Online Enrichment Diary

Student
Enrichment Diary User Guide
2010 Update V1

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Enrichment Diary • Student User Guide

The AQA Enrichment Diary enables students to electronically record the

evidence required for the Enrichment element of the AQA Bacc. Teachers
can monitor and send comments and messages to their students online as
they record their Enrichment evidence.

An Enrichment Supervisor is a teacher who supervises students’ use of the

Enrichment Diary. The Enrichment Supervisor has access to the diaries of
every student they supervise. They monitor the progress of their students and
offer them guidance as they complete their diaries. You must be linked to one
Enrichment Supervisor who will guide your use of the Enrichment Diary.

An Enrichment Coordinator is a teacher who creates and updates the online

Enrichment Scheme for their centre and monitors all centre activity on the
Enrichment Diary. The Enrichment Coordinator is the only member of staff
who can submit students’ completed Enrichment Diaries to AQA.

An Enrichment Coordinator may also be an Enrichment Supervisor.

Contents

3 Registration and log-in

4 Checking and updating your profile

5 Linking to your Enrichment Supervisor

6 Adding a new post

7 Uploading and managing assets

8 Activities / Sticky notes / Comments

9 Messages / Progress monitor

10 Timeline / My Newsfeed

11 Joining groups / Reflections

12 Verification checklist

13 Submitting your Diary


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 Registration and Log-in
Enrichment Diary • Student User Guide

Registration
Before you can start using the Enrichment Diary you will need to register yourself.
To do this, go to:

http://baccdiary.aqa.org.uk/user/registerStudent

This screen will appear:

Enter a Username. This

should be a name that
your teacher will be familiar
with.

Enter an e-mail address.

This should be one that you
check regularly.

Enter a unique
password you will be
able to remember.

Enter the name of your

school and/or centre
number.

After you have clicked on Create Account you will only be able to use the site in
‘Demo’ mode, until your registration has been accepted. If this does not happen
within 24 hours, you should contact your Enrichment Supervisor.

Log-in
Once you have successfully registered you will be able to log-in to your diary.

Go to: http://baccdiary.aqa.org.uk/

Here you should enter your e-mail address and password.

If you already have an OpenID account you can use it instead to log in. OpenID is
open and decentralized identity system.

To find out more about Open ID go to: http://openid.net/what/


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 Checking and updating your profile
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Getting started
When you have logged-in, you will see a screen similar to the one below. As you
make your diary entries, they will appear here.
The Menu bars
at the top and
on the left-hand
side appear on
every screen.
These are used to
navigate around the
Enrichment Diary.

Your profile
One of the first things you will probably want to do is to check and update
your profile. Click on Profile in the top menu bar.

Check that the Award Year information is correct. If it is

not, please contact your Enrichment Supervisor.

In the Personal section you can add your photo which you
can change at a later date. To amend any other details that
are not correct, click on change.

To begin with, leave the Progress monitoring, Show calendar, and Mirror
Messages settings as they are. If you want to be able to make journal entries
using MMS and SMS messages sent from your mobile phone, enter its
number where shown. Your number will not be visible to anyone else.

If you have made any changes, click on Save Changes.


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 Linking to your Enrichment Supervisor
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Linking to your Enrichment Supervisor

It is important that you link to your Enrichment Supervisor at the earliest
opportunity.

Click on Teachers in the top menu bar to see a list of the teachers registered on the
Enrichment Diary.

Click the Add User icon next to the name of your Enrichment Supervisor. A
message will then be sent to your Enrichment Supervisor so that when they
next login, they can agree to your request to confirm the link. Alternatively your
Enrichment Supervisor might have already sent you a request to link to them as one
of their students. In this case, simply click on the tick icon.

If you have received

a request, click here If you have not received a request, click on the
to confirm the link icon next to the teacher who is your Enrichment
to your Enrichment Supervisor.
Supervisor.
This will link you to them. A gold star icon will
appear beside their name to indicate that they are
your Enrichment Supervisor.


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 Adding a new post
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Adding a new post

In the top menu bar, click on Journal to return to the main screen. To add a new
post, click on Add new post in the top right. The screen shown below will appear.

