The Assessment and Qualification Alliance (AQA) has just won a prestigious NAACE ICT Impact Award within the Post Compulsory Education Award for their developmental work on AQA Baccalaureate Enrichment Diary.

The award was presented to the AQA Baccalaureate Team by Lord Knight at a Gala Dinner at the end of the first day of the NAACE Annual Conference in Reading.

The AQA Baccalaureate Enrichment Diary was developed for AQA by TAG Developments and is based on TAG's multi-award winning MAPS e-Assessment platform. The Enrichment Diary is provided to all schools and colleges delivering the AQA Baccalaureate to provide students with a means to capture and reflect on their extra-curricular activities relating to this qualification. The Enrichment Diary has proved to be highly popular with students, providing them with familiar social media style tools that enable them to upload digital evidence of learning from a computer or directly from a mobile phone via SMS/MMS, to a blog where they can reflect on their progress and achievements. The diary has also proved very popular with teachers, enabling them to gain a far greater insight into the achievements of their students and also reducing the time and effort in maintaining paper-based portfolios.

To learn more about the AQA Baccalaureate and the Enrichment Diary please visit http://web.aqa.org.uk/qual/bacc.php

To watch a video case study of one schools reaction to the Enrichment Diary visit: http://web.aqa.org.uk/qual/bacc/bacc-enrichment-video.php

To see an examples of student enrichment diaries please visit: http://store.aqa.org.uk/qual/pdf/AQA_BACC_EXAMPLES_FROM_STUDENT_ENRICHME...

To find out more about TAG's multi-award winning assessment platform MAPS, on which the AQA Baccalaureate Enrichment Diary is based, please visit: http://maps-ict.com/ or watch the short product overview video at: http://www.maps-ict.com/maps3.mov

To find out more about the NAACE Impact Awards winners please visit: http://www.naace.co.uk/conference2011/Impactawardwinners

Notes to editors:
About TAG Developments – TAG Developments, the award-winning software development division of BLi Education, is a highly regarded value-added team of educational specialists, web developers and project managers who have specialised in creating market leading web-based e-learning, e-portfolio, e-assessment solutions and innovative educational community websites for the UK education market since 1997. TAG Developments solutions not only facilitate e-assessment within schools, but they also provide accreditation and awarding bodies with mechanisms that enable schools to electronically submit digital coursework that relates to general and vocational qualifications - easing coursework management, providing more transparency and accuracy in assessment and moderation, and saving teachers time.