Remote invigilation: training provider and assessment centre responsibilities
Remote invigilation is where students can sit their assessment at home or at another secure location of their choice. They're recorded for the whole assessment, and all recordings are reviewed after submission.
Following a successful controlled delivery period where over 1,000 remotely invigilated assessments were sat, we've now made these assessments available to every centre to schedule, and for all students to sit.
Whether you have registered students, or schedule external students, you should make them aware of this delivery option if you choose to offer it.
If you have any queries about the information on this page, or throughout your remote invigilation assessment journey, please contact our Partner Support team:
- +44 (0)20 3735 2443: lines are open Monday to Friday, 08.45–17.00 (UK time)
- partner.support@aat.org.uk.
Assessments available to sit remotely
All unit assessments are now available to schedule and sit remotely.
We won't be providing remote assessments for these, due to delivery requirements:
- Level 3: Management Accounting Techniques (MATS)
- End Point Assessment Level 3 v1.2: Knowledge Assessment (KNWA)
- Professional Discussion components of the End Point Assessment qualifications that are sat using SEPA
- Level 3: Botswana Tax Processes for Businesses (BTPB).
Fees
AAT charges an additional £39 for remote assessments. The student will pay you:
- £39, plus
- the fee for the assessment as listed on the Training provider, assessment and student fees and funding page, plus
- any additional fee you charge.
Your responsibilities
Understand the guidance
Staff involved in remotely invigilated assessment administration must read and understand all of the guidance contained on this page, as well as the page for students.
Ensure students have read and understood the guidance and understand all the requirements, advantages and limitations well in advance of being scheduled.
Ideally, discuss the choice of assessment format with the student, to ensure they choose the most appropriate.
Reasonable adjustments
Some standard reasonable adjustment requirements can't be made with remote assessments. These are:
- more than one break during the assessment
- the presence of readers, scribes, prompters or other qualified communications professionals
- use of electronic or technological aids, like assessment reading pens or scanning pens
- bilingual or translation dictionaries
- tax reference material printouts.
Assessment centres remain responsible for:
- identifying any reasonable adjustment requirements when speaking to students about their assessment requirements, and before any scheduling takes place
- sending the relevant forms to AAT ahead of scheduling so they can be acknowledged and approved where necessary.
Instructions on applying adjustments and notifying us are on the Reasonable adjustments and special consideration: assessment centre responsibilities page.
All extra time requirements for remote assessments must be applied by AAT. Any extra time reasonable adjustments that have already been applied cannot be viewed on the Remote Invigilation screen in ATLAS Cloud (like they can within the Sessions tab for standard delivery), and assessment centres can't add extra time to remote assessments once they're scheduled or in progress.
You must therefore apply for any extra time requirements, and ensure we've acknowledged them, prior to scheduling, unless the student already has an extra time profile attached to their ATLAS Cloud account from a previously submitted request. If you're not sure whether the student has this applied, email partner.support@aat.org.uk or call +44 (0)20 3735 2443 Monday to Friday, 08.45–17.00 (UK time).
Schedule the live assessment
Ideally, discuss the choice of assessment format with the student, to ensure they choose the most appropriate.
When scheduling the assessment in ATLAS Cloud, you'll see the option to schedule standard assessments (in the Sessions tab) or remotely invigilated assessments (in the Remote Invigilation tab). If you schedule the remote invigilation version, the increased fee will be invoiced.
Scheduling a remote assessment is very similar to scheduling a standard assessment – just use the Remote Invigilation tab in ATLAS Cloud when scheduling.
For assessments with a duration of 90 minutes, there are two versions available to schedule: one with a 15-minute break, and one without. All assessments over 90 minutes contain a 15-minute break as standard.
We've created this short video to guide you through the steps.
Once the live assessment is scheduled, AAT will email the student with the scheduled assessment and date, and give information they’ll need to know prior to sitting it. However, it remains good practice for you to also confirm this to the student once you've scheduled them.
Remotely invigilated assessments can only be scheduled a minimum of two days in advance. This is to ensure students have sufficient time to download, install and test the required software.
Support
If you have queries about remote invigilation, contact our Partner Support team:
- +44 (0)20 3735 2443: lines are open Monday to Friday, 08.45–17.00 (UK time)
- partner.support@aat.org.uk.
