MyAPPrenticeship – In partnership with you to develop great employees

Wow! You’ve got a lot to think about right now, haven’t you? The apprenticeship levy, new apprenticeship standards, mandatory 20 per cent off-the-job training, end-point assessment, new success measures, and don’t even get us started on Ofsted! Wouldn’t it be awesome if someone came up with a great idea to make your life easier and, more importantly, to help your apprentices become fantastic employees? Well, look no further because MyAPPrenticeship does just that!

MyAPPrenticeship is an online learning tool that underpins many of the essential behaviour requirements of the new apprenticeship standards. Every month, it delivers fun and innovative, bite-sized learning courses directly to your apprentices’ preferred devices. It helps apprentices learn and reflect on what it means to become a truly great employee, and it’s relevant to every single apprenticeship standard! What’s more, it gives trainers direct access to monitor their apprentices’ progress and to give them feedback on how they’re getting on. And here’s the best part; it costs just £36 per apprentice for an entire year’s learning, support and reporting. Skip around the website to learn more or contact us directly at any time.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Where did the idea come from for MyAPP?

Back in the middle of 2016, we were doing some basic research on what employers believe are the critical skills and behaviours required of their best employees. There’s quite a lot of material around, commissioned by various global companies and prestigious universities. There was a great deal of similarity between these pieces of research and it soon became clear that the best employees share the same key attributes. Skills and behaviours like teamwork, communication, organisational planning, problem solving, product knowledge etc. repeated themselves over and over. Concurrently, we had been following the development of apprenticeship standards very closely and it became apparent that the behaviours aspect of standards, in particular, almost exactly mirrored what the wider research was telling us. It was a short step after this to realising that, with the right support, we could do something really special to help providers and employers turn apprentices into great employees.

How did you decide on the modules?

Once we had the essential information outlined above, it was a fairly simple step to order and combine the critical skills and behaviours. We’ve tried to make sure this has been done in a logical fashion to facilitate learning. It’s a deliberate strategy to build on some of the more important areas over several modules, so some of the subjects are revisited in more depth as the learning progresses.

Who is behind the design of MyAPP?

The concept, design and material for MyAPP is the product of a small team of colleagues who have, between them, worked with tens of thousands of apprentices over the past 20 years. The project has been led by Kevin Culver, the managing director of a training provider, a long-term consultant to the apprenticeship industry and one of the founding inspectors of the Training Standards Council in 1997.

Why is it so cheap?

How is it going to help my apprentices with their end point assessments?

Stories are already emerging about organisations who have experienced some of the first end point assessments that have run into trouble. This is primarily because of a failure by apprentices to meet the standard required to demonstrate they understand, and have adopted, the behaviours needed. It is our view that the importance of behaviours in end point assessment has been under-estimated. MyAPP will help prepare your apprentices to tackle this part of their assessment with greater confidence and an enhanced chance of success.

Why does MyAPP last only 12 months?

Many of the most popular apprenticeships are expected to take 12 to 15 months to complete, so a one-year facility seems right for the majority. However, we are mindful that some programmes last longer than this and we are exploring how we can offer MyAPP with differentiation and extension facilities to meet the needs of longer programmes. We would be delighted to team up with providers with such programmes to help us design longer term support for apprentices.

Why do some of the modules have odd titles?

How do you see MyAPP developing from here?

Why are you asking our apprentices for feedback?

How can my trainers use MyAPP?

When you order MyAPP for your apprentices, you also let us know how many trainer/tutor licenses you need. Your trainers can log in at any time to check on the progress of their apprentices, and review any comments, reflections and other feedback left by them. In addition, MyAPPrenticeship Limited sends you monthly reports on how all of your apprentices are progressing. Alternatively, your trainers can access the data directly and produce their own reports, in a format that suits your organisation.

Do you cover issues such as British Values and Safeguarding?

As you know, these areas are not expressly related to the behaviour criteria in new apprenticeship standards. However, we recognise that they are vital elements of an apprentice’s development and learning. We have a specific module on equality and diversity – Vive La Difference! – that supports some aspects of safeguarding good practice. We also use our blogs and events functions to promote stories that relate to British Values, equality and safeguarding. These are not direct lessons in these subjects but awareness raising interventions that will give your apprentices a more sophisticated understanding of these important issues.

What stops my apprentices simply rushing through the learning modules?

We have four key safeguards built into MyAPP. Firstly, just one module is released to your apprentices at the beginning of each month. They cannot access a new module until the old one is completed. Secondly, an apprentice cannot skip through the chapters within a module without completing each one in turn. Next, your apprentices have to take a short multiple-choice test at the end of each chapter, and they have to score 100 per cent before being allowed to move on. Lastly, your trainers can log into MyAPPrenticeship and view what your apprentices have commented about each module. If they don’t like what they see, or feel the apprentice is not fully engaged, your trainers can intervene as they see fit. We’ve tried to think of everything but do let us know if you have any great ideas of your own!