Onefile Engage was launched in September 2024, our clever data analytical tool that helps you to personalise your apprentices' learning journeys. And we're delighted to report that this innovative addition to Onefile's suite of tools has been warmly welcomed by employers and training providers as well as learners.
Here, we hear from users about their experience of Engage and look at how its 'early warning system' and ability to predict results can bring added benefits to your business.
Apprentices, like most of us, thrive best when they feel supported and nurtured. As we know, apprenticeships offer precious opportunities for learner, employer and training provider so it's on us all to make the best of them.
In Onefile's White Paper Maximising Apprenticeship Success: The Case for Learner Engagement, we focused on apprenticeship non-completions and looked at how our new Engage platform can help everyone stay connected, so learners get all the support and nurturing they need.
Key findings from the report revealed that better engagement between apprentices, tutors and employers was necessary to address the competing pressures of off-the-job training and on-the-job workload. It concluded that mentors, workplace wellbeing measures, frequent check ins and an effective apprenticeship management platform should be seen as essential to successful programme completion. All useful information and advice when looking how to go about improving completion rates.
Where Onefile Engage comes in
Each learning journey is as unique as the apprentice taking it. There's no magical 'one size fits all' solution. Yes - there's lots of data as to why some apprentices sail calmly through their schemes to EPA while others stumble and fall - but how do we harness that data's power and usefulness?
Well, thanks to Engage, Artificial Intelligence and data science give us the power to dig deeper into research findings and use what we discover to generate meaningful insights. By using AI to read patterns in apprenticeships, we can quickly find where learners might be struggling then take immediate, decisive action to get them back on track.
Adaptive learning and predictive modelling
Engage acts as your early warning system, flagging key indicators such as learners' session attendance, downloads and the numbers of log-ins. It allows you to analyse the levels of their engagement so you can tailor your support and interventions accordingly.
And as well as being an adaptive platform, Engage offers an insight into how your learners are likely to perform on certain tasks, allowing you to personalise their learning. Working in three ways, Onefile Engage Intelligence:
Don't just take our word for it though…
Among Onefile's many satisfied customers is Matt Smith of training provider Realise. Sharing his company's positive experience of Engage at Onefile's conference, he said:
"What Engage has allowed us to do is be proactive, not reactive, because we can look at each of our learner's risk level, then look at the individual metric scores and go, okay, this person's high risk. Why are they high risk? When was their last review done? That trainer needs to be on that, working to get that review completed.
"Okay, that learner is not completing journal entries, and they're off-the-job learning is well behind. Let's engage with them and understand what challenges are to getting that 'off the job' captured and the journals recorded. So, we've got this overall risk, but then it's got this AI-enabled predicted risk, because Onefile has got 20 years' worth of data of looking at apprentices. So, the predicted risk looks at loads and loads of factors and basically says, okay, if you take away those individual metric performances, there's all this other stuff going on in the background, and based on that, we think this is the level of risk of that learner not completing their journey.
"It's a cracking little tool that tells you all about what's the risk of that learner not completing that programme and why they're not engaging with their programme."
Engage is obviously making a big difference at Realise, with its trainers also using the platform to manage their caseloads and spot priority areas for attention, too.
To find out how Engage can enhance your apprenticeships and improve scheme completion rates, talk to us today or click here for more information.