All of the data files below should be downloaded and saved to your centre's network as early in the academic session as is appropriate or relevant to you. However, they must be downloaded before the learners sit the external assessment. This is because some files must be emailed to the learner before the external assessment, and other data files will be referred to or drawn from during the external assessment.
You can send the email to a learner’s personal email account or, as we would recommend as good practice, create accounts for the purpose of these external assessments i.e. [email protected]. Please ensure that the learner is able to access the email before the external assessment takes place.
The data files marked ‘to be sent as attachment’ should be sent to each learner by email as an attachment, using the ‘email content’ provided if applicable. The files sent as attachments, should not be available on the network for the learners to access during the external assessment – only available on the email.
However, the remaining data files above (the ones not marked for sending by email) should be saved somewhere accessible for your learners . The learners must be made aware of where those data files are at the beginning of their external assessment so they know where to access them from when required.
Please note all attachments and all separate emails must be sent/made available to the learner. Which files/emails they must access depends on which external assessment they’re allocated.