Students sometimes change the courses they want to study during their senior secondary years. This flexibility is important so students remain engaged in their studies and are able to achieve course learning outcomes. This page outlines a school’s responsibilities to manage and report on the students in TASC-accredited courses and the movement between courses.

Schools’ responsibilities

Record keeping

  • Schools are required to keep accurate student course enrolment details in TRACS throughout the year. 
  • Any course movements should be made promptly. This helps with preparing for external assessments, including development of the exam timetable to avoid exam clashes, printing of exam papers, and appointing the correct number of exam supervisors and markers, as well as being able to provide all students with accurate results statements at the end of the year.

School policies

  • As part of a school’s response to the TASC Standards for Providers, schools need to have their own policies and procedures on student movement between courses, including how the course content and work requirements of any intended new course enrolment will be completed. 
  • Policies should be shared with students and TASC may request to view school policies and procedures as part of the TASC Quality assurance activities.

Student work expectations

  • Students who change courses need to be exposed to all the course content for that course and brought up to date with learnings they missed. 
  • Work already completed may be able to be re-assessed by mapping the content across the courses and assessing the completed work against the standards in the new course (particularly if the courses are in the same learning area but are at different levels). 

Checking student attainment

  • Schools should ensure that their students understand the impact course changes could have on the certificates a student may be eligible to receive at the end of their studies.
  • Use the TCE Course planner and the TCE Achievement Checklist on TASC’s website to help students check if they are on track for the TCE standards and credit points needed for their future pathway. 
  • Course changes can also impact eligibility for an ATAR. See University entrance for ATAR eligibility information.

Enrolment closure information

  • Schools cannot make course movement changes (that is, move students into a new/another TASC course, or withdraw students from a course) after set dates in the second half of the school year. For this year’s dates, see ‘Course movement closing dates’ below.
  • After the course movement closing dates, any subsequent change of enrolment into a TASC-accredited course requires TASC approval. Evidence of the management of the course change may be required by TASC.

Support available

The schools’ TASC Liaison Officer (TLO) can assist the school in understanding the requirements. TLOs can contact TASC for help and if they have any questions, by contacting TLO@tasc.tas.gov.au

The course movement closure dates for TASC-accredited courses in 2026:

  • Schools cannot move students into or between any Level 3 or Level 4 course after the first week of Term 3 (that is, no additions after COB on Friday 31 July)
  • Schools cannot make student course movements for any course of any level on or after 1 September (that is, no changes at all after COB on Monday 31 August)

Please note that from 1 September, schools cannot make any course movements in TRACS.  The DECYP systems feeding into TRACS (i.e. EduPoint and Web Preferences) will not update any change in any student course enrolment information within TRACS. NB: this is not a new process compared to previous years.

For exceptional course movements following these closure dates, schools can make a request to TASC. See ‘Course change process (after closure date)’ below to see the evidence that will be required.

Following the closure date, schools may make a request to TASC for a change in student course enrolment (for example: movement into a lower-level course; enrolment of a student from another school)

Steps to follow:

  • Request a change in enrolment via TRACS using a ‘Quality Assurance Related’ task-type [under ‘Provider’ –> ‘Correspondence’]
  • Attach the required evidence listed below:
    • evidence of individual student participation (attendance records and assessment records) in the previous and ‘new’ course (samples of completed assessment tasks may be requested by TASC)
    • school policy and procedure documents for course changes, and how these were applied in the specific case
    • evidence of management of the course change (eg: prior tasks re-assessed for ‘new’ course’s criteria/standards; work requirements needing to be undertaken; mapping of previous and ‘new’ course content, and plan to address identified gaps in content)
    • evidence of delivery and assessment in the ‘new’ course to date (eg: scope and sequence; assessment records; attendance records).

If you have any queries, please contact the Quality Assurance team via TRACS or send an email to QualityAssurance@tasc.tas.gov.au.