We have made some significant changes to the Assessment Planning screen, ; it has had a full redesign in order to demonstrate a clearer flow throughout the whole process.
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This is the screen, accessible either via the Manage Assessment Planning Meetings → Create Plan, or via the Assessment Profile → Assessment Plan at the top of the screen (URL would appear like /modules/assessmentplan/manage/) |
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Summary of changes
Plan Details:
The apprentices’ name has been put in the header for convenience
The apprentices name is also a link, clicking on it will open the side drawer
The apprentices’ details are listed on the left hand side of the section.
The Epas name is a link which will open the side drawer, allowing you to check their availability, epa & user details, and their address.
The Schema details for the plan have been listed on the right hand side of the section.
To update the schema of the plan press the “Change Schema“ button if available and select the new schema in the following pop up window.
We have added a convenient button to view an apprentices reasonable adjustments. Clicking the “View” button will open up the information in a new pop up window.
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Clicking either the apprentice name or the Epa name on this section, will open their details in the side drawer, making it easier then ever to get more information from the assessment plan screen. |
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Components:
New actions on the top right hand side of the section allowing (when available) to view the assessment profile, submit a plan and cancel a plan.
New list of components for the plan with key information displayed;
including the current status of the element,
the location type of the element,
which Epa is assigned
the current date scheduled for the meeting.
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A new message will display at the top of the components section if the selected component cannot be loaded for any reason. For example if the element has a pending QA against it.
Component - Details section:
We have introduced a new staged process with sections of the component being displayed on the left hand side and the details of the component being displayed on the right. You can easily jump to any section of the component by clicking the section on the left hand side, or by using the “Next” and “Back“ buttons at the bottom of the component details.
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The sections for a component are:
Date/Time & EPA - This section contains the details of when a booking is going to take place, as well as the EPA that is assigned. A convenient calendar showing the epas availability, either by week or day view is also displayed in this section. Please see this section for additional information:- Scheduling an assessment/ Epa availability
By using the next and previous arrows <> the user can navigate to check the selected epas availability for that day/week.
Hovering over the item in the calendar will show you further details
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External Assessment - This section contains details of any external Surpass assessment that may be required, allowing you to select a test and add time. If Surpass is not available for this booking, then this section will be hidden.
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Proctor/ Invigilation - This section contains details of any ProctorU invigilation, that is required for the booking. Allowing you to add accommodations and notes. If ProctorU is not available for this booking, then this section will be hidden.
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Attendees - This section contains details of any attendees for this booking. You may delete an attendee from the list shown, or alternatively add a new attendee by clicking the “Add attendee“ button and filling out the relevant details. If you know the name of the user you can locate them from the Select User drop down list.
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When you try to save or reschedule a component, the page will also check all the sections again and let you know if there are any problems. If there are problems, you will be taken back to the relevant section, with a list of what may need changing.
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Notifications
To accommodate the changes to how attendees are dealt within an element, we have changed how the configuration for these notifications is handled and also deprecated a number of settings which are no longer supported, these will remain for the time being for backwards compatibility, but will be migrated to the new system in a future release.
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The following notifications have been affected:
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The following changes have been made to these notifications:
These user types have been deprecated and will be migrated to the “Element Guest” user type in a future release, moving forward these guest types should be added as a guest attendees or regular attendees
Apprentice’s On Programme Assessor
Apprentice’s Workplace Mentor
Element Employer/Mentor
Element Provider
Employer Contact
Provider Contact
The Element Guest now encompasses all guest attendees and not just the technical expert attendee
Employer user type now only applies to employer users who are an attendee of the element and does not send to all employer users
Provider user type now only applies to provider users who are an attendee of the element and does not send to all provider users
EPA user type also includes any other EPAs that are an attendee of the element and not just the Apprentice’s EPA
EPA Manager user type also includes any other EPA Managers that are an attendee of the element and not just the manager of the Apprentice’s EPA
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ProctorU / Surpass
Detach ProctorU from Surpass
We have adjusted our ProctorU integration so that it can now be used with any assessment component, not just Surpass ones. This means that if enabled on your environment, the ProctorU tab will be visible in all assessment components and if enabled will provide the option to book a ProctorU test.
