Distance Learning
Support & Assessment

Your Tutor

When you enrol, you will be allocated a course tutor who will mark your course assignments and will be available to give help and advice on the course. All our tutors are specialists in Scottish History and we carefully monitor their marking to ensure consistency.

Study Days

We offer two optional Saturday study days for each course, held in Dundee in March/April and June. They provide a chance to hear leading specialists in Scottish History and to meet tutors and other students in tutorials.

Assessment

The assessment programme is designed to ensure that you achieve the learning outcomes outlined above.

All assessment is by Tutor Marked Assignments (TMAs). Documentary analysis of original historical documents, transcribed and provided with commentary in the Documents volumes of the published series that accompany the course, are used in many of these TMAs. Students must submit six TMAs.

Assessment for each course is:

TMAs 1-5 count for 60% of the overall mark;
TMA 6 counts for 40% of the overall mark.

A substitution rule will apply for one of TMAs 1-5, ie, the lowest mark will be dropped and the marks for the remaining four TMAs averaged to produce an overall mark for this part of the assessment.