EPQ Assignment Paperwork Upload Area

• EPQ Assignment Paperwork Upload Area

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    HOW TO UPLOAD FILES TO GOL

    A document explaining how to upload files to GOL for the asssignments.

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    Milestone 1 part 1 - IPPF Assignment

    TARGET DATES TO UPLOAD BY:

    ASPIRE EPQ : 17TH MARCH 2023
    

    STANDARD EPQ: 26TH JUNE 2023

    This is part one of the first assessment of your progress. 

    It is where you should upload your IPPF with your initial working title.

    Ensure your name and candidate number is in your filename and that your documents are either a Word compatible document or a PDF.  Pages documents are not acceptable.

    
    

    
    

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    Milestone 1 part 2 - Project Calendars Assignment

    TARGET DATES TO UPLOAD BY:

    ASPIRE EPQ : 17TH MARCH 2023
    

    STANDARD EPQ: 26TH JUNE 2023

    This is part two of the first assessment of your progress. 

    This is where you should upload your Project Calendars.

    There is a basic example version of each type of Project Calendar here - don't just copy them please.  This is to show that you have thought about the time spans for each of the tasks that go into doing an EPQ and if they overlap in any way.
    

    Ensure your name and candidate number is in your filename and that your documents are either a Word compatible document or a PDF.  Pages documents are not acceptable.

    
    

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    Milestone 2 part 1 - Introductory Booklet Assignment

    TARGET DATES TO UPLOAD BY:

    ACCELERATED EPQ (ASPIRE): 31ST MARCH 2023

    STANDARD EPQ: 7TH JULY 2023

    This is the second assessment of your progress.

    This is where you should upload your completed Introductory Booklet.

    Ensure your name and candidate number is in your filename and that your documents are either a Word compatible document or a PDF.  Pages documents are not acceptable.

    
    

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    Milestone 2 part 2 PPFv1, PALv1 Assignment

    TARGET DATES TO UPLOAD BY:

    ACCELERATED EPQ (ASPIRE): 31ST MARCH 2023

    STANDARD EPQ: 7TH JULY 2023

    This is part two of the second assessment of your progress.

    This is where you should upload the first full version of your PPF (v1) and the current version of your PAL (v1)

    Ensure your name is in your filenames and that your documents are either a Word compatible document or a PDF.  Pages documents are not acceptable.

    
    
    

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    Milestone 3 - Writing plan, Research v1 Assignment

    TARGET DATES TO UPLOAD BY:

    ASPIRE EPQ : 5TH JULY 2023
    

    STANDARD EPQ: 10TH SEPTEMBER 2023

    This is third assessment of your progress. 

    It is where you should upload your plan and research so far

    Ensure your name and candidate number is in your filename and that your documents are either a Word compatible document or a PDF.  Pages documents are not acceptable.

    
    

    
    

    Dissertation

    • Your plan for your dissertation - major sections/subheadings
    • Your Research Table so far

    (The PPF should ONLY have the first few items you looked at for research into the viability of your title and no more, these should also appear in your Research Table).
    The entries should show what you have looked at and each of them should be evaluated.  It should contain ALL the sources you have look at and then selected from.  TOP TIP - fill it in as you go along.  You are aiming for a minimum of 20 sources actually used for a dissertation (good dissertations may well have significantly more than this).  I would expect more than the number you use to appear in your Research Table as you should show that you have selected what you use from what you found.  You are not expected to have necessarily completed all of your research.
    
    Artefact

    Your plan for the background essay you will write -  major sections/subheadings
    

    • A Research Record Table, for the sources you will use to write the essay.

    (The PPF should ONLY have the first few items you looked at for research into the viability of your title and no more, these should also appear in your Research Table).  For an artefact the number of entries may well be quite small.  The entries should show what you have looked at and each of them should be evaluated.  It should contain ALL the sources you have look at and then selected from.  TOP TIP - fill it in as you go along.
    
    The practical research done so far - as appropriate for the artefact you are creating - for example
    
    

    • Pictures of sketches. Put the pictures into a document and save that as a PDF before uploading.
    • Storyboards
    • Initial script ideas
    • Running orders for films/documentaries
    • Screenshots.  Put them into a document and save that as a PDF before uploading.
    • Pictures from a sketchbook
    • Preliminary MP3 or MP4 excerpts
    • First ideas for a magazine

    and so on.
    
