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Administering diploma exams

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2024-25 Diploma exam update

The weighting of diploma exams returned to 30% on September 1, 2023. Students who wrote a diploma exam or completed a diploma exam course in 2022-23 may still be eligible for the 20% weighting that applied at that time. For more information about these special circumstances, see the Diploma Exam Weighting Overview fact sheet.

Digital tests and exams

Alberta Education is transitioning to a new digital platform for provincial student assessments, meaning that eventually students will write diploma exams and provincial achievement tests in a digital environment rather than pencil and paper.

The transition to digital assessments will be done in an incremental and measured way to allow school authorities, administrators, teachers, and students time to learn and interact with the new platform. 

Information for teachers, parents and students

For the 2024-25 school year, Alberta Education is in touch with school authorities directly to offer them opportunities to participate in a variety of optional implementation activities. Teachers, parents and students can navigate the assessment platform and access practice exams and resources. Questions and feedback may be directed to online.assessment@gov.ab.ca. If you have questions about whether your school will be administering digital assessments this school year, please contact your school principal.

Information for school principals

Principals can contact the ae.helpdesk@gov.ab.ca to request access for their school so they can set up their account and add other administrators and teachers. Once teachers have been added and set up their account, they can administer practice written response assignments. Instructions on using the system can be found in this user guide.

Provincial results and participation

Diploma exam results are available as PDFs for individual schools and for each school authority in Alberta. Use the school authority database to find 5-year reports for each writing period, as well as participation rates for each school and authority. You can use the search tool, or select a category (public, separate, etc.) and then select an authority and school.

Provincial standards

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For Diploma Exam format, content, confirming standards, marking and results reporting, contact:

Email: diploma.exams@gov.ab.ca

For Diploma Exam security, rules, schedule and policy issues, contact:

Email: exam.admin@gov.ab.ca