VLE | The School Portal

The School Portal, VLE (Virtual Learning Environment);

The portal is something that students at the Armthorpe academy use daily. The look of it seems unprofessional; very amateur. Bad colours, layout, images it all adds up to a horrific layout and make it hard to navigate around, and if you look at the age range that the vle is aimed at(11-16) you think that many of these people are going to struggle to navigate around it. The Armthorpe VLE has some good features however you have to dig deep into the website to find them and many students dont have the time of day to look deep into our vle, this means that many useful statistics, news, etc is wasted.

The school portal could become useful if it was nicely laid and out suitable to the target audience. This would mean maybe adding a navigation bar, less text, pictures etc and make the important 'stuff' stand out, this way it takes little time to look at it and makes the essential information actual visible and finally would be read by someone. Also the vle needs to be constantly updated, sometimes it is updated fast other times information is added to late so you never know if you can trust it. These set backs to the vle make student avoid it however it does have potential to be a very good service within the school.