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Assessment Handbook (November 2015 update)

Warning: the content within this page reflects the information available to students in the 2015/16 academic year. As such, this information may no longer be factually accurate.

In November 2015 some changes were made to the Assessment Handbook.

All Open University undergraduate and postgraduate students on taught modules must follow these regulations, unless they are studying on our Initial Teacher Education Programme.

The changes made

  1. Section 1.6 - Clarification of number of weeks to resit/resubmission whereby a student may request an elective postponement.
  2. Section 2.1.2 - Advising students that we are unable to provide copies of assignments.
  3. Section 2.3.3 – Confidentiality of assignments now includes ‘other assessments’ as well as ‘assignments’.
  4. Section 2.4 - Refers students to the Help Centre instead of previous Appendix 2 for information about submitting assignments.
  5. Section 2.4.2 - Clarification about submitting a second instalment of a TMA.
  6. Sections 3.3.6 - Clarification about ID requirements at examination centres.
  7. Section 3.6.1 - New section on ‘Keeping copies of your EMA’.
  8. Section 3.7 - Removal of information about extensions to EMAs.
  9. Section 4.3 - Introducing future changes to the way in which module results will be determined.
  10. Section 4.6.1 - Clarification on wording relating to information on HelpCentre about resits and resubmissions.
  11. Section 4.6.2 - Addition of considerations to make before choosing to electively postpone a resit/resubmission.
  12. Section 4.9 - Changes to terminology and procedure to request a check of a module result.
  13. Section 4.10 - Changes to procedure for making a formal module result appeal.
  14. Section 4.10.2 - Information about time limit for making a formal module result appeal.
  15. Appendix 2 (previous) - Removal of previous Appendix 2 (Submitting assignments). Students instead referred to relevant section of the Help Centre.
  16. Appendix 3 - Addition of new information about the modules which will start with the new results awarding structure in October 2016.

Please talk to your Student Support Team if you need any further information. You can find out how to contact them on Contact the OU.