Enhance coherence, reflection and evidence across your ITE provision
Bring coherence between campus learning and school placements through secure, research-informed technology that integrates smoothly with your current tools.
Bring coherence between campus learning and school placements through secure, research-informed technology that integrates smoothly with your current tools. IRIS Connect strengthens alignment between theory and practice without replacing existing systems – helping you enrich your programme, not rebuild it.
Why Universities Choose IRIS Connect
Strengthen quality, coherence and evidence
Bridge the gap between campus learning and classroom practice.
Support mentors and tutors with structured, evidence-based coaching tools.
Gain clear visibility of trainee progress for internal QA and Ofsted evidence.
Enhance existing systems rather than replacing them.
Rely on trusted, secure technology used by universities worldwide.
Enhance coherence across theory and practice
Bridge the gap between university-based learning and classroom application. Using adaptive Pathways, you can sequence development activities that link theory with practice, providing mentors and trainees with a shared structure and clear expectations.
Our system is highly customisable and can adapt to support your frameworks, integrate your own content or third-party resources, such as Teaching WalkThrus, for flexibility and pedagogical depth.
Improve visibility and evidence for progress tracking
Give tutors, mentors and programme leaders a transparent view of trainee progress. Video observations, reflections and feedback are stored securely, making progress tracking efficient and reducing administrative burden.
Objectives connect that work to the standards. Preset boards for the ITTECF, or your own programme framework, sit with each trainee, and progress builds against each one as it happens: notes from mentor meetings, reflections, and the time-linked moment in a lesson where the practice appears.
Enhance efficiency without replacing existing systems
We provide single sign on, a feature rich user management API and the ability to enable custom integrations for data import and export.
Trainees keep working in the systems your programme already uses. Objectives on IRIS Connect hold the goal alongside the coaching, reflection and video working towards it, and the progress record can support whatever wider assessment process sits around it.
You remain in control, while our trusted technology ensures reliability, data protection and accessibility.
Support mentor development and consistency
Give school-based mentors clear, consistent structures for coaching conversations. Our video-based examples and feedback tools ensure all trainees receive the same quality of support across placements, while mentors benefit from guided professional development themselves.
Trusted by ITT Providers Around the Globe
“Initially I saw IRIS Connect as a way for trainees to be able to see their own delivery and reflect. I did not realise the full scope of the platform. What I love most is the organisation of it! Everything is together, easy to review, revisit and for trainees to track their progress.”
– Sarah, Lead Subject Tutor, Nottinghamshire Torch SCITT