Welcome to Pocket Prep! To ensure a smooth and successful start, we’ve gathered key action steps, resources, and best practices to help you introduce Pocket Prep, issue licenses, and effectively implement the platform. Reviewing and applying these resources will set you—and your students—up for success.
Kickoff Announcement
Start with a strong introduction to Pocket Prep in class or via email. Include:
What is Pocket Prep? A mobile and web app for exam preparation using practice questions, explanation details, book references, and performance tracking to help students prepare for their certification exam.
Pocket Prep focuses on quiz-based studying with custom content build directly from the exam outline. Our questions are similar in style to those that are on the actual exam. This helps people become familiar with how to read, interpret and then answer questions successful on the exam. This familiarity can help reduce test day anxiety.
Why it matters? Pocket Prep questions are aligned to your exam's subject outline its quiz-based app uses science-backed study techniques to help you learn and retain the information you need.
Live Walkthrough or Demo
Log into your Exam Prep account and dedicate 5-10 minutes in class during the first week to send licenses to students, ensure they have activated their accounts, and walk them through the Pocket Prep interface.
Review Quiz Modes, Stats and Review tabs
Do the Question of the Day in class and review explanation details
Review Quiz Settings
Go to Setting (from name in upper right corner drop down menu) to set study reminders
Tip: Use a projector or screen share, or record a quick screencast for asynchronous access.
Set Clear Expectations
Provide students structure for usage:
Required vs. recommended usage (e.g., Complete 100 questions per week)
Explain how Pocket Prep fits into your grading or extra credit plan
Explain how often you'll review class usage data
Assignments - Consider assigning Pocket Prep to provide students formative assessments on the subjects they are studying in class
Frame as a Study Tool
Position Pocket Prep as:
A learning companion that helps identify what they know and don’t know
A tool for targeted practice before exams or class reviews
Encourage Goal-Setting
Encourage students to:
Set weekly quiz or question completion targets.
To maximize the effectiveness of Pocket Prep, and ensure your students are fully prepared for their exam, we recommend completing all questions with a score of 80% or higher.
Encourage consistent usage each week. Completing Quick 10s, Level Up, Build Your Own, or Timed Quizzes. A little studying here and there adds up
Focus on Missed Questions or Weakest Subject quizzes at the end of each week using performance data.
Mock Exams - If we have a Mock Exam for your exam encourage students to utilized it as they get close to their exam date.
Celebrate Engagement and Review Usage in Class
Let students know you will regularly highlight:
Students who improve or stay consistent
Review class stats on specific questions ("Everyone struggled on XYZ – let’s review it together!")
Review our article on the best ways to use Pocket Prep in your program
Assignments - As you get into your program consider using our new Assignments feature to provide students formative assessments on the subjects they are studying in class
How to Send Pocket Prep Licenses to Students
Getting Started with the Instructor Dashboard and Sending Licenses - When you are ready to issue licenses to students review this short video on how to successfully set up groups and send licenses.
IMPORTANT: For Students Who Have a Personal Pocket Prep Account Already
Students may already have a personal Pocket Prep account using a different email than the email you’re sending the invite to through the Instructor Dashboard. To connect the license code to their personal email address account please share the following steps to activate it.
After receiving their email invite (see email example below)
Direct them to sign into their personal account
Copy the license code from the email they receive (located below the Activate License Code button):
In the Pocket Prep app: Go to Settings > Exams > Activate Code (I assume anyone with a personal account already has the app)
Or On the Web: Go to Settings > Exams > + Activate License Code
Paste the code and select Activate.
They may need to select Switch Exams in Settings and select the exam, if their account is not already set to your exam.
Below is a sample of the email students receive to activate their license. It will include your name and Dashboard account name. To activate, students just click the Activate License Code button and follow the steps.
If they don't have the App Download Pocket Prep Mobile App - For the best mobile experience, download our app after activating your license. Search “Pocket Prep” and your exam name in either the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Look for the app logo depicted below to ensure you download the correct app.
Using the above resources, combined with consistent student engagement on Pocket Prep, can greatly improve the chances of success. Happy studying!