GLOW
Glow is the Scottish Schools National Intranet. This is a major national ICT and telecommunications programme managed by Education Scotland.
Glow allows learners to work in a variety of ways, from collaborating with peers to working individually at their own pace. Glow services are free to all students with a Glow login and can be accessed at anytime, anywhere, and on any device.
Benefits of Glow for learners
- Office 365 - Glow provides full access to Microsoft's Office suite including: Mail, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneNote, One Drive and Sharepoint. Use of the online Office 365 suite can develop learner's skills with Office applications, support their learning outside school and use collaborative tools such as Sway to create and share interactive presentations demonstrating their learning both inside and outwith Glow.
- Collaborative working - Glow is a cloud-based service, meaning learners can work both individually and collaboratively on documents, projects and homework from any connected device.
- Anywhere, anytime learning - Learners can access the resources and features of Glow using any device at any time. This means that learning can continue outside the classroom on any device that is connected to the internet
All pupils in Whitburn Academy have a Glow account. The web address for Glow is https://glow.rmunify.com (opens new window)
If you don't know your Glow username or password, your class teacher or the IT Technicians (based in room 211 on the 2nd floor) can search for your username and/or reset your password.