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Questions raised over poor uptake of £4.5m VLE in Wales

Schools are logging off from a multi-million-pound virtual classroom, set up to help share best practice in Wales, it has been claimed.

New figures show that less than a third of Hwb+ accounts had been used in the autumn term. 

Set up in 2012 and having cost  £4.5 million to date, Hwb+, is a virtual learning environment, available to all pupils aged three to 19 in Wales as part of a drive to increase the use of technology in the classroom, provide a forum for debate and discussion, as well as share good practice.

But opposition party Plaid Cymru, which requested the figures under the Freedom of Information Act, has branded Hwb+ another good idea which is not working in practice.

Only 162,837 of the 529,481 Hwb+ sites had been accessed between September and November last year.

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