Covid-19 and Student Access
Saturday 29 February 2020
Student Access was set up to enable teachers to set assignments, and to give students access to pages selected by the teacher on this site etc. Once you give your students an access code they can learn, research, complete activities, revise/review and explore the subject for themselves.
Recently I have learned that ‘Student Access’ is is being used extensively by schools that have been forced to close temporarily due to the recent outbreak of the new coronavirus, Covid-19. These schools have needed to engage their students in distance learning and the website is proving invaluable for this.
With it now being reported that the virus can be passed on by infected people who show no symptoms the likelihood of a pandemic is increasing. Whether or not your school is likely to be closed in the future or whether you have individual students who have been asked to stay at home after potentially coming into contact with the virus, I strongly recommend that as the May examination session is rapidly approaching you and your students take full advantage of what ‘Student Access’ has to offer.
Student Access find out about how it works
Creating Student Accounts is easier than you think, and free to all subscribers, just follow the guidelines
News for Visual Arts
Visual Arts exhibitions guidelines
Should planned Visual Arts exhibitions be cancelled schools may wish to explore alternative options such as holding the exhibition at an alternative venue and/or for individual students to make their own arrangements. Schools should bear in mind that the space where an exhibition is presented does not influence the marking and must not constitute any bias.
A candidate who is unable to set up a formal exhibition due to quarantine issues can instead photograph the artworks they have selected for their exhibition all together as a collection. The collection must include only those pieces that the candidate will submit and upload as individual pieces for assessment. The two images of the collection can be uploaded as exhibition photographs, alongside the individual images of the required number of artworks. The actual set up of the exhibition is not assessed and in their curatorial rationale the candidate can refer to how they would have done this. In their supporting comments, the teacher should explain that the IB has been consulted and approved the upload of the exhibition in its current format.
As usual, teachers must assess the candidate’s exhibition awarding marks against each of the IA assessment criteria referring to the digital, on-screen version of the candidate’s submission.
visit Remote Exhibition Documentation
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