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Photography coursesGuidelines or submission or ormal assessment

Look at OCAs Student Support GuideAssessments and how to get qualifed,availableto download rom, OCAs student website: oca-student.com. This will tell you about theassessment process. Also look out or videos and other tips on assessment that areposted on weareoca.com. Look out or updates on these guidelines on oca-student.com

Digital Submissions

Please note that all written work (tutor reports, learning logs and blogs do not have to be printed out, i they

are submitted digitally) submitted or assessment MUST be submitted digitally as well as printed out and

submitted on paper along with the rest o your submission. Digital work should be submitted to assessment@

oca-uk.com, clearly stating your name, student number, the course name and what the digital work attached

is (eg critical review, essay etc). This is a requirement and is to enable OCA to carry out plagiarism checks on

work, and a requirement o our validation with the University or the Creative Arts.

I you are submitting an entirely digital portolio on CD or a USB stick, or entirely via a blog, only a sustained

piece o writing (such as an essay or critical review) needs to be sent to assessment@oca-uk.com as well as

printed out and submitted or assessment in hard copy.

I you are submitting work on a USB stick or a CD please ensure you check it thoroughly or viruses beore

you send it in.

PresentationInclude a clear contents list with your assessment submission. All your work must be clearly labelled, stating

which assignment it relates to and with your name and student number on every item you submit. Where

there is a clear link between project work and your learning log, or blog, this should be clearly labelled or

cross reerenced in some way.

At Levels 1 and 2 you can send jpeg les on a CD or DVD but these must be ully corrected and o an

appropriate size and resolution ready or nal printing. At Level 3 all work must be submitted in hard copy

as well as digital copy. Although 'proo' prints are quite adequate or early assignments, nal prints or

assessment should be exhibition quality and may be whatever size is appropriate to the work. An exception

to this might be i nal work is to be shown as photobook or on website.

The proessionalism o your presentation is important and you will lose marks or poor presentation. Students

may consult with their tutor i they eel unsure about what to include in their submission based on theirstrengths and weaknesses and also or guidance on presentation methods.

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Requirements at each level

Level one courses All ve assignments plus any amendments made in response to the tutor reports

Tutor reports

Learning log or url or blog

Important note about Assignment one or level one courses.

Although Assignment one is not ormally assessed component o the course, the assessors do want to see it,

so that they gain a comprehensive view o your development. So, i you are applying or ormal assessment,

do send assignment one in with all the others.

Level two courses All six assignments plus any amendments made in response to the tutor reports

Tutor reports

Learning log or url or blog.

The 2,000 word critical review. This should be submitted as a sixth assignment, but you should be

working on this along side your other work (send both physical and digital copies).

Portolio as specied in the particular course

LandscapeTwelve images; three rom each season as explained in the course introduction and at the end o2: Light and

its measurement

Level three courses A comprehensive selection o the work produced or the assignments

Essay (3,500) words (send both physical and digital copies).

Tutor reports

Learning log or url or blog.

You must also submit copies o all your tutor report orms. I your tutor has annotated your written work,

then you must submit the annotated version o the written work as well as the fnal version.

Further tips on presenting your work or assessment

TipTry running a usability tests by asking someone who is not amiliar with your work and its structure to nd

specic items in your proposed assessment submission and gauge their perormance.

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TipEnsure everything is arranged optimally or the purposes o assessment.

While all the important elements maybe there they can be camoufaged by surrounding general log material

and notes on exercises etc, meaning they have to be searched or, so it would be good to have them together

coherently organised and labelled.

TipSeparate out the assignments to make them easily and obviously accessible.

Each assignment should consist o, in running order, the original assignment, the tutor eedback, the stu-

dent's refections on the eedback and then any changes theyve made in the light o the eedback and the

reasons or it.

TipProduce two physical documents, one consisting o the assignments, paginated as above, and the other a

much more ree orm journal.

Clarication on presentation o work when studying multiple coursesI you are studying more than one OCA course at the same time, you must ensure that your work on the

courses you are studying do not overlap in any way. You must keep separate learning logs, demonstrating that

the research you do is specically or each o the courses. It is essential that when you present your work or

assessment that it is clear which work relates to which course. There must be a discrete set o work or each

course so that the assessors are clear what they are assessing.

Students cannot present the same piece o work or marks on two dierent units. However, i a students isstudying two units at the same time and doing general sketchbook work or example, to support both units,

this person can submit the sketchbooks or both units as evidence o background research.

About assessment at OCAThe assessment process involves your work being marked by one assessor and then moderated by another

assessor. The average amount o time spent reviewing each submission at assessment is 45 minutes, but this

may increase at level 3 (HE6).

The assessment process is validated by an external examiner who observes the assessment and reviews asample o the submissions.

The resulting marks are provisional. The marks are then conrmed by an exam board convened by the validat-

ing university, UCA.