Exams day

[dastrix]

What time do you guys have to get in tomorrow, they want one of us to be in for 6am just incase anything goes wrong?

[rpettit]

We are in at 8 am - connecting in during the night to download results files. If there are any problems then hopefully I'll be better prepared or have resolved any issues by the morning.

[6Foot2]

I will be opening school at 5:30 tomorrow. An English teacher is expected after 6:00. After that, the late attendees will be in around 8:00 to 8:30.

[rpettit]

Just opened A2C - Edexcel is showing a connection error already - is this a sign of things to come...?

 

CIE results appear to have been downloaded already

[free780]

A2c *shudders*

[ass17]

If CIE is Cambridge then yes they came a day early.

[Stephen_UAH]

This is my first Results night, should I be worried about the connection error on A2C with Edexcel?

[rpettit]

Just logged in remotely - all e-mail results downloaded without issue

[mthomas08]

I turned up around 8:45. My normal holiday start time, although we did actually have a SIMs issue which didn't update properly - ON THE EXAMS PC - sorted out quickly though.

[eyetea]

Normal holiday start time here as no one has asked anything! (8:30)

[andy_nic]

in at 6am, but get to go home 2 hours earlier so not bad.

[caffrey]

I've took the day off...

[pete]

Checked we had all the patches, updates and Performance Measures files, checked the Exams Newsfeed for last-minute hilarity, tidied the EXAMIN folder, left A2C running overnight to pull the results.

 

Walked in this morning ~9am to find that what Exams Organiser is calling some qualifications on the Results Broadsheet is different* (and wrong), but the Candidate Statement of Results is accurate.

 

Cue the Exams Officer and I manually going through the broadsheet to compare each qualification against a student who took that course to check we had everything we needed. Oh, and the fact that twins still causes a problem with accurate results matching with certain boards.

 

*Food Tech and Product Design lumped into the same column, for example, or General Studies being called "Logic and Philosophy". PM is on v3 and we've re-downloaded and refreshed basedata and re-imported.

[zag]

Just exclude a2c addresses from the proxy server and you should be fine.

 

a2c.ccea.org.uk
a2c.pearson.com
a2c.aqa.org.uk
a2c.cambridgeassessment.org.uk
a2c.avcosystems.co.uk
a2c.wjec.co.uk
a2cssl.cityandguilds.com

 

On our smoothwall, I just added them to the authenticated exceptions list.

[ITGURU]

Mouchel's Proxies/network has been down today since 4.30pm - Best be back online by early hours tomorrow or not doubt they'll be complaining to me as always!

[gaz350b]

I'm expected to be in at 6am with the exams officer but she said she'll call me if there are any issues as she knows I can VPN from home to sort most of her issues.

 

phone and laptop on charge next to the bed!

 

would love to leave early but we are having some temporary buildings installed and guess when the power is scheduled to go off.......... 4pm for at least 1 hour

[victory2012]

Well internet went down at 7pm this evening so tomorrow is looking busy!!!!!!!!

[Stephen_UAH]

Well I'm "in" already!

[rpettit]

And edexcel already has a connection problem!

[Stephen_UAH]

Yep, still waiting for edexcel! Roughly 700 results to come in from them too!

[THERADIOTUBBY]

Yep same here... files seemed to take ages to import into Sims

[rpettit]

Please Could someone send a reply to this thread when Edexcel results have successfully downloaded...Thanks

[Stephen_UAH]

Still no sign.....

[IanT]

Yup - we are having problems with Edexcel !

[Stephen_UAH]

Still no sign, need caffine.