In response to Martin’s email – I think with all academic awarding body sites you are able to manage users’ accounts to either ‘early read’ or ‘read’ in respect of results. I’ve found the ‘read’ option for staff only lets them view results from their official publication of 6am results day.

Gillian,

I try to restrict access to the results to a handful of managers at College, who have a difficult job co-ordinating any re-sits or re-takes (esp. for those with UCAS offers to give them the best chance of making the grade, etc.)  … hundreds of students x three subjects to reorganise as well as those who are really upset.

However, it seems that those teachers/lecturers who have to have access to some of the awarding organisations’ on-line systems can get the results anyway.  I think withdrawing (and reinstating these “permissions” the following day) this type of access with the awarding organisations is just too much additional work for my already overworked team and so I send out an e-mail saying that results must not be disclosed to anyone prior to our official embargo deadline.  Some of our staff are Examiners as well so it would not give us 100% coverage anyway.  (NB I am fairly new to this job and so I could be wrong about this, but a lecturer last year knew his results before I had even downloaded them last January).

Just giving out statistics doesn’t work either if there is a small group.

I think Duncan Buck’s helpful response is probably the basis from which you start and then it is down to your College’s interpretation of “need to know”.

Hi everyone

Can I ask please who within your centres you give results to on the restricted release day?

Our practice has been to restrict it pretty much to exams office staff, but last Wednesday I was put under a lot of pressure to release them to all teaching staff. A teacher has joined the college from somewhere in the north east, where their practice is to release them to teaching staff the day before the official publication date apparently.

Our new Principal made the decision to stick with our normal practice last Wednesday, but wants to review it for the future. As far as I can make out it is not normal practice, in fact not good practice, to let all teaching staff know the results early but it would help my argument to know what other centres do. JCQ are rather sitting on the fence with their advice.

Any answers much appreciated.

Gillian

Gillian Russell
Examinations and Assessments Manager
Kingston College

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