Remember to only write about one activity in each post. Start a new post to write
about a different activity you may also have worked on since you last up-dated your
journal.

Give your post a title

and date. The title
might be the name of
the activity. The date
should reflect when
the activity took place,
when it started or when
it ended.

Add in the amount of

time you have spent
on the activity you are
about to describe.

Type here to enter text.

If a paper clip icon

appears here, your
teacher has uploaded
an asset to the activity.
This might be a
schedule or another
relevant document, such
as a photograph. Click
the paper clip icon to
view the asset

Click on the name

of the activity to
Identify which
activity your post
describes.

Click here to upload

an Asset from
elsewhere on your
computer.

Click on Browse
Assets to add files
from ones you have
Where appropriate, remember to add files created in other programs, known as
already uploaded ‘assets’, to help provide evidence of the work you have undertaken. There is more
(see page 7). about how to do this on the next page.

When completed, click on Save at the bottom of the screen to ‘publish’ your post to
your journal. You can edit the post at any time.

Your posts can only be seen by your Enrichment Supervisor and Enrichment
Coordinator, and AQA.

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 Uploading and managing assets
Enrichment Diary • Student User Guide

Uploading assets
Assets might be photographs, video clips or audio clips. You can also upload
scanned documents and documents already saved to your computer. You can
upload an asset directly to a post or you can upload an asset at any time, save it to
your diary and then attach the asset to a post later. To upload an asset either attach
it to a post as shown on page 6 or click the assets tab in the top toolbar. You can
upload the asset from the hard drive of your computer by clicking Upload a New
File at the end of a post or Upload new assets in your assets tab. In both cases, this
screen will appear:
Click here to locate
a file you want to If you click on Switch Uploader a new small
select and upload.
browser window will appear. Here you can
Click again to add simply drag
more files. files from your
desktop or an
The names of the open folder
files you select will and drop them
appear here.
into the upload
Click on Upload after you have checked the window.
selected files are the ones you want.

Managing assets
Usually you will add assets (files on your hard-drive) as and when you need them
while composing a post. However you can also upload them in advance and
monitor and manage a complete list of all the assets you have uploaded.

Click here to upload new assets, as shown

above.

Here you can select all your assets, or

deselect any that have been selected.

Click here to delete all selected assets.

To quickly find particular assets, sort them by

their name, date or time, and filter the results
if required.

Click on an asset to open it in a new browser

window.

Click on the XX icon in the right-hand column

to add a short description to the asset, or
upload a new file in its place.

It is unlikely that you will run out of your

allocated 180Mb space on the server. If you
do, first check the number and size of video
files you have uploaded.

When you click on Browse assets in a post, you will be able to see all of the assets
you have uploaded to your assets page. You will also be able to select and attach
any of those assets to your post.

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 Activities / Sticky notes / Comments
Enrichment Diary • Student User Guide

Activities
To view the list of activities that you can choose from to complete your Enrichment
Diary, click on Activities in the top menu bar.

Click here to allocate an amount

of time you intend to spend on
activities in each core area. If
you create these time
allocations, your progress
will be monitored against
them.

Remember you must

include activities in at least
two of the three core areas,
and complete a minimum
of 30 hours in each chosen area.

Activities with a paper clip next

to them have additional support
materials that have been uploaded
by your teachers. These might be
timetables or other useful material
that you will want to read. Click the If the activity that you are doing does not appear on this list, please
activity name to download the files. send a message to your Enrichment Supervisor asking for it to be
added to the enrichment scheme.

Sticky notes
When you view one of your posts, you might discover
that you have been sent a ‘sticky note’ by your
Enrichment Supervisor. The sticky note will hover over
your post when you open it. Your Enrichment Supervisor
will use sticky notes and comments to offer you guidance
about how to complete your Enrichment Diary.

Comments
Your Enrichment Supervisor might leave comments on your diary posts. You will
be alerted in your newsfeed when a comment is made. You might also receive
the comment as an email. To view a comment, navigate to the post on which the
comment has been made.
Click here Click here to add your
Your Enrichment Supervisor will to read the own comment
only be able to see your comment
if they navigate to this post.
If you prefer to contact your
Enrichment Supervisor directly,
please send them a message.


