Student Progress and Assessment Office

Student assessment

The Student Assessment team are responsible for assessment operations and data for all taught undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Assessment Operations include:

  • Production of exam papers
  • Production of examination timetables
  • Assisting schools with managing their submission days
  • Running examinations (organising space, desks, invigilators, distribution of scripts to examiners)
  • Providing suitable assessment arrangements for students with a disability, specific learning difficulty or who need to participate in religious festivals or holy days


Management of Assessment data involves:

  • Ensuring assessments recorded in curriculum are correct for display on Sussex Direct under the Assessment Deadlines Timetable
  • Creation of module records for assessments for each academic year
  • Creation of exam mark records to hold marks for each student and checking that those records are complete and correct
  • Ensuring that all marks have been input in time for use by examination boards
  • Assisting the schools with exam board queries
  • Timely input of final degree classifications for publication via Sussex Direct