Changes to the site (July 29th 2011)

We are making some changes to the main menus to try and make the site easier to navigate. Mostly it is a reorganisation. If you can't find a link or think we lost something important please e-mail us and we'll look at it again. 

Qualifications changes agreed with Ofqual December 2010

I have now submitted some qualifications amendments and had these agreed with Ofqual. The main thing is that where IPU, WS and UCT were mandatory units, now only IPU is mandatory. This is in-line with the standard e-skills requirements for ITQ and provides more flexibility. eg we will be providing an official certification for OpenOffice and LibreOffice so the same qualifications can be used for this purpose without those interested only in desktop office applications needing to do the Web Software and Collaborative Technologies units. Anyone that has started using these is unaffected as they are still eligible as optional units. 

This meant that the requirements in the handbook for mandatory units needed updating and this has now been done so dispose of old versions and download the new. The Lulu published version has 2.2 in the top right of the front cover so it can easily be differentiated from the old version.

Changes to the site (March 2010)

We are constantly striving to update the site to make navigation as easy as possible and therefore we have implemented a major overhaul of the front page

Most significant new feature is the system for collecting and assessing learner evidence explained at

http://theingots.org/community/evidence

Front Page

• Certification Login is now known as MARKBOOK and login can be achieved from the top menu "Assessors", from the front Button and from the lower right hand side Login.
• Community Site is now known as LEARNERS SITE and login can be achieved from the top menu "Assessors", from the front Button and from the upper right hand side Login.
• Moodle Courses Login is found under both "Learners" and "Assessors" links as  "Courses".
• Create pages is in two places, one is the learner link with the type of pages that they can create and the other is in the community Create pages where there are additional types of page eg private and book pages available to those than can create them.
• A new section of video tutorials will be added and contents will be able to be streamed via youtube, schooltube and teachertube.

Language translation issues

We are aware of some language translation issues - eg the front page links to the right are in some cases linking to the old versions. The QA work package leader is going through these systematically and we hope these issues will be resolved soon. We are asking the partners to prioritise those pages that are most important as the site now has too many pages to translate absolutely everything and sometings are more important to some than others.

Tracking system

We are currently improving the progress tracking system to make it easier to use and more flexible. This will enable graphical presentation of progress through criteria, units and qualifications and for these results to be embedded in web pages as part of a comprehensive reporting system. In the end we hope to be able to provide all the facilities of a school report and share the report with parents, learner and teacher using the web.