AFTA Support

Yes sir.  Any student can be added to AFTA at any time.  A new student to your school with 0 hours to a currently training student with many hours.  The Student Assessment tool within the Deviate section of the instructor iPad app is how you do that.  It is recommended to either watch our training video on how to use the Student Assessment tool first or contact AOPA (aftasupport@aopa.org) for some preliminary information BEFORE using this tool the first time.  This will give a quick guide so that you have the best experience possible.  

Absolutely!  We like to call that Prep.  Any owner, student, or CFI can see all prep for each activity within AFTA by clicking on the activity name and then the Prep tab.  The three personas have different methods however:
CFI - at any time, click the Activity Index button at the bottom of the dashboard, then click a category and then the activity name and prep tab.
Student - from your portal, click on Successes (left menu), select the category then click the activity name and the prep tab.
Owner - from your portal, two methods.  1) Click on Prep Materials, then select the tab for the category you want to see.  This displays all Prep for that category.  2) click on Activities, category name and then the activity name and prep tab.
Student - from your portal, click on the activity name wherever it is listed (previous lesson or Lesson Prep), additionally, prep that is assigned for your next lesson will be displayed on your dashboard in the middle section of the dashboard.  
How this helps.

Yes of course.  All assigned prep, whether it's by the system or by your instructor will be displayed on your dashboard in the lower middle of the screen.  To see more information about any assigned prep, click the yellow button on the dash named "View Lesson Prep".  

Great question.  Prep is the AFTA term for homework.  Prep is what is assigned after each lesson is created.  Every activity assigned within a lesson is assigned a prep item.  While a resource is a non-assignable item.  Think of a resource as a reference item.  For example, a POH, AFH, PHAK, etc.  

Absolutely.  Lessons are created based on the instructor's feedback.  The instructor grades activities in a lesson, but skips activities they don't want to introduce, or assigns activities that they feel are appropriate.  The instructor is 100% in control.  Whatever the instructor grades, skips, or introduces goes into the adaptive creation of the next lesson.  

Absolutely, homework, or Prep as it's called in AFTA is assigned based on activities assigned, however, an owner can add their own prep work to the system so that it is automatically assigned instead of or as part of AFTA.

Thanks for the question, there are two ways to answer this.
1. "Custom" activities are not allowed in AFTA
2. An instructor can add any activity from AFTA (FAA syllabus) to any lesson by clicking the light blue +Activity button in the iPad grading screen.  The button is below the activity list on the bottom left of the iPad grading screen.