{"id":2006,"date":"2016-09-19T13:09:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2016-09-19T13:13:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T12:13:23","slug":"new-online-support-groups-for-schools-colleges-and-training-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/new-online-support-groups-for-schools-colleges-and-training-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"New online support groups for schools, colleges and training centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During our <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/annual-team-day\/\">recent team day<\/a>, we decided to rationalise the online support that we provide to schools, colleges and training providers. We normally create dedicated groups for specific subjects (for example, there is one for the new <em>NPAs in Cyber Security<\/em>) but this created a proliferation of groups, which proved hard to support. So, we decided to create three new groups: <a href=\"http:\/\/groupspaces.com\/SQAComputingSchools\/\">one for school teachers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/groupspaces.com\/SQAComputingColleges\/\">one for college lecturers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/groupspaces.com\/SQAComputingTraining\/\">one for training providers<\/a>. These will replace all of the specialised groups.<\/p>\n<p>I would urge you to join one of these new groups. School teachers can join <a href=\"http:\/\/groupspaces.com\/SQAComputingSchools\/join\/\">here<\/a>, college lecturers can join <a href=\"http:\/\/groupspaces.com\/SQAComputingColleges\/join\/\">here<\/a>, and training providers can join <a href=\"http:\/\/groupspaces.com\/SQAComputingTraining\/join\/\">here<\/a>. The groups are already filling with over 40 members in the college group, over 30 in the school group and over 20 in the training group. These groups will connect you to fellow professionals and we&#8217;ll also be there to help when we can (including SQA verifiers).<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:helen.zhang@sqa.org.uk\">contact Helen<\/a> if you need any assistance to join one of the groups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During our recent team day, we decided to rationalise the online support that we provide to schools, colleges and training providers. We normally create dedicated groups for specific subjects (for example, there is one for the new NPAs in Cyber Security) but this created a proliferation of groups, which proved hard to support. So, we decided to create three new groups: one for school teachers, one for college lecturers and one for training providers. These will replace all of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2007,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}