VOD Review Trainer
Watch gameplay footage, identify coachable moments and compare your observations with a coach’s answer key.
Education / teaching resources
Teaching
tools.
Interactive learning resources for Esports, Games Design, and online safety education.
Esports Lessons
9 subject-specific resourcesBTEC coaching activities and UAL creative-process lessons, with practical research tools for developing ideas and evaluating play.
BTEC · Unit 12 · Coaching · 03
Skill Card Builder
Build coaching skill cards, support each skill with evidence from real coaches and track your development.
Patch Day Panic Planner
Draw a patch-note card and plan a 60-minute coaching session that adapts to changes in the game.
Coach Showdown Sheet
Compare four coaching styles in the same crisis, score their responses and justify your verdict.
BTEC · Unit 12 · Coaching · 02
e-SFERA Questionnaire
Reflect on mental training and performance through a structured esports questionnaire.
UAL · Unit 1 · Ideas and refinement
Ideas Generator
Explore Crazy 8s, SCAMPER, random mashups and reverse brainstorming in a shared idea bank.
Spot the Bug
Review esports proposals, identify writing and planning problems, and record feedback for improvement.
Refinement Sprint
Develop a proposal, revise it into a second version, record your changes and reflect on the result.
Map It Out
Build a mind map of your proposal and refine its connections through collaboration.
Games Design Lessons
8 subject-specific resourcesInteractive lessons for creative teamwork, coding, narrative, research, ethics and careers in games design.
Coding and narrative tools
Unity 2D Platformer: C# Coding
Build player movement, collecting, health, lives, animation, enemy AI and scenes through guided C# lessons, a playable preview, task checklists and reflection.
Class diagrams: RPG characters
Classes, attributes, method return types and parameters, relationships, diagrams and reflection.
Flowcharts: 2D RPG games
Platformer, top-down RPG and Metroidvania logic; decisions, branches and connected paths.
Narrative Visual Editor
Plan and communicate game narrative and branching ideas.
Creative process and ethics
Indie Studio Team Builder
Choose a game project, hire a team within a £250,000 budget and explain staffing decisions in a strategy worksheet.
Sort the Process
Sort 12 game-development tasks into Discover, Define, Develop and Deliver, then check the answers.
Double Diamond Creative Process Simulator
Make timed game-development decisions across the four Double Diamond stages and complete a learning journal.
Copy / Clash: copyright and ethics
Play through studio scenarios about asset rights, licences and credit, balancing trust, budget and reputation.
UAL unit documents
Unit specifications for planning teaching and portfolio evidence.
Tutor Group
3 activities / Induction, connection & careersActivities for personal reflection, getting to know classmates and exploring career pathways.
Tutor activities
Induction: Adventures With Anxiety
Year 2 induction activity using Adventures With Anxiety to prompt personal reflection.
INSPIRED BY NICKY CASE'S ADVENTURES WITH ANXIETY & MENTAL HEALTH GUIDE
Who Said What?
Class icebreaker built around matching statements with classmates.
Race To The Role: work experience
Collect and bank work-experience card sets, gain skills and race AI rivals to meet a target job’s requirements.
Shared Research Tools
Esports & Games Design / 14 resourcesThe same research activities support both subjects. Choose the Esports or Games Design version below; each tool has one summary and screenshot.
Research methods and learning library
Research Lab / Library
A shared menu of research lessons, activity studios and reading summaries.
01. Online surveys — Survey Lab
Plan an online survey and use responses as evidence for design decisions.
02. Task analysis — Join a Match
Break joining a match into user steps to identify requirements and friction.
Research library preview
03. Prototyping Lab — Tutorial Flow
Build and test a tutorial-flow prototype, including bug-hunt tasks.
04. Persona Maker — Esports Event App
Create a user persona to guide the design of an esports event app.
05. Parallel design — Login Page Sprint
Explore alternative login-page designs and compare ideas before refining a solution.
06. Interviews — Peer Experience Lab
Plan peer interviews and record findings about user experiences.
07. Expert Review Lab — UI Audit & Triage
Audit an interface, record usability findings and prioritise improvements.
08. Focus groups — Classroom Discussion
Run a classroom focus group and capture different views on a design.
09. First Click Lab — Neon Clash Weekend
Test where users click first to complete tasks for an esports event.
10. Card sorting — Esports Event App
Group esports event content into categories to develop navigation.
11. Contextual interviews — Study Session
Investigate a study session in context and record user needs and behaviours.
12. Usability Testing Lab — Practice Session
Practise usability testing and turn observed problems into design improvements.
13. Use Case Arena — Neon Clash Weekend
Describe users, goals and interactions through use cases for an esports event.
College Induction
Levels 1–3 / Learning & quizzesHelp students settle into college, find support and prepare for their next steps.
Learning / College induction
Induction Quiz
Choose your study level and year to find relevant induction modules covering belonging, college support, attendance, safety, wellbeing, careers and work experience. Learn through interactive exercises, or take quizzes with adjustable timers, scores and answer explanations. Track your progress and earn achievements as you complete modules.
Assessment Quiz
Five sections / Two difficulty levelsPractice activities for exploring reasoning skills and personal preferences.
Learning / Assessment practice
Assessment Quiz
Choose from personality, numerical, verbal, abstract and situational reasoning activities, each with 15 questions. Select Easy–Intermediate or Intermediate–Advanced difficulty to practise at a suitable level and explore different approaches to problem solving.
Learn C#
Beginner / Intermediate / ExpertStructured coding practice with interactive lessons and quizzes.
Live / Learning
Pixel Code
Learn C# through topics grouped by difficulty, interactive exercises, quizzes and code challenges. Choose a learning activity or take a timed quiz, review answers with explanations, and track your progress and achievements.
Prevent Game
Prevent / Level 3Scenario-based learning to help students make informed decisions online.
Learning game / Online safety
Prevent — College Patrol
An online safety game supporting East Sussex College Group’s Level 3 Prevent tutorial. Choose a college location, explore scenarios, practise checking claims and learn when to report concerns.