Email Notifications
As a parent, tutor or school administrator it is possible to receive emails when a pupil has completed a test. Two emails are sent out per test; the first on completion of the initial test prior to the practice questions, the second is sent out on completion of the retest.
Because a pupil can complete the tests anywhere and at any time the parent, tutor or school administrator would not normally know that the pupil has completed the next stage of BOFA, by receiving an email automatically, it is possible to feedback to the pupil and/or parent and/or tutor straight away. e.g.
A pupil completes the test at 9:40pm and gets 52%. The parent can then reassure their child as they will be disappointed with the result, they can suggest that this is probably not the best time of day to be working. The head of the tutoring centre can get in touch with the tutor and suggest that they speak to the parents the following day and suggest what action can be taken. On the other hand, an administrator may have over a hundred pupils and will be regularly monitoring their progress on the site anyway and as such would find it a pain to be having their inbox filled on a regular basis. In such a case the administrator may wish to turn off the notifications.
Tutors with new pupils. A tutor may decide that they would like to ensure the correct praise and feedback is given to the pupils during the first few tests and are concerned that the parents may pass on their anxiety to their child so the tutor may switch off the notifications to the parent until they are sure that the pupils is only receiving praise.
This can all be managed in the my BOFA area by editing the account setting:
When you are logged on follow this link to:
then tick or un-tick: