Learning Possibilities is moving to Croxley
After 5 successful years working in Elstree, we are thrilled to be moving our UK based office to Croxley Business Park!
Why are we moving?
As a social enterprise Learning Possibilities wanted to move to an environmentally friendly working space in which the team can continue to be productive and work towards their mission of transforming the education of millions of learners world wide.
Why Croxley Business Park?
✔ The park is a completely environmentally friendly working space with on-site food composting to cardboard bailing and rainwater harvesting. 100% renewable energy, provide charging points for electric vehicles, run a park-wide car-sharing scheme, bike spaces, beekeeping, Environmentally aware schemes on the park- Zero waste to landfill, 100% waste recycled, 100% renewable energy source, on-site food composting and cardboard bailing, rainwater harvesting, Park-wide car share scheme and charging points for electric cars.
✔ Well Connected Hub More than just a great place to do business, Croxley Park is a well-connected hub, and home to a thriving community of more than 60 companies and 2400 employees
✔ Croxley Park’s amenities and exciting events programme building stronger connections for working life
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G-Cloud 11 Framework
Learning Possibilities announce their inclusion on the G-Cloud 11 framework, for 4th consecutive year
Learning Possibilities (LP) have been selected to deliver cloud services as part of the GCloud 11 Framework
ELSTREE, England – October. 2019 – Learning Possibilities, a Microsoft Global Alliance Partner have been successfully listed as a G-Cloud 11 supplier on the Digital Marketplace in large-scale identity management, and Software and Support for the 4th consecutive year.
The G-Cloud Framework
The G-Cloud Framework is an agreement between government and suppliers to deliver digital services. The services are broken down into three services, Cloud Hosting, Cloud Software and Cloud Support.
LP are proud to offer services under G-Cloud, including large scale identity management using Azure Active Directory, and the LP+365 application for Microsoft Office 365. These services are offered to both schools, local authorities and governments in both the U.K. and internationally.
About the LP+365 app
LP+365 is the latest learning and collaboration platform by Microsoft Global Partner, Learning Possibilities. Integrated with the latest Microsoft technology on one simple but engaging dashboard the App brings LP+ technology to Office365, providing schools with all the tools they need to share resources, communicate, collaborate and manage assignments. The app encompasses technology-enhanced learning complementing flexible pedagogies where teachers and students can explore flipped learning.
About Learning Possibilities
Learning Possibilities was founded in 2007 and develops learning and collaboration platforms on Microsoft Office 365 technologies, used by most corporates. Independent research shows that the LP+ learning platform drives both education outcomes and teacher productivity. The company currently operates in 11 countries worldwide through a network of local partners. Learning Possibilities has also published the LP+ Adopt e-maturity framework for schools, selected by the UK Government as the National Learning Platform Adoption Model. Learn more at
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Learning Possibilities announces the launch of the LP+365 & Microsoft Teams Integration
ELSTREE, England – September. 18, 2019 – Learning Possibilities the leading global education platform provider, is delighted to announce the launch of their flagship product, LP+365 integration with Microsoft Teams.
“We are excited that Teams will be a core part of LP+365 allowing easy connection and conversation to help teachers build relationships and professional development communities that make work visible, integrated and accessible across the team” Commented LP CEO, Dr Mehool Sanghrajka.
Teams integrated into the LP+365 Top Menu Bar
LP+365 & Teams Partnership
LP+365 features a new ‘staff room’ icon across the top menu bar providing staff with access to Teams. Staff can store policies, develop professional learning communities, organise conversations, files and notes. This new integration allows staff to utilise the many features that Teams provides. With LP+365, Teams is auto-provisioned to provide all staff with access to this area to contribute to discussions and contribute to the success of the staff community.
Why LP+365 with Teams?
Teams allows schools to engage the voice of every staff member using text, video and voice. It provides staff with the confidence to build a safer, more productive environment, allowing them to delete posts and pause conversations.
Educators can use Teams to share best practices in professional learning communities (PLC) with features like built-in PLC Notebooks. Staff can collaborate on school-wide initiatives in Staff Notebooks and communicate with their peers easily.
The LP+365 platform with an inbuilt assignment tool, language features, collaborative, communicative tools and analytics features and the addition of the Teams ‘staff room’ space provides a full solution to schools.
