Cohort seats
You will know who is going to fail while you can still do something about it.
$8 per seat, 20-seat minimum, invoiced. Each student redeems an anonymous code. You get a roster ordered worst first, a summary every Monday morning, and a completion record for anyone who finishes.
The roster is ordered worst first
Every load
Most class dashboards sort alphabetically and leave you to find the problem. This one opens with the student who is furthest from ready at the top and works down. That is the default and there is no setting to change it, because the alphabetical view has never once been the reason somebody opened the page.
Each row shows the seat, an estimated readiness figure, how many questions the student has answered, and their weakest subject area. Rows with too little data to say anything print a dash instead of a number and sort last — an empty seat is not a struggling student and the roster will not pretend otherwise.
The 70 percent line from Appendix D is marked on every readiness bar as a reference, not as a verdict.
The passing score for the closed-book Type I, Type II, Type III and Universal certification test is 70 percent. The passing score for Type I certification tests using the mail-in format is 84 percent.
Readiness is an estimate from practice answers in the Superheat app. It is not a score, not a prediction, and not connected to any certification test. Superheat does not administer or score the EPA Section 608 certification exam.
What a seat purchase includes
Printable codes
A one-page handout of seat codes, eight characters each, from an alphabet with no O, 0, I or 1 — because you will be reading them aloud off a projector. Also available as CSV.
A Monday digest
One email at the start of the week: how many seats are redeemed, how the cohort has moved, and who has slipped. It is plain enough to survive a school mail gateway that strips styling.
Roster export
CSV of the current roster, for a gradebook or a program report. Written with a byte-order mark and CRLF line endings so it opens correctly in Excel on a Windows machine.
Completion records
A PDF for each student who finishes a full mock exam, downloadable individually or as one zip. It states plainly on its face that it is not a certification and confers no authority to handle refrigerant.
Every type
Set the cohort to a single type or to all four. Core is always included, because every certification test includes it.
No software to install
The console is a website. Students use the app on their own phones; there is nothing for your IT department to deploy to a lab machine.
There is no student email address anywhere in this system
By design
A seat is an anonymous alias plus a code. Not an account, not an email address, not a student number. The database has a check constraint that rejects an alias containing an “@”, so it is not a policy somebody could quietly relax — there is nowhere to put a contact address even if someone tried.
The only study data that ever leaves a student’s phone is four fields: the seat code, a readiness figure, how many questions have been answered, and the weakest subject area. The endpoint rejects a request carrying a fifth field rather than ignoring it.
Your address is the only email address in the system, and it is there because you signed up. Instructors sign in with a one-time link; there is no password to be reused or leaked.
| Field | What it is |
|---|---|
| seat_code | The eight-character code you handed out. Not linked to a person by us. |
| readiness | An integer, 0 to 100. |
| answered | How many questions have been answered. |
| weakest_topic | One of eighteen fixed subject-area identifiers. Free text is rejected. |
Individual answers, question text, timings and anything a student typed stay on the student’s own device. There is no server table that could hold them.
How it works in practice
- You buy a block of seats. The minimum is 20.
- The console creates the cohort and generates the codes.
- You print the handout, or read the codes out, or paste them into your LMS.
- Students install the app, enter a code, and pick an alias. No sign-up.
- You watch the roster. The Monday digest arrives whether you remember to look or not.
- Students who finish a mock exam get a completion record you can download.
| State | Expires |
|---|---|
| Issued, not redeemed | 180 days after it was issued |
| Redeemed | 90 days after the student redeemed it |
Price and invoicing
$8 per seat
Cohort seat
$8per seat, one-time
20-seat minimum. A 20-seat block is $160. Seats can be topped up mid-term at the same price.
Not a subscription. There is no per-term renewal and nothing to cancel.
Payment is by card or by invoice through Stripe, which is where the receipt, the tax handling and the purchase-order reference live. We do not see or store a card number.
If your institution needs a W-9, a quote document, a vendor registration or a signed data agreement before it can raise a purchase order, ask — that is a normal request from a college and it is faster to handle it up front.
Refunds on unredeemed seats are pro-rata. See the purchase terms.
What we are not claiming
- We have no pass-rate figure for cohorts using Superheat, so there is no pass-rate figure on this page. When there is one, it will come with the method and the sample size.
- A readiness figure is an estimate from practice answers. It is not a grade, and using it as one would be a misuse of it.
- A completion record is a record of practice completed in an app. It is not a certificate and it says so on its face.
- Superheat is not an approved technician certification program and cannot become one for you.