An Overview of Access Arrangements (EAAO)

Have you ever wished that subject tutors, teachers and senior managers knew enough about Access Arrangements to fully support the Access Arrangements process in your centre?

In this 40 minute course Caroline Read gives a brief overview of Access Arrangements, including outlining the rationale for Access Arrangements, showing the arrangements which are available to students and outlining the responsibility to implement arrangements in lessons. The course is suitable for tutors, subject teachers, managers and support assistants - it would be ideal for a staff training day.

This course offers an overview of:

• The rationale for Access Arrangements
• The arrangements that are available
• The evidence required before an arrangement can be granted
• How subject teachers and support staff can work with the SENCo/Head of Learning Support to implement arrangements

The course tutor is Caroline Read.

Caroline Read

Caroline is one of the founders of Communicate-ed. She is a specialist teacher who has practical experience in all areas of the access arrangements process and trains for local authorities, universities and SEND services. Caroline has contributed to a range of publications, including academic journals. She has worked with a number of publishers to develop tests, and has been involved in various DfE and Ofqual training and policy projects. She was a member of the working party that established the Access Arrangements Online system. In 2024 Caroline was presented with a University of Roehampton Chancellor’s Alumni Award, for Innovation and Inspiration in her industry.

This online course is designed to be administered in one of two ways.

1. Ideally a group of subject teachers, support assistants and leaders will be able to access the course together at the same time. For this we recommend that you use a digital projector and large screen with speakers to amplify the presentation.
2. If one or two staff members are unable to make the group session, the centre administrator (i.e. the person who was sent the login details, password etc) can arrange for individual staff members to access the course individually using the login details provided. Please note that due to the login requirements it is only possible for one person to be accessing the course at one time using this method.

You will have 10 days from the start date you choose to login and view the course – you can run the course as many times as you want within this 10 day period, and there is not a maximum number of delegates for the total course fee of £25. All delegates must all be from your school or college, you can’t use the course to train staff from other centres. We do not provide individual certificates for delegates attending this course, but do provide a certificate confirming that the centre accessed the training.

When you select to book an online course, you will be able to select a start date.

From this date, you will have ten consecutive days access to your chosen course (unless the course specifies otherwise).

Once you have filled in your details and submitted the booking, you should receive a couple of emails within a few minutes. One of these will confirm you order and payment. The other will be a confirmation email for the course and include login details to access your course.

If you select today as your start date, the login details should work from the time you receive the email. If you have chosen a start date in the future, the login details will only work from that date.

You will be able to access any video presentations and course notes for ten days. Assessments can only be taken once. Please note that if you have watched all the video presentations through once and then log back into the website to go over the material again, you will get the following message: ‘You are not registered for any courses at this time’. To get back into the course you need to:

• Click on the ‘Completed Courses’ tab (next to Current Courses)
• Click on the course title or arrow
• Click whichever element you would like to revisit

If you are already registered for an online course with us, please click here to log into your course.