CAS Worksheet (your experience proposal)
When you login to Managebac, you can select DP Manager and CAS. From there you can create a “CAS Experience.” For each experience you will need a description including
If during the course of the CAS experience, your plans change, then your reflections will record what has changed and why. The only time this initial proposal is edited is if the timing, location, or Supervisor changes.
If a proposal is entered but you do not commit to the experience then you should still reflect on why this happened. Was it reasons beyond your control or a decision you made? Did it inconvenience ro disadvantage others when you pulled out? What might you have lost out on by not committing to it?
Keep in mind that your activities should be real and purposeful, pose a personal challenge, and contribute to the evidence that you have met the eight learning outcomes. You may proceed with activities that meet CAS criteria with confidence, but the IB Coordinator or CAS Advisor (your Tutor) will issue a final approval on each activity.
You are strongly encouraged, though not required, to begin to plan CAS experiences over the holidays before the start of Year 12 and to identify opportunities in the wider community of Brunei or your home country. However, the CAS requirements must be met between August of Year 12 and March of Year 13. The expectation is that you will make a plan to be participating in CAS experiences continuously throughout your 2 years in the IB Diploma Program, striking a balance between the three areas of Creativity, Activity, and Service.
Please list an adult supervisor for each of your CAS activities on the CAS Worksheet. This supervisor should not be a family member or a fellow student. Please include accurate contact information for your supervisor. Periodically we may contact your Supervisor to request further information on the experience and to monitor your involvement.
Each CAS Experience will need Evidence. Select the “Reflection and Evidence” tab to link websites, upload meeting Minutes and Agendas, certificates of completion, supervisor evaluation, pictures and/or videos. Supervisor evaluations can also be generated electronically on the Managebac website once you have completed your activity and reflections. These will also serve as evidence as well as areas for further development for further CAS experiences.
There are seven learning outcomes for CAS, and you demonstrate that you have met them by writing reflections (there are prompts in the reflection and evidence screen on Managebac). You should be aiming for a minimum of three substantive written/spoken responses for each of the learning outcomes. CAS questions help you target learning outcomes as the questions posed are directly linked to the learning objectives that you select for each activity. Alternatively, you may use the journaling feature under "Add a new reflection" to target learning outcomes. It must be possible to see how the learning outcomes were met.
Reflections do not have to be long, but they should be meaningful and timely for your personal CAS Journey. Have fun with them and try different ways to reflect - make a video of photos and add a commentary to it, put your reflection up as a wall display following an event and photograph it, ask a friend to interview you and video record it, record an interview for Progresif Radio with Mr Nick, host an exhibition and video record your responses to the questions that people ask you.
Over the holidays you may want to get a head start on planning your CAS experiences for the start of Year 12. You will be given access to Managebac as part of the IB Diploma Induction Program and should then begin to create your CAS experience proposals.
The following steps detail exactly how to begin your CAS portfolio and how to submit CAS experiences for approval.
Step 1: Find and open your welcome email which has been sent to your school email account RE: “[International School Brunei] Welcome to ManageBac.” Please note: It may have been sent to your “Junk” folder. See Mrs Fiona or Mrs Snell if you have not received this.
Step 2: Click the link in the email that reads “Click to set password.”
Step 3: Create your password.
Step 4: Login using your email and your new password.
Step 5: Click “DP Program” and select “CAS.”
Step 6: Click “Add CAS Experience.”
Step 7: Give the Activity a name which begins with the academic year such as “2017-18 Basketball Team”. Activities which will be completed between Year 12 and 13 should start with the Year 13 academic year.
Step 8: Select a date. Don’t select a date prior to the start of Year 12. It is ok if you don’t have an end date because you can edit these entries later.
Step 9: Write a brief description of your CAS activity, and then explain the following with about a sentence for each. The CAS coordinator can’t approve the activity until there is a description.
Step 10: Click the activity type: Creative, Active, and/or Service (It can be more than one). You can enter hours now if you know them, or you can enter them later.
Step 11: Enter your supervisor’s name and their email. The supervisor cannot usually be a family member and can never be another student. If you don’t think that you have a supervisor, please talk to the CAS Coordinator to determine appropriate alternative arrangements.
Step 12: Select the Learning Outcomes that you will work on in this activity. Click the boxes for all that apply, you can add or take away Learning Outcomes as the experience progresses if necessary. You will write reflections to demonstrate that you met these learning targets later.
Step 13: Click “Add CAS Activity.” Congratulations, you’ve started your CAS Portfolio!
Step 14: Repeat steps 6 - 13 until you have at least one plan for Creativity, Activity and Service for the first term.