VLE (The School Portal)

The School Portal, VLE (Virtual Learning Environment)

The school portal is a feature many of the pupils of Armthorpe Academy use daily. I feel that it is not to a high standard, and that it could be easily made much better. The layout is terrible, using badly chosen colours and images. We also see poor quality from where images have been cropped badly, with the white background still around parts of it. The portal is also quite difficult to navigate through, which is not good as it is aimed at years 7-13’s. They could have used a more striking ‘nav bar’ at the top of the page to easily navigate through the different pages, instead of just the text at the side of the site.

The school portal can be useful at times, as it offers many features such as a timetable, your attendance, and a way to access your documents from anywhere.

The school portal could include many more features, such as; a notice board, displaying all events in the school and what is going on around the school. Better weblinks, to UCAS and careers websites, more relevant. More email access, for example, the careers adviser.

Similar to Frog, which supplied the school portal, there is moodle, which does the same.