A quick guide to our new Teaching Diplomas

Mark allocations

We allocate marks for each component of the assessment as shown in the table below. 

Booking a diploma

• You can book at any time. Once you've booked you have 28 days to upload all evidence for your Teaching Diploma through your online account. It’s not possible to submit any evidence after the submission deadline (date/time). If we do not receive all your submissions you will be marked as absent.
• For FRSM, please do not book until you have received feedback on your initial submission. 
• All evidence must include specific information, like candidate ID, word count and instrument etc. More information is available in the Qualification Specification. 
• There is an online declaration to complete when submitting evidence to confirm that this is the candidates' own work. If any work has been translated, there is a an additional form to complete for this. 

Submitted work

• You must show a form of photo identification to the camera at the start of all video recordings.
• Photo ID is not needed for anyone else appearing in your video recording.
• You can find more information about accepted forms of ID in our Candidate Identification Policy.
• Recording guidance can be found here.
• You must obtain permission from the parent/carer before recording and uploading any videos of students who are under 18.
• If a video was recorded at a school, college or other education establishment, you may also need to check that you have met their safeguarding policies and procedures.
• If you are recording in a private environment, you must check that everyone involved is happy to be recorded.
• Please refer to the additional guidance on how to prepare your written or spoken evidence here.
• All evidence must be submitted via your online account. 

Results and certificates

All candidates receive a digital mark form, showing your marks and the examiner's comments. We send you an email when the mark form is ready to download in your account.  

We release results as soon as they're available. This will be at least 14 days after you submitted your evidence. However, depending on the diploma level, results can take up to nine weeks. 

We release results to the person who booked the exam first. Candidates with an account, entered by someone else, can access their results seven days later. 

Candidates who pass their diploma also receive a certificate. If your country now has digital certificates - you can access the certificate through your account as soon as we release your result. We'll also send you a paper certificate automatically. There's no extra charge for this.  

If we haven’t introduced digital certificates for your country - we send a paper certificate when we release your results.  

Depending where you live, it can take between three weeks and three months for paper certificates to arrive. 

We are committed to providing fair access to our assessments for candidates with specific needs by putting in place access arrangements and reasonable adjustments. ABRSM’s Fair Access Guidelines and Specific Needs Policy are available at www.abrsm.org/about-our-exams/specific-needs

Where the guidelines don't cover a candidate’s needs, we consider each case individually.

Supporting teachers

Over the coming year, we'll be adding example materials to the Teacher Hub. We hope this helps in your preparation.