Education staff training your teams will love

Microlessons that fit around the timetable.Create your own content in minutes and export it as SCORM for your LMS.Track external certificates, such as safeguarding from an approved provider, in one place.

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The problem

Why traditional staff training fails in education

Inspectors expect staff to know what to do, not just click through a module.
Most training can't show that.

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No time to train

Hours of generic CPD compete with teaching, marking and term-time workloads. Staff switch off, and HR ends up chasing.

Too generic to land

Off-the-shelf courses ignore your setting, your policies and your staff, so people click through and nothing changes.

You're not moving off your LMS

Moodle, Totara or Canvas is where learning lives, and there is little appetite to move. You still need content and a way to build it fast.

Certificates from five providers

Safeguarding, first aid and other certificates come from different bodies, expire on different dates, and get bought again every year.

One platform

Compliance that sticks, and skills that drive performance

Meet your statutory training duties with confidence, and build the skills your staff need next.

Staff compliance, tracked

Role-specific, bite-sized training that keeps pace with changing guidance, with certificates from other providers logged in the same place.

  • Health and safety, fire safety, data protection and more
  • 60+ courses for education staff, with accredited content and External Training records with expiry alerts
  • Automated enrollment, reminders and refreshers
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CPD that respects staff time

Short CPD for every role, from leadership to AI skills.

  • AI Academy: 36 courses on AI skills
  • Daily Picks and AI-powered recommendations
  • 20,000+ microlessons from 200+ expert instructors
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Engagement that works

A TikTok-style feed that drives 6-10x higher engagement than a legacy LMS.

  • Points, streaks and leaderboards
  • iOS and Android apps for learning on the go
  • Quizzes, certificates and real-time progress
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Zero admin

Automate statutory training and get time back

Spend less time chasing certificates and more time supporting staff. 5Mins handles enrollment, reminders and reporting for you.

  • Enroll new starters automatically and re-enroll everyone for annual refreshers
  • Nudge staff by email, Slack and push before due dates
  • See who's completed, at risk or overdue in real time
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Recurring enrollments re-assigning an annual compliance refresher automatically

Enroll and re-enroll staff automatically, based on their role, region or cohort.

Policy updates

Turn new guidance into training staff can act on

Keeping Children Safe in Education updates, safeguarding policies, Prevent duty guidance and your own procedures change every year. AI Studio turns them into short, trackable training for every member of staff.

  • Convert policies and guidance into microlessons
  • Publish in 20+ languages at the same time
  • Keep inspection-ready records of who completed what
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Confident conversations

Practice the conversations that matter in education

Knowing the policy is one thing. Responding well in the moment is another. Roleplays let staff rehearse sensitive conversations, from raising a safety concern to a difficult performance review, before they face them for real.

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Use cases

How 5Mins transforms staff training in education

Annual safeguarding refreshers

Re-enroll every member of staff automatically each year, with reminders before every due date.

Guidance updates

Roll out training on new guidance fast, like each September's Keeping Children Safe in Education update.

Inspection readiness

Every enrollment kept with full history, plus an audit log and one-click reports for inspectors and auditors.

External training records

Log safeguarding, first aid and other certificates from approved providers, with expiry dates, in one place.

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Why switch

5Mins vs traditional training

What changes when staff training fits into 5 minutes a day.

 5MinsTraditional training
Content formatTikTok-style microlessonsLong 1-hour courses
Device experienceMobile first, with iOS and Android appsDesktop first
Time to competenceDays to weeksWeeks to months
EngagementGamified, with 6-10x higher engagementLow, with drop-off after 15 minutes
CustomizationReady-made courses plus your own contentOff-the-shelf only
Admin burdenAutomated and audit-readyManual and fragmented
RetentionHigh, reinforced with quizzes and practicePoor, with compliance fatigue
ScalabilityPersonalized by role and regionOne-size-fits-all
80%+first-week learner activation
6-10xhigher engagement than a legacy LMS
95%+completion with microlessons
Customer stories

Why education and people teams choose 5Mins

Education
2 years

with 5Mins, from everyday learning to a path for first-time managers

New managersget a real development path
EVPlearning is part of the employee value proposition

We brought 5Mins in two years ago. It started with everyday learning our teams could fit around their day, then grew into a real development path for new and first-time managers. It's now part of our employee value proposition.