The team at Learning Possibilities looks forward to seeing the Teams site as teachers start to adopt the LP+365 learning platform.
Teams Staff sites and PLCs
About the LP+365 app
LP+365 is the latest learning and collaboration platform by Microsoft Global Partner, Learning Possibilities. Integrated with the latest Microsoft technology on one simple but engaging dashboard the App brings LP+ technology to Office365, providing schools with all the tools they need to share resources, communicate, collaborate and manage assignments. The app encompasses technology-enhanced learning complementing flexible pedagogies where teachers and students can explore flipped learning.
About Learning Possibilities
Learning Possibilities was founded in 2007 and develops learning and collaboration platforms on Microsoft Office 365 technologies, used by most corporates. Independent research shows that the LP+ learning platform drives both educational outcomes and teacher productivity. The company currently operates in 10 countries worldwide through a network of local partners. Learning Possibilities has also published the LP+ Adopt e-maturity framework for schools, selected by the UK Government as the National Learning Platform Adoption Model.
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Technical Support
Company: Learning Possibilities
Department: Technical Support
Location: Elstree, Hertfordshire
Reports to: Technical Support Manager
Job description Technical Support
We have an excellent opportunity for a 2nd Line Support to join one of the UK’s leading providers of school learning platforms whose aim is to engage, teach and educate through technology within schools.
About the Company
The opportunity is with an award winning, Gold Certified Microsoft Partner implementing e-learning solutions, with expertise in cloud computing for education and government customers. The platform is built on Microsoft technologies and is currently used by users across the UK. You will be a valued member of the team based in Elstree / Watford, Hertfordshire.
Main Responsibilities
-Respond to requests from customers and log these in the customer service system, by following internal processes.
-Ensure Incidents are responded to within their target response time and SLA.
-Communicate effectively and professionally with internal and/or external customers, by telephone, email and face to face methods
-Produce and assist with any reports.
-Perform any reasonable task that may be requested by management.
-Speak positively and enthusiastically about the company and its products and services, to ensure that a professional company and brand image is provided at all times to customers and colleagues.
Teamwork
-Work as part of a team to achieve departmental goals.
-Communicate effectively with other departments within the company and participate in cross training to enhance knowledge of company products.
-Work together with other departments and divisions within the company to improve standards, efficiency and profitability.
-Take responsibility for managing all incidents
-Take responsibility for personal and professional development in-line with agreed annual performance objectives.
Knowledge, Experience and Qualifications
Essential Skills and Experience:
-Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including an ability to explain technical issues in a clear and concise manner to non-technically minded users.
-Good time management.
-IT literate, especially Microsoft technologies.
-Able to develop strong, collaborative and honest relationships with other members of the organisation.
Ability to work within a pressured environment and deal with any potentially difficult customers.
Knowledge and experience of the following:
-Microsoft SharePoint 2013/2016,
-Active Directory,
-Office 365
-Azure
-Windows Servers (Domains, DNS, ADFS, Group Policy, User Provisioning, PowerShell scripts)
-Exchange
Desirable Skills, Experience & Qualifications
-Microsoft Certifications e.g. MCSE,MCSA
-Educated to degree level.
-Microsoft Dynamic CRM
-Hyper-V (Creating and managing Virtual machines)
-System Center (SCOM, SCCM, SCDPM)
-HTML5 , CSS3, and JavaScript
-WordPress
Competencies Required:
-Highly analytical, with good attention to detail.
-Strong desire to provide exceptional customer service.
-Able to provide high quality technical support
-A good working knowledge of how to operate MS office products
-Must be flexible in order to meet the needs of the business.
-Ability to work under pressure, demonstrate drive and a positive ‘can-do’ attitude to work.
Salary, Hours & Benefits
Excellent salary package, £32,000 per annum basic, depending on experience.
This job description is a guide to the key elements of the current role. It is not intended as a completely permanent schedule and is not part of the employee’s contract. Please note that other duties may be required by management from time to time.
To apply or find out more about the role please email your CV and covering letter to careers@lpplus.com.
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Business Analyst/Project Manager/Product Owner
Permanent, Full time
Last Application, 10 July, 19
Immediate Start, Competitive Package
Learning Possibilities is a social enterprise and a global leader in learning and collaboration platforms for schools. We have a Global Alliance with Microsoft delivering cloud based e-learning solutions on Azure and Office 365 .
