Built for real decisions about your people

Results you can act on

• A report HR can read in 20 seconds: the overall sub-level, a plain-English line on what the associate can do at work, all six skills on one scale, strengths, what to focus on next, and the training needed to reach your target. The full assessment detail is one click away and prints on one or two A4 pages.
• A certificate in OTO's format, with the level seal, a QR code and an ID that open its record on our public verification page.
• Public verification: every certificate carries an ID. Anyone can check it on our verification page.
• Progress over time. Each person's assessments are kept together, so you can see how their overall level and each skill have moved from one assessment to the next.
• Set a target level (B1, B2 or C1). For each associate we show how many OTO courses it takes to get there, at 8 hours per course.
• Targets by role. We ship a starting table of role levels, from reception at A2 to management at C1, and you can change any row. Give someone a department or job title and their target is suggested from it.
• A target for each person. Set an individual target level where someone needs a different one from the rest of their cohort.

See a sample report to explore the dashboard with a sample team.

A console that runs itself

• Open your own account. Sign up, confirm your email and start with five included seats. No call, no card and no documents.
• Sign in by email link. No passwords to manage: we email a single-use link to your work address.
• Invitations your way. Email invitations, one shared link, or accounts with a username and password, imported from a spreadsheet in one go.
• Run as many cohorts as you need from one account, each with its own name, target level, proctoring mode and sittings. Invite colleagues so more than one person can see the results.
• Applicants or employees. Mark each cohort as one or the other, so hiring and training stay apart in your dashboard.
• A live dashboard showing who has started and finished, and the spread of levels across your team.
• Choose one sitting or breaks between sections, and how many days associates have to finish. You can see who is on a break and the date they need to finish by.
• Let an associate redo a single section, for example when a noisy room spoiled Speaking. The latest result for that section counts, earlier results stay in the report, and the certificate is reissued. The old certificate ID shows as superseded on the verification page.
• Email reminders. Optional notices tell you who hasn't started, whose deadline is close, who is due a retest, and who came out below target, plus a weekly summary. Choose who receives them, and unsubscribe from any email.
• Bulk downloads. Download reports or certificates for a whole cohort, or for the people you pick, as a single zip of up to 200 people.
• Open any report or certificate, and export the whole cohort to CSV.
• Add seats when you need them. One seat covers one person's assessment. Redoing a section never uses another seat, and an assessment that has already started is never cut off because seats ran out.

Integrity you can check

• Full screen, on the associate's own click. Leaving it, or switching to another tab or window, is counted: the first time shows a warning, and the second pauses the test until your team decides.
• Copy, paste, right-click, drag and drop, autocomplete and autocorrect are switched off inside the test.
• Each person gets their own selection of questions in their own order, and the correct answers never reach the browser.
• The test runs on one device at a time.
• Optional camera checks, analysed on the associate's own device, notice when no face is visible or someone else is in view. No video leaves the device.
• Unusual patterns, such as answers faster than the questions can be read or a whole paragraph appearing at once, are flagged for review in their own section of the report. Flags are marked provisional while we calibrate them, and none of them changes a score.
• A person decides. Nobody is failed or disqualified automatically: your team sees what happened and chooses.

What it can't do: it is a web page, not a locked-down computer. It can't stop a phone beside the screen and doesn't reliably detect a second monitor, which is why every signal goes to a person.

Privacy built in

• We don't keep video or voice recordings.
• Your team sees each answer as right or wrong, never our question bank.
• The public verification page shows only what's on the certificate: name, level, dates, ID and issuer.
• Results are kept for 24 months. Read our privacy and proctoring notice.

Questions about cheating, fairness, privacy, speed or cost? Read the answers.