Student Handbook 2017

also be required to submit regular reports to your Tutor, who will brief the appropriate assessor
as you progress through the tasks.
If at any time you feel you need help or advice either on the Course content or the questions
being asked, please let us know. There may also be some difficulty in understanding the
terminology, or understanding fully the problem you feel you have. If you are experiencing
difficulties please let us know as soon as possible.
In each unit, following the completion of a brief introductory task, your “line manager” will set
you a series of tasks designed to enable you to demonstrate your underlying knowledge and
understanding.
Reporting back to you will show and justify how, using this knowledge and understanding
together with your own experience, you would respond to each task. The full Course of
study is then completed in this tried and tested ‘little and often’ way enabling the principles
learned to be gradually integrated into your real life daily work plan. The method is
enjoyable, practical and a genuine fast-track route to an internationally recognised
qualification.
You will be taken through the steps of:
1. Analysing the current operational processes for a given scenario
2. Identifying the simulated company’s current and future requirements
3. Devising a series of options to meet those requirements
4. Showing how to implement your chosen solution
On the completion of the tasks for the unit, you will have compiled a portfolio of evidence of
competence which your Tutor will refer for assessment by a qualified Assessor. This may lead
to a request for further evidence of your competence. In this eventuality, the candidate may
have to re-visit one or two of the tasks and expand on or clarify work previously submitted.
This will only happen if the final assessor disagrees with the assessment of the learner’s
Tutor.
4.2 INDEPENDENT ASSESSMENTS
Some Programmes offered by LLA have a requirement for Independent Assessment. This
is where a selected piece of Course work has to be assessed externally to LLA.
The Programme of submissions for the Independent Assessment is controlled by the Awarding
Organisation and you will be informed of the relevant submission dates.
You are strongly advised not to leave this work until the end of the Programme, as there can
sometimes be limited occasions when we can submit them for review and feedback will take
longer than you will have been accustomed to with your LLA task submissions.
Where your Programme has an element of Independent Assessment we will send you out full
instructions on how to prepare the report and you should plan your submission into your
overall work plan for the Programme.
Candidates are fully supported through their report construction and subsequent draft
submissions. However, in regards to the final submission for independent assessment, we allow
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