Information for schools and students on digital external assessments, and resources to help you prepare
色诱直播 is moving towards offering all external assessments as digital.
Currently we run digital external assessments for:
Key dates for secondary assessment
Our teams and call centre support schools and students before and during assessments.
They also support schools and markers using the assessment platform afterwards.
Your school will tell you if an external assessment is digital or not, or if you have a choice between a paper assessment or a digital assessment.
For a digital assessment, you need to:
Find more information about sitting digital assessments and how to use the assessment platform:
Make sure your digital device and browser are suitable for a digital assessment:
Assessments on our public site might be redacted because of copyright. But you can access unredacted past digital assessments from the My色诱直播 learner portal.
Schools need to make sure they have the resources and technology to run digital assessments successfully.
We will:
Schools can opt in to digital external assessments by flagging external entries as digital in their Student Management System (SMS).
Then schools can check digital entries in the Key Indicators page of their Provider Login.
Submitting digital external entries to 色诱直播 means that a school will automatically get support for assessments during the year and end-of-year exams.
Students with a SAC entitlement can sit a digital assessment.
As a school, you should consider the resources you will need to plan for a SAC student sitting a digital assessment. For example, you鈥檒l need to plan the appropriate space, supervisors, and exam assistants.
If a SAC student needs a different background colour to help them read, they need to talk through their needs and preferences with the school.
The supervision software does not support changing the background colour. The digital assessment becomes locked if you use browser extensions.
We鈥檙e here to support your school to provide digital assessment to students.
If you have questions, please contact your school relationship manager, call our contact centre on 0800 697 296, or send us an email:
Check your school's technology
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Literacy and Numeracy assessment information
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