By Eleanor Musson, Senior Project Officer (Online Assessment)

Over the summer term 123 exams were successfully delivered to 2900 students via the Warwick Assessment System, with 10 new departments coming on board for the first time. In a survey of students who took exams in WAS from March to September 2023, 77% of students rated the experience of using WAS as 4 or 5 out of 5, and when asked what they liked about the system (with a free text response), 73% said it was easy to use. The project team would like to thank all the academic departments and central teams involved for their work on making this happen.

The project team’s current focus is to work with departments that are using AEP to enable them to adopt WAS; further details of training and support will be shared later this month. Until the first phase of integration of WAS and SITS is complete, the project will continue to support departments that are already using WAS with the type of functionality (Flow Assign/ Flow Multi) they have used up to now. IDG has allocated new resources to accelerate the first phase of this integration.

New guidance to help with the completion of MAB-affected marking has been published. This covers how to re-open marking and how to replace an assessor who is no longer able to mark. Questions about the roll out of the Warwick Assessment System are welcomed; please send these to was@warwick.ac.uk.