1. Using RealSmart for Personal Tutoring Post 16 Version

2. Why? To recognise good things that you do and reward them. To encourage you to be more independent and a better learner (everyone can improve). To make your weekly Personal Tutoring slot more useful.

3. How? Every week you meet your Personal Tutor for 20 minutes. In advance you use RealSmart to add new achievements and targets you have met. Most weeks you have a tutor time in a computer room to do that (but you can do it whenever you have time online)

4. How does it work? The next slides walk you through using the system. It shows the first unit you will do – but it works the same for everything.

5. Step One – Go to Moodle and click on RealSmart

6. Your tutor will give you a name and password to use

7. It will look something like this Set your profile photo, change your password and choose your design here

8. It will look something like this This is the section we will use today to record progress

9. This is the list of the units open to you – click on it to open it

10. These are the parts to work on

11. Each section has skills that you can give yourself a red, amber of green mark for

12. Sometimes there is a button to let you add evidence or a personal statement

13. Everyone does the Induction Unit It shows that you know how to use the system and how things work around college – it is really easy to do. There is no reward for completing it  Once you complete it you unlock the next units

14. Years 12-13 Go straight to Ambition 3 – you miss out the easy units. Ambition 3 is all about service to college, helping others and in particular helping other students. It leads to Ambition 4, 5 which are about setting personal challenges and finally 6.

15. Ambition 6 The highest award available in college Means you will have done voluntary work inside and outside Lodge Park and really shown what you can do (think references and UCAS!) Leads to the Governor’s Award and V Certificate