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Totara Platinum Partner Webanywhere is now assisting teaching schools to reach a wider audience with their initial teacher training and CPD programs thanks to the powerful featureset of Totara LMS.

National teaching schools are involved at all stages of teacher training and development from initial teacher training to training future leaders and headteachers. Webanywhere has conducted research and found that there is a lack of dedicated software solutions aimed at assisting teaching schools in delivering their training. The research also revealed that teaching schools can often encounter difficulties around scheduling and attendance.

Sean Gilligan, Managing Director of Webanywhere, said: “We work with thousands of schools in the UK, many of which are National Teaching schools. We’ve been in discussions and found that a lot of these schools struggle to schedule sessions for staff, and even when training is planned attendance can often be low, as other school demands take priority. We believe that training of our teachers is critical to ensure continuing high standards of education in the UK.”

The new LMS solution powered by Totara helps training schools combat low attendance and busy school schedules, ensuring that training and CPD continues even during the busiest times of the year.

The system is flexible enough to accommodate and work alongside a number of training models to ensure the widest group of learners can be covered.

• It works as a full distance learning model in geographically dispersed teaching school alliances.
• It suits a blended learning approach, familiar to many the teachers being trained and
• the third, most widely used method with the new system, utilises the ‘flipped classroom’ approach.

Webanywhere’s new service is already making an impact across the UK’s National Teaching schools.

Webanywhere is a global workplace learning provider which is headquartered in the UK and has operations in mainland Europe and North America. We are experts in delivering e-learning solutions which include social, mobile, rapid authoring and blended learning. Partnering with our clients allows us to really impact on their learners performance. As an official Moodle, Totara and Google Partner, we utilise the most advanced solutions for our clients allowing them to maximise ROI. Webanywhere is also a supplier to the UK Government Procurement service.