About the Digital Elevation Tool
How it works
Answer questions about your college
Receive an assessment and a set of goals
Advance your digital practice
How we assess a college - the three Elevation levels
Level 1: “Foundation”
The must-haves'.
The policies, processes and digital, data or technology elements that each provider must have in place as the foundations for further progress.
Level 2: “Transform”
The 'should-haves'.
Building on the 'foundations', the very same elements that we expect, and hope providers have or are planning to put in place to transform the end user experience.
Level 3: “Elevate”
The 'can-haves'.
Building on 'transform', some of these aspects might currently be in operation across a small number of UK FES providers. This is where early adopters will lead future innovation across the regions and truly elevate the experience of all FES stakeholders.
The themes
Leadership governance & culture
Establishing a digital first culture and providing digital leadership across the organisation.
Learner experience
The digital elements that improve the learner experience before, during and after their time at a provider. This includes consideration of the use of labour market intelligence and data, virtual communities and induction, careers exploration and guidance, personalised learning and adaptive learning programmes, improved collaboration, automated placement/ work experience, micro-credentials and the use of destination data to assist lifelong learning opportunities.
Staff experience
For curriculum staff (teachers/assessors), helping to embed best teaching and assessment practice, digital skills and the impact of digital tools and online resources. For support staff, carefully ensuring robust ethical and safeguarding code of practice that allows data to assist learner support. And for all staff to improve their digital awareness and capabilities.
Curriculum development
Compelling and relevant teaching, learning and assessment resources that enable personalised learner progress, the use of sector data/insight to help shape curricula, curriculum analytics to help maximise impact and tools that enable effective collaboration and maximise the impact of support staff expertise.
Underpinning technologies
The advanced digital infrastructure and cyber security that institutions increasingly reply upon, the identity and authentication tools and policies that underpin staff and learner experience, the use of intelligent data to inform institutional efficiency and teaching, learning and assessment decisions and the effective use of learning spaces to support pedagogies and interventions.