Kloodle

Kloodle is a social network for student employability and early stage careers. Kloodle is a secure user-friendly platform designed to help students to evidence employability skills and achievements, which could help them to gain access to an apprenticeship, enter the world of work or supplement UCAS applications. How can Kloodle help students? At the heart of Kloodle’s mission is the student experience.Kloodle encourages students to: evidence crucial employability skills through a safe and secure on-line environment; create an academic profile by writing a bio and blogs about themselves, identifying their top achievements, uploading photos, blogs, important documents and projects; create connections and see how other students in your closed community are promoting themselves; apply for jobs, apprenticeships and opportunities. How can Kloodle help teachers? As a teacher you can: monitor student profiles at a glance; identify strengths or deficits in students’ skill-sets. provide immediate feedback on student blogs, photos or blogs; measure the development of student skills and progression; maintain an overview of work experience diaries and maintain contact when students are away from the classroom; set action plans for students to inform 1-2-1 reviews; access and store drafts of students’ UCAS Personal Statements. How can Kloodle help management teams? With a growing emphasis on employability skills in FE and an ever-increasing squeeze on each institution’s budget, Kloodle provides the perfect solution for management teams to: demonstrate an ambitious vision for the skills development of all learners; measure student participation rates; monitor baseline, interim and end of year skills data, measuring the impact of each student’s journey through your college; celebrate both student and college success with employment links; provide destinations and student employability skills reports.