This is a new role to work with key customer and internal stakeholders to define business requirements and manage the product and solution roadmap. The role may require international travel and close working with the companies international offices.
Key Responsibilities:
-Ensure agreement and understanding of the requirements across various stakeholder groups
-Assume responsibility to collect, document and analyse business requirements for assigned activities.
-Managing and directing business process mapping workshops that support project deliverables.
-Transcribing, reviewing and taking ownership of business process diagrams for workstreams.
-Scoping and defining high-level requirements. Subsequently developing detailed Business Requirements and Functional Specifications.
-Establishing the specifics of moving the capability into the production environment including design of any testing, training, user documentation and other support materials as required.
-Driving out solutions with IT/ development for partners
-Driving outcomes initiated by requirements
-Working within an Agile Project delivery framework.
Key Skills:
-Experience as business BA, being liaison with IT teams to provide requirements, clarify requirements, party to resolving development issues
-Manage activities for delivery using a project planning tools
-Understand and is able to follow project management activities and responsibilities
-Track record working as a business analyst within the Education sector
-Going beyond the role of Requirement Gatherer’ striving to create clarity on the solution, proactive planning, and a creative flair to solve problems.
-Ability to manage relationships across the business & IT
-Demonstrable experience of business analysis skills throughout the entire project life cycle
-Ability to rapidly grasp, interpret and clearly articulate business requirements.
-Highly experienced in analysing and documenting business requirements, process maps (customer/systems) and traceability matrices
-Comfortable conveying technical concepts to business & change stakeholders
-The confidence and ability to structure, summarise and present recommendations
-The confidence and ability to challenge something in a constructive way
-Ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization
-Ability to work effectively autonomously and as part of a team
-Professional and well organised with the ability and flexibility to manage shifting priorities
-Experience of working alongside 3rd party vendors/consultants and offshore
-Own resolution of business analysis issues, identifying and managing mitigating actions against design risks
To apply or find out more about the role please email your CV and covering letter to careers@lpplus.com.
No Agencies please.
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Thrilled to extend our Microsoft Gold competencies with the addition of “Windows and Devices”
We are proud to announce that we have extended our gold competencies in “Datacentre” and have added the “Windows and Devices” competency as well as retaining silver status in “Application Development” and “Collaboration and Content”. We look forward to working in partnership with Microsoft to continue to transform the way educational institutions utilise technology.
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LP+365 Tech Updates
App Feature Updates:
✔ Arabic Language now available along with the Multi-lingual design for right to left functionality
✔ Gaelic Translation is also now available
✔ You are able to toggle on/off to inherit SharePoint theme for improved performance
✔ Additional 25x subject icons added to image bank
General Updates:
✔ Migration from O365 Discovery Service (depreciated to MS Graph API)
Skype:
✔ SDK upgrade: SDK version upgraded from 1.2.15 to 1.2.36 to resolve number of bug fixes for Skype for Business
App Feature Updates:
✔ Arabic Language now available – Multi-lingual design for RTL functionality
✔ Gaelic Translation now available
✔ Toggle on/off to inherit SharePoint theme for improved performance
✔ Additional 25 x subject icons added to image bank
Accessibility:
✔ Discernible and element names for buttons and labels reviewed and updated. Accessibility reports are now estimated at 90% positive
✔ App tabbing order for navigation is improved
✔ Mobile browser views improved for all languages
✔ All tile counters and ‘Beta’ icon improved to meeting WCAG 2.1 requirement
✔ Reviewed and added additional precautions against reverse tabbing for external links
Performance:
✔ Additional preload key requests added to decrease page loading times
Bug fixes:
✔ Manage Tenancies: Fix with UI grid condensing after navigation
✔ Redesign of error pages and configuration with App
✔ Redesign of 303 error page and configuration with app.
✔ Redesign of No Access page when trying to access pages where uses have no permissions
✔ Rich text editor issue when inserting columns would shrink width is corrected to normal width
✔ Class dashboard pop-ups for small screen sizes where scales/layous are at a higher % now displays an additional vertical scroll bar to allow users to scroll to save/cancel buttons.
