1. Logging in to Discovery Education

Navigate to https://app.discoveryeducation.co.uk/learn/signin and sign in using your username and password, SSO or QR code (for students).

Discovery Education Espresso combines real-world content with tools and resources that encourage student engagement and build teacher capacity and confidence.

2. Access to Espresso 
Your Discovery Education homepage is where you’ll find access to all of your Discovery Education subscriptions. To access Espresso from the homepage, click on the Espresso tile:

As part of your Espresso subscription, you can also access Time for Phonics, our DfE validated activity-based phonics programme covering Phases 1-5.  It follows the Letters and Sounds progression and can be accessed from the homepage or within Espresso itself.

3. Espresso Homepage 

At the top of the Espresso homepage, you will be able to navigate directly to our Key Stage specific content by clicking on the Key Stage tiles in the right-hand corner. 
 
 
 
The content is then arranged by subject area. 

For more information about the content available, see What type of resources can I find on Espresso? 

4. Areas within Espresso

From within Espresso and the Key Stage sections, you can also access different areas of curriculum resources that span a range of subjects:

• Sesame Learning

The Sesame Learning channel is designed to enhance your instruction and interactions with pupils, covering emergent literacy and English language, arts, mathematics, PSED, holidays and special occasions and more!

• Immersive Learning

Within this area, you will find immersive apps and interactive activities to amplify teaching and learning across the curriculum. 

• News and Topical 
  Each week, in collaboration with our partners at ITN Productions, we release timely and engaging news content specifically tailored to primary schools.
• Calendar Picks for EYFS, KS1 & KS2

Calendar Picks is a bank of resources which allows you to plan ahead to the events and themes coming up over the school year.

• Curriculum Collections

The resources featured in Curriculum Collections are offered to provide activities and topics that go beyond the regular syllabus, allowing you to go that extra step in providing a well-rounded learning experience.

5. Search for Resources

Search to locate pre-made lessons, ramped-up worksheets, videos, images, songs, sound effects, interactive games, audio files, animations, clip art, and more! 

Search using a keyword term, a topic, or subject. When results are displayed, you can narrow your results by filtering for year group or resource type to make it even easier to find what you’re looking for.

6. Save your favourite resources

Once you’ve found a resource you love, you can easily save it as a favourite or to ‘My Content’. 

Find out more about saving resources here.

7. Discovery Education Classroom Tools

In addition to the extensive content and resources available in Espresso, you also have access to the suite of Discovery Education classroom tools and features. 
Click on the main Global Nav menu on the left-hand side of the screen and you will be able to manage your classroom accounts, set assignments, create your own lesson boards and presentations, browse teaching support strategies or set quizzes. 
 

 
 
8. Make use of the Instructional Strategies templates within Studio

Included in both Studio and our Teacher Support resources are our research-based strategies for integrating Discovery Education digital curriculum resources in meaningful, effective, and practical ways.

Once you open Studio from the Global Navigation menu, click the ‘Create New’ button, and select ‘Activity templates’. 

9. Join or watch back our webinars to delve deeper into using Espresso

Hosted by former teachers and education specialists, our webinars can be watched back at any time. 

Access our webinars, including any upcoming webinars, here. 

10. Further Help or Support

To access our full Help Centre at any time, select from the footer at the bottom of any page.