providers on behalf of placement schools

  7. Managing partner schools if you’re an ITT provider

    We added a way for ITT providers to manage their partner schools

  8. Managing partner providers if you’re a school

    We added a way for placement schools to add their partner ITT providers

  9. Collecting feedback about the service

    We added a feedback page to the service

  10. User research round 2 findings

    Testing the ‘Find placements’ journey with ITT providers

  11. Viewing partner school placements

    Exploring how we might show partner school placements to ITT providers

  12. Finding new school placements

    Exploring how ITT providers might find new school placements for their trainees

  13. User research round 1 findings

    Testing the ‘Add mentor’ and ‘Add placement’ journeys with school users

  14. Adding placements if you belong to a school

    Based on our learnings from Alpha, we continued exploring how schools might add placements to the service

  15. What is an ITT provider?

    ITT providers are organisations responsible for recruiting trainee teachers and delivering ITT courses

  16. Adding mentors in Support

    We added a way for Support users to add mentors to a school

  17. Adding mentors

    We added a way for schools to add their mentors to the service

  18. What is a mentor?

    A mentor supports trainee teachers or early career teachers (ECTs) or oversees other mentors

  19. Managing support users

    We added a way for Support users to add other DfE users to the Support site

  20. Adding an ITT provider when JavaScript is unavailable

    We added a no-JavaScript version of the add ITT provider flow

  21. Adding a school when JavaScript is unavailable

    We added a no-JavaScript version of the add school flow

  22. Managing organisation users in Support

    Giving the support team the ability to manage users belonging to an organisation

  23. Adding organisations in Support

    Giving the support team the ability to add schools and ITT providers to the service

  24. The anatomy of a school placement

    Thoughts on what constitutes a school placement

  25. Measuring the success of a school placements service

    Thoughts on ​​service key performance indicators (KPIs)

  26. Experiment 6: Managing school and mentor SEND capabilities

    Exploring how we collect and show school and mentor special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) capabilities

  27. Experiment 5: Managing mentors if you’re a school

    Iterating how schools manage their mentors’ information

  28. Experiment 4: Finding mentors if you’re an ITT provider

    We iterated our second experiment, exploring how providers might find information about mentors

  29. Experiment 3: Exploring how providers might report information about school placements

    We changed our approach from schools and providers adding and finding school placements to providers reporting their school placement needs to DfE

  30. Experiment 2b: Iterating what we show to ITT providers when they search for school placements

    We iterated our first experiment to explore how providers might find information about school placements

  31. Experiment 2a: Iterating how schools add school placements

    We iterated our first experiment exploring how schools might add information about school placements

  32. Experiment 1b: Finding school placements if you’re an ITT provider

    Exploring how providers might find information about school placements

  33. Experiment 1a: Adding school placements if you’re a school

    Exploring how schools might add information about school placements

  34. Defining our problem statements

    We translated our four problem areas into problem statements to give our team and stakeholders clarity and focus

  35. Problems with school placements

    During discovery, we identified several problem areas

  36. Mapping our assumptions

    We mapped our assumptions to understand better which areas of the school placement problem space we should explore

  37. Why are we working on school placements?

    Schools play a critical role in delivering Initial Teacher Training (ITT) by providing placements and mentors for trainee teachers, but engagement levels vary