Booost Education assists students to keep track of tasks, manage their time, prioritise tasks and provides prompts to remind students of tasks and appointments
Booost fits in the space between Brain in Hand, which also has the ability to input recognised difficulties, implementing them into personalised software, and utilises strategies and solutions for the recognised difficulties. With Brain in Hand these all come through in an app, meaning the strategies of what to do when faced with an issue can be accessed in that moment. For those who may not have the ability to recognise what to do in the moment. Booost and Brain in Hand provide task management and prioritisation, time management and prompts. Both are dependent on the activities the student has to complete being placed in them.
Why Booost over a digital calendar, as these can also provide prompts?
A calendar can provide reminders, but it cannot assist with prioritising and managing tasks, Booost also allows the ability to connect with several calendars.
Why Booost over Brain in Hand, the difference is that Brain in Hand provides assistance for in the moment difficulties. It also has a traffic light system of how things are in the moment, which means if it seems someone is having difficulties, they will be contacted to check they are ok or if they need some assistance. The students’ personal individual difficulties are implemented into the software, as are their solutions. There is the ability to connect to a mental health or autism helpline or to the student’s chosen supporter. This goes far beyond prioritisation of tasks and time management. Booost can also connect to a mental health support line, which is available to anyone experiencing difficulties. Booost also has study support and health and well being support videos within the app. Feedback has been mainly positive although initial issues included the initial sign in needs to be on a Windows computer (we have not tried Macs), there is an accessibility overlay included for some features, and that scrolling is not intuitive when inputting information to be stored as tasks or within a timetable, and required support assistance. (These have all been fed back to the company).
Beyond that the students using it so far have reported it has made a difference to them. Students state they are arriving at classes mainly on time, thanks to the prompts, and are keeping track of their tasks and managing to better prioritise them, albeit some say they do need to be reminded to put any homework or assessment dates into the software.
It has so far proved useful for those who need a bit more than digital calendar reminders, but can manage when issues arise that they are not comfortable with, but know how to address them.
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