The Kenya National Examinations Council, Knec, has released new guidelines on how the Candidates’ KCSE Computer Studies Paper 2 (Practical) work should be handled. In a major shift, Schools will now directly upload students’ practical work directly to the Knec portal. This is contained in a new circular released to schools by the Examinations Council.
Each school will now also be required to have at least one standard quality and reliable USB 3.0 flash disk (examples of reliable brands are Kingston, SanDisk, Samsung etc.) with a minimum of 16 GB storage space. This will be used for backing up the candidates’ practical works. In the past, Compact Discs (CDs) were used for the same purpose.
Printing the candidates’ Computer Studies Practical work.
Each candidate shall ensure that their work is saved in a folder named with the candidate’s 11-digit random number.
The supervisor shall create a folder on the flash disk provided and name the folder with the school’s 8-digit random number.
The supervisor shall transfer each candidate’s folder onto the school’s folder created on the flash disk.
Each candidate’s work shall be printed from their folder as saved on the flash disk.
Candidates shall present their printed work, and the work saved on the flash disk.
Uploading the candidates’ Computer Studies Practical work.
After all the candidates have printed their work, the supervisor shall compress/zip the school folder containing all the candidates’ work.
The Centre Manager shall provide the computer with Internet connectivity and login to the KNEC marks upload portal, i.e. www.knec-portal.ac.ke/project using the school’s credentials.
The supervisor shall insert the USB flash disk into one of the USB ports on the computer and click the Upload 451/2 button.
The supervisor shall locate the zipped folder on the flash disk and when the folder is successfully identified the supervisor shall click Ok to upload and wait for the system confirmation message File uploaded successfully.
Packing of the printed Computer Studies Practical work and the flash disk.
The flash shall be placed in the unmarked envelope and packed together with the candidates’ printed work in the return envelope.