Access to HE moderation date missed HELP?!

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Hello everyone,

I have applied to university and have received offers through ucas for 2024. Due to circumstances that affected my mental health and physical health whilst doing my access course I wasn’t able to complete everything on time and upload everything however most work and units have been completed it just for it to be marked and graded by my tutor. However…. I have missed the deadline even though I’m so close to finishing and uploading everything as I’m studying with learn direct. I’m not sure what to do as the head of access is advising I have missed the deadline and there is nothing I can pretty much do however If I complete the course by thursday next week, I should receive atleast a certificate to hand in on time to my university

Please help as I’m so stressed and I’m not sure what to do I really want to go to university this year and its only due to the situations I was in , I’m in this position now!

I’m not sure who to tell now or who to go to if I should go to the exam board and contact my university in regards to this!

Reply 1

Jopalm77

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by lozzza03

Hello everyone,
I have applied to university and have received offers through ucas for 2024. Due to circumstances that affected my mental health and physical health whilst doing my access course I wasn’t able to complete everything on time and upload everything however most work and units have been completed it just for it to be marked and graded by my tutor. However…. I have missed the deadline even though I’m so close to finishing and uploading everything as I’m studying with learn direct. I’m not sure what to do as the head of access is advising I have missed the deadline and there is nothing I can pretty much do however If I complete the course by thursday next week, I should receive atleast a certificate to hand in on time to my university
Please help as I’m so stressed and I’m not sure what to do I really want to go to university this year and its only due to the situations I was in , I’m in this position now!
I’m not sure who to tell now or who to go to if I should go to the exam board and contact my university in regards to this!

I’m in a very similar position! I think it’s just up to luck how quick you get your certificate. I’ve heard some people get it in months and some within the month! I’m waiting on my certifícate also. I’ve contacted my university of choice admissions to let them know I haven’t received this yet and they have gave me more time to wait for it. So I’d advise contacting admissions 🙂

Reply 2

Haaris1121

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Hey, I’m in a similar situation I have been given a conditional space at my university and I am one unit away from completion, (also paying for fast track) I just want to know what do learn direct send you when you finish that18th unit in terms of email or what shows up on the portal, is there any message ?

Reply 3

Arden University

Official Rep

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by lozzza03

Hello everyone,
I have applied to university and have received offers through ucas for 2024. Due to circumstances that affected my mental health and physical health whilst doing my access course I wasn’t able to complete everything on time and upload everything however most work and units have been completed it just for it to be marked and graded by my tutor. However…. I have missed the deadline even though I’m so close to finishing and uploading everything as I’m studying with learn direct. I’m not sure what to do as the head of access is advising I have missed the deadline and there is nothing I can pretty much do however If I complete the course by thursday next week, I should receive atleast a certificate to hand in on time to my university
Please help as I’m so stressed and I’m not sure what to do I really want to go to university this year and its only due to the situations I was in , I’m in this position now!
I’m not sure who to tell now or who to go to if I should go to the exam board and contact my university in regards to this!

@lozzza03
Hi, I have worked on an Access to HE course for over 11 years so I can give you some advice.

The likely outcome of this situation is that you will get 'partial credit' which means credits based on the unit's you have completed. Your provider could have applied for 'mitigating circumstances' based on your physical/mental health to the exam board with the awarding body - not sure who it would be for you, it is Open Awards in the North West. They would need documented evidence of your health issues to do that, but it is I believe too late for that now, as you have technically missed the exam board when final grades are decided.

You may have enough credits from your unit's to get onto a University course, although area's such as Nursing, medicine, midwifery etc would probably be a bit too competitive to get on without a complete diploma. It all depends on your offer/s from the University, if it has the line 'complete the Access course with...... credits' to 'complete' aspect may hold you back. Speak to the admissions tutor at the University. If you only needed to demonstrate evidence of recent study then you might be OK.

An Access provider will likely let you complete any missing units this academic year (unless there is a genuine reason such as that pathway not running at the college anymore)

Marc
Arden University Student Ambassador

Reply 4

Hands.5

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by lozzza03

Hello everyone,
I have applied to university and have received offers through ucas for 2024. Due to circumstances that affected my mental health and physical health whilst doing my access course I wasn’t able to complete everything on time and upload everything however most work and units have been completed it just for it to be marked and graded by my tutor. However…. I have missed the deadline even though I’m so close to finishing and uploading everything as I’m studying with learn direct. I’m not sure what to do as the head of access is advising I have missed the deadline and there is nothing I can pretty much do however If I complete the course by thursday next week, I should receive atleast a certificate to hand in on time to my university
Please help as I’m so stressed and I’m not sure what to do I really want to go to university this year and its only due to the situations I was in , I’m in this position now!
I’m not sure who to tell now or who to go to if I should go to the exam board and contact my university in regards to this!

hey make sure to just upload them as much as you can. Before uploading always double check you’re done all the criteria or they will make things longer than it should. Once it’s done it will take some time to recieve your Certificate. Their support is so bad but just as long as you’re uploading everything correctly the deadline isn’t as serious just finish it earlier to get your certificate earlier if that makes sense

