What does SCHOLAR offer?
SCHOLAR currently offers 42 online courses for Scottish schools and colleges aligned to the SQA curriculum at National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher level. These high quality courses are built upon the knowledge and experience of teachers working in Scottish schools and colleges to develop our course materials. The authors share their wealth of experience as educators.
The wide range of subjects provides routes into careers in science, engineering, business, design and languages. It has been found that higher intensity usage of SCHOLAR correlates with higher attainment in exams.
Click here to access a video about Scholar giving information to parents and carers.
How does a learner access SCHOLAR?
By far the easiest way to access your SCHOLAR account is through your Glow account. On the Lossiemouth High School page you will find the SCHOLAR tile and students taking courses supported by SCHOLAR should add the tile to their personal Launch Tab.
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How does SCHOLAR work?
Resources
Once you have logged in successfully, you will see a list of your registered courses. You will also have access to supporting course content at a lower level (where available) as well as some support materials.
Blended Learning
SCHOLAR supports independent study; students can use the materials to study anytime, anywhere, in school, college or home. Courses can fit around class schedules, with short activities, clear goals and engaging content to encourage students to progress independently. The materials can also be used in the classroom to illustrate key learning points and online tests can be assigned as homework. SCHOLAR is a learning tool for students, lecturers and teachers to use as required for their individual needs.
Instant Feedback
The materials contain a variety of activities, tests and quizzes that offer instant feedback. This allows students to practice and build confidence as they work their way through the learning materials.
Progress Reports
Monitoring students’ progress with the reporting system enables teachers and lecturers to help guide the way students learn and develop. In addition, scores achieved in our online tests are recorded and students can use these to review their performance. Teachers and lecturers can also monitor students' test results using the reporting system which helps them guide the way their students learn and develop.
Revision Planner
An online revision planner is provided for students which can help them prepare for their exams. Students can add links to relevant sections of the SCHOLAR learning materials. They can also add their own personalised reminders.
Online Tutor Sessions
SCHOLAR deliver online tutor sessions tailored for students; these are interactive events hosted by subject specialists with extensive teaching experience.
Student sessions encourage social learning and discussion helping them to make fresh discoveries and form new ideas.
SCHOLAR currently cover Biology, Chemistry, Computing, English, Human Biology, Maths, Modern Languages and Physics. Each session lasts up to an hour in total, including time for questions and answers towards the end.
Books
Teachers, lecturers and students have told us how much they value having a printed study guide. We offer books covering all our subjects at National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher level.
They are designed to complement the interactive content on the SCHOLAR website. We endeavour to keep the cost low by providing course volumes. The "print on demand" books are produced and sold by Print Trail and are available to purchase online.
Technical Requirements
There are a significant number of interactive multimedia elements within SCHOLAR which require free plug-ins to be installed. A full specification of our technical requirements and information can be found here: Technical Requirements
Further Help
For any further queries, please get in touch.
New video for learners - Studying for SQA Qualifications Using SCHOLAR
We are delighted to announce the release of our latest support video for learners. This new resource, “Studying for SQA Qualifications Using SCHOLAR”, has been created to show learners how to use SCHOLAR in their studies as they work towards a National 5, Higher or Advanced Higher qualification. The video is suitable for learners with no prior experience of SCHOLAR, but may also be of benefit to students with summative assessments or exams approaching who may wish to use the interactive course materials and automatically marked, end of topic and end of unit assessments for consolidation and revision.
Our new video is available at http://bit.ly/StudyWithSCHOLAR