Alberta Education must approve a writing centre before it is able to offer the General Education Development Exam to Alberta Students. The following outlines the process around the application process from an Assessment perspective.

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The process begins when a Writing Centre applies to become an approved GED Exam Provider in Alberta.

1. Writing Centre seeking approval makes official request to Assessment.
2. Assessment approves application
3. Assessment requests a new TestCentreID for the Writing Centre in question.
4. GED Testing Services provides a TestCentreID for the Writing Centre. This is the identifier it will used to represent the Test Centre in its GED Exam Mark XML File.
5. Assessment receives the Test Centre ID and looks up the school code (SADS) for the approved WC.
6. Assessment sends both pieces of information to Student Records.
7. Student Records receives information and sends a request to PASI support team to modify GED Writing Centre Mapping file.
8. PASI support modifies GED Writing Centre Mapping file.

The process ends when the Writing Centre is mapped to the TestCentreID in the mapping file.

The Alternate Scenario is invoked when a Writing Centre’s organization code changes or the Writing Centre’s agreement to provide GED Exams in Alberta expires.

1. Assessment requests the update/termination of a Writing Centre’s GED Exam privileges to Student Records.
2. Student Records receives information and sends a request to PASI support team to modify GED Writing Centre Mapping file.

The scenario ends with the modification of the mapping file.