Beata Ulicska
Beata UlicskaHuman Resources Coordinator, UWC International
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In partnership with UHR

UHR member? Get 10% off your first year

5Mins partners with Universities Human Resources (UHR), the network for HR professionals in UK higher education. UHR member organizations get 10% off training for their first year.

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Built for UK organizations, covering GDPR, RIDDOR, Martyn's Law, employment law and the regulations your staff need day to day. Share it with your HR lead, DSL or governors.

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Your questions answered

Frequently asked questions

Everything schools, colleges and universities need to know about training with 5Mins.

What training does 5Mins offer for schools, colleges and universities?

5Mins covers safeguarding children and adults, health and safety, fire safety, first aid, mental health awareness, equality and inclusion, harassment prevention, whistleblowing, data protection and cybersecurity. That's 60+ courses for education staff inside a library of 500+ accredited compliance courses, kept up to date as rules change, with no manual updates from your HR team.

Does 5Mins work with Moodle, Totara or Canvas?

Yes. Export courses as SCORM, including AI Studio's Interactive SCORM Lessons, and use them in your own LMS. Tracking for those courses then sits in your LMS.

Can we record safeguarding training done with another provider?

Yes. Log it as External Training with the provider, completion date and expiry date. 5Mins emails you a list of renewals coming up, so every certificate sits in one record next to your other staff training.

What completion rates does 5Mins achieve for staff training?

95%+. Traditional platforms often see completion under 5%. 5Mins gets there because every course, from safeguarding to fire safety, is split into microlessons staff finish on their phone between lessons and meetings, instead of losing an afternoon to a training module.

How does 5Mins help with inspections and audits?

Every enrollment is recorded with its full history, including archived re-enrollments and staff who have left. The Compliance Dashboard shows who has completed, who is at risk and who is overdue, and you can export learning records, certificates and an audit log whenever inspectors, governors or auditors ask.

Can 5Mins train staff across a multi-academy trust or several campuses?

Yes. Group staff by team, region or cohort, give each school or campus its own managers, and see progress across the whole organization from one dashboard. Automations enroll each person in the right training for their role, and managers see their own team's progress.

Can staff without a work email use 5Mins?

Yes. Mobile Number Authentication lets staff without a work email, such as casual, supply or support staff, sign in with a company access code. They learn on the 5Mins iOS and Android apps or in the browser.

Can we track training delivered outside 5Mins?

Yes. Add external training records one at a time or in bulk by CSV, with the provider, completion date, expiry date and certificate. A scheduled expiry report emails you a list of training that is about to expire, such as first aid or DSL certificates.

Can I build my own training content with AI Studio?

Yes. Upload a safeguarding policy, staff handbook, induction pack or procedure, and AI Studio turns it into a structured, trackable microlesson. Most documents become a video in about 10 minutes. You don't need instructional design experience, and your documents are never used to train AI models.

How do Roleplays work for education teams?

Staff practice realistic conversations with an AI character, out loud or by typing, then get a score and coaching feedback. Education teams use Roleplays to rehearse raising a safety concern, performance and probation conversations, and difficult conversations with parents or students. Start from a ready-made scenario, or describe your own and AI builds it.

Can we turn lesson materials into interactive content?

Yes. Upload a document or deck, and AI Studio creates a video, an audio brief, flashcards or an Interactive SCORM Lesson that you can edit before you publish.

Do you offer AI training for staff?

Yes. AI Academy has 36 courses on using AI at work.

Are there hidden costs?

No. Plans are Essentials, Advance and Accelerate, priced by number of users. You can start a free trial with no credit card.

Do you offer a discount for UHR members?

Yes. 5Mins is in partnership with Universities Human Resources (UHR), and UHR member organizations get 10% off training for their first year. Book a demo and mention UHR, and we confirm your membership before applying the discount to your quote. See the UHR member offer.

Do you offer GDPR training for schools?

Yes. Data protection and cybersecurity courses sit alongside safeguarding, health and safety and fire safety in the 60+ courses for education staff. Automations enroll every member of staff and re-enroll them each year, and the Compliance Dashboard shows which school, team or person still needs to complete their training.

Meet your statutory training duties without adding to workloads

95%+ completion on safeguarding, health and safety and data protection training, starting week one. See how 5Mins keeps every member of staff trained and inspection-ready.