Using Atom Home
Guides, videos and answers to your questions about using Atom Home.
Getting started
Learning on Atom Home
- How can my child make the most of their weekly learning plan on Atom Home?
- How does the learning plan decide what my child needs to learn?
- What is the weekly island target and why is this important?
- What happens when my child reaches their weekly island target?
- What is a recap island?
- What are mock test islands?
- How to set a practice for your child
- How to enable science on Atom
- How can I register my child for a live lesson?
- Can I change the subjects that my child covers on Atom?
- How to unlock the most challenging content on Atom
- How does Atom's adaptive technology work?
- Familiarisation Tests for Quest Admissions Part 2
- How can I change my child's learning goal after 11+ exams?
- Adjust your child’s weekly plan.
Test Practice on Atom Home
Tracking your child's progress
- How to understand your child's performance scores
- Understanding your child’s performance on the Track page (video guide)
- How to interpret the progress over time graph
- How to understand your child's mock test results
- Understanding your child's test results
- Understanding your child's mock test results (paper tests)
- Standardised age scores (SAS) – all you need to know
FAQs
- Do I have to sit with my child while they are using the platform?
- Where can I find tests and activities that my child completed before this week?
- How much time should my child spend on Atom each week?
- How to switch between your children's accounts
- Can I change my child’s weekly island targets?
- How can my child learn about a new topic before answering questions?
- Can my child pause a test and come back to it later?
- How can my child practice topics they’re finding tricky?
- Do I need to move my child's year group up for them to see harder questions?
- What are coins and how can my child earn them?
- How do I password-protect the Track page?
- How can Atom Home support children with SEND?
- Do you offer 1:1 Tuition?