You may have noticed the recommendations button featured on your parent dashboard. We're really proud of our Recommender so let us tell you more about how it works!
When you set up a student account linked to your parent's account, you are asked to specify the school year in which your child is currently working. We ask this so that we can assign them a set of relevant starter activities for their age. Based on their performance in these activities, we are able to get them started at the right level within the EdPlace curriculum. If your child has recommendations switched ON, our system will continue to automatically assign them activities (after these starter activities) which we think are a good fit for them based on their performance, subject and year group they are completing until they progress through the entire year's content, unless you turn this feature off.
All activities which have been assigned to your child by us will be clearly identified in their student account under the 'Assigned to you' section of their To Do List. The activities which are recommended will show as Assigned By 'EdPlace'. Activities which have been assigned by you, as their parent, or themselves will also appear under 'Assigned to you' but Assigned By 'Parent' or the student themselves:
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Any activities which have been started but not yet finished will appear under the heading 'In progress activities'.
If you would prefer to turn our recommendations OFF and only allow your child to attempt activities assigned directly to them by you as a parent, this is very easy too. Simply select 'Suggestions' in the left-hand menu of your parent dashboard, and switch them from ON to OFF:
If you have more than one student attached to your parent's account, change the name in the top, right dropdown menu to select the child whose recommendations you wish to turn ON or OFF.
We hope this article has given you all the information you need to decide if our recommendations are a good fit for your child's needs. If you have any more questions about our recommendations or need any other help at all, please contact our friendly Customer Support Team via email at help@edplace.com.