Peer Review and Development Groups

Support for Excellence Programme - Huddle

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Huddle

Huddle is a network of secure online workspaces where all your team can come together to work on documents, plan projects and collaborate on ideas. 

Each individual workspace (or 'huddle') contains documents, notes, reminders and information on the work of your PRD group’s work.

On receipt of your signed MOU you will be provided with access to Huddle

qia.huddle.net

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Huddle

• Each PRD group lead will be invited to join a regional Huddle. The team lead then invites the remaining group members to join a huddle group (see slide 7 for more details)

• Within this regional Huddle, each team has designated private access to their group drawers / folders and also to a generic drawer / folder accessible by all teams in the region (please see slide 10 for more details)

• All groups will also shortly have the option to join a national Huddle that will allow sharing of documentation and whiteboard conversations across the regions

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Before you can access a huddle, you will need to be invited. This will take the form of an email…

Click here to register

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You will then need to register

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And then, as group lead, invite your team to join you

Click here to invite others

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And then invite your team to join you (2)

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Storing / sharing documents

Click here to see how documents can be stored

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Drawers

Within the filing cabinet you will see a number of drawers (or folders) that can

be used to store documents

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Drawers (2)

• When storing documents in the drawers please note that the ‘Documents (Contents visible to all groups)’ drawer is visible to all PRD groups

• The other drawers (and hence documents inside) can only be viewed by members of your PRD group

• Please remember to save your Maturity Matrix and Evaluative Reports in the ‘Feedback and Reporting’ drawer – this will make it easier for the regional team to collate them

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Adding a document

To add a document to a drawer, click on the chosen drawer itself (on the left hand side) and then this button

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Adding a document (2)

Select the documents you would like to upload by browsing for them on your computer

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The Whiteboard (Huddle message board)

Click here to access the whiteboard page

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The Whiteboard (2)

Click here to add new whiteboard

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The Whiteboard (3)

Example titles

Allows you to specify who the whiteboard is addressed to (i.e. your PRD group, all regional PRD groups etc)

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The Whiteboard (3)

• The Whiteboard is essentially a message board that allows you to communicate with team members

• Once a Whiteboard has been created (by clicking on the ‘Create Whiteboard’ button, slide 14) others can respond to it, hence allowing a conversation between the team

• Please note that it is possible to select who the Whiteboard is sent to, i.e. who the conversation is between. You can do this by clicking on the ‘Notify others of your change’ button, shown on slide 15.

• The Whiteboard would be a useful tool to have conversations across regions (using the national Huddle)

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The Calendar

Click here to access the Calendar page

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The Calendar (2)

The calendar allows you to add tasks / milestones. Huddle will then notify team members when a due date is approaching (for example, as shown above, completion of first review)

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Huddle Teams

Click here to access the Teams page

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Huddle Team (2)

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Huddle Teams (3)

• The Huddle Teams tab is for viewing purposes only

• It allows you to see which other PRD Groups have joined Huddle within your LSC region, and the individual group members

• Using the national Huddle, it will be possible to identify PRD Groups that have joined Huddle in all regions

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In difficulty?

If you encounter difficulties but cannot find the answer to your query, click the “Ask a Question” tab at the top of the screen and enter your name, email address and question to contact the Huddle support team. Answers will be posted back to you as soon as possible and no question is ever ignored.

If you prefer, you can contact the Huddle Support team directly. Contact details are:

Tel: 08709 772 212

Email: support@huddle.net