Scootle

Background

Scootle provides access to more than 8,000 digital curriculum resources from The Le@rning Federation. Teachers can find interactive learning objects, images, audio files and movie clips via browse, search and filter technology. Scootle allows the creation of learning paths – collections of learning content interwoven with teacher comments and descriptions that can be made available to students either online or offline. These learning paths can be shared with colleagues.

Current status

Scootle is currently being used by more than 1,000 schools, including:

• Australian independent schools;
• Australian Catholic schools;
• Australian Capital Territory Government schools;
• Northern Territory Government schools;
• South Australian Government schools.

More than 24,000 teachers have registered and so far they have created more than 25,000 learning paths. In excess of 1.3 million students and 90,000 teachers have access to Scootle. There have been more than 45 million page views since June 2008.

Further information

To find out more about Scootle, to explore the interface and to find out who to contact in your education jurisdiction for access details, please visit http://www.scootle.edu.au.

For general questions about Scootle, contact us at scootle@scootle.edu.au.