Where candidates from different centres have been taught and assessed together, you need to let us know you need to be treated as a consortium so we can moderate the candidates as one group. 

To do this you need to apply for consortium arrangements via the JCQ Centre Admin Portal. For more information about the CAP, see the JCQ website. 

Each centre within the consortium makes their own entries, uploads work and receives results. However, for these qualifications, the lead centre submits the total marks for all candidates in the cohort and the assessment criteria marks for the sample. The lead centre also uploads the recording documents for the whole cohort.

To tell us about your consortium: 

1. Nominate a consortium co-ordinator to liaise with us on behalf of your consortium. 
2. Complete the centre consortium arrangements form within the JCQ Centre Admin Portal (CAP) – from the Forms section, select Centre consortium arrangements. You can access the JCQ Centre Admin Portal from Interchange.
3. You need to complete a separate form each series by the deadlines.

Once the form has been submitted by the co-ordinator, we will contact each centre individually to confirm their membership of the consortium and ask them to agree to the arrangements. 

The person who confirms the arrangements must be authorised to agree to these, including the data sharing which will be required to support these arrangements – see the full data sharing agreement. 

The consortium co-ordinator must make sure internal standardisation is carried out across the whole consortium. 

The lead centre must submit the visit request stating they are part of a consortium. 

The moderator will contact the lead centre to confirm the visit arrangements. 

The lead centre must submit the total marks for all the candidates within the consortium to the Cambridge OCR Moderation Service at least 10 working days before the confirmed visit.

The consortium sample for each unit will be selected from across all the centres in the consortium. 

We will send the sample notifications to the lead centre. 

The lead centre must let other consortium centres know if any of their candidates form part of the sample. 

At least three working days before the visit: 

• The lead centre must submit the assessment criteria marks for all candidates in the sample to the Cambridge OCR Moderation Service.
• Each centre with a candidate in the sample must upload the candidate work for their candidate(s) in the sample to Submit for Assessment. 
• The lead centre must upload the recording documents for the whole consortium cohort to the component level area of Submit for Assessment. Since Submit for Assessment requires a document to be uploaded to this area, other centres with candidates in the sample must also upload a file – this can be blank document. 

In addition, for face-to-face moderation, the consortium co-ordinator must arrange for all the candidate work to be available when the visit takes place. 

The candidates are treated as a single group for moderation.

After the visit, the centre feedback report will be available to all centres in the consortium within the Cambridge OCR Moderation Service. 

Reviews of moderation must be submitted by the lead centre on behalf of the whole consortium (see the review of moderation page).