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A new chapter for Primary School in itslearning

vania.hasegawa@itslearning.com (Vania Hasegawa) — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 13:21:44 GMT

Class Course gives primary teachers one place to organise all the subjects they teach in a class. They can plan lessons, share them on the classroom screen and keep families informed. Pictures and icons make the course more visual and help pupils understand and find what they need.

One Assignment tool for assigning student work

vania.hasegawa@itslearning.com (Vania Hasegawa) — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:24:31 GMT

Teachers use assignments and tasks in many different ways. Some activities require students to hand in work, while others are designed to encourage participation, track completion or support classroom discussions.

Moving from Note to Page: An Improved Way to Create Course Content

stephen@altprod.com (itslearning) — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:59:09 GMT

For many years, 'Note' has been a simple way for teachers to create and share content in their courses. As itslearning continues to develop, we are bringing more content creation features together in one flexible tool: Page.

Share Course Templates across multiple sites

vania.hasegawa@itslearning.com (Vania Hasegawa) — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:34:24 GMT

Course templates in itslearning can now be shared across sites. This means teachers at one school can share a course structure and content with teachers at another school within the same organisation or even at a country level, and use templates created elsewhere as the starting point for their own courses.

This article explains what the feature does, how it works for teachers and system administrators, and what to keep in mind before you start.

What is a course template?

A course template is a course saved for reuse, including its structure and all the content within it. When a teacher creates a new course from a template, the new course inherits the structure, plan settings, and course focus from the original. Submitted work, results, and student data are never copied.

Templates have existed in itslearning for a while, but they were previously limited to use within a single site. The cross-site sharing option extends this, allowing course templates to be made available not only to other schools in the same organisation, but also to all itslearning sites within the same country.

How sharing works

A teacher with the appropriate permission can mark any course as a template and choose the level at which it is shared. To share a course template, teachers can now go to course settings and click on 'share as template'.

Within your school — available to teachers at the same site.
Within site — if multiple schools are sharing the same site, available to other schools on that site.
Within the state — where applicable, shared at state level.
All sites — available to all itslearning schools in the same country.
Within selected sites — shared with specific schools chosen by the teacher, from the same country.

Teachers can stop sharing a course as template at any time. Please note that the ability to create courses, and to create courses from a template, is controlled by profile or site policy, so not all teachers will see these actions.

Note that any site using the beta version of the “shareable planner” will no longer see these planners in the “Other sites” tab. If they still want to share the courses connected to these planners, they will need to share the course as a cross-site template instead.

Previewing a template before you use it

Before creating a course from a template, teachers can open a preview of the template. The preview shows the structure, plan, and resources included, so teachers can decide whether a template is the right fit without having to create a course first.

The four template sources

When creating a new course, teachers can see templates from up to four sources, depending on their permissions and location:

Your courses — courses you are already teaching, useful for reusing a course from a previous year.
Course templates — templates shared within your organisation by colleagues with sharing permissions.
From publishers — in some markets, structured course content from publishers is available here.
Other sites — templates shared from another itslearning site, typically through a formal collaboration between organisations.

Getting started

For administrators: Before enabling cross-site templates, there are two main decisions to make:

Whether teachers on your site can see templates from other sites. If yes, choose between all sites or only selected ones.
Which profiles or policies on your site can share templates with other sites . Note this is not enabled by default, but set per profile.

Full documentation for both roles is available in the itslearning Support Portal:

This feature is part of the German Development Project (GDP), a collaboration between four German states and itslearning aimed at enhancing digital education in Germany through tailored product developments. Learn more about the GDP roadmap and what other features you can expect to see. For German readers, more details on the German Development Project are made available on our webpages.

One platform, multiple curriculum lenses: A Guide to Learning Objectives in itslearning

vania.hasegawa@itslearning.com (Vania Hasegawa) — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:06:28 GMT

International schools rarely teach just one curriculum. A single school might have IB students in one year group, Cambridge students in another, and a national curriculum running alongside both. With itslearning you can centralise learning objectives from different curriculums in one platform, ensuring consistency and continuity.

What's new for teachers in the itslearning app

vania.hasegawa@itslearning.com (Vania Hasegawa) — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:20:12 GMT

A teacher's day is rarely spent at one desk. Submissions get checked between lessons, feedback gets recorded on the way home, and teaching material is often found on a phone long before it reaches a computer. Until now, much of that still meant opening a browser to finish the job.

What's new for students in the itslearning app

vania.hasegawa@itslearning.com (Vania Hasegawa) — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:19:29 GMT

Schoolwork rarely stays at a desk. It happens on the bus, at the kitchen table, in the gap between two lessons, and often on a phone or tablet. This latest update simplify some of those everyday tasks.

Differentiated Plans: a plan for every student

vania.hasegawa@itslearning.com (Vania Hasegawa) — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:15:51 GMT

Each student is unique, and differentiation is one of the clearest ways to make learning more effective for the individual learner. The Planner is the core tool in itslearning for organising teaching and learning activities. Until now, teachers could only assign plans to all participants in a course. With Differentiated Plans, teachers can assign a plan to specific students or groups, supporting personalised learning without creating separate courses.

Save File Resources: Students Keep Access to What They Need

vania.hasegawa@itslearning.com (Vania Hasegawa) — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:07:16 GMT

When a course ends, students often lose access to the files inside it. Resources they used during the term, such as documents, presentations, and videos, become unavailable the moment they are removed from the course or the course itself is closed. For many students, this happens at exactly the wrong time: during revision, at the start of a new school year, or when moving on to the next stage of their studies.

Collaboration Folders: One Shared Workspace for Group Work

vania.hasegawa@itslearning.com (Vania Hasegawa) — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:35:58 GMT

Group work can be difficult to manage. Students often use different tools, files are stored in different places, and teachers have limited visibility into how a project is progressing.