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Getting to grips with RITS 14 October 2010

Getting to grips with RITS 14 October 2010. Welcome and overview of the session. Fiona Pethick Director of Regulation. Objectives. Our objectives for the session are to provide for you: An understanding of the reasons behind the system changes

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Getting to grips with RITS 14 October 2010

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  1. Getting to grips with RITS14 October 2010

  2. Welcome and overview of the session Fiona Pethick Director of Regulation

  3. Objectives • Our objectives for the session are to provide for you: • An understanding of the reasons behind the system changes • A demonstration of RITS and the Register of Recognised Qualifications • Information on the timeline to the next release • Details of future developments • Information about where you can access further information and support

  4. RITS is a key milestone in the Ofqual journey • ASCL Act and Consultation on our powers (Nov/Dec 2009) • Vesting & transitional regulatory arrangements (April 2010) • Our next consultations on: • ‘Transition to transformation’ & Economic Regulation (Oct 2010) • Single Equality Scheme & Examinations Appeal Board (Nov 2010) • Release 1 RITS (25 October 2010) …and other releases to Jan 2011 • Transition to new regulatory model – throughout 2011-12

  5. Why are we changing the systems? • Ofqual cannot deliver its regulatory commitments on unsupported systems that cannot be developed due to stability issues • Ofqual needs a flexible platform to deliver its statutory obligation under the Apprenticeship Skills Children and Learning (ASCL) Act • Ofqual must publish and maintain a list of: • recognised awarding organisations • what descriptions of qualifications they are recognised to offer • their specific regulated qualifications • Ofqual can remove the bureaucratic burden from awarding organisations through more effective deployment of IT solutions • Ofqual has made a commitment to the full and proper regulation of the Qualifications and Credit Framework through our regulatory systems

  6. Key messages • RITS goes live on 25 October that enables us all to stop using WBA and NDAQ • It won’t be perfect on day 1, but it is a huge step forward and only the beginning • There will be a further release during November with improved functionality and further releases in 2011 • You will have a user guide and help text to assist and contact points to ask questions – all available at www.ofqual.gov.uk/RITS • You will have access to a shared training environment

  7. Introducing RITS Sue McGlynn RITS Super User

  8. Introducing RITS and the Register Moving on from using the pilot The underlying assumptions on which RITS has been built Development of the Register

  9. Moving out of the pilot All Awarding Organisations and unit and RoC submitters have had access to the RITS pilot since July You have set up basic data and users have been set up All the data you have input to the pilot will be available in RITS

  10. Assumptions underlying RITS AO recognition and unit and rule of combination (RoC) submitter approval An organisation’s ‘plan of provision’ will be carried over into RITS Recognition is an off-line process supported by the exchange of documents through the document store. Awarding organisations will have recognition numbers

  11. Assumptions underlying RITS (continued) Accreditation requirement RITS has been built to allow some qualifications to go straight to the Register without an accreditation process. AOs will be able to see their accreditation requirements within RITS There will be no differentiation on the Register between qualifications subject to the accreditation requirement and those that are not All qualifications will be subject to the accreditation requirement until new criteria and processes are implemented after consultation.

  12. Policy underlying RITS (continued) Qualifications will be formally structured Each constituent part will have an identification number Routes through a qualification will be described in free text as at present but will be automatically generated in later releases. RITS will not collect answers to accreditation criteria questions

  13. Other changes Review dates for documents Qualification dates Date of regulation Operational start date Review date Operational end date Certification end date Current accreditation end dates will be migrated as review dates

  14. Other changes continued Age ranges and funding AOs state the age ranges that a qualification is suitable for, which shows on the Register Within RITS, AOs say whether they wish the qualification to be considered for funding AOs give permission within RITS for this information to be passed across a data interface to SFA and YPLA

  15. Other changes continued ‘Countries offered in’ is limited to England, Wales and Northern Ireland SSC approval of a qualification will be collect within RITS via A check box The name of the approving SSC An SSC identifier Documentary evidence from the SSC

  16. The Register of Regulated Qualifications A three-country badged web-site hosted on the Ofqual website that replaces NDAQ The means by which Ofqual fulfils the statutory requirement placed upon it by the ASCL Act to provide a public list of: recognised awarding organisations what descriptions of qualifications they are recognised to offer their specific regulated qualifications

  17. Information on the Register Recognised awarding organisations are listed on the Register; approved unit and RoC submitters are not. The register will show an organisation’s recognition by qualification type/sub-type. Regulated qualifications will be shown on the Register but there will be no differentiation between those subject to the accreditation requirement and those not.

  18. Refreshment break and networking opportunity

  19. RITS demonstration Catherine Adler Manager for Accreditation Services

  20. Introduction Login Navigation Operational Plan Build a Qualification Units Structures (Rules of Combination) Qualifications Submit a Qualification for Regulation The Register of Regulated Qualifications Where to find help

  21. Where to find RITS and the Register RITS http://rits.ofqual.gov.uk The Register http://register.ofqual.gov.uk Via the Ofqual website: www.ofqual.gov.uk/rits

  22. Getting to grips with RITS14 October 2010

  23. RITS demonstration Catherine Adler Manager for Accreditation Services

  24. Login screen

  25. Navigation – drop down menus

  26. Navigation – Where to find help

  27. Operational plan - overview

  28. Plan of provision - Recognitions and Approvals

  29. Plan of provision - Recognition Permissions

  30. Accreditation requirements

  31. Units

  32. Create QCF unit

  33. Create QCF unit – Learning outcomes and assessment criteria

  34. Bank QCF unit

  35. Confirm bank unit

  36. Banked QCF unit detail screen

  37. Amend QCF unit

  38. Search units

  39. Search my units

  40. Search my units - Unit statuses

  41. Search unit bank

  42. Review units (confirmation screen)

  43. Structures

  44. Create QCF Rules of Combination (RoC)

  45. Confirmation of create RoC

  46. Adding groups to a RoC (1)

  47. Adding groups to a RoC (2)

  48. Linking units to groups

  49. Validating a RoC

  50. Valid RoC

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