Welcome to Glow Connect

Glow Connect is the place to get information, help and support for Glow. Here you can find out more about what Glow is, its educational benefits and keep up to date with what is happening with Glow.

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What is Glow?

Glow is Scotland’s national digital learning platform provided by Scottish Government and managed by Education Scotland. It provides learners and educators across Scotland an environment that can support learning across the whole curriculum through our core services, Microsoft M365, Google Workspace for Education and WordPress blogs.

March 2024

376,380

Monthly Unique Users

7,365,815

Sessions

What does Glow offer?

Authentication and Portal Services

The Glow Authentication and Portal services provides Glow users with access to a range of educational services, applications and content using a single username and password.

Online Productivity Suites

Glow provides access to a range of tools and services through Microsoft M365 and Google Workspace for Education for learners and educators to collaborate, create content ,access learning resources and much more.

Blogging

Glow Blogs is a free service with a number of privacy settings available to create secure websites.

Report a Concern

Report a Concern is available on all Glow core services and allows users to notify us of any concerns they have about the content or activity in Glow.

Who is Glow for?

Glow is for learners and educators using a range of services and tools in different ways.

Glow is available for all local authorities, independent schools, teacher education colleges and universities and Scottish education partners.

Latest News

Microsoft 365 OneDrive & SharePoint

Update to Sharing Language on OneDrive/SharePoint

What’s changed? Microsoft are improving Link settings by providing more helpful tooltips, definitions and clearer language to help you understand which link type and permissions best suit your needs, prior sharing a file or folder…

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Reading Progress – Reading with Expression

What’s new? With our Expression update, Reading Progress will automatically identify students’ performance on aspects of prosody including monotone reading, long pauses, not pausing for a period or comma, voice inflection for question marks or…

Microsoft Teams – Meeting Options Categorisation

What’s new? Meeting Options are a group of settings that organisers and co-organisers set on a per-meeting basis. Microsoft are now introducing categories within Meeting Options to provide increased clarity of available options and help…

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Changes to Sway Video and Audio Uploads

What’s changing? New video and audio uploads will be discontinued on the 24th June 2024. What’s the alternative option? Microsoft recommend embedding video and audio files in your Sway by following the instructions below, You…

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OneNote for Windows 10 – End of Support

What’s changing? Support for OneNote for Windows 10 has been scheduled to stop in October 2025. Additionally In preparation for the end-of-support, Microsoft have hidden the OneNote app for Windows 10 in the Microsoft Store.…

Need Help?

If you need help and can’t find what you need on these pages, please try the Knowledge Hub. If you still can’t find the information you need, feel free to contact Glow Enquiries.

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