The quality-first platform for apprenticeship providers. Encode your standard as rules, see cohort risk before the review meeting, and know every piece of evidence is authentic.
Outstanding
Achievable
Knowledgeable
Supportive
01
Evidence & KSBs
02
Quality & IQA
03
Delivery & Reviews
04
Integrity & Trust
Why Oaks
Apprenticeships are won long
before gateway.
Most providers run delivery across a patchwork of spreadsheets, inboxes and shared drives. By the time a problem surfaces, it is already expensive. Oaks gives tutors, IQA, employers and leaders one living record for every apprentice, so risk shows up while there is still time to act.
Without one living record
With Oaks
Evidence scattered across drives, inboxes and spreadsheets.
Every KSB with the evidence that proves it mapped beside it.
Knowledge Grove
Delivery risk discovered in the review meeting.
Six threshold metrics flag cohort risk before the meeting, not after it.
Learner RAG
Gateway surprises from standards applied unevenly.
Your standard encoded as rules at task, KSB, programme and gateway level.
Consistency Rule Engine
IQA sampling run from a spreadsheet.
Risk-led samples that build themselves into a personal queue.
IQA Engine
Employers chased by email for signatures and hours.
Line managers sign off reviews and verify hours in their own portal.
Employer Portal
No easy way to tell whether work is the learner’s own.
AI-content and plagiarism checks on every piece of evidence.
AI Assessment Integrity
“One living record, from first evidence to gateway and beyond.”
Live capabilities
25
Core pillars
4
Roles, one record
5
Dedicated instance per provider
1
The learner journey
From acorn
to mighty oak.
Every apprentice starts as potential. One record follows them from enrolment to gateway, so nothing is lost between teams and every stage builds on the last.
01 · Enrol
Planted properly
Multi-step enrolment, employer e-signatures and the apprenticeship agreement, all done before day one.
Enrolment
E-signatures
02 · Diagnose
Know the soil
Skillscan gathers the learner and line manager view, RPL records prior learning, and adaptive diagnostics set a fair starting line.
Skillscan
RPL
Diagnostics
03 · Deliver
Steady growth
Tasks and the training plan on the enrolment map straight to KSBs, with occupational hours and the off-the-job total. Learners log those hours and employers verify them.
Tasks
Training plans
OTJ
04 · Evidence
Rings in the trunk
The Knowledge Grove shows every KSB with its evidence beside it, and AI integrity checks run where tutors mark.
Knowledge Grove
AI integrity
05 · Review & assure
Tended, not left to chance
Live tripartite reviews, signed by learner, employer and tutor. A pending review can be marked gone to gateway, and the safeguarding and personal development modules due before it sit on the same page.
Reviews
IQA Engine
Rule engine
06 · Gateway & beyond
A canopy of its own
Leadership sees gateway readiness in the RAG and Snapshot. Graduates carry verified proof of their skills with Oaks Ascend.
Learner RAG
Snapshot
Ascend
Four core pillars
Four roots.
One living record.
01
Evidence & KSBs
Every knowledge, skill and behaviour, with the proof mapped beside it.
Knowledge Grove
A KSB-first evidence drawer. Learners see every knowledge, skill and behaviour and exactly what proves it.
Tasks & Training Plans
Set work once, reuse it everywhere. Tasks map straight to KSBs so progress updates itself.
Adaptive Diagnostics
Initial assessment that adapts to each learner, calibrated nightly from real responses.
Oaks Ascend
A verified career profile for graduates. Portable proof of skills that outlives the programme.
Gateway Packs & EPA Results
What was declared at gateway is frozen in a pack. Resits and retakes stay attached to it, and a passing EPA result is written back to the learning aim.
Skills England Sync
Type a standard reference and Oaks pulls the course, its KSBs, its options and the minimum off-the-job hours straight from Skills England.
02
Quality & IQA
Your standard encoded as rules, with risk surfaced before the review meeting.
