Last week, we announced the winners of the Create Your Character Competition. Schools in Stoke, Fife, Wigan, Essex and Havering were the victors – and you can see the winners and the runners-up here.

Our in-house artist has been busy recreating the children’s avatars ready to incorporate into Learnanywhere – one of the first to be completed is in our picture. Crazy Bot was submitted by Maciek of Christ Church CE Primary School, Wigan, who we visited this week to present their prize to them. Local papers also got in on the action – so if you live in the

Friday saw the launch of Webanywhere’s first UK-wide primary school competition of the year: the Create Your Character Competition!

This is the chance for your school to win thousands of pounds worth of e-learning prizes, simply by allowing your class to get creative!

We want primary school children to design new avatars for Learnanywhere. If you’re not a Learnanywhere user yet, these are the fun, friendly characters that each child has on their individual profile. Every time a pupil creates a good piece of work, or achieves a good test score, their teacher can award them ‘points’ on Learnanywhere. These points

Learnanywhere has already proved itself a fantastic learning platform for primary school children: It’s engaging, fun and easy to use.

Now, we’ve used Learnanywhere to create fun and engaging learning for teachers too.

We recently opened up registrations to the Learnanywhere MOOC. MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses (read more about the concept here), and the Learnanywhere MOOC is exactly that: One online location for dozens of short and easy to follow training courses for teachers.

These courses are all completely free, and will help you make the best use of technology, as well as enhance education, within your school. Course

The summer holidays are almost here – some schools may have already finished for the holidays – and no doubt you’ll be winding down to a long, well-deserved break. We’re sure the last thing you’ll be thinking about is setting new work for the children!

However, you can still keep them engaged in learning – and make sure they’re prepared for the autumn term – by setting them simple tasks over the summer. You can do this easily with a learning platform.

So, we’ve put together three ways to make the most of Learnanywhere over the summer holidays.

1. Set Them Games

We want to share with you some of the many features Learnanywhere has to offer – what better way than with a sneak peak of our new series of short videos?

This first video focuses on how this primary specific learning platform engages pupils, showcasing some of the most useful and popular features of Learnanywhere, from sharing educational resources to celebrating success with online achievements and customisable learning buddies.

To catch the rest of the series, keep an eye on this blog or simply follow us on Twitter for the very latest updates. Each video demonstrates features from both a teacher’s

Learning platforms are all about getting pupils excited about education. If the pupils do not buy into the platform, it will not succeed no matter how many features it offers, or how much time educators spend on it.

With this in mind, we asked a group of local school children what they thought about Learnanywhere, after letting them loose on the system for themselves -  and as you can see, the verdict was unanimous!

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We’re constantly working to improve both the look and the technical capacity of the Learnanywhere primary learning platform. So, for the first post on this new Learnanywhere focused blog we thought we would show off recent examples of both.

A new set of Learnanywhere Avatars are being developed, providing pupils with even more ways to personalise their learning buddy.  A large range of new characters will soon be available (with the new Stacy avatar already added IMAGE – cant show rest as not QAd), including Olympics based designs to help pupils get in the mood for the summer of sport.

There’s

Every classroom has its daily routines. And, while it’s sometimes easy to see your VLE as time consuming, there’s actually plenty ways it can help you save time on those jobs that come up time and time again. Get a suite of useful tools in one place and Learnanywhere can quickly become a one stop shop for almost everything you need.

Below is a list of some of our favourite classroom tools. All of them can be added as a link in Learnanywhere. But, better yet, most of them also feature an embed code, meaning you don’t have to leave

Last month saw the release of Stacey, the latest and greatest Learnanywhere avatar.

The character got plenty of praise from users across the country. So much in fact, that one of our expert graphic designers rushed straight back to the drawing board with a cunning plan. Quick as a flash he compiled a huge list of ideas and began sketching a line of exciting new avatars.

The big plan for Learnanywhere

His plan: To engage children with the best and biggest range of costumes and characters ever seen in Learnanywhere (and probably any virtual learning environment ever).

After weeks of toil at his

To mark the opening of the Learnanywhere blog, we’ve collected a bank of our best training and information videos. Whether your just interested in finding out more about VLEs, or you’re a regular user, we’re sure you’ll find something of interest.

The videos can be found on our Youtube channel using the link below. If there’s any topics you’d like to see us cover in the future, feel free to get in touch using the comments section below.

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