OCR Interchange is designed to enable users to carry out the administrative tasks associated with examinations quickly and easily. Many of you are now taking full advantage of the services it offers. Some of the new 2008 services being delivered are highlighted below.

Exams Directories Online

From January 2008 Exams Directories will be available online, via the Centre Preferences section. Centres will have the flexibility to search by examination date range or assessment, and can display or print the Exams Directory information in a user-friendly format. If Centres still wish to receive a paper Exams Directory after the January 2008 series these must be requested via Interchange. OCR aims to further reduce the paper burden and improve the quality and flexibility of the information provided by adding more documents to the Centre Preferences section in future.

After the January 2008 series, hard copy exams directories will only be provided if requested using Interchange.

Also from January 2008 OCR will be able to contact Interchange users securely with important information about an exam series, via a Centre Messaging service. This will allow OCR to provide the following services:

• Emergency Question Papers – Secure PDF copies of question papers if you realise that your Centre does not have the correct question papers on the day of the exam.
• Emergency Examiner Address Labels – Secure copies of emergency examiner address labels for you to print out and attach to script packets.

Important Notice

In light of the changes to these services, we would urge any centre which is not currently registered for Interchange to do so as soon as possible. To register for OCR Interchange, please contact our Customer Contact Centre on 01223 553998.