New Feature - EP-4528 Phase 2 Reasonable Adjustments
Loaded live in release 5.26.0
epaPRO includes enhancements to Reasonable Adjustments.
Overview
We have taken on board our customer feedback and we will be introducing enhancements in Phase 2 of Reasonable Adjustments, this includes new functionality and bug fixes.
Changes to Functionality
New Processing Screen
We have added a new processing screen for Reasonable Adjustments, which is located under the Issue Management menu.
By default, this screen shows all Pending
& Inactive
reasonable adjustments, and filters have been provided. We have also added sorting to this screen, to allow most recently created, or most recently requested Reasonable Adjustments to be seen first.
You will be able to filter on:-
Filter by a rejection reason.
Filter on those where the RA covers the whole programme duration, or a date range.
Filter by the RA status e.g. pending, accepted, rejected and withdrawn.
Created Date.
Accepted Date.
Request Date.
As part of the work for this new screen we have moved the actions that were available on the Apprentice Management Reasonable Adjustments screen, to the menu on this new listing screen. You will be able to add new reasonable adjustment by clicking the button on the Apprentice Management Reasonable Adjustment screen or by selecting + Add Reasonable Adjustment
from the 3 dot menu on the Apprentice listing screen.
Reasonable Adjustment Rejection Reasons
We have added functionality to allow custom Reasonable Adjustment Rejection Reasons to be attributed to a Rejected reasonable adjustment. These reasons can be configured via the Apprentice Reasonable Adjustment Rejection Reason
custom dropdowns. As part of this, we have also added an Additional Information box for the rejection, to allow a more detailed reason to be added (this has a character hard limit of 1000 characters).
This rejection reason information can be included in the Reasonable Adjustment Rejected
communication that is sent via the use of two new variables: {{reasonable_adjustment_rejected_information}}
and {{reasonable_adjustment_rejected_reason}}
. We have also added this information, along with the user that rejected the reasonable adjustment and the date it was rejected, to the Ofqual Pre-Agreed Adjustments
report.
We have also changed the circumstances under which a rejected reasonable adjustment can be edited, by not allowing external users to edit a rejected reasonable adjustment.
Reasonable Adjustments Start and End Date
We have made changes to reasonable adjustments that allow the start and end date to be optional and instead allow a reasonable adjustment to apply to the whole programme duration. As part of this, we have added a new switch to the reasonable adjustment Covers Programme Duration
that when set to on
allows a reasonable adjustment to be submitted with no start and end date.
We have also updated the logic that determines which reasonable adjustments are active, to include these reasonable adjustments that are set to Covers Programme Duration
.
This column, and a filter has been added to the Ofqual Pre-Agreed Adjustments
report.
We have also added this information to the following places:
Assessment Plan
Assessment Plan Element
Planning Meeting
Apprentice side drawer
Issue Management - Reasonable Adjustments
Apprentice Management - Reasonable Adjustments
Reasonable Adjustment Accepted Auditing
We have also enhanced the functionality around accepting a reasonable adjustment, by storing the user that accepted the reasonable adjustment and the date it was accepted. This information has been added to the Ofqual Pre-Agreed Adjustments
report. As part of this, we have also added date filtering for the following on the Reasonable Adjustments Management screen:
Created Date
Accepted Date
Requested Date
Reporting
We have added the following fields and associated filters to the Ofqual Pre-Agreed Adjustments
report:
Provider
Employer
Standard
Specialism
Apprentice EPA
We have added the following fields and associated filters to the Ofqual
report:
Provider
Employer
Assessment Type
Date Delivered
Other changes
We have added the Standard and Specialism variables to all of the Reasonable Adjustment comms.
We have fixed a bug where the
Add Reasonable Adjustment
was visible on the View Apprentice screen.We have fixed a bug where the
View
button for Reasonable Adjustments was visible on the Assessment Plan details, when the user did not have Reasonable Adjustment permissions.
Impacted Areas
Issue Management - Reasonable Adjustments
Apprentice Management - Reasonable Adjustments
Apprentice Listing
Reporting - Ofqual Pre-Agreed Adjustments
Comms
Reasonable Adjustment Rejected
Reasonable Adjustment Pending
Reasonable Adjustment Accepted
Assessment Plan
Assessment Plan Element
Planning Meeting
Apprentice side drawer
Permissions
No new permissions