Every assessment set has a start date, an end date and a date its marks are due. All three are required: a set cannot be added to a term without them.

Why the dates matter

The marks-due date decides when teachers are reminded about outstanding marks, and it is what the Marks Progress board counts against.

The start and end dates say when the assessment actually runs. The exam timetable uses them: a sitting cannot be scheduled outside its assessment's window.

Changing a set's dates

What YoShule will and will not accept

• An assessment must start and end inside its term.
• Marks cannot be due before the assessment finishes.
• Marks may be due after the term ends, up to three weeks. End-of-term marks are normally due during the holiday, because that is when reports go out.
• Assessments may overlap. Continuous assessment running across a mid-term is normal and is not treated as a clash.

What happens next

• teachers are emailed about papers they still owe, starting two days before the deadline and continuing after it;
• from the deadline onward they are also texted, if your school has turned staff SMS on;
• the Dean of Studies receives a digest of who is behind;
• the Marks Progress page shows every class, subject and paper with its status. Only the classes that sit a set are counted against it.

See Marks progress for the board itself, and Adding a term's assessment sets for creating sets.