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Fellow graders,
For us this year end marks the beginning of a new era.
We will be closing the grading period for all results up to 31st December and please submit all files to Matt Carr by 14th January.
We intend to use the January list, converted to 4 digits, as the starting point for monthly grading. Hence I would ask you to use more diligence to get the dates of each result submitted correctly for the new year as it will be more critical for grading correctly.
Our current plans remain to continue thee old three digit process in order to get out the next August list in traditional format. Monthly grades will have no status until then, but as our new system gets up to speed we will publish monthly grades for each month in 2020.
As has been stated before there is no compulsion from the ECF to increase your frequency of submission, but I do hope that when you can you can support this new initiative by doing submissions more often.
I recognise that we need to help by easing your task. With that in mind we will be obtaining most of the relevant 31st December submissions direct from LMS with no intervention from the graders involved. We will need the graders involved to help us correct resulting errors. Malcolm Peacock will be contracting organisers with more detail in the near future.
In due course, where we think this idea will work we will be contracting graders involved.
While we have done some testing, we need to see whether this does make graders life easier or that this does not merely pass all the workload onto Matt Carr. If this process is a success then we will make the process available to other software providers so more submissions in the new year can be simplified. Our reticence is due to the possibility of unnecessary correspondence where errors that humans would spot get through the system.
May grading work not upset your Christmas,
Brian

Richard Bates wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 12, 2019 8:52 am

Has the calculation methodology been released?