    

    Investigation

    • Your plan for your investigation including the section where you write about the background to your research - major sections/subheadings
    • Your Research Table so far

    (The PPF should ONLY have the first few items you looked at for research into the viability of your title and no more, these should also appear in your Research Table).
    The entries should show what you have looked at and each of them should be evaluated.  It should contain ALL the sources you have look at and then selected from.  TOP TIP - fill it in as you go along.  You are aiming for a minimum of 20 sources actually used for an investigation.  I would expect more than the number you use to appear in your Research Table as you should show that you have selected what you use from what you found.  You are not expected to have necessarily completed all of your research.

     

    • Any part of the practical research you have been working on so far e.g. creating a questionnaire

     

    
    

    
    

    
    
    

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    Milestone 4 - PPF v2, PAL v2, time plan update Assignment

    TARGET DATES TO UPLOAD BY:
    

    ASPIRE/STANDARD EPQ: 3RD OCTOBER 2023
    

    This is the fourth assessment of your progress.

    
    

    Ensure your name is in your filenames and that your documents are either a Word compatible document or a PDF.  Pages documents are not acceptable.

    This is where you should upload:.

    1) Updated version of your PPF (PPF v2)

    Changes should be visible either by striking through what is replaced or putting new material in a different colour.  

    2) Updated version of your time plan
    
    It is unlikely that your first time plan worked out perfectly.  You should have modified it and produced an updated version. New timelines can be a new section 4 of the PPF or amendments to it in a different colour or new versions of the Project Calendars.  Revised timelines can start from the point at which you changed them.

    3) Updated version of your log (PAL v2)

    This should be the version of your log up to this point.

    
    
    

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    Milestone 5 - Research v2, "2000 words" Assignment

    TARGET DATES TO UPLOAD BY:

    ASPIRE/STANDARD EPQ: BY 29TH OCTOBER 2023

    This is the fifth assessment of your progress on your EPQ.

    Please upload, as appropriate:

    1)  your updated Research  (v2)

    2)  "2000 words":

    - the 2000 words you wrote for a dissertation or investigation - it does not have to be the introduction

    - the first version of your written research for a Performance or an Artefact

    Ensure your name is in the filenames of the submitted document and that your documents are either a Word compatible document or a PDF.  Pages documents are not acceptable.

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    Milestone 6 - PAL v3, first draft of outcome Assignment

    TARGET DATES TO UPLOAD BY:

    ASPIRE/STANDARD EPQ: BY 19TH DECEMBER 2023

    TAUGHT EPQ; 28TH JANUARY 2024

    This is the sixth progress assessment for Aspire/Standard EPQ and the first GOL submission for Taught EPQ.

    
    Please upload:

    1)  your log up to this point.

    2)  As appropriate

    our dissertation/investigation first draft

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    PDF of images or document with links to video/audio files showing first version of final piece

    Ensure your name is in the filenames of the submitted document and that your documents are either a Word compatible document or a PDF.  Pages documents are not acceptable.

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    Milestone 7 - Complete set of final EPQ documents Assignment

    LATEST DATES TO UPLOAD BY:

    ASPIRE/STANDARD EPQ: 9TH FEBRUARY 2024
    

    TAUGHT EPQ; 23RD MARCH 2024

    Please upload a complete set of documents showing all the relevant parts you would submit in physical hand-in, as listed below.

    Candidate Record Sheet - signed by you  - print, sign and then save as a PDF

    PPF

    PAL

    Research Record

    Abstract for dissertations and investigations

    Outcome - the dissertation/ the investigation report / the artefact created and supporting development.  If you have created an artefact then it should be a good picture of what you have created, and snaps of the work you did in your sketchbook.  Create a PDF - drop the pictures in sequence into a Word document (or similar) and then save as a PDF.

    Evaluation

    Presentation slides - print 4 or 6 to a page on Word or a PDF writer and submit the Word or PDF file.

    Ensure your name is in your filenames and that your documents are either a Word compatible document or a PDF.  Pages documents are not acceptable.