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Our Education Specialist Chat Bot…

Our Education Specialist Chat Bot…

We’ve been working on a special new tool this past few weeks and we’re excited to share it’s now live on the site in Beta testing (please provide us feedback to we can continue to improve it!). DocuDive has been trained on over 55 key educational guidance documents for the curriculum you are teaching, including

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Join over 1000 teachers sharing tips, ideas and feedback on Teachmate

Join over 1000 teachers sharing tips, ideas and feedback on Teachmate

We’ve excited to announce we’ve now launched a FaceBook group for teachers using Teachmate (or those just interested in learning more) to share ideas, tips and suggestions on how to get the most from the platform. We only launched the group a couple of weeks ago and we’ve already amassed over 1000 members sharing their

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5 New tools released this week!

5 New tools released this week!

It’s been a busy week here at Teachmate HQ and we’re excited to announce we’ve launch 5 new tools in our SLT & Subject Leadership collection: As always, we hope these tools will save you loads of time and help improve your wellbeing. Let us know how you get on using them in your school!

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Filming with LGfL… exciting plans ahead!

Filming with LGfL… exciting plans ahead!

It’s been a busy week at Teachmate… we’ve launched 5 new tools and hit the road for a few meetings in London, one of which was with the fantastic LGfL. We’re big fans of all the work LGfL do, so it’s a honour that we’re going to be working on a pilot together soon to

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Teachmate at MGL’s fantastic (and free) conferences this November

Teachmate at MGL’s fantastic (and free) conferences this November

We’re excited to announce that Teachmate Co-founders Lee and Chip will be speaking at MGL’s free Computing Conferences in the North West of England this November. The aim of the days is to empower teachers and leaders on how to maximise the efficiency of using technology in school. The blend of key note speakers and

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New tools: EAL Vocab Mat and Social Stories

New tools: EAL Vocab Mat and Social Stories

We’re excited to announce this week we’ve released 2 new tools as part of our SEND & Adaption Collection: – EAL Vocab Mat will create a set of simple introductory vocabulary linked to any topic for pupils with English as an additional language – Social Stories Experience can be used to draft social stories to

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Find tools faster… introducing our ‘Collections’

Find tools faster… introducing our ‘Collections’

We’re constantly rolling out ongoing updates to the Teachmate website and one of our latest is the introduction of our tool ‘Collections’. Along with ‘Subjects’ these tags make it even easier to find the tool you’re looking for fast. From our Tools page you can quickly filter for one of our 9 Collections of tools,

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Votes For Schools Reviews Teachmate

Earlier this year http://www.votesforschools.com approached us to trial and review Teachmate and of course we said yes! We were really keen to show the team what Teachmate was capable of, and how it could both save teachers time and personalise learning resources for pupils. “20 seconds to create a worksheet or write a report is

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Teachmate goes global!

Teachmate goes global!

We recently crossed 70,000 users worldwide which we’re very excited about. And we really do mean worldwide as this global gradient heatmap shows the countries where visitors to Teachmate arrive from! In our inaugural Pro user webinar we had users join from across the UK, including Manchester, the home of Teachmate HQ, and someone join

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