PGCert Identity-Checked Assessment (UK Distance)

Academic Overview

UK distance assessment failed publicly whenever a university outsourced integrity to a black-box proctor and called it quality. This PGCert starts with process: identity evidence, live oral confirmation, assessment design that reduces cheating payoff, and appeals that do not discriminate against disabled students or poor broadband. EDINAC-facing literacy appears because regulated language about assessment security will show up in complaints; you are not trained as EDINAC staff. Polish and rUK students sit on both pathways; the certificate insists that campus and online awards remain one construct. The award does not certify a proctoring product and it does not authorise covert capture of household members. Capstones are policy-and-protocol dossiers for a named dual-pathway programme. IU International University of Applied Sciences treats identity checking as an assessment construct with residual impersonation risk, not as a biometric theatre that humiliates disabled students or households on a shared connection. EDINAC-facing vocabulary appears in complaints literacy; it is not a claim of regulator employment. Storm weeks and timezone-aware vivas belong in the protocol, because Warsaw weather and remote students are both facts of this university’s dual pathway. The protocol must name what you will not capture in a student’s home. PGCert Identity-Checked Assessment (UK Distance) is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 9 months, and the credit total is 15. Students move from What Identity Evidence Can and Cannot Prove through What Identity Evidence Can and Cannot Prove; Live Oral, Viva, and Synchronous Confirmation; UK Data Protection in Exam Capture; Campus Hall and Online Twin: One Award; Ofqual-Facing Language for Non-Staff, and finish on Ofqual-Facing Language for Non-Staff. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Specify an identity-checked protocol with residual-risk notes Design tasks that reduce impersonation payoff Align accessibility, data protection, and integrity Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.

The degree is awarded directly by IU International University of Applied Sciences, seated in Warsaw, Poland. Studies are conducted in full alignment with Polish and European academic standards.

Curriculum & Core Modules

The curriculum comprises 15 ECTS credits structured across progressive academic modules:

Teaching & Assessment Methodology

Career Trajectories

• Assessment integrity officer
• Online examinations lead
• Academic quality (assessment) specialist
• Programme assessment coordinator
• Registry operations analyst

European Campus & Academic Facilities

Seated at Prosta 20 in Warsaw, IU International University of Applied Sciences offers state-of-the-art academic lecture halls, digital research repositories, and vibrant collegiate spaces for both on-campus and international distance scholars.

Main academic building at Prosta 20, Warsaw.

Collegiate courtyard and research study spaces.

Academic facilities and faculty laboratory suites.