This will be our last webinar of 2017, and we’ll be giving an update on our application management service. We’ll be:
- updating you on qualifications
- telling you how you can add a document to an application
- discussing the scheme codes
- briefing you on what we’re working on next
Latest releases
The following releases are now available in our test, training, and development environment.
Search tool
- English language requirements are showing on the course details page in the search tool.
- The ‘Which location would you like to study in?’ filter in the search tool has been updated to show location of study, rather than a provider’s main location.
- Users can now select multiple regions in the location filter.
Collection tool
- Newly requested outcome qualifications have been added to the drop-down list.
Application management service
Applicants can now add a qualification using the qualification number (QN or QAN codes).
Collection tool
We’re continuing to work on the functionality to create your course options in bulk in the collection tool. This will be available in late December, and replaces the annual rollover we used to perform in November. Although you won’t be able to publish your courses, you can get them ready ahead of next May, when UCAS Undergraduate Apply 2019 opens.
Reminder: Adding HECoS codes for 2019
HECoS codes will have to be assigned to all your 2019 courses (including postgraduate) before May, for them to be published in the search tool. Any course options starting from September 2019 can be added now.
You’re responsible for assigning and managing the HECoS codes for your courses in the collection tool. You should have reviewed the course subject content of all your courses, to identify which HECoS codes will be assigned to each in advance. Once you’ve done that, this data will be available in your courses download. As previously advised, you won’t be able to import HECoS codes into the collection tool in bulk. As this would be a one-off task, we’ve decided to prioritise functionality that would better serve your needs more imminently – for example, bulk rollover.
For more information about what HECoS codes are, and what you’ll need to do, please refer to our FAQs or HESA’s dedicated web page. You can also watch the webinar we hosted with HESA, to discuss the change and provide best practice information.
Postgraduate outcome qualifications
The following outcome qualifications have been added to the collection tool for postgraduate courses:
- Diploma in Education and Training – DET
- National Professional Qualification for Headship – NPQH
- National Professional Qualification for Middle Leadership – NPQML
- National Professional Qualification for Senior Leadership – NPQSL
- Professional Certificate in Education – PCE
- Professional Graduate Certificate in Education – PGCE (Professional)
All QTS teacher training programmes that are part of the UCAS Teacher Training scheme must be added to web-link, and will appear in our UCAS Teacher Training search tool. Only add non-QTS courses to the collection tool. An additional option of ‘Course does not award QTS’ has been added to the Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) field in the course profile.
Our test, training, and development environment is available for you
Please remember to make use of our test, training, and development environment – it’s been created to allow you to use the functionality we’re developing for our new services, including testing and assigning HECoS codes for 2019 courses.
More details on using our test environments, including getting started, links to the services available in them, and requesting data, can be found on the Test and training environments web page. Please contact your technology relationship manager to find out more about how to use this service.
You can’t view our applicant email notifications, as they have been disabled in this environment. Therefore, you won’t be able to test the reference process, as a completed reference is not required to submit a UCAS Postgraduate application. If you’d like to see a demonstration of this functionality, please refer to our webinar from 23 August (view from 1:17).