Cohort 2026-A · Student Minimum Competency
Cell shade: share of minimum met. Corner mark: on pace to miss it. The percent is overall progress; the status comes from how many requirements are projected short. Click a name for the scorecard; arrow keys move between cells.
Requirement heatmap
Cohort-wide gaps
Alerts
Sample minimums, modeled on CoAEMSP categories. Configurable per program.
Pending
Everything waiting on you, in one place. Each group opens the screen where you handle it.
Messages
Announcements to a class, conversations with one student, and the daily digest each person gets of what is waiting on them.
Surveys for you
New announcement
Announcements
Conversation
Daily digest
Alerts on this device
NREMT readiness
Unit and comprehensive exam scores next to clinical progress. Tests taken in Precept post here on their own; scores from EMSTesting, Fisdap or your LMS come in as a CSV. A student is ready when their latest comprehensive exam clears the cut score with room to spare.
Readiness by student
Import exam scores
Columns needed: student, exam, date, score. Optional: cut score, source. A name with "comprehensive", "final", "readiness" or "predictor" counts as a comprehensive exam.
Cohort weak areas
Compliance
Students upload their documents; the program checks each one before it counts. Reminders go out 60, 30 and 7 days before anything expires, and an expired item blocks hospital shifts.
Student compliance
Waiting for review
Reminders scheduled
Background checks and drug screens
Many colleges already order these through CastleBranch, or another tracker such as American DataBank or Complio. Download the requirement or compliance report from it as a CSV and choose it here. Every item it shows as complete or approved is marked current until its expiration date. Items it shows as pending or rejected are left as they are. You can also upload a result letter like any other document.
Attendance
Students clock in and out on their phone at the site. Location is checked against the site's address, and the program approves the hours before they count.
Hours to approve
Recent time cards
Out right now
How location is checked
- Within 0.5 km of the site counts as on site.
- Farther away, or no location from the phone, is flagged for a person to look at. Nothing is rejected automatically.
- The phone asks the student for permission. Location is read only at clock-in and clock-out, never during the shift.
Preceptor training
A 15-minute orientation a preceptor finishes on their phone before taking students. Completion is recorded with a date and score, renews every two years, and goes in the site-visit binder.
Orientation
Training record
Thank-you letters
A letter for each preceptor with the students and hours they precepted this term, signed by the program director. Useful for their own CE file and annual review.
Surveys
The CoAEMSP surveys and your own evaluations. Graduates, employers and preceptors answer from a link, with no account. Reminders repeat until the response rate reaches the target.
All surveys
Questions
What a respondent sees
Student scorecard
Where the student stands, where they'll land, and what to request next.
Request these shifts next
My shifts
Shift records
Patient contact reports
Requirements
Airway and skill success
Professional behavior
Terminal competency
Advising and counseling
NREMT readiness
Competencies
Competencies
Each skill is taught in class and lab, verified in lab, clinical and field, then signed off as competent by an instructor.
Class progress
A check means signed competent. Numbers are steps done out of steps needed. Blue cells are ready for your signature. Click a cell to open that student.
Competencies
| Competency | Taught | Lab | Clinical | Field | Competent |
|---|
Lab counts when the skill sheet's summative is passed under Schedule › Labs & sim, or when an instructor signs the lab check-off here. Clinical and field count successful attempts on preceptor-signed shifts.
Taught to this class
| Competency | Didactic (class) | Lab |
|---|
Edit the competency list
Edit the competency list
This starting list is a sample, not an official list. Change it to match your curriculum, your medical director and your accreditor. Link a skill to a row of your minimums to count clinical and field attempts, and to a skill sheet to count the lab summative.
| Competency | Area | Clinical and field count | Lab skill sheet | Needs |
|---|
Roster
Everyone in the program, by class. Start a new class, add one student, import a class list from the college, or send a class its invite link.
Classes
Students
Requests to join
Students and preceptors who make their own account type your program's join code, then wait here. Nobody sees anything from your program until you approve them.
Add a student
Import a class list
Cohort invite link
Share it in class or by email. Anyone who opens it joins that cohort; you see them here right away.
Student sign-ups are off, so this link won't let anyone join right now. Turn them back on under Requests to join.
Team lead log
Every call the student ran as team lead, confirmed by the preceptor who watched it. Only confirmed team leads on signed field shifts count toward the minimum.
Team leads
Check a signed team lead
Every confirmation gets a code like ABCD-1234 on the record and in the export. Enter it to see exactly what the preceptor signed.
What counts
The student runs the call: scene, assessment, field impression, treatment plan, directing the crew, transport decision and handoff. The preceptor watches and steps in only if needed.
Credit needs the preceptor to confirm at least the primary assessment, field impression, treatment plan and directing the crew. Field (ALS unit) shifts only.
The preceptor confirms on the shift sign-off, or right after the call on their own phone by scanning a QR code. Once signed, the record is locked.
CoAEMSP's Student Minimum Competency matrix counts team leads in the capstone field internship (Table 4). The program sets the number; it is 20 here and can be changed in Settings.
Cohort
Add clinical days
Each class has its own color. Students see only the days given to their own class, under Clinicals › Book.
Who books shifts
Sites that don't need them
Booking requests
Clinical sites
Auto-place a cohort
Students furthest behind pick first. Each gets the site that closes their biggest gap fastest, within the weekly cap, compliance rules and the days your class holds.
Add a site
Book clinicals
Only days your class holds are shown. Tap a site on a day to book it. Limits: 3 shifts a week, no double-booking, hospital sites need current compliance.
