1. The document provides instructions for registering an eTwinning project, including identifying a partner school, planning the project details, and getting approval from the partner and National Support Services. 2. Once approved, the project is visible on the Projects page and can be managed by adding partners, changing roles, and closing the project when finished. 3. Additional features like the TwinSpace can be accessed from the project page to facilitate collaboration with partners.

1. Registering an eTwinning Project

3. Part 1. How do you know when you are ready to register your project?

10. View your contacts Your Profile

11. Check that your partner for this project is in your Contacts List

12. Your Projects page Create your new project

13. Select the one partner that you want to set the project up with

14. Project Description Page – these are details for the project as a whole not just your school, you are writing on behalf of your partners too so don’t be UK-centric.

15. Give your project a title. This should be agreed with your partner(s) A brief overview of your project. Try to explain simply what your project is about Tick the languages that you will use to communicate

16. Select the age range of students in the project and the overall number of students involved Select all the subject areas that the project covers. From yours and your partner’s point of view Select the ICT tools that you will be using

17. Project aims – specifically what you are aiming the impact on your pupils to be. What skills they are going to enhance, what areas of the curriculum are going to be enriched by working in this way through the project How are you going to carry out your project? What are you going to do when? How are you going to collaborate and communicate together? What outputs and outcomes are you planning to create throughout and at the end of the project?

18. This is the Preview Screen. You can view and review all the information that you just entered in the Project Description Page. If you want to change any of the information at this point you can click on Change which takes you back a step, but if you’re happy just click Submit.

21. Part 2. Project Approval

22. At this point you are told your project is created but it will remain pending until firstly your partner and then the National Support Services approve it. You can find your project now in the Pending tab of your Projects page.

23. You can view the current status of the project here. It will either be ‘waiting for partner approval’ or ‘waiting for NSS approval’. At this stage you can Delete the project or Edit the details

24. Your partner will have received a notification in their Desktop saying that the project has been registered and that you are waiting for them to accept the project. They will also be able to find it in the Pending tab of their Projects page and there they will have the option to Accept or Reject the project.

25. Once your partner has approved the project it get’s sent to the NSS in each country for each of them to verify and approve (to check the project is appropriate, well planned etc). This shouldn’t take more than 3 days.

28. Part 3. Managing your project

29. Now that your eTwinning project is up and running you can manage it from the Projects page of your eTwinning Desktop. You can also see that now your project has been approved it appears in the Open projects tab

30. You can add new partner schools to the project by clicking on Add new partner(s) . Again, just make sure they are in your Contacts List before you try and do this. By clicking on Manage Partner(s) you can change the role of the members of the project.

31. Within Manage Partner(s) you can change the role of the members of the project to either ‘Administrator’ or ‘Member’. ‘Administrators’ can add (and remove) others to/from the project and change the project details whereas ‘Members’ can just view this information. Should you wish to remove a partner from the project you can do so from this screen. Click to remove a partner

32. You can also close the project when it finishes, access your Twinspace and apply for a Quality Label from this page.

35. Part 4: Going Forward

36. The TwinSpace

38. You can also close the project when it finishes, access your Twinspace and apply for a Quality Label from this page.