Answers to common questions
Will Learning and Teaching Scotland link to my website?
Please send us some information and the website address so we can evaluate your site.
We shall consider its relevance to the Scottish curriculum and the general quality of the site and its resources. Once it has been evaluated we will let you know whether the site has been added as a link from the LTS Online Service.
Can I link to the LTS website?
We're delighted you're interested in linking to our Online Service. Please send us an email with details of your site and we can suggest the best area for you to link to depending on the focus of your website.
I can't find what I am looking for on the LTS websites. What should I do?
First try using our A-Z directory which lists the main areas and important pages of the LTS Online Service alphabetically.
We also have two pages with links to two main categories of websites: curriculum-related sites - available from the LTS home page and websites covering cross-curricular themes.
Alternatively, please try searching the Online Service for a keyword or words by using the search box at the very top right-hand of the screen.
But if you still can't fiind what you need, please contact us, explaining what you are looking for and we shall try to locate it for you.
I don't have broadband and I can't download some files from your website.
Some of our resources for downloading are made up of large files but files of approximately 3MB should still download to your PC via a telephone line and modem. Please check your connections or try another machine – perhaps in your school where you may have a broadband connection.
I want to adapt a teaching resource from your website but it's a PDF. Is it available in Word?
Our resources are made up of PDFs and Word documents but not all are in both versions.
PDFs are useful because they can be downloaded using either a PC or a Apple Mac, without changing or becoming corrupted. They can be edited if you have a full version of Adobe Acrobat, not just the Reader.
Alternatively you could try using a cheap PDF converter available from a computer software company. These can provide a conversion to Word format which you can then edit.
If you just require the text from a PDF, you can open the PDF in Adobe Reader and use the 'T - select text' tool to capture blocks of text and paste into a Word doc. You can also use the Snapshot tool to do the same with images.
Help!
For more advice on using the LTS Online Service, please see our Help section.