Hi Stella
I don't understand the focus on GOLA as this is only available for
English FS - with Maths and ICT still in development, and I'll be very
surprised if this is ready for 11/12 assessment.
We have a very limited number of GOLA facilities (impeded further by the
mandatory upgrade we are doing before Xmas and IT here wanting to
rebuild as few PCs as possible) - altogether 22 PCs across 2 rooms, as
well as 10 laptops, and 2 laptops set up for workplace testing. Once
the new upgrade is sorted in the new year, I expect we'll sneak GOLA
onto an odd few more PCs for those candidates requiring special
arrangements, but so far the laptops are proving very useful due to
their flexible nature.
All our January FS assessment activity is paper-based. We have almost
1000 learners on programme for Functional Skills, including the 14-19
Diploma learners, and my main problem with this subject is that we don't
have FS coordinators - it is down to each faculty to sort themselves out
and we expect entry and exam requests from the lecturer actually
assessing it. I have managed, however, to get the faculties on board
with our own revised procedures. and they are supporting the supervision
of their own tests, whether GOLA or paper-based, rather than there being
an expectation for Exams to sort out invigilation.
Sorry - probably veering away from your issue...
Elaine Monks
Assessments & Achievements Manager
Yeovil College - Exams
National centre number 63459
* 01935 845523
* 01935 429962
* www.yeovil.ac.uk <http://www.yeovil.ac.uk>
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Sent: 07 December 2010 14:33
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Subject: City and Guilds Functional Skills GOLA
Hi
If you are using C & G for GOLA Functional Skills, please can you let me
know what facilities you have set up at your college to accommodate. We
currently have GOLA loaded in our main testing rooms, and also dedicated
functional skills classrooms, however our Functional Skills
Co-ordinators have requested GOLA software in all classrooms, as quite
often the functional skills teaching is embedded in their main
programme, and therefore learners are taught in multiple classrooms.
This is proving a logistical nightmare for our IT team.
If you can let me know the set up at your college, then at least we can
put some weight behind the argument that it is not practical to load the
software in virtually all classrooms.
Stella Daly Examinations Officer | Sparsholt College Hampshire
(incorporating Andover College Campus)
Sparsholt | Winchester | Hampshire | SO21 2NF
Direct line: 01264 360026 | Andover College direct line: 01264 360000)
Fax: 01264 360010
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