A new setting has been added to the System Management → Configuration screen for additional text within an email when ProctorU is enabled, this is to accommodate the requirements from ProctorU on including certain information when communicating with apprentices. This new setting is under the new Proctoring tab. The setting also accepts a {{account_url_link}} variable which will be replaced with a “click here” link which will take the apprentice to their ProctorU profile to see their bookings.
This screen is accessible by the AO Owner user
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We have updated our ProctorU integration to decouple it from Surpass, allowing for it to be booked for other components too.
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We have improved the error handling of external calls when scheduling or rescheduling an assessment. Where possible we will store the error and where it happened and display this on the element booking screen. The user can then click to retry, if it was a temporary issue.
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Please Note: When an invigilator has been requested on the component, the invigilator details can be entered in either the “ProctorU“ or “Other“ options under invigilation.
Scheduling an assessment/ Epa availability
We have made significant changes to the way we show Epa availability when scheduling an assessment. We have included a new time table in the “Date/Time & Epa“ section to give an indication of when an Epa is unavailable. By default this timetable will show the following:
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Please note: For ease of use, the assessment plan screen will not prevent you from booking an assessment if the booking is shown as conflicted on the timetable. The timetable is there to give awareness of the availability of the selected Epa, and to make scheduling decisions.
Permissions
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Permissions for the assessment plan screen have been reconfigured to be more straight forward. They are not new permissions and so the user permissions will behave as before. However it is worth checking that your users have the correct permissions on your custom roles. |
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In order to see the details of an element, the user must at least one of the
create-assessment,update-assessmentorread-assessmentpermissions.In order to save an element, the user must have either the
create-assessmentorupdate-assessmentpermissions.In order to rebook/ reschedule any assessment type, the user must have the
update-assessmentpermission.
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This work outlined below, has been added the to the Assessment Plan Calendar Rewrite work a little later, so please ensure any testing covers this too. |
External Assessment - General External Assessment "Other" Option:
We have added a new option for external assessments. When deciding that an assessment plan element requires an external assessment, you are no longer required to use surpass as the option available. We have added a new “Other“ option to allow for general external assessment information to be entered for any other service that you may wish to use.
Create/Edit Assessment Component:
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Under the “External Assessment“ tab you will now be able to select Surpass and Other. You may select either or both if you want to have the option on the assessment plan element.
When selecting Surpass you may enter the references as normal.
When selecting Other, the option will show up under external assessment in the assessment plan element.
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Please Be Aware: When selecting both Surpass and Other be aware that both options will be available on the assessment plan screen, but only one may be selected for an assessment plan element. |
Assessment Plan:
Under External assessment for an assessment plan element, the selected options for that component will be visible to the user. If none were selected, then the external assessment section will not be visible and will automatically be set to “no external assessment” for that element.
When selecting “Surpass” the details will be enterable as before, however when selecting “Other” the user will see 3 new text entry fields, which will allow them to supply the information for the assessment. These fields are:
provider name
assessment reference
any notes for the assessment.
These fields are designed to be generic and allow for any required information to be added.
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Please Note: When completing the fields under “Other“, you should provide all the information required for that assessment to be able to take place, including any URL’s, passcodes or required information etc.
Component Reports:
Reports have been updated to include all selected external assessment options for that component to be listed.
Where possible the reports will also include details of the provider name, reference and notes added to an external assessment where “Other” has been selected.
Notifications:
The “assessment_details“ notification variable for element notifications has also been updated such that when Surpass has been selected as the external assessment, the relevant assessment details will be provided, however when Other is selected for the external assessment, details of the provider name, reference and notes will be provided.
Please Note: The assessment_details notification variable only provides the external assessment details to certain user types. This functionality has not changed with this new addition and the Other external assessment information will only be provided to the same user types as the Surpass external assessment information.