Topic Six (0.6): ePortfolios and Remote Invigilation

During this course you will be creating lots of electronic portfolio files (pdfs and mp4s) to record your practical learning sessions and to submit your assignments in Canvas. You will also be creating two ePortfolios of completed artworks that will be submitted to the exam board, one for Component 1 (your personal portfolio) and one for Component 2 (your exam portfolio).

As the course provider, Wolsey Hall is required by the exam board (Pearson Edexcel) to verify that all the work that is submitted on your behalf for your final exam assessment is your own and has not been done by somebody else. Since Component 1 of this course is essentially a two-year-long gathering of artwork and a documented personal journey of skills/ideas development, we have created a system of electronic check-ins which begin in Module One and continue right up until submission of your Component 1 ePortfolio.  Similarly, the 10-hour timeframe in which you create your Component 2 artwork is required to be remotely invigilated, since you are working on your own rather than in person in a classroom or exam centre.

 

Below is an explanation of these different electronic portfolios and the remote invigilation you will encounter on the course. Each has a purpose for recording and documenting your learning sessions,  creative progress and artworks that meet the four International GCSE assessment criteria, as you work through the course.

 

You will be taking time/date-stamped photos and making timelapse videos which recording yourself making art each time you do some course work. This will provide evidence to support your work as being unique and personal to you.

 

For each module you will create an electronic portfolio of photographs of the artwork you have created for each of the topics within that module, along with text that annotates your work. You will upload this evidence to your tutor by submitting it as an assignment on Canvas. You will receive a grade for your assignment as well as feedback on your strengths and how to make progress in your International GCSE course.   

 

Towards the end of your course, you will complete two ePortfolios (one for each component). Each will have a maximum of 20 slides to show off your creative journey, final artwork outcomes and annotations. For each ePortfolio you will select your best work, and the work that best captures evidence of the four assessment objectives. You tutor will support you during your course in selecting work for final assessment.

 

Your final artwork/s for Component 2 will be completed through a formal exam. These exam sessions (max of three, totalling 10 hours) will be completed under formal exam conditions in your normal learning environment (home or school) and monitored via remote invigilation.