MTB Exams vs The Forest School App

Record and submit your MTB instrumental exam using this app. This is the newest version of the MTB app and should be used for submission of all exams from February 2021 onwards. The Music Teachers’ Board are a UK based exam board providing an exciting new way to access instrumental qualifications from grades 1 to 8 in over 25 different instruments. Our exams are recorded by either the teacher or learner, submitted online and marked by our specialist examiners. As there is no visiting examiner, unlike other boards, our exams offer: - Complete flexibility over exam dates - Reduced stress levels for pupils and teachers - Optimised rate of progress - Lower costs - Specialist examiners - Convenience Visit www.mtbexams.com to learn more and find recording advice. This app is for use by both audio and video MTB centres and self-learners. To sign up as an approved MTB centre you will need to have signed up as an ‘Individual Music Teacher’ or ‘Organisation’ on our website: https://www.mtbexams.com/sign-up/. Exams can be conducted in video without a teacher or centre present. App Features: - Record in both audio and video: Using your phone or tablet you can use this app to record your MTB exam. MTB will assign you video or audio exams based on whether you centre is an audio or video centre, exam type (practical/performance) and whether you have a teacher overseeing the exam. - Review: You can listen to or watch your recording and either delete the recording or save the exam for submission. - Scan: You can scan/photo your free choice music to submit alongside your exam. - Submit: You can submit your exam recording directly to MTB for marking. You will receive your result & marksheet within 2 weeks by email and a certificate will follow in the post. - Save for later: You can save your exam for later submission. (To retake the exam, you will need to delete this saved exam). - Guidance & help: The app includes useful information and guidance before you start the exam and has a range of information to help teachers/learners with the exam process. - Recording safety features: You will be able to check your recording quality, that you have sufficient space available on your device and place your phone on to airplane mode for the duration of the exam recording to ensure your exam is not interrupted. You will also be able to add additional clips should your exam be interrupted. - Identity verification: Video exams will require you to photo the candidates ID with the MTB app during submission. - Share: Share submitted exam recordings.

The Forest School App is your field companion for the woods - the record book that works where you do: outdoors, off-grid, on your phone. Free for practitioners - there's nothing to buy in the app. Built by a forest-school practitioner, it's made for the one job that can't wait for a desk or a signal: capturing what happens in your session as it happens. Mark the register, check your ratio, log the risks you're managing, record observations and photos, note any incidents, and reflect when you're done. Everything saves to your device the moment you tap, and syncs automatically when you're back in signal - so a flat battery, a soggy notebook, or no bars in the woods never costs you a record again. This is the in-the-field half of the system. Planning, bookings, your risk-benefit library, reports and admin live in the web back-office; the app is built to be fast, focused, and usable with cold hands and one thumb. IN THE WOODS, WITH NO SIGNAL • Registers & ratios - mark who's here, count your adults, and see your adult-to-child ratio is right at a glance, with a logged override when a higher ratio is justified. • Weather go/no-go - record your site-check decision and the reasoning behind it. • Dynamic risk log - capture the risks you spot and the actions you take, as you take them. • Observations - record children's learning against developmental areas, tagged to the child and the activity. • Photos, consent-first - the camera won't open for a child without photo consent, so you can capture the moment safely. • Incidents & accidents - log the type, severity, and action taken, on the spot. • Reflection - close out the session with your review while it's still fresh. • Your professional record - keep your DBS, first aid, qualifications, and CPD with you, ready when an assessor asks. WHY LEADERS USE IT • Works fully offline - every tap saves to your device; nothing waits on a signal. • Built for the woods - fast, glove-friendly, and shaped around how a real session runs. • Syncs automatically - back in range, your records flow up to the back-office on their own. • Your data stays yours - private by design. Plan your sessions, manage bookings and groups, build your reusable risk-benefit library, and produce professional session records and PDFs in the web back-office - then head into the woods with the app. From a one-person setting to a multi-site provider, The Forest School App keeps the paperwork out of the mud and lets you focus on the learning.