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Register early career teachers

How we want to improve and rebuild the digital services that facilitate the early career framework (ECF) policy reforms.

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  1. Find and claim journey

    How we built the find and claim journeys of the RIAB service.

  2. Pass, Fail, Release and Extensions Design History

    How we built the Pass, Fail and Extensions Journeys of the service .

  3. No longer asking non-state-funded schools to use the RECT service

    Why we’ve changed which types of schools can access the service.

  4. Asking schools whether an ECT is full or part time

    Why we added a question to ask schools about an ECT’s working pattern and how we iterated it.

  5. Fixing DQT Data

    What we did to fix bad quality data that we imported from DQT for our new service database.

  6. Registering an ECT who has been registered before and collecting their programme choices

    How we’ve designed to transfer in an ECT from another school and asking for the ECT’s programme choices.

  7. Removing the delivery partner question

    We’ve tested a few ways to ask school users about the delivery partner they’re using for training, when they haven’t worked with a delivery partner before. It’s not been well understood, and we’ve chosen to remove it.

  8. No longer storing date of birth for ECTs and mentors

    Why we’ve decided to stop storing date of birth for participants in our database.

  9. Default choices for the add an ECT journey

    How we want to make it easier to add ECTs for schools by allowing users to save default programme choices.

  10. Asking for an ECT’s start date

    Why we’ve added a question to ask schools for an ECT’s start date.

  11. Improving how we gather an ECT or mentor’s name

    Why we wanted to change how we find a participant’s teaching record and how this changes the name we collect from schools.

  12. Assigning mentors through the ECT record

    Why we’ve changed the way we ask for who is mentoring the ECT

  13. Asking schools for an ECT or mentor’s lead provider and delivery partner

    We’ve designed a journey to ask schools for the lead provider and delivery partner for their ECT or mentor.

  14. Naming the ‘Register early career teachers’ service

    We needed a name for our service that clearly defines its purpose and resonates with users. This entry explains why we chose ‘Register early career teachers’ and outlines the research and feedback that informed our decision.

  15. Allowing multiple accounts for schools

    Why we want to let schools have multiple accounts to register ECTs and mentors.

  16. Exploring using DfE sign-in for accessing the service

    We’ve been exploring using DfE sign-in for how users can access the new ECF2 service.

  17. The process behind our problem prioritisation and ideation workshops

    Our journey of prioritising user problems and developing high level solutions to take forward into the next phase

  18. Designing the database first

    Why getting the data schema right is so important

  19. Deciding what to build for the initial release of ECF 2

    What we want to build to replace and improve the digital services that facilitate the early career framework (ECF) policy reforms