Consistency Rule Engine
Encode your standard as rules at task, KSB, programme and gateway level. No more gateway surprises.
Learner RAG
Delivery risk across the whole cohort, before the review meeting rather than after it.
IQA Engine
Risk-led sampling that builds itself, with a sampling matrix that shows planned against actual for every assessor. Your IQA team works a queue, not a spreadsheet.
Ofsted Workspace
Your inspection evidence in one room, with a learner journey PDF ready for every deep dive and read-only logins for inspectors.
Ofsted AI
An AI Ofsted inspection you can talk to. Alana, our AI inspector, asks the questions from the September 2026 FE and skills toolkit, weighs the evidence you show her and leaves a practice report card.
OBTLA AI
Observation of teaching and learning, without the clipboard. Alana joins your Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet or Webex lesson as a muted guest and drafts the observation for your observer to check, grade and send to the tutor.
Quality Hub
Observations of teaching and learning, audits, safeguarding and CPD in one place, ready for inspection.
Oaks Snapshot
A scheduled executive brief. RAG and gateway readiness land in leadership inboxes on your cadence.
Four core pillars
Delivered daily.
Trusted throughout.
03
Delivery & Reviews
Tutors, learners and employers working one live record, not three inboxes.
Live Progress Reviews
Tripartite reviews co-edited in real time and signed by learner, employer and tutor. A pending review can be marked gone to gateway.
Off-the-Job Hours
The minimum comes from Skills England, learners log it, employers verify it, and the variance feeds straight into cohort risk.
Action List
One list of what each tutor needs to do next, with a count in the menu. Work ticks itself off when it is done.
Employer Portal
Line managers see what needs them, sign off reviews and verify hours without chasing emails.
Enrolment & Skillscan
From first form to signed agreement, with prior learning captured from every angle.
Reports Library
Ready-made reports for every team, newest first. Deprivation from home postcodes, missing enrolment files and learners in care sit beside progress, off-the-job and EPA.
Messaging & Policies
Conversations, announcements and policy sign-off inside the record, not scattered across inboxes.
Shaped to Your Organisation
Training provider, college, university, employer provider or charity: tell Oaks what you are and it speaks your language, from apprentices or students to terms or semesters.
04
Integrity & Trust
Authentic evidence and a platform your auditors can trust.
AI Assessment Integrity
AI-content and plagiarism checks on every piece of evidence, right where tutors mark.
Secure by Design
Your own dedicated instance. Email and password sign-in asks for an authenticator app, with a passkey or an email code as backup, and every change is on the audit trail.
Welfare, Prevent & British Values
Welfare checks, Prevent discussions and British Values coverage logged on the learner record. A safeguarding flag alerts every DSL straight away.
Who Oaks is for
One record.
Five points of view.
Everyone who shapes an apprenticeship works from the same live record, each with a view built for the job they do.
01
Leadership
See the whole grove at a glance.
Cohort risk, gateway readiness and quality evidence in one place, with a scheduled brief landing in your inbox on your cadence.
Consistency Rule Engine
Gateway Packs & EPA Results
Skills England Sync
Learner RAG
IQA Engine
Ofsted Workspace
Ofsted AI
OBTLA AI
Quality Hub
Oaks Snapshot
Enrolment & Skillscan
Reports Library
AI Assessment Integrity
Secure by Design
Shaped to Your Organisation
Welfare, Prevent & British Values
02
IQA
Work a queue, not a spreadsheet.
Risk-led sampling builds itself, with plans, actions, observations and moderation recorded as you go.
Consistency Rule Engine
IQA Engine
Ofsted Workspace
Ofsted AI
OBTLA AI
Quality Hub
AI Assessment Integrity
03
Tutors
Less chasing, more teaching.
Set work once, co-edit reviews live and mark with integrity checks sitting beside the evidence.
