Completing CAS Experiences

Interviews are over for now.  They went well with most people on track to completing their CAS in March or April next year.  The final interviews and reflections will take place in February and March of next year.  Don't let the ball drop now - make sure you take 10 - 15 minutes to update  your CAS portfolio each week.

Completing CAS experiences

Some people are finding it hard to remember how to complete a CAS experience.  Follow these steps:

1.  Make sure you have sufficient evidence to show that you have participated in the experience for the period of time you have selected
2. Check your dates.  Are they accurate? It is easy to make a mistake with the year!
3. Make sure you have adequate reflection.  If you have participated in something for over a year, 1 short reflection is not likely to be considered adequate.  
4. Do the CAS questions - see information below about filling in CAS questions
5. Request a supervisor review.  Make sure your supervisor's details are correct otherwise this will not go to them.  If you do not have a supervisor it comes to me - so make sure that if you are in a sporting team or something like that, you add a supervisor as I will not write reviews for experiences where there is another person who can do it.

Once the supervisor review is done, you will receive a green tick and the experience will lock - you will no longer be able to make changes to it.

Completing CAS questions

You can find them just below your name on the summary sheet.

The CAS questions are a way of checking that you have reached/addressed the learning outcome(s) that you chose for each experience.  The best way to answer the first question is to copy and paste the learning outcomes in and write a comment about each one in turn.  It is not enough to say that you addressed them without specifying how.  See below.

CAS questions: 

Copy and paste the learning outcomes.

You can then address each one by writing about how you achieved it.

Finish off by reflecting on how you could have done the experience differently - what have you learnt? 

What not to do!

This example just names the outcomes but does not say how they were achieved.