A level History Online Coursework Submission Summer 2026

What’s changing?

You’ll need to submit your centre marks before we release the list of students selected for the moderation sample.

Once you’ve made your entries, submit your centre marks through Edexcel Online. Learner Work Transfer opens on 13 April 2026. If your centre marks are submitted before this date, your moderation sample will be available in Learner Work Transfer from 13 April, and you can upload student work for moderation straight away.

If you submit your centre marks on or after 13 April, your moderation sample will appear in Learner Work Transfer within 6 hours.

What you need to do

The deadline for submitting the moderation sample remains 15 May.

Please submit your marks as soon as you’re able to rather than waiting until the deadline, allowing enough time for you to upload your moderation sample.

What's changing?

From June 2026, we’ll be asking you to submit a slightly larger sample size for moderation in qualifications with coursework such as A level History.

This change is designed to make moderation smoother and reduce the need for additional sample requests later in the year.

Why are we making this change?

We’re making this change because, from time to time, moderators need to request additional samples to complete their moderation. When these requests come later in the year, we know it can be challenging for you to manage alongside the demands of a busy series.

By asking for a slightly larger sample upfront, we aim to make the process smoother and reduce the likelihood of additional requests later on. This should help us complete moderation more efficiently, and give you and your students greater clarity and confidence in the outcomes. This process will not affect the way in which moderators currently review the sample, and they will only look at additional samples of work where needed.

You may need to amend your Edexcel Online access to allow you to submit coursework marks online. To do this your Exams Officer will need to go into your Edexcel Online account and under ‘profiles’ tick the box next to ‘Coursework and Portfolio’. If they also tick the ‘Results’ box you will be able to view your E9 moderator report on results day.

After submitting marks online you should print out a copy of the marks for your own records.

Remember, centre marks must be accurate.

Please check your marks carefully before submitting them, as your sample is generated from these. If you need to correct any marks afterwards, please use the new mark change form, which helps us process updates quickly and accurately:

To submit coursework marks on Edexcel Online and coursework samples using the Learning Work Transfer portal you need a valid Edexcel Online account linked to your centre. If you need to be set up with an Edexcel Online account you must speak to your Exams Officer – they are the only person who can set up your account.

You can log in to Edexcel Online to check your account details via this link:

If you've forgotten your Edexcel Online password you can generate a new one. Your username is usually your email address.

You are now required to authenticate when logging into Edexcel Online and other services using the Pearson Authenticator App, which is available to download from the App Store or Google Play Store.

You will not be able to access the LWT portal until it opens on 13 April 2026.

You will not be able to see your requested A level History sample on the LWT portal until you have submitted your centre marks via Edexcel Online.

When you log in to the LWT portal you will see a choice of Standards Verification (BTEC) and Examination/Moderation (GCSE and A levels). A level History coursework is internally assessed so you need to select 'Examination/Moderation' then ‘Moderation’.

If you are prompted to select an exam series you should select 'June 2026' for A level History.

If you are unable to use the LWT portal once logged in to Edexcel Online please make sure that a) your Edexcel Online account is linked to your centre and b) you have ‘basic access’ selected in your Edexcel Online profile – your exams officer can help you with this.

If you are unable to see the LWT portal in the left-hand menu when logged in to Edexcel Online please make sure you don't have a qualification selected (such as GCE) in the top menu option.

It is very important that you decide who in your school will be responsible for submitting the coursework samples to us online. You also need to decide which format you will use to submit coursework samples to us online. There are three main options for the format of samples – more detailed guidance for each option is provided in the guidance document above.

Teachers may upload the following file types:

• read-only word documents
• PDFs

It is also possible to use zip files however these should not be used unless you have a file type that is not supported. You should not attempt to zip files together - upload files individually when submitting via LWT.

When you create a file for each sampled student then each file should use the following naming convention:

[centre #]_[candidate number #]_[surname]_[first letter of first name]

For example, Jane Smith with candidate number 7890 at centre 12345 would have work in a folder titled: 12345_7890_Smith_J

If you are uploading more than one document for a student, please adopt the following naming approach:

• 12345_7890_Smith_J (for the coursework itself)
• 12345_7890_Smith_J_resource (for the coursework resource record)
• 12345_7890_Smith_J_CAS (for the coursework authentication sheet)
• 12345_7890_Smith_J_marking (for the marker/moderator comments sheet [option 2])

Each file should be uploaded individually within the LWT portal. You can upload multiple files at once.

• This may seem obvious, but we always get a lot of queries asking where the mark schemes are.
• There are no topic-specific mark schemes for A level History coursework. There is only a generic mark scheme which can be found at the back of the specification.

• We've made available examples of marked work to help exemplify the mark scheme level descriptors. You'll find it helpful to look at this range of exemplars to gain a better understanding of the marking criteria.
• There are currently exemplars on the A level qualification page under exemplar materials, past training content and in the examiner reports from previous exam series where coursework has been submitted. See also the pre-recorded marking training videos provided in the link above.

• In large centres with multiple teachers, it's essential that you carry out internal moderation before you finalise the coursework marks. You should sample double-mark, selecting mark points within the same level from different teaching sets. The double marking should continue until you are satisfied that you have achieved comparability.
• Small schools with only one teacher need not carry out internal standardisation.

• It's important that you annotate the coursework to show the moderator how you have interpreted the mark scheme and applied it to the students' work.
• If you are marking your students work by hand before scanning in (LWT option 1) you should mark and annotate the work in ink. Initial marking may be done in pencil until you are satisfied that you are applying the marking criteria accurately and consistently; please then go over your marks and comments in ink. The colour of the ink is not important provided it is visibly different to the student’s work.
• If you are annotating the work directly then indications in the margins as to where specific mark scheme strands/levels are perceived would be helpful.
• If you are following LWT option 2 (separate marking notes) then please use the coursework marker/moderator comments sheet available on our website (you may create your own version of this if you prefer). Please see the section on ‘How to submit coursework samples online to Pearson’ above for more advice on using this form.
• If you are marking your students work electronically (option 3) then please annotate the work digitally using appropriate software such as Adobe Professional. Please check that the annotations are visible on the sample before submitting online via the Learner Work Transfer portal.
• For all students in the sample it would be helpful to see a summary of the marking answer profile against each bullet point in the mark scheme using the following as an example: BP1 (Bullet Point 1): L4+ (High Level 4), BP2: L3 (Level 3), BP3: L4- (Low Level 4), BP4: L3+, BP5: L4
• This could be provided as a summary on the coursework mark and authentication sheet, together with summative comments which explain why the final overall level and mark were awarded. If you are following option 2.

• You should not attempt to grade the work; you should be marking the work by applying the marking criteria in a consistent manner.
• The coursework grades will be awarded at the end of each examination series using the standard code of practice awarding process.
• Grade boundaries are always published on the grade boundaries page of our website. They will be available to download from results day.

• Further support and guidance can be found in the coursework guide.