Scenario
An achievement is recorded before the result is confirmed
A tutor is confident a learner has passed and asks for the achievement to be recorded before the awarding organisation confirms it.
The situation
- Aim
- A regulated qualification
- Position
- Assessment complete, result not yet confirmed by the awarding organisation
- Pressure
- Year end is approaching
Constructed for teaching. No scenario in the Academy contains real learner data, and none ever will.
What should be done?
The rules behind this
Completion status records whether a learner is continuing, has completed, has withdrawn or has temporarily withdrawn. Outcome records what the learner achieved. They answer different questions and both are needed.
Evidence is strongest when it is created at the time of the event it describes and is retrievable without reconstruction. Evidence assembled after a query is asked is weaker and takes longer to produce.
The final return of the funding year is the last opportunity to amend that year's data. After it closes, the data for the year is fixed, although funding can still be recovered afterwards: for example, FRM27 recovery after R14, and assurance findings recovered by offset or invoice.
Sources
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