Sunbury Manor - Peter Dando
"Frog has become such an integral part of what we do on a day-to-day basis that it would be difficult to imagine school without it. It provides a starting point and a structure for most of the tasks that students and staff carry out each day. The format is friendly, intuitive and, most importantly, usable. The latest initiative Frog has enabled us to embark upon is making use of the learning platform for everything associated with the Options system. This includes course outlines right the way through to the Option choices being made. This new approach allows students and parents to access the information where and when they want to and does away with the need for a paper-based version."
Mirfield Free Grammar and Sixth Form - Neal Packard
"I could write a whole paper on the benefits of Frog! Frog is simple to use for both students and teachers whilst being at the forefront of innovation. The Frog Learning Platform engages students and parents from one single location whilst providing a safe and secure environment to share information on student learning."
John Smeaton Community College - Mark Newman
"We are delighted with our partnership with Frog. Following our successful implementation of the learning platform, snow days and Christmas holidays didn't stop the learning at John Smeaton Community College. Several students even logged on during Christmas day! The enthusiasm of our teaching colleagues, many of whom used part of their summer break to prepare for the launch, has been infectious. The engagement of our students has also been phenomenal, and parents are already noticing the impact on the children's willingness to learn at home. We can't wait to implement the next phase of our development, which will include access for parents and increased resources for interactive learning."
De Ferrers Academy - Greg Hughes, Assistant Principle
"Frog is different because their products cater to so many different levels of experience and development. Like a lego kit, schools can use Frog out of the box to make a ready to run, basic VLE, but the more adventurous can adapt and use the Frog Bricks to construct a fully personalised, multi-faceted learning platform. It combines the ease of use and slickness you'd expect from a top notch company with the possibilities and customisation of open source software.
Frog listens to its customers and builds a relationship to give them what they are asking for, or even better, to show them how to develop it for themselves. They have helped to foster a network of enthusiastic users, keen to share ideas and experience. In all our dealings with the Frog team, we've found them to be a positive, dynamic team who we know will keep pushing their boundaries and never tell you 'it can't be done'. It's a rare thing to work with a company whose product and attitude exceed your expectations.
As a new academy, De Ferrers is well placed to make more of its own decisions and control its future. With Frog at the heart of our learning platform, the sky really is the limit in terms of choice, creativity and potential. Frog has empowered our staff and students to develop a true virtual learning community and given us the tools to fully customise it, exactly how we would like. Frog + Academy = whatever you can imagine."
Buttershaw Business Enterprise College
"At Buttershaw Business Enterprise College we have always strived to provide the best for our students in every respect. A year ago we decided that our current ICT solution was lacking, in that we did not have an engaging and user friendly virtual learning environment. After several months of research we opted to go with Frog.
We have had Frog running now for just 4 weeks and already we can see a difference in the number of users interacting and being engaged in their learning. I feel this transformation has been achieved because Frog is different as it allows a school, individual teachers and individual learners to personalise their learning environment to suite their individual needs.
During the design process the Frog team built excellent relationships with key staff listening to our requirements and producing a virtual learning environment which really works for all parties."
The Howard of Effingham School - Helen Pennington
"Thanks again for all your help with this project. The Howard loves Frog!"
A student from Halifax High School
"From talking to our friends at school we knew our VLE needed a new design that let us choose what we wanted it to look like. We worked with Frog to come up with six new designs and launched these to the school using a video that we recorded and showed during the school assembly. What's great about Frog's VLE is that it is really flexible and easy to use – it lets us customise our own personal page to view school notices, useful tips, forums etc."
Ash Manor School - Pan Panayiotou
"Frog is changing the way we work and is helping to foster a culture of learning in the school. The forums have really helped our students to network with each other; they are transforming students into keen learners both inside and beyond the school classroom. Teachers love being able to set assignments from home and help develop forums for learning. It has really helped some of our students with deep learning activities."
The Elizabethan High School - David Grant, acting Head Teacher
"I have been amazed by how quickly the students have taken to the product. They were so keen to get started, they even asked for homework! Frog has helped to deliver in three months the kind of consultation that might originally have taken years."
Fort Hill School - John Wareham
"Developing Frog at Fort Hill and seeing the impact it has had here has been the best part of my job."
Padget High School - Richard Blaize, Head of ICT
"We've had Frog being used now in lessons for just over a year and it amazed me at first how quickly the pupils took to it. Now it just seems so natural to them and to staff, if they do find something is not on there they are really shocked."
Warwick Academy - Dave Horan, Deputy Principal
"Frog listens to its customers and builds a relationship. Although we are located on a small island, we are aware of the impact that Frog is having in the UK and internationally and want to provide those same teaching and learning opportunities for our pupils. We are confident that Frog will play a major part in transforming teaching and learning both within and beyond the classroom. In future, we also plan to use Frog to link with other schools in Bermuda, the UK and other parts of the world. This will enable teachers and students to develop their own learning tools and share their knowledge by interacting with the global school community."
Thurston Community College - Andy Barkley, Online Curriculum Coordinator
"Throughout the first year Frog's technical support department has been excellent in delivering fast and easy to digest answers to all our queries. Frog is fast and reliable and intuitive to use."
Ormiston Bushfield Academy - Benjamin Curtis, E-learning Coordinator
"Simple processes such as uploading files are much easier with Frog compared with previous learning platforms we have used because of the way it has been designed."
Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College - Mike Rimmer, Assistant Head
"Frog is changing the way we work and is helping to foster a culture of learning in the school. The forums have really helped our students to network with each other; they are transforming students into keen learners both inside and beyond the school classroom. Teachers love being able to set assignments from home and help develop forums for learning. It has really helped some of our students with deep learning activities."
Costello Technology College - Dominic Tester, Assistant Head
"We've been very pleased with the support we've had from Frog. Not only in terms of first line support but the fact that they are very receptive to the needs of our school and look at how our needs might be common across other schools so that they can get their development team on the case for future projects."
Sunbury Manor
"The learning platform provides excellent opportunities for students and parents to have a voice and raise concerns. New students joining the school in Year 7 are given online access to their mentors, other students who are coming to the school and their progress manager. The online school council is another good example. The school has rightly developed a rigorous policy and safe use of the Internet to support this development."
Pimlico Academy
"The level of support from the Frog team has been outstanding and I cannot thank them enough for their continued commitment, dedication and support. There is always the mantra ‘we will find a way'. With the help of Frog we have resolved a majority of our network issues and can now start to develop the platform further. After comparing ten learning platform providers across the UK, we are still confident we made the correct choice."
St Ignatius Catholic School - Mick Whyte, Director of Technology
"All students at the school are now engaged with Frog and are benefiting from its flexibility; they are even suggesting ideas of their own to further develop it to suit their needs, and this will drive positive change in the school. It is not just a piece of software but rather a toolkit which we can take with us into the future. The added benefit of Frog is that we are able to host it here on campus, rather than in the UK, so we have full ownership of it."