Our market-leading eLearning products include everything you need for truly outstanding assessment and development and are in line with the Functional Skills reform standards.

The platform is divided into five core areas designed to support the student through all key elements of their English and maths exams.

A dynamic and intelligent online assessment that accurately identifies a learner’s current working level for English and maths. Ideal for use at the start of a programme of learning, the Initial Assessment uses complex algorithms to select the most suitable questions for each learner.

• Written for the reformed functional skills standards
• Identifies from Pre-Entry to Level 2
• All learners have a bespoke set of questions
• Accessible from the bksbLIVE 2 learning platform

When a learner completes the Diagnostic Assessments, designed to be taken after the Initial Assessment, in English and maths, it provides them with an accurate level for the elements of:

• Reading
• SPAG and Writing
• Number
• Measure
• Shape and Space
• Statistics and Data

Along with each of the chapters within. It also shows the distance they are from progressing to the next level.

• Written for the reformed functional skills standards
• Identifies from Pre-Entry to Level 2
• All learners have a bespoke set of questions
• Accessible from the bksbLIVE 2 learning platform

After initial and diagnostic assessments, learners are sign-posted to relevant resources from their individual learning plan to work on skill gaps.

This includes engaging content and exercises which can be accessed on any device.

• Fully interactive and self marking
• Provide the essential underpinning knowledge base for Functional English and maths
• Suitable for tutor-led and independent learning – ideal for classroom, workshop, work-based and distance learning
• In-depth tracking and reporting

The Progress Checks evaluates a learner’s advancement at the end of a learning module. The results then link to the learner’s learning plan and reports.

The Progress Checks are fully interactive and self-marking, giving learners immediate feedback and invaluable in providing progression data for tutors.

• Written for the reformed functional skills standards
• Identifies from Pre-Entry to Level 2
• All learners have a bespoke set of questions
• Accessible from the bksbLIVE 2 learning platform

The final step in the process assists each learner with their preparation for functional skills English and maths exams.

Learners are given exam style practice questions to work through at their own pace, which can be accessed from the Prepare section of the Functional Skills Reform course.

• Interactive and self-marking
• Rigorous assessment for learners
• Two sets of exam practice at each level
• Calculator and non-calculator practice for maths
• Review-answer feature for learners
• Guidance on timing in line with awarding body assessments