Collaborative Teaching in PE: How Shared Workspaces Transform Department Planning

PE teaching often involves multiple teachers working with the same students across different classes, sports, and year groups. Without coordination, this leads to duplicated effort and inconsistent data.

The Problem

Teacher A creates a class list for Year 7. Teacher B creates the same list for a different activity. Neither knows what ability ratings the other assigned. When it's time for cross-class tournaments, nobody has a unified view.

Shared Workspaces

InstaGroups Collaborative Workspaces solve this by letting PE departments share a single source of truth. One teacher creates the class groups, and colleagues can view and use the same data.

How It Works

1. The lead teacher sets up class groups with student data 2. They invite colleagues using invite codes or email 3. Colleagues accept and can now see all the shared class groups 4. Everyone generates teams from the same student data 5. Tournament draws are visible to all workspace members

Benefits

• No duplicate data entry — enter students once, use everywhere
• Consistent ability ratings — one set of ratings across the department
• Cross-class tournaments — combine students from multiple classes easily
• Cover lessons — relief teachers can access the class data they need
• Department coordination — everyone sees the same picture

Getting Started

Collaborative Workspaces are available on the Pro plan. Invite your first colleague from Settings and start sharing your class data today.