1. Basics
Glow

2. The Basics of Using Glow
Login instructions
Staff Home
Changing theme setting
Glow Groups
My Glow
Creating Pages
Adding Webparts
Adding Resources
Discussion Boards
Weblinks

3. Log on In School Double click internet explorer
Click on the glow link on the intranet menu
Insert username and password including a space to log in
At Home
Type in the web address bar.
Click on Go to glow in the green box at the top of the page
Insert username and password including a space to log in

4. Staff Home
Click on the link at the left hand side of the page that says staff home.
From here you can look at:
The latest ltscotland news including for example the latest nar resources,
Latest news or meetings for any glow groups that you are a member of.
Your glow s
Your glow settings

5. Changing The Way Your Glow Looks
You are going to choose the look of your Glow – colours and fonts.
In Glow settings click on change theme
Select the theme that you want by clicking on it and this will be how your glow looks from now on.

6. Glow Groups
You will already be signed up to lots of useful groups. E.g
“Help using glow”
“getting started with glow”

7. My Glow Click on the link at the side of the page that says My Glow.
This is the main area in Glow that you will probably use the most.

8. Creating Pages - We are now going to create pages within your glow area
Click on advanced settings
In the drop down menu click on add, edit or remove pages
Click on new page
Give the page a name (which will appear on the tab at the top of your home page)
Choose a layout template for that page
Click on create at the bottom of the page

9. Page Creation (Cont)
Repeat the stages for as many pages as you wish (I tend to start with a page for each class but you might want to do it differently)
Now you will need to select what you want to fill the spaces in the template you have chosen. (For example you might want:
a calendar,
a contacts list,
one or two areas to add resources (documents)
a weblink section
A discussion forum
But its up to you what you include.

10. Adding Webparts – choosing content and adding it to your page
Click on modify shared page
In the drop down menu click on add web parts
In the next menu click on browse
You can choose from numerous fancy options by clicking on virtual server gallery but leave the my glow gallery selected for now.
Now left click and hold on one of the web parts from the list and drag it into the box you want it.
Repeat the above stage to fill up all of your empty webparts . Make sure you include a documents library, a weblinks and a calendar. (don’t worry they can easily be deleted)

11. Adding Resources
Move the mouse cursor into the documents web part that you created and click on add new document
Either type the name of the document in the box or click on browse.
Select the drive that the document you want is in and then double click on the document you want to add.
Repeat this for as many documents you want to add (Remember you can create as many different document libraries that you want perhaps for resources for different texts)

12. Creating a Forum (Discussion Board)
Click on advanced settings
In the drop down menu click on create
You could select any of these options in the same way, but scroll down to discussion board and click on that option.
Now name your discussion board anything you want.
Now click on new discussion and give the discussion a subject name and write whatever you want to say in the text box.

13. Discussion Boards (Forum)
Remember you can start as many discussions at you like at any one time and any of your class can contribute or start a new discussion topic (thread)
This could be a homework question that the pupils could answer individually in this discussion board or it could just generate a post lesson heated debate!

14. Adding Weblinks
Move the pointer to the weblinks webpart that you created and click on new item.
In the box next to where it says URL type in the exact web address of the page you wish to link to.
Try linking to Google or another page if you wish now.
You can link to as many pages as you wish.