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 Messages / Progress monitor
Enrichment Diary • Student User Guide

Messages
As you use the diary you will be regularly sent messages by your Enrichment
Supervisor, and sometimes by the Enrichment Coordinator. To access your
messages, click on Messages in the top tool bar.

Alternatively, when you log-in, look in the red bar just under the top tool bar to see
if there is an alert that you have unread messages. Click on the alert to be taken to
the same screen.
Click on the name of the
message to read it.

In the message screen that

appears, click on reply to
compose and send a reply
to the sender.

Progress monitor
In the left-hand column there is a display showing the number
of hours you have completed in terms of the overall totals you
need to achieve.

This information can be viewed in greater detail by clicking on

more, which will show a screen similar to the one below.

This shows a
detailed breakdown
of how long you
have spent on each
activity within each
core area.

Click on the name of

a post to go directly
to it.


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 Timeline / My Newsfeed
Enrichment Diary • Student User Guide

Timeline
Click on Timeline
to open a screen
similar to this one:

Change the filter to

see your activities
in each core area.

Click on the title of

a post to bring up
a pop-up window
of its content. From
here you can go to
the full post if you
wish.

Click in the timeline of your activities, hold your mouse button down and scroll
left and right to analyse when you have been making significant progress with your
various activities.

My Newsfeed
Clicking on My Newsfeed in the left-
hand column will take you to this
screen. Here you can see a complete
list of all the activity that has taken
place in your diary during the
previous 30 days.

Apply one of these

filters to show different
categories of activity.

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 Joining groups / Reflections
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Joining groups
Groups might be created by teachers registered on the Enrichment Diary and are
used by them to send messages to the members of the group. This is an optional
function so you might not see any groups in the diary. If you are a member of the
choir, for example, you might join the choir group if tghere is one. To do this click
on Groups in the top toolbar. This will take you to a screen similar to this:

You can join each of the groups that are relevant to you. Do this by clicking on
the green button on the right. The owner of the group will then approve your
membership.

Reflections
The reflections page provides an opportunity to summarise your activities in the
three core areas and reflect on what you have gained from them. Your reflections
are not just a list of what you have done, but a chance to look back and think about
the impact they have had on you, your life and your ambitions.

The obvious time to do this is at the end of your course, but you might also wish
to make entries at other times, such as the end of each term, or prior to making
applications to universities or other institutions.

Your Enrichment
Supervisor will
advise you when
to complete your
Reflections page.

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 Verification
Enrichment Diary • Student User Guide

Verification
When you submit your Enrichment Diary, you will be asked to confirm that you
have met the minimum criteria. If you submit an Enrichment Diary that does not
meet the minimum criteria, you might fail the Enrichment element of the AQA
Bacc. Please remember that you must pass the Enrichment element to be awarded
the AQA Bacc overall.

When you click the submit diary button the verification check list will appear.
Please confirm that you have met the minimum criteria by ticking the boxes and
then clicking Yes to submit your Enrichment Diary to your Enrichment Supervisor.
If you have not met the minimum criteria, please change your Enrichment Diary
before submitting it. Please speak to your Enrichment Supervisor if you are unsure
about the appropriateness of anything you have recorded.

When you are sure you are

ready to submit your finished
Enrichment Diary, click here.

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 Submitting your Diary
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Submitting completed Enrichment Diaries

When you decide that your Enrichment Diary is complete, you can submit it to your
Enrichment Supervisor. This can only be done if you have achieved the required
hours of enrichment activity. If you have not done so, you will receive an automatic
error message informing you that your Enrichment Diary is incomplete.

Be aware that after submission, your Enrichment Diary becomes automatically

locked, meaning you cannot make any changes to it.

If after your Enrichment Supervisor has reviewed your submitted Enrichment Diary
and identifies that it needs to be changed in some way, they can ‘Re-activate’ it so
you can make any necessary changes.

Click here to submit your

completed diary

First log-in
When you logged-in for the first time you will have seen the following page. When
you have read this User Guide, click on the confirmation button to start your diary.

If you have any further queries about how to use the online
Enrichment Diary, please consult your Enrichment Supervisor.
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