Knowledge Grove
Tasks & Training Plans
Adaptive Diagnostics
Consistency Rule Engine
Gateway Packs & EPA Results
Skills England Sync
Learner RAG
OBTLA AI
Live Progress Reviews
Off-the-Job Hours
Action List
Messaging & Policies
AI Assessment Integrity
Welfare, Prevent & British Values
04
Learners
Know exactly where you stand.
Every knowledge, skill and behaviour with the evidence that proves it, and a verified career profile to keep.
Knowledge Grove
Tasks & Training Plans
Adaptive Diagnostics
Oaks Ascend
Live Progress Reviews
Off-the-Job Hours
Enrolment & Skillscan
Messaging & Policies
05
Employers
Stay involved without the email trail.
Sign off reviews, verify off-the-job hours and follow progress from a portal built for line managers.
Oaks Ascend
Live Progress Reviews
Off-the-Job Hours
Employer Portal
Enrolment & Skillscan
Messaging & Policies
AI assessment integrity
Know it’s
their own work.
AI-content and plagiarism checks on every piece of evidence, right where tutors mark.
AI-generated content detection
Plagiarism checks
Per-evidence results on assessment logs
Text comparison
How it works
1
Evidence submitted
Learners upload their work to the evidence drawer as usual.
2
Checked automatically
Each piece is checked for AI-generated content and plagiarism.
3
Tutors decide
Results sit on the assessment log, beside the evidence they mark.
Pair it with the Consistency Rule Engine.
Rules are enforced from the same assessment screen, so your standard and your integrity checks meet in one place.
Usage-based, no extra system.
Included from Oaks Quality upwards, and available as the AI checks add-on.
Oaks DNA · Safeguarding
Care, written
into the DNA.
Our companion safeguarding platform for the Windows devices your learners use. It spots risk early, gives learners a direct line to help and keeps every concern on record, without ever recording what they type.
Keystrokes are never stored
Context capped at 80 characters
Warning views and decisions audited
Automatic retention pruning
DPIA checklist included
Watch words, matched on the device
Your safeguarding phrase list is checked on the learner’s device. A match raises a warning carrying only the phrase, a short snippet of context and the app it came from.
Warnings triaged by severity
Safeguarding officers work a queue ranked from low to critical, with an optional screenshot captured on high and critical warnings.
Concerns, properly recorded
Escalate a warning into a concern with notes, an owner and a printable PDF report for your safeguarding records.
Help, one click away
Learners open the acorn in their system tray for emergency numbers, live chat with your safeguarding team, or to raise a concern themselves.
Blocked websites
Keep your own blocklist, sync trusted external lists overnight and push changes out to every device.
Accountable by design
Roles for admins, safeguarding officers and viewers, two-factor sign-in, an audit trail of warning views and decisions, and automatic retention pruning.
Help, one click from the tray
Plus your own safeguarding team’s number
Childline0800 1111
Samaritans116 123
NHS 111111
ShoutText 85258
Available alongside any Oaks licence or on its own, running on its own servers.
Add-ons & developer support
Grow the
modules you need.
Choose your add-ons when you order. Your instance switches on exactly what you have licensed, and more can be added as you grow.
Tutors & staff
Tutor competence
Staff wellbeing
Caseload map
Learners & enrolment
Enrolment e-signatures
Skills scans
Learner activities
Diagnostics
Careers (CEIAG)
Ascend
Employers
Employer workspace
Employer levy (DAS)
Workspaces
IQA
Quality workspace
Ofsted workspace
Management workspace
Safeguarding workspace
Insight & reports
Reports
Oaks Snapshot
Sales
Sales & leads
AI & integrations
AI checks
Ofsted AI (AI Ofsted inspection)
By the hour
OBTLA AI (observation of teaching and learning)
By the hour
Microsoft 365
ILR returns
Oaks DNA
Own platform
Nexus developer support
Straight to the people
who build Oaks.
Raise and track tickets directly with the Oaks developers through our Nexus helpdesk. No extra servers needed.