Confirm
Fill my gaps
Booked
Texts
Patient log
Fast note taking for a busy shift. Students jot down each patient as they go, on their own phone only: age group, complaint, vitals, care given and notes. When there's time, they forward the running list to their narrative, or use an entry to fill in that patient's report in the built-in ePCR.
Log a clinical
What the student fills in after a shift. The preceptor gets a text to review and sign; counts post to the scorecard only once it is signed.
Shift
Patient contact reports
No identifiers. One report for each patient: no names, birth dates, addresses, phone numbers, record numbers or call times. The student signs the reports when they submit; the preceptor reads and signs each one.
History, allergies and repeat vitals (optional)
Choose Attempted for an unsuccessful attempt. Every attempt counts toward the success rates for airway, IV access and medications.
Narrative
Rate this site
Time cards
Preceptor sign-off
What the preceptor sees after tapping the text message link. No account and no app; a one-time code sent to their phone confirms it's them.
Patients
Narrative
Scores of 2 or below alert the program director. Your signature locks the student's entries and posts their counts.
Students coming to your site
Shifts you've signed
Labs & sim
Scenarios are tagged to the matrix. Run one and the allowed sim credit posts by itself.
Scenario library
| Scenario | Time |
|---|
Upcoming labs
| Date | Lab | Seats |
|---|
Psychomotor skills portfolio
| Skill sheet | Peer practice | Instructor formative | Summative |
|---|
Sites & preceptors
Agreements, capacity, preceptor training, and what each site actually produces.
Clinical and field sites
| Site | Students/day | Affiliation agreement | Scheduling | Booking | Student rating |
|---|
Preceptors
| Preceptor | Site | Training | Status | Students |
|---|
New preceptors get the training link by text. They can't sign shifts until they finish it.
Contacts per shift by site
Faculty site visits
Accreditation
Annual report outcomes and the site-visit binder, kept current from the same data.
Outcomes you report
Yearly approval of the minimums
Site-visit binder
| Item | Status |
|---|
Audit log
Reports
Hours, airway and skill success rates, the CoAEMSP summary and site ratings, built from signed shifts. Each table downloads as CSV.
Hours and shifts
Airway management
Skill success rates
CoAEMSP Summary Tracking
Patient contact reports
Student ratings of sites
Student ratings of preceptors
Student ratings of instructors
Program settings
The requirement matrix, bringing data in, getting data out, and the systems the college already runs.
Requirement matrix
| Requirement | Minimum | Sim allowed % |
|---|
Import from Fisdap or Platinum
Choose a CSV export. Platinum's General Report is an Excel file; save it as CSV first. Columns are matched automatically and nothing is written until you confirm.
Export everything
Integrations
API access
A key lets your college's systems read this program's students, counts, signed shifts and exam scores. A read-and-write key can also add students to the roster. Keys never see sign-ins, documents or billing. How to use one is at precept.squidskull.com/developers.
What works today and what's coming
Procurement readiness
Staff
Invite instructors and staff, give each one a role, and tick what they can change. Everyone on staff can see the whole program. The boxes decide what they can change. The package, billing, API keys and this page stay with you.
Your staff
Invite someone
Tests
Build quizzes, unit exams and comprehensive exams from the question bank, publish them to a class, and see scores and item analysis as students submit. Scores post to readiness and each scorecard on their own.
Tests your program assigns, your results, and how ready you are for the NREMT.
New test
Tests
Item analysis
Who can test
Extra time
How a test is scored
- Percent correct against the cut score you set. Unit and comprehensive exams post to Testing › Readiness and the student's scorecard.
- Every student gets the same questions in a different order, and the answer choices are shuffled too.
- Leaving the test window is recorded. It shows as a flag beside the score; it does not end the test.
- Item analysis shows how many got each question right and whether strong students did better on it than weak ones. Use it to fix or retire weak questions.
- Most of the class missed a question? Drop it, give everyone credit, or accept a second answer from its Scoring menu. Every score, pass or fail, and readiness number is re-scored right away, and you can undo it.
My tests
My results
NREMT readiness
Practice
Study shows the answer and why after every question. Timed feels like a unit exam. NREMT-style adapts like the real exam: right answers bring harder questions, and it stops once it can tell which side of the passing line you are on.
Build a practice set
Recent practice
Practice across the class
My accuracy by topic
NREMT-style results
Question bank
Questions
Write a question
Import questions
Upload any of these:
- A spreadsheet (Excel .xlsx or CSV) with columns for question, A, B, C, D and answer. Area, level and rationale are optional. Download the template to start.
- A Blackboard question file (tab-delimited .txt). Many test banks and publisher banks export this.
- An Aiken file (.txt), the plain format Moodle and many test banks export.
Precept takes multiple choice questions with four choices. Check what your current test bank can export. If it can save to one of these, you can bring your questions over.
Blueprint
Defaults sit near the NREMT Paramedic blueprint. Check the current NREMT numbers for your level and adjust.
Build your package
Pick what's included and how the program pays. Students never pay for Precept, and volunteer programs never pay either. Your quote updates as you go, ready for a purchase order.
1What's included
2Who pays
3Class size
4How you'll pay
Student plans
Your quote
Prices per student
How it reads on the website
What's included
- Clinicals: scorecards, booking, shift logs, preceptor sign-off, team leads, compliance, attendance, reports and the accreditation binder.
- Testing: program tests from the question bank, practice in study and timed modes, NREMT-style adaptive practice, readiness, and item analysis for faculty.
- Always free: preceptors, faculty, clinical sites, reviewers, and graduates looking up their records.
- Prices are locked for 3 years from your first class, so a course fee only needs approving once.
- No contract. Export everything any time.