The North Tyneside Learning Platform was launched in 2004 as an information sharing portal for 14-19 education alongside the Blackboard VLE, and has since expanded to serve the entire school system. It averages 60,000 secure logins per month with over 100,000 additional hits on hosted websites, and is used across 11 secondary schools, 4 middle schools, and 57 primary schools. The platform provides a highly valued support structure, large content library, and community aspects while facing risks regarding staffing, coding, and hosting dependencies.