MAB Guidance

We have gathered useful guidance and links here that colleagues may find useful when processing student results during a Marking and Assessment Boycott (MAB).

Industrial Action Impact flags must be used in all cases where Industrial Action impact is suspected.

Flagging course results with Industrial Action Impact | Student Systems | Student Administration


IA Impact flags should be applied at course level prior to using the disregarding function. Disregarding can be actioned via APT at student, element or course level.

Disregard Components | Student Systems | Student Administration


An overall mark of either P - Pass or FL - Fail can be added via Process Course Results

Change grades | Student Systems | Student Administration


Where marks are missing due to MAB, apply the IA flag at course level in Assessment Hub. When entering marks, the mark field should be left blank. Do not enter a 0 or any other value.

Where students genuinely did not attempt the assessment (separate from any MAB impact), add a note of "DNA" to this effect in Assessment Hub. When entering marks, the mark field should be populated with Absent (AB).

Prior to calculation, use the export marks functionality in Assessment Hub to get an overview of the full marks in the assessment structure along with course notes, ensuring that any blanks that would be calculated as DNA are legitimate MAB missing marks. All other missing marks should be genuine Absents and display as AB.

Flagging course results with Industrial Action Impact | Student Systems | Student Administration

Entering marks | Student Systems | Student Administration
Grid entry marks | Student Systems | Student Administration

Course Board Reports in BI Suite | Student Systems | Student Administration


Assessment structures should be created accurately initially to reflect all assessment.

Weighting assessments | Student Systems | Student Administration

But where all efforts to do this have been exhausted, apply the IA flag at course level and disregard as appropriate or manually amend marks.

Flagging course results with Industrial Action Impact | Student Systems | Student Administration


Awards should be processed in line with the decision of the Board of Examiners and the agreed variations to the Taught Assessment Regulations. Where the decision of the Board is different from what is automatically calculated, you should edit the decision in Progression and Awards manually and add a note to APT.

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Student Systems will add a flag to student records where an award has been impacted by MAB. This flag, in combination with course level flags will allow Student Systems and Schools to work together and report on students with awards that require review once MAB missing marks become available. In early August, Student Systems will change these awards to 'pending' until another final award is ready. Normally reinstating a student after an award has been published would require the deletion of the existing award, but by using this 'pending' status on the award, Student Systems can manually work around this and ensure that the student's award data is preserved as an audit trail and so that it can be retrieved if necessary. Student Systems are developing reports to facilitate this.


On 3 August 2026, Student Systems will reinstate all students who have received an award and where MAB marks are still missing. The students will then display as Interrupted (awaiting outcome due to industrial action impact) with an expected end date in the future. This will help students maintain access to their accounts to view their marks and to ensure their submissions are still available on Learn for marking.

Student Systems will contact Schools in advance of 3 August to check which students should be affected.

Schools should contact Student Systems by email where they believe a student should be returned from interruption, for example, to undertake reassessment.


A letter will be available to all students who have exited but who still have course marks missing due to MAB. The letter will display their marks along with the courses where marks are yet to be confirmed. The letter will be available in the documents section of Euclid.

Student Systems will manage the availability of this letter based on the award data entered by Schools and IA flags applied at course level.


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