Web portal - WJEC

WJEC, previously the Welsh Joint Education Committee, was established in 1948 as a consortium of local education authorities in Wales. It is now a registered charity, and a company limited by guarantee, owned by the 22 local authorities in Wales. A subsidiary company, WJEC CBAC Services Limited, provides specialist printing and publication services.

WJEC provides examinations, assessment, professional development, educational resources, and support for adults who wish to learn Welsh and access to youth arts activities. It also provides examinations throughout England as well as Wales.

Brief

WJEC needed a web "portal" as a front-end to communicate with their exam centres no matter their physical location. As part of this, they had a requirement for the exchange of examination entry data, and respective results, between themselves and the centres, in a secure environment.

Outcome

The system provides a one-to-many distribution system with a time-lock function to prevent early, unauthorised release of one of these files to its recipients. The system was designed to display the "state-of-play" of their entries for that exam in a user friendly webpage format. This information is collated from a database onto the local SQL Server, which is updated every 24 hours from their central AS/400 to reflect record changes.