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End of Session for Undergraduate Students 2011/12. Katie Hoare and Vicki Phillips May 2011. Session Outline. Check module marks and recommendations Useful marks BOXI reports ARTs: progress decisions /degree classifications
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End of Session for Undergraduate Students 2011/12 Katie Hoare and Vicki Phillips May 2011
Session Outline • Check module marks and recommendations • Useful marks BOXI reports • ARTs: progress decisions /degree classifications • Dealing with End of Session errors • Useful end of session BOXI reports
Check module marks and recommendations • Before processing students for end of session, check that all modules have marks and recommendations • ME05 Calculate Marks and Recommendations pagemarks and recommendations for individual modules • ES04 Module Registrations page (via M button)marks and recommendations for all modules for individual students
Useful marks BOXI reports • Reports located in BIRMS Students/Modules and Component Marks • Missing Marks reportsto identify where students have marks missing • Module marks grid reportsto check the marks that are in BIRMS and identify students with marks missing
Assessment Periods Period of the Academic year in which • modules are assessed • marks are recorded • an Exam Board recommendation is made Two assessment periods applicable for UG: • Main • Supplementary
Assessment PeriodsMain • Standard UG – main examination period May/June • First assessment opportunity • Second sit opportunity for Resit, Repeat and First Sit modules carried from the previous year
Assessment PeriodsSupplementary • Reassessment period, usually August/September • Second (usually final) assessment opportunity • First sit opportunity for students with mitigation
ARTs: progress decisions and degree classifications ART: Academic Review Type = exam board recommendation/decision • Progress decisions • calculated in BIRMS for most students • dependent on module recommendations • Degree classifications • calculated in BIRMS for most students who have successfully completed • dependent on marks
Progress decisions (non-final years) Demonstration of progress decision ARTs: • ART A – Proceed • ART D – Proceed with Outstanding Requirements • ART C – Review • ART K – Repeat Year (or part of year) internally • ART J – External Resit/Sit • ART E – Proceed and Transfer Programme
Specify data in ES01 (1) Specify the data to be processed in ES01 Progression and Award Processing page • Select: • Academic Year (academic session) • Assessment Period, one of • Main • Supplementary
Specify data in ES01 (2) • Then specify one of: • Programme and Programme Year • Cohort • Speciality • To process students individually (optional): • specify a Student ID number, • or search for a student by last name
Specify data in ES01 (3) • Other options: • Excluding students who already have an ART • Processing anonymously • Student statuses can be excluded from processing if selected from the Status to exclude drop-down list (optional). • Finally, press [Enter Decisions].
Progress decisionsART A - Proceed • All modules: • must have marks and recommendations • must have module recommendations of P • ART A will calculate in BIRMS • Upon release it will release marks and progress the student into the next academic year and onto the next programme year
Progress decisionsART D – Proceed with Outstanding Requirements (1) • All modules: • must have marks and recommendations • 100 or 110 credits worth of modules = P • 10 or 20 credits worth of failed modules = SE, SU, ME, M, RP or RS • ART D will calculate in BIRMS
Progress decisionsART D – Proceed with Outstanding Requirements (2) • Upon release it will release marks and progress the student into the next academic year and onto the next programme year • Supplementary registrations will be created for the failed modules if the module recommendation was SE, SU, ME or M
Progress decisionsART D – Proceed with Outstanding Requirements (3) • If the module recommendation was RP or RS the student will be automatically registered for the module in the next academic year with the correct module status • If the module recommendation was M and the student is sitting it in the following academic session you will need to manually register the student for the module as a Sit and ignore their End of Session entry in the Supplementary period
Progress decisionsART D – Proceed with Outstanding Requirements (4) • If Year Abroad mark is unavailable • Enter a mark of 0 M • Select ART D
Progress decisionsART C - Review • All modules: • must have marks and recommendations • Less than 100 credits = (P) Pass • Failed modules = SE, SU, ME or M • ART C will calculate in BIRMS • Upon release it will release marks but will not progress the student into the next academic year or onto the next programme year • Supplementary registrations will be created for the failed modules
Progress decisionsART K – Repeat Year (or part of year) internally • If the Exam Board decision is for the student to repeat the year internally rather than re-take the assessments in the supplementary period • Manually select an ART K(module recommendations = RP or M) • Upon release module registrations will be generated for the following year
Progress decisionsART J – External Resit/Sit • If the decision is for the student to repeat the year externally rather than re-take the assessments in the supplementary period • Manually select an ART J(module recommendations RS or M) • Upon release module registrations will be generated for the following year
Progress decisionsART E – Proceed and Transfer Programme • ART E will calculate for Year 2 students on BEng/MEng or BSc/MSci programmes: • Who have enough credits to proceed (100 credits) • Students may have resits to take, either in the Supplementary Examination period or during the next academic year • Check transfer programme auto-selected, and manually reselect if necessary • Will auto-select M.Eng or M.Sci if student has a stage 2 weighted mean mark of at least 55%
ARTs for final year students Demonstration of final year ARTs: • ART B – Award Qualification (Successful Completion • ART G – Award Alternative Qualification
Degree classificationsART B – Award Qualification (1) (Successful Completion) • ART B will calculate for all students who have satisfied the requirements of their programme • ART B auto-calculation in BIRMS will take into account • Borderline • Adjusted Regulations
Degree classificationsART B – Award Qualification (2) (Successful Completion) • Detailed information about Distribution of Module Classes (profiling) is available in the Code of Practice on Taught Programme and Module Assessment • Detailed information about Adjusted Regulations is available in • Code of Practice on Adjusted Regulations for Bachelors Degrees • Code of Practice on Adjusted Regulations for Undergraduate Masters Degrees
Degree classificationsART B – Award Qualification (3) (Successful Completion) • Additional Undergraduate programmes for which ART B can now be auto-calculated from this year • Intercalated BMedSc • LLB for Graduates • MBChB • And Direct Entry students
Degree classificationsART B – Award Qualification (4) (Successfully Completion) • For UG Affiliated students: • Enter marks for all modules • If it has been agreed that the student will not be taking the assessment for a module, enter • mark of N • module recommendation of N (No Mark Required) • ART B should be selected, even if students have not passed all their modules
Degree classificationsART B – Award Qualification (5) (Successfully Completion) • If the Exam Board makes a recommendation notwithstanding regulations where mitigation is not involved, this will need to go to the Progress and Awards Board for approval. • The result is provisional until ratified by PAB. • Leave the ART field and Degree Classification blank until approval is confirmed. Otherwise, the result will be released with the other ARTs and viewable by the student on the portal. • Do not use an ART Z.
Degree classificationsART B – Award Qualification (6) (Successfully Completion) • ART B will not calculate for students who have not achieved sufficient credits to satisfy the requirements of their programme • BIRMS will display a message to say ‘Student has not achieved sufficient credits’.
Degree ClassificationsART G – Award Alternative Qualification • For students who have not satisfied the requirements of their programme • manually apply ART G (Award Alternative (Lower) Qualification) • select Alternative Qualification programme from drop-down list
Dealing with errors Examples of common errors: • Missing mark • Missing recommendation • Student has a Hold • Student has too many credits
Using End of Session BOXI reports • Demonstration • Locating reports • Instructions • Running reports • Scheduling reports • Downloading reports • Manipulating downloaded report data