Do learners need locked down accounts for the NEA units?

Creative iMedia mandatory and optional units require students to work under supervised and controlled conditions when completing their final assessment of the NEA tasks. The set assignment tasks are completed by students within the supervised and controlled classroom conditions within a normal exam series. Therefore, allowing online access and Cloud storage may not be appropriate, if students work and account cannot be locked out of classroom time. Further guidance is included within the specification page 115 point 6.2, 6.2.1, and 6.3.2.

There are centres who have used Cloud storage to complete the live set assignment tasks but maintained a limitation of its use for the NEA tasks within the controlled conditions. Students’ final product must be shared as a standalone working digital solution that could be reviewed by Cambridge OCR moderator without the use of any online or offline specific software other than standard office software.

It is the Centre's responsibility to be able to authenticate candidate’s work that is completed under supervised and controlled conditions. This is different from the exam conditions. In terms of storing the assessment materials generated by each candidate on an open drive, this would not meet the needs of the JCQ guidance for keeping materials secure in respect to the storage of candidate work. Some online storage would allow access by the candidate between assessment sessions, so would not be compliant with the JCQ guidance.