Learning Possibilities Ltd

LP+365

LP+365 is a learning and collaboration platform from Learning Possibilities, developed in partnership with Microsoft. Based on research and over 10 years of experience, LP+365 brings LP+ technology to Office365, driving positive education outcomes for learners. Find all the tools you need to share resources, communicate, collaborate and manage assignments.

Features

  • Emails & Calendar
  • Analytics
  • Communication
  • Assignments
  • Document management
  • Multi Lingual
  • Classroom Collaboration

Benefits

  • Compatible and accessible across devices
  • Accessible anywhere, facilitating offline access to Office web apps
  • Secure Microsoft Azure cloud
  • Effortlessly switch between languages
  • Monitor student sentiment and engagement

Pricing

£6.00 to £16.00 a licence a year

  • Education pricing available
  • Free trial available

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at mandeep.dhillon@lpplus.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

1 5 4 1 1 9 8 9 3 6 3 5 6 0 0

Contact

Learning Possibilities Ltd Mandeep Dhillon
Telephone: 020 8236 1010
Email: mandeep.dhillon@lpplus.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
Yes
What software services is the service an extension to
The product requires Microsoft O365 as its underlying platform
Cloud deployment model
Public cloud
Service constraints
Requires Microsoft Office365.
System requirements
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • Azure Subscription - App Service, SQL and storage account

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Mon-Friday 8am to 5pm UK Time within 2 hour response
Weekends closed
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 A
Phone support
No
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
1st Line support included for issues
2nd and 3rd Line support will be at an extra cost
Product enhancement dependant on customer needs

Cost is dependent on the customer size and implementation complexity.
Support available to third parties
No

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Providing them with:
1). Data collection templates
2). Data collection validation for users to be provisioned
3). Provision the users
4). Train teachers
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
The data will reside on the customers Office 365 environment and can be retrieved by Microsoft tools
End-of-contract process
The price includes the LP+365 license and support.
There is no additional cost

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
There is no difference, accept the user will use a mobile browser to access the service
Service interface
No
User support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 A
API
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
1)The look and feel of the product
2)Branding of the product

Scaling

Independence of resources
The platform has been designed to ensure demand is met by auto-scaling

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Simple usage of platform
Reporting types
Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Staff screening not performed
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
United Kingdom
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Supplier-defined controls
Penetration testing frequency
Never
Protecting data at rest
Encryption of all physical media
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Data will be exported in a CSV format
Data export formats
CSV
Data import formats
CSV

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Data protection within supplier network
TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
Use Microsoft Azure and their SLAs for availability:

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/legal/sla/
Approach to resilience
The platform uses Microsoft GEO replication for making the system resilient
Outage reporting
The platform uses Microsoft Azure and takes the outage reports supplied by Microsoft.

https://status.azure.com/en-us/status

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
The restrictions are implemented for users by activating Microsoft Groups
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
User-defined

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
No
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
ISO 9001

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
No
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
Other
Other security governance standards
1) ISO9001
2) Cyber Essentials
Information security policies and processes
CEO
CTO
Platform Management
Development
Support Level

Ensure training of staff is maintained and security policy is applied and documented.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
Changes are manged using a work flow, starting with requirements and then development and release.

Changes are either Standard or RFC.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
We follow the in-house patch management process. This is broken down into :
Critical
High
Medium
Low

Using the National Cyber Awareness System
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
National Cyber Awareness system identifies the potential compromises and after evaluation of risk, then implement the necessary change to avoid risks
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Incidents are reported by email/ticket and resolutions are implemented within the system and reports generated from the ticketing system

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

We design our systems in an optimal manner with scalable infrastructure and a low carbon footprint
Covid-19 recovery

Covid-19 recovery

We have written a COVID -19 operational plan that the company follows.
Tackling economic inequality

Tackling economic inequality

Our company is a social enterprise that values its people and has morale commitments
Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

We provide equal opportunity and are not biased on gender or race
Wellbeing

Wellbeing

We encourage our employees to have a work life balance. Enabling them to work either from home or office

Pricing

Price
£6.00 to £16.00 a licence a year
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
Our pilot trial will allow customers to use the full features of the App, for an agreed period.

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at mandeep.dhillon@lpplus.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.