These instructions apply to Cambridge Nationals students who are certificating in June 2022 and all Cambridge Technicals students who require a reduction in assessment for 2021/22 regardless of when they are completing their qualification.
1 Access the reduction in assessment area of Interchange
To tell us the units where assessment is being reduced by 15 May 2022, log into Interchange, hover over ‘Reduction in assessment’ and click on ‘Cambridge Nationals’ or ‘Cambridge Technicals’ in the left-hand menu. You will need the Interchange Centre Administrator role to view this menu item.
Select the series for Cambridge Nationals or the current year (2022) for Cambridge Technicals from the dropdown menu.
You will see the following:
- For Cambridge Nationals, you will see all the qualifications you have certification entries for in the June 2022 series.
- For Cambridge Technicals, you will see all those qualifications where you have made qualification entries since 1 August 2020.
If you do not see a qualification, you may need to check you have made your entries.
2 Choose your qualification and download the template
For each qualification you want to reduce an assessment for, click on ‘Edit’ and you will see a screen similar to the following:
Click on ‘Download New Template’ to download a spreadsheet containing all the moderated units for that qualification. Further instructions are available in the spreadsheet's help tab.
3 Complete and upload your spreadsheet
For each student where reduction in assessment is being used, enter ‘Y’ or ‘y’ in the relevant unit column.
You must not enter anything where reduction in assessment is not being used.
When you have completed and saved your spreadsheet, click ‘Upload file’ then ‘Choose File’ and browse to your saved file. Click ‘Open’ and then ‘Upload’.
You will see the following message while the file is being validated. Do not refresh this screen. Instead, you can click ‘Back to dashboard’ to see the latest status of your file.
As validation may take a few minutes, you may need to refresh the dashboard screen if the file has not validated immediately. You do not need to stay on this screen while the file is validating.
If there are any errors, the qualification status will show as ‘File has errors’. Click ‘Edit’ and then ‘View errors’ to download a spreadsheet listing any errors in the file.
To fix the errors, you can either:
- Edit the file you uploaded – If you need a copy of this, click on ‘Download your uploaded file’.
- Start again and complete a new file – You can download a new blank template by clicking ‘Download New Template’.
You can then upload the replacement file by clicking on 'Replace file'.
4 Submit your spreadsheet
As soon as a qualification status shows as ‘Ready to Submit’ you can submit your file to us. To submit your file, either select the check box on the individual row or click the top check box to select all files with a Ready to Submit status and click ‘Submit’.
Click the checkbox and click on ‘Confirm and Submit’.
You will see the status changes to ‘Submitted’ on the dashboard.
5 Resubmitting a spreadsheet
If you need to replace a spreadsheet after you have submitted it, you can click on 'Reopen' on the dashboard and replace the file. You can do this as many times as you need to until the deadline of 15 May.