business schools
Business Schools Need More Than Grades
Help students evidence the experiences and capabilities that distinguish them for future success.
Gain richer insight into student progression while supporting programme quality, Assurance of Learning and accreditation.
Helping Business Schools Demonstrate Student Success
Business Schools are under pressure to retain undergraduates and attract postgraduate and international learners, demonstrate student success, evidence programme quality and deliver learning experiences that stand out in an increasingly competitive market. Learning happens across far more than assessed coursework. Students develop through consulting projects, group work, business simulations, placements, leadership activities, research and personal experiences, yet much of that learning can remain difficult to capture and demonstrate.
PebblePad helps Business Schools connect learning across years of study, experiences and programmes, creating a richer picture of student development and achievement. Students can collect evidence, reflect on their growth and build a record of their capabilities over time, while educators gain deeper insight into progression, programme impact and student success.
Helping Students See Their Development
AACSB-accredited Kingston Business School embedded PebblePad workbooks into the curriculum to help students collect evidence, reflect on their experiences and better understand and evidence their development. The result? Seven times more reflections than a comparable module without the workbook, with more than 1,000 reflections captured from 145 students.
“Students can really see their progression.”
Becky Lees
Director of Learning & Teaching, Kingston Business School
THE APPROACH
Connect Learning, Evidence & Impact
Business Schools face three connected challenges. Here's how PebblePad helps you address each one.
THE STUDENT CHALLENGE
Help Students Demonstrate More Than Grades
Demonstrate value
beyond results
Help learners capture evidence of their experiences, reflect on their development and build confidence in their growing capabilities.
Reflection
with purpose
Encourage students to connect learning experiences, identify strengths and recognise their development over time.
Build career confidence
Help learners articulate their achievements, experiences and aspirations as they prepare for future opportunities.
Evidence work-integrated learning
Evidence projects, placements, leadership activity, industry engagement and other experiences that contribute to student growth.
Connect learning
across the journey
Bring together curricular, co-curricular and extracurricular and industry experiences into a single picture of growth and achievement.
Becky Lees
Director of Learning & Teaching
Kingston Business School
THE INSIGHT CHALLENGE
Understand Progression Across the Student Journey
Strengthen Industry Connections
Support placements, employer engagement and work-based learning with evidence, feedback and collaboration in one place.
Move beyond
performance snapshots
Understand how students develop throughout their programme, gaining a richer picture of learning than moment-in-time assessment provides.
Longitudinal evidence
of growth
Track development across modules, years and experiences, building a continuous record of student growth across the whole degree.
Deeper student
insight
Discover how learners engage with concepts, experiences and professional development activities as they progress through their programme.
Identify
learning gaps
Use reflection and portfolio evidence to reveal learning gaps and uncover opportunities for curriculum enhancement across cohorts.
Inform continuous improvement
Support evidence-based decision making with authentic student evidence that informs programme enhancement and continuous improvement initiatives.
THE QUALITY CHALLENGE
Evidence Programme Quality and Assurance of Learning
Support authentic
business learning
Collect evidence from projects, simulations, placements, group work and assessment activities in one connected learning environment.
Assurance of
Learning
Link authentic student evidence to programme outcomes, learning goals and institutional priorities across every year of the programme.
Align with accreditation
requirements
Build an evidence base aligned with the expectations of AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA and your internal quality review processes.
Demonstrate programme impact
Show how students develop capabilities, confidence and professional readiness throughout their studies, providing credible evidence of programme impact.
Consistent implementation at scale
Use reusable workbooks, templates and frameworks to create consistent experiences across programmes, modules and cohorts without redesign.
Becky Lees
Director of Learning & Teaching
Kingston Business School
Trusted by Leading Business Schools
AACSB has featured thought leadership from Kingston Business School on graduate capability development and reflection highlighting the growing need for business schools to evidence student growth beyond academic achievement.
Victoria Walsh
Head of the Department of Management
AACSB-accredited Kingston Business School
Business Schools need to support many different models of learning - from undergraduate courses and graduate programs, to doctoral supervision, internships, simulations, consulting projects and employer partnerships.
PebblePad brings these activities into one connected learning, assessment and evidence environment. Students can collect and submit evidence, build portfolios, reflect on development, receive feedback, complete structured workbooks and carry their learning forward through alumni accounts. Educators gain better visibility of engagement, development and program impact.
Learning & assessment
Support portfolios, workbooks, essays, evidence submission, feedback, marking and structured reflection in one connected environment.
Internships and employer engagement
Manage placement activity, supervisor feedback, external input and evidence collection without relying on disconnected files and email.
Alumni & lifelong learning
Help students take their evidence forward after graduation while institutions retain assessed work as required.
Talk to our Business School
specialists today.
Discover how PebblePad helps students evidence their development, build confidence in their capabilities and continue their professional journey beyond graduation with alumni accounts.