Study Support Live Evening Webinars - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
e-Sgoil is an online school contributing to the National e-Learning Offer. e-Sgoil delivers online supply teaching, online learning for interrupted learners, and interactive study support webinars.
In order to enable learners to consolidate their learning, e-Sgoil offers a programme of Study Support for senior phase pupils in Scottish schools. This provision is free to access.
No, that is not the purpose of the Study Support Provision. It seeks to complement the teaching learners are receiving in school from their own teachers.
The webinars for each subject will take place weekly during term time and last for 45 minutes.
Experienced and qualified teachers will be delivering the webinars.
Live, interactive lessons will be delivered online with specialist teachers on hand to support you in your learning. Webinars will be delivered through Microsoft Teams within Glow and can be accessed from anywhere. Once you have registered you will be added to a Team for each subject you have signed up for. If you have issues accessing the Webinar booking form please contact e-Sgoil using the form on the webpage and we will help you.
All you need to do is complete the registration form on our website. It is a quick and easy process.
Please make sure that you know your Glow username and password and have signed in before you access the registration form.
If you do not know your Glow details please ask your school to provide them to you.
Webinars are available for all the subjects on the Study Support Timetable.
You will need access to a laptop/device connected to the internet and a suitable study space.
In larger, more popular subjects there may be many more people attending that at a normal face-to-face lesson. If the group is large, a second teacher will be on the call to help deal with questions and comments. Some of the webinars run with relatively small numbers of attendees. There is always a good sense of an online community of learners, and you can choose to interact in the chat, or simply watch and listen without interacting.
Each week, on a Friday, we publish details of the topic the teacher plans to cover in the webinar the following week. These are published on our social media (X, Facebook & Instagram) and on the study support page on our website.
Each Team features a channel called Your Questions, where you can post questions at any point in the week. One of the teachers delivering the webinar will pick up on the questions between webinar sessions and help you with your question.
People tend to learn better when they are actively engaged, so we do encourage learners to interact using the Chat function. In some of the smaller webinar groups, people answer questions or join in discussions using their microphone.
We foster a supportive community ethos in all webinars. So, if you feel shy or anxious in any way, we certainly won’t pressurise you to interact. You are very welcome to simply listen.
There is no need to have your camera or microphone on during a webinar. Learners interact with the teachers using the chat pane available in each live webinar and by using a range of other digital tools. However, in some smaller webinars learners may have their camera and microphone enabled for small class discussions if they wish.
All pupils in Scotland have a Glow username and password. These are available from every local secondary school. Please ask your school if you are unsure of your Glow username and password and they will be able to provide you with these.
Once you have accessed your Glow username and password, these can then be used for signing up for the webinars – check out our step by step guide for signing into Glow HERE.
Learners who are unable to attend webinars but would like to access the course resources, can do so by signing up for the webinars. Once learners sign up, they can then access the files/resources the webinar teacher has loaded into the respective team.
No – we do not remove learners from webinars unless they have been behaving inappropriately in the webinar sessions or chat.
If you wish to be removed from a webinar team please post a message in the "Your Questions" channel of the team requesting to be removed and tag the teachers name using @teachersname
Once you have been removed from a team you would need to re-register again in order to access the live webinars and team content.
No – we do not record webinar sessions for safeguarding reasons however the teachers will upload any resources used in each webinar into the webinar team files area.