As always we’d love to hear from you and your thoughts about the new updates. Contact us on Twitter or Facebook to let us know what you think!
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Learning Possibilities announces LP+365 for Microsoft Teams
Learning Possibilities, a Microsoft Global Alliance Partner is thrilled to announce that their Learning and Collaboration platform LP+365 will now be integrated with Microsoft Teams.
ELSTREE, England – May. 15, 2019 – Learning Possibilities the leading global education platform provider, is delighted to announce that its flagship product, LP+365 will have full Teams integration later this year.
“We are excited that Teams will be a core part of LP+365 allowing easy connection and conversation to help teachers build relationships and professional development communities that makes work visible, integrated and accessible across the team” Commented LP CEO, Dr. Mehool Sanghrajka
LP+365 will feature a new ‘staff room’ icon for teachers to access the Teams ‘staff room’ site, where they can organise conversations, files and notes. The team at Learning Possibilities looks forward to seeing staff calendars, school policies and professional learning communities develop on the Team site as teachers start to adopt the LP+365 learning platform.
The Teams app will be fully provisioned with teachers as part of the integration and will enable a common area for staff to collaborate and communicate. The integration is expected to be completed within this calendar year.
About the LP+365 app
LP+365 is the latest learning and collaboration platform by Microsoft Global Partner, Learning Possibilities. Integrated with the latest Microsoft technology on one simple but engaging dashboard the App brings LP+ technology to Office365, providing schools with all the tools they need to share resources, communicate, collaborate and manage assignments. The app encompasses technology-enhanced learning complementing flexible pedagogies where teachers and students can explore flipped learning.
About Learning Possibilities
Learning Possibilities was founded in 2007 and develops learning and collaboration platforms on Microsoft Office 365 technologies, used by most corporates. Independent research shows that the LP+ learning platform drives both education outcomes and teacher productivity. The company currently operates in 10 countries worldwide through a network of local partners. Learning Possibilities has also published the LP+ Adopt e-maturity framework for schools, selected by the UK Government as the National Learning Platform Adoption Model. Learn more at
www.learningpossibilities.com.
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Learning Possibilities Renews Microsoft Gold Partnership
Learning Possibilities are thrilled to renew their Microsoft Gold Partner certification for Gold Datacentre, Gold Cloud Productivity, Silver ISV and Silver Collaboration and Content.
Learning Possibilities is a co-sell ready global Microsoft Partner working in 5 regions with partners in over 20 countries, working with local partners on a global scale to deliver LP+365, the next generation Learning and Collaboration Platform. Hosted on Azure and proven to drive adoption of all major features of Office 365, the app drives school investment in Office365.
LP+365 is built on LP+ technology and has been used by over one million learners globally, won major national and international awards for its efficacy and is built on our ADOPT Framework, the UK national standard for e-maturity in schools.
Our continued efforts in improving the app have led to the addition of a multilingual interface, auto-provisioning functionality and the LP+ Exam tool.
To learn more about LP+365 click here to download our brochure.
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Join Learning Possibilities at Bett 2019
We are thrilled to be attending Bett UK 2019 showcasing the latest version of our LP+365 app, the new features we have added and what’s to come for the rest of 2019.
Showcasing the LP+365 Multilingual Interface
The LP+365 multilingual interface allows students and teachers to seamlessly switch between languages in the menu bar. The language options are unlimited and supports multiple scripts, for example Arabic and the Indian languages.
Languages can be selected dynamically by the user and the choice of language is determined by the global administrator. Having the right language drives adoption of the platform and the embedding of LP+ technology into daily use.
Managing Learner Identities & Auto-Provisioning Feature
Managing Learner Identities throughout students education career is critical for ensuring security. LP+365 is integrated into Microsoft SDS and many other school administration tools for auto-provisioning.
Introducing…LP+ Exam
Preview the new tool we have been working on, LP+ Exam. The tool is integrated into our platform for school and ministry of education n exams. It boasts a wide range of question types with auto-marking features, monitoring and submission capabilities, question randomisation and auto-save offline functionality. LP+ Exam delivers results through a full analytics and reporting package.
Download our new LP+365 brochure here to learn more about LP+365 & contact us at info@lpplus.com to meet with us at Bett UK 2019.
We look forward to seeing you there.
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