No middle man between you and the code
Raise tickets directly with the developers
Track every ticket through to resolution
Coming soon
Still
growing.
Oaks grows season by season. These are on the roadmap now, and we are always clear about what is live today and what is still to come.
Funding
ILR Export & Evidence Packs
Funding-grade exports and audit evidence packs for providers who want one system.
Funding
Self-healing ILR
An AI preflight that finds ILR errors before the ESFA does, and fixes the routine ones for you.
Funding
Revenue Rescue Engine
Spots funding clawback risk while there is still time to act, not at audit.
Quality & IQA
Predictive Flight Risk
Machine learning that flags learners likely to withdraw weeks before the warning signs are obvious.
Delivery & Reviews
What To Do Today
The Action List, ranked by risk, so every tutor starts the day knowing who to see first.
Evidence & KSBs
Single-screen Grading
Evidence, criteria, integrity results and feedback side by side. Mark a submission without changing tab.
Quality & IQA
Learner Journey Time Machine
Replay any learner's journey, week by week, so inspectors see the impact rather than a spreadsheet.
Integrity & Trust
Safeguarding Panic Button
One tap for a learner to reach your safeguarding team, with instant triage for the DSL.
Evidence & KSBs
Direct EPAO Portfolio Hand-off
Send a gateway-ready portfolio straight to the end-point assessment organisation, no exports.
Delivery & Reviews
Passive OTJ Logger
Off-the-job hours suggested from the learner's calendar, so logging takes seconds, not Friday afternoons.
Evidence & KSBs
AI Evidence Assistant
Learners capture evidence from Teams or their phone and it lands in Oaks, mapped to the right KSBs.
Roadmap items are not yet available and are never sold as live. Timings and scope may change, so ask us for the latest during your demo, and tell us what your team needs next.
Dedicated, secure hosting
Your own oak.
Never a shared plot.
Every Oaks customer gets a dedicated, single-tenant instance with its own application servers and its own database, built and managed for you. Nobody else’s learners, nobody else’s load.
yourname.oakshub.co.uk
or your own domain, such as learn.yourprovider.co.uk
Dedicated single-tenant instance
Authenticator app, passkey and email-code sign-in
Microsoft sign-in when your Microsoft 365 connection is on
A learner data export for subject access requests
Role-based permissions
Activity log on every change
HTTPS certificates issued automatically
Hosted in a London data centre
Using your own domain carries an additional setup and administration fee, confirmed on your invoice.
Getting started
Plant your Oaks
in three steps.
01
Book a demo
Thirty minutes on your own standards and KSBs, with the rule engine, RAG and IQA Engine working.
02
Choose your licence
Pick a tier and add-ons, then size three seat pools: learners, staff and management.
03
We build your instance
Your dedicated instance is built for you at yourname.oakshub.co.uk, ready for onboarding.
Tiers
Licensed to fit your cohort
Seats are licensed separately for each instance. Ask us for a quote.
For quality leads and COOs
Oaks Quality
The quality engine: encode your standard and see cohort risk early.
Consistency rule engine
Learner RAG
Live progress reviews
Knowledge Grove and KSB gap views
IQA Engine
AI assessment integrity (usage-based)
Most chosen
For heads of delivery
Oaks Delivery
Everything in Quality, plus the portals your learners and employers use every day.
Everything in Oaks Quality
Learner and employer portals
Off-the-job hours with employer verification
Skillscan and RPL
Enrolment with e-signatures
Adaptive diagnostics
For large and multi-site providers
Oaks Enterprise
Delivery at scale, with dedicated support and integration help.
Everything in Oaks Delivery
Seat pools sized for multi-site teams
Dedicated instance and custom domain
Onboarding and data migration support
Premium support
Oaks Funding is on the roadmap.
Plant your Oaks
See your own
instance grow.
A walkthrough built around your standards, your cohort and your gateway pain. Honest about what is live and what is on the roadmap.