IB Digital Society SL · 2026–27 Assessment Calendar

Coming up

September 2026

October 2026

November 2026

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

Planned dates from the course plan. They may move with the school calendar; your teacher will confirm changes. No-class days follow the HRCE high school calendar.

S Sprint startsWQ Weekly quizKC Knowledge checkSS Source synthesisIT Independent transfer (scored /8)DR Defend and repairIA Internal Assessment milestoneP Full paper practiceMOCK Mock examNO No classes (HRCE calendar)

Wed 30 Sep · NO: No classes: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
Thu 01 Oct · S: Sprint 3 starts: Data, algorithms and recommendation
Fri 02 Oct · WQ: Weekly quiz 5
Thu 08 Oct · KC: Knowledge and mechanism application
Mon 12 Oct · NO: No classes: Thanksgiving
Tue 13 Oct · SS: Source synthesis and source limits
Wed 14 Oct · IT: Independent recommender redesign
Thu 15 Oct · DR: Defend and connect the infrastructure
Thu 15 Oct · WQ: Weekly quiz 7
Mon 19 Oct · S: Sprint 4 starts: Computers, networks and privacy
Thu 22 Oct · WQ: Weekly quiz 8
Fri 23 Oct · NO: No classes: NSTU Provincial Conference Day

S	M	T	W	Th	F	S
		1	2	3 S Sprint 1 starts: Mechanisms, evidence and power	4 WQ Weekly quiz 1	5
6	7 NO No classes: Labour Day	8	9	10 KC Knowledge and a Paper 1 paragraph	11	12
13	14 SS First source synthesis	15 IT Independent school-entry transfer	16 DR Defend and repair	17 S Sprint 2 starts: Age assurance and policy judgment	18 WQ Weekly quiz 3	19
20	21	22 KC Knowledge and causal explanation	23	24 SS Synthesis around competing aims	25 NO No classes: Professional Development Day	26
27	28	29 IT Independent access-context transfer DR Defence and next mechanism	30 NO No classes: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

S	M	T	W	Th	F	S
				1 S Sprint 3 starts: Data, algorithms and recommendation	2 WQ Weekly quiz 5	3
4	5	6	7	8 KC Knowledge and mechanism application	9	10
11	12 NO No classes: Thanksgiving	13 SS Source synthesis and source limits	14 IT Independent recommender redesign	15 DR Defend and connect the infrastructure WQ Weekly quiz 7	16	17
18	19 S Sprint 4 starts: Computers, networks and privacy	20	21	22 WQ Weekly quiz 8	23 NO No classes: NSTU Provincial Conference Day	24
25	26	27	28 KC Knowledge and outage explanation	29	30 SS Synthesis across public services	31

S	M	T	W	Th	F	S
1	2 IT Independent hospital transfer	3 DR Defence and oversight bridge	4 S Sprint 5 starts: AI, robots and human oversight	5	6 WQ Weekly quiz 10	7
8	9	10	11 NO No classes: Remembrance Day	12	13 WQ Weekly quiz 11	14
15	16 KC Knowledge and an oversight paragraph	17	18 SS Synthesize oversight conditions	19 IT Independent automation transfer	20 DR Defend and distinguish media claims	21
22	23	24 S Sprint 6 starts: Media, culture and political participation	25	26	27 WQ Weekly quiz 13	28
29	30 KC Knowledge and a Paper 1 explanation

S	M	T	W	Th	F	S
		1	2 SS Synthesize by theme	3 IT Independent context change	4 NO No classes: Progress Conferences and Teacher Professional Practice Day	5
6	7 DR Defend and revisit change	8 S Sprint 7 starts: Infrastructure, environment and inequality	9	10	11 WQ Weekly quiz 15	12
13	14 KC Knowledge and uncertainty	15	16 SS Synthesize the competing criteria	17 IT Independent rural/agriculture transfer	18 DR Defend and choose an investigable question	19
20	21 NO No classes: Teacher Professional Practice Day (holiday break follows; classes resume 4 Jan)	22 NO No classes: Holiday break	23 NO No classes: Holiday break	24 NO No classes: Holiday break	25 NO No classes: Holiday break	26
27	28 NO No classes: Holiday break	29 NO No classes: Holiday break	30 NO No classes: Holiday break	31 NO No classes: Holiday break

S	M	T	W	Th	F	S
					1 NO No classes: Holiday break	2
3	4 S Sprint 8 starts: Practice inquiry and evidence communication	5	6	7 KC Knowledge and question repair	8	9
10	11 IT Independent scope change	12 SS Synthesize for feasibility — embedded checkpoint DR Defend a practice inquiry	13	14 S Sprint 9 starts: Cumulative repair and Paper 1 diagnostic	15 WQ Weekly quiz 18	16
17	18 KC Knowledge and repair decision	19 SS Independent theme synthesis	20 P Full Paper 1 diagnostic A	21 IT Independent mixed-case transfer — embedded checkpoint DR Diagnose the full paper and repair	22 S Sprint 10 starts: Unfamiliar sources and Paper 2 diagnostic	23
24	25 WQ Weekly quiz 20	26	27	28	29	30
31

S	M	T	W	Th	F	S
	1	2	3	4 IA storyboard communication	5 WQ Weekly quiz 25	6
7	8 NO No classes: Spring Break	9 NO No classes: Spring Break	10 NO No classes: Spring Break	11 NO No classes: Spring Break	12 NO No classes: Spring Break	13
14	15	16	17 IA submit the feedback-stage draft IA IA completed draft due	18 WQ Weekly quiz 26	19 S Sprint 13 starts: IA completion and exam transfer	20
21	22	23	24	25 IA assemble the supporting files WQ Weekly quiz 27	26 NO No classes: Good Friday	27
28	29 NO No classes: Easter Monday	30	31 WQ Weekly quiz 28

S	M	T	W	Th	F	S
				1	2 NO No classes: No classes	3
4	5	6 IA IA final check and exam return IA IA final submission	7 S Sprint 14 starts: Paper 1 performance and Mock B	8	9 WQ Weekly quiz 29	10
11	12	13	14	15 MOCK Full Paper 1 Mock B	16 WQ Weekly quiz 30	17
18	19 S Sprint 15 starts: Paper 2 performance and Mock B	20	21	22	23 WQ Weekly quiz 31	24
25	26 MOCK Full Paper 2 Mock B	27	28 S Sprint 16 starts: Readiness and targeted final repair	29 WQ Weekly quiz 32	30 NO No classes: No classes

1
NO No classes: High school assessment and evaluation day

4
KC Knowledge and command terms

8
SS Timed source synthesis

9
P Full Paper 2 diagnostic A

10
IT Timed changed-scenario response — embedded checkpoint
DR Defence and IA readiness
WQ Weekly quiz 22

12
S Sprint 11 starts: IA inquiry and research

19
IA refine the question
WQ Weekly quiz 23

25
KC Independent exam retrieval
WQ Weekly quiz 24

26
S Sprint 12 starts: IA analysis and production