Reply 5

Zximm_qwoi

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by Hands.5

hey make sure to just upload them as much as you can. Before uploading always double check you’re done all the criteria or they will make things longer than it should. Once it’s done it will take some time to recieve your Certificate. Their support is so bad but just as long as you’re uploading everything correctly the deadline isn’t as serious just finish it earlier to get your certificate earlier if that makes sense

Hello, i am in this same situation, the tutors are not marking my assignments fast enough and i am scared that I won’t be able to submit all of the assignments before my deadline in 4 days. What can I do, please anyone with any solutions

Reply 6

Zximm_qwoi

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by lozzza03

Hello everyone,
I have applied to university and have received offers through ucas for 2024. Due to circumstances that affected my mental health and physical health whilst doing my access course I wasn’t able to complete everything on time and upload everything however most work and units have been completed it just for it to be marked and graded by my tutor. However…. I have missed the deadline even though I’m so close to finishing and uploading everything as I’m studying with learn direct. I’m not sure what to do as the head of access is advising I have missed the deadline and there is nothing I can pretty much do however If I complete the course by thursday next week, I should receive atleast a certificate to hand in on time to my university
Please help as I’m so stressed and I’m not sure what to do I really want to go to university this year and its only due to the situations I was in , I’m in this position now!
I’m not sure who to tell now or who to go to if I should go to the exam board and contact my university in regards to this!

Hello, I am in the same situation as you, what were you able to do

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Ja37384

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by Amyos

Hello, i am in this same situation, the tutors are not marking my assignments fast enough and i am scared that I won’t be able to submit all of the assignments before my deadline in 4 days. What can I do, please anyone with any solutions

Hey I’m in the same situation rn! Here in 2025 haha . I got one of my assignments rejected twice for the most minor reasons and am freaking out a lot . I’m consider emailing the He manager of learn direct to see if I finish a few days late if it’s still possible to get my certificate in time for university x

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Zximm_qwoi

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by Ja37384

Hey I’m in the same situation rn! Here in 2025 haha . I got one of my assignments rejected twice for the most minor reasons and am freaking out a lot . I’m consider emailing the He manager of learn direct to see if I finish a few days late if it’s still possible to get my certificate in time for university x

Thats also one of the reasons I’m behind, I had my assignment returned twice, it’s so frustrating

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Ja37384

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by Amyos

Thats also one of the reasons I’m behind, I had my assignment returned twice, it’s so frustrating

I’ve just had mine returned this morning for the third time and I’m furious as I’m now extremely behind

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Ja37384

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by Amyos

Thats also one of the reasons I’m behind, I had my assignment returned twice, it’s so frustrating

I’ve had mine returned 3x

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Imelda.a

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by Haaris1121

Hey, I’m in a similar situation I have been given a conditional space at my university and I am one unit away from completion, (also paying for fast track) I just want to know what do learn direct send you when you finish that18th unit in terms of email or what shows up on the portal, is there any message ?

Do you have an update? what does it show?

Reply 12

Zximm_qwoi

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by Ja37384

I’ve had mine returned 3x

please i would like to know if it is still okay to submit my last assignment on the 30th for the 2025 admission year, or the assignment has to be submitted and graded to be considered for the admission year.

Reply 13

Ja37384

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by Amyos

please i would like to know if it is still okay to submit my last assignment on the 30th for the 2025 admission year, or the assignment has to be submitted and graded to be considered for the admission year.

I’ll let you know as soon as I know

Reply 14

Ja37384

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by Amyos

please i would like to know if it is still okay to submit my last assignment on the 30th for the 2025 admission year, or the assignment has to be submitted and graded to be considered for the admission year.

I’ve heard back from they . They’ve told me to contact my uni and ask when the date for results confirmation is , and then forward it to learn direct and they will advise me on what they can do and how to proceed

Reply 15

shimmyjimmyfor2

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by Ja37384

I’ve had mine returned 3x

you have to work ahead of deadlines i had an assignment returned 3 times too and each time it took over 2 weeks i took the initiative to work ahead as they take forever with marking

Reply 16

Ja37384

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by shimmyjimmyfor2

you have to work ahead of deadlines i had an assignment returned 3 times too and each time it took over 2 weeks i took the initiative to work ahead as they take forever with marking

I worked well ahead of deealines . I started my course in December of last year and finished on Monday . Paid for fast tracking for the lot of it

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shimmyjimmyfor2

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by Ja37384

I worked well ahead of deealines . I started my course in December of last year and finished on Monday . Paid for fast tracking for the lot of it

I started around the same time and in the same predicament seems like all online Access Courses have this problem i hope we both get all our work marked in time for september

Reply 18

Ja37384

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by shimmyjimmyfor2

I started around the same time and in the same predicament seems like all online Access Courses have this problem i hope we both get all our work marked in time for september