What you need to know for the T Level autumn assessment series
To help you prepare for your students sitting the core exams in the autumn assessment series, we're sharing some useful reminders to help ensure these assessments go smoothly, including how to disable AI tools during assessments. Find out more.
Nominate a colleague for the Support Staff of the Year award in this year’s Aspiration Awards!
This award recognises behind-the-scenes heroes, including Exams Officers, Teaching Assistants, Facilities, Pastoral or Support Staff, who have demonstrated exceptional support inside or outside the classroom, gone above and beyond their roles, and actively pursued opportunities for personal development to provide the best possible support to others. Nominations open on 22 January. Find out more.
National Exams Officer Conferences
We’ll be delivering an interactive workshop, seeking resolutions to your queries and providing hints and tips, for centre staff interacting with our Portal, in upcoming Exams Office Conference events in London (29 and 30 January) and Manchester (5 February). For more information on the Exams Office, their events, support and resources, click here.
The content for this workshop will include NCFE portal functionality in general but will also discuss term-time checking processes for learners intending to progress to further studies, and any issues centres may have with the upload of digital evidence, following an NCFE assessment.
Bite-size videos to support you
We’ll be creating a series of bite-size videos, some of which are already available on our YouTube channel, detailing some of the common themes or areas of difficulty, and will also provide updates to our Portal User Guide, accordingly.
Supporting administration staff
In acknowledgement of the high turnaround of centre staff dealing with NCFE’s administrative assessment processes, we would request that any centre with new or inexperienced staff, who may require support in enacting any of our Portal-related activities, contact [email protected], where one of the team will be glad to help signpost, integrate or demonstrate these processes directly.