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Printmaking CoursesGuidelines or submission or ormal assessment

Look at OCAs Student Support GuideAssessments and how to get qualifed,available

to download rom, OCAs student website: oca-student.com. This will tell you about the

assessment process. Also look out or videos and other tips on assessment that are

posted 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.

PresentationOCA strongly recommends students purchase an A1 lightweight plastic portolio. The best are polylite

portolios made o lightweight sturdy corrugated plastic. These portolios are spacious and boxlike with plastic

catches that can be taped up. These are generally robust and spacious enough or all student requirements as

well as cheaper to post. They are also cheaper than other portolios. We do not recommend using leather or

leatherette portolios which are heavy, nor the use o plastic sleeves which create reection on work.

Transporting any work that is too big to go in a plastic portolio, either because its too thick, too long or wide,

or 3D in nature, should be wrapped careully in a suitable box, labelled and added to a contents list and sent

with your submission. Please do not wrap up work in your own makeshit portolios, since this oten involves

them having to re-wrap and repair them, and they are oten heavier to post.

All your work should be clearly labelled, stating which assignment it relates to, with your name and student

number on the back o 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. You must supply aContents list with your submission.

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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 their

strengths and weaknesses and also or guidance on presentation methods.

Level one course (HE Level 4) The outputs rom each assignment: monoprints, relie prints, collatype block prints, and combination

prints demonstrating experimentation

Your sketchbooks and studies

Your learning log

Contents list

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 course (HE Level 5) The outputs rom each assignment: including landscape, abstract, chiaroscuro and portrait prints plus a

print inspired by your memory

Your sketchbooks and studies

Your critical review o between 1,500 and 2,000 words 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)

Your learning log

Contents list

Level three course (HE Level 6) Four series o prints, each series o between 6 and 12 prints

Your sketchbooks and studies

Your critical review o between 3,000 and 3,500 words (send both physical and digital copies)

Your learning log

Contents list

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.

Your overall submission may not weigh more than 20 kg in total.Any submission in excess o 20 kg will incur a surcharge or additional postage and admin. All essays and

reviews must be sent physically AND digitally. They must be emailed to the ollowing address at OCA:

assessment@oca-uk.com. The email must be headed with your name and student number. OCA checks

students work with a sotware plagiarism checker.

It is a requirement that you purchase an A1 lightweightplastic portolio. The best are polylite portoliosmade o lightweight sturdy corregated plastic. These portolios are spacious and boxlike with plastic catches

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that can be taped up. These are generally robust and spacious enough or all student requirements as well as

cheaper to post. They are also cheaper than other portolios. We do not recommend using leather or leatherette

portolios which are heavy, nor the use o plastic sleeves which create reection on work. Transporting any

work that is too big to go in a plastic portolio, either because its too thick, too long or wide, or 3D in nature,

should be boxed separately and securely, labelled and added to your contents list. Please do not wrap up

work in your own makeshit portolios, since this oten involves OCA having to re-wrap and repair them, and

they are oten heavier to post.

Guidelines on submitting work to your tutor or review (not or assessment).

Package up your work rom the section o the course you have completed. This should be sent in an A1

portolio plus a box i necessary. Tutors are keen to see your sketchbooks but please do not submit more than

ONE sketchbook each time you send work to your tutor or review. This can be inserted into the portolio when

you send it to your tutor. You should also include the relevant section o your learning log, unless you can

email this to your tutor. I you keep a learning blog, please provide the url to your tutor.

Please note that assignments sent to your tutor or review should weigh no more than 5 kg.This includes

the weight o the portolio and sketchbook. I your work weighs more than this there will be a surcharge or

postage and administration to return your work.

Clarifcation on presentation o work when studying multiple courses

I 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 specifcally 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 is

studying 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 a

sample o the submissions.

The resulting marks are provisional. The marks are then confrmed by an exam board convened by the

validating university, UCA.