Additional Guidance Notes (on evidence)

For assessors and centre staff who manage work templates.

Additional guidance notes let you give the candidate short, focused instructions for each piece of evidence. This means you can keep your assessment plans brief.

What the candidate sees

• The guidance appears on the evidence pages, such as when they view or prepare the evidence, so they can refer to it at any time. It can include hashtags for resources, evidence and plans.
• A notes icon appears on every evidence line that has guidance. Hovering over it shows a plain-text preview of up to 500 characters. Clicking it shows the full guidance, with formatting.

Adding guidance to a work template

1. Open the work template and click Setup.
2. Go to the evidence, choose an item and click Edit Evidence Properties.
3. Click Additional Guidance Notes.
4. Enter the guidance for this piece of evidence. You can copy it from Show Plan, or shorten the plan information.
5. Click Save.

The guidance appears automatically for every candidate who has received the plan.

Adding guidance in one candidate's portfolio

You can add guidance in two places:

• On existing evidence: open the evidence and, on the viewing evidence page, click Edit Evidence Properties. Then click Additional Guidance Notes, enter the guidance and click Save.
• When adding an evidence type: enter the guidance in Additional Guidance Notes as you add it. See Add Evidence Types / Requirements.

Note: Guidance added or changed in one candidate's portfolio only applies to that candidate. To update it for everyone, add it to the work template instead.

Related articles

• Work Templates
• Hashtags and Hyperlinks
• Planning
• Add Evidence Types / Requirements