Feature - Assessment Component Exercises
- Lisa Clancy
This work was released with the Feature - EP-2997 Assessment Centre Bulk Booking but is a standalone piece of work in its own right and can be used regardless of whether an Assessment Centre is required or not.
We have added the concept of “exercises” to Assessment Components. These exercises can be created against an assessment component using the new “Exercises” tab on the edit assessment component screen.
The purpose of this new feature is to allow you to set up a tasks or exercises that relates to this assessment for a particular Standard.
As a simple example - Advanced Carpentry & Joinery - your apprentice needs to perform certain exercises as part of the Practical component e.g. Create a dovetail joint, hang a door etc as part of the assessment, you can create an exercise to ensure that you detail this in the Component Invitation.
Once created exercises can then be linked to a booking on the assessment plan via the new “Exercises” stage, or via bulk assessment booking via the new “Exercises” dropdown. Multiple exercises can be selected as needed.
An exercise has a long-form formattable text field for information about the exercise, for example, instructions for the apprentice on tasks within a set exercise.
A new variable has been added {{assessment_element_exercises}} to the component emails which will contain these instructions taking into account the formatting applied.
Once an exercise is in use, it can no longer be edited or deleted, this is to ensure data integrity. It can be made inactive though.
If an exercise has been used on a past result, then the resit/retake booking of that result will tag the exercise with the “Used Before” label, so that the user booking can consider if the apprentice should have a different exercise or use the same ones.
The stage for “Exercises” will be visible in the Assessment Plan booking of elements, even if you don't have these configured on an Assessment Component, the stage can be skipped past using the Next button.
Three new reports have also been added to support this:
Assessment Component Exercises - Appears under the Miscellaneous category and will provide an export of the exercises configured by component.
Assessment Element Exercises - Appears under the Assessment category and will provide an export of the exercises configured against element bookings.
Assessment Centre Assessment Element Exercises - Appears under the Assessment category and shows a count of exercises configured against element bookings and assessment centres.