Institute of Ministry

These are the policies you agree to when you create an account with the Institute of Ministry, the educational body of the Apostolic Old Catholic Mission NPC. They are short, and the full documents are linked throughout.

Terms and Conditions

The Terms and Conditions govern your use of this site: use it lawfully and honestly, give accurate information about yourself, keep your sign-in details to yourself, and treat others with the courtesy proper to a Christian community. The Institute’s awards are ecclesial formation awards; they are not state-accredited qualifications.

Privacy

The Privacy Policy explains what we hold and why. In short, we use your information to provide your formation, assess your work, issue and verify your certificates, and keep people safe. We do not sell it, and you may request access, correction or erasure, subject to applicable law and necessary retention obligations. Write to director@ministry.institute.

Formation Policies

The Formation Policies of the Institute govern admission, assessment, progression, referral and appeal, together with the conduct expected of those in formation.

Essential cookies and browser storage

The Institute requires the essential cookies and browser storage needed to provide the learning platform you request, maintain secure sessions and protect the service. MoodleSession maintains your session; it normally ends when you sign out or close your browser, subject to session expiry and browser behaviour. Blocking essential cookies prevents normal use of Moodle. We have disabled the remember-username feature and Google Analytics on the Institute site.

Choose Accept and continue to acknowledge the cookie notice, or Leave site if you do not accept the essential functions. There is no analytics-cookie choice. The notice acknowledgement is stored only in this browser under iom-essential-notice-v2 for 180 days; clearing browser storage makes the notice appear again. The Cookie notice button lets you read it again. Acknowledging this notice is separate from Moodle recording your acceptance of required site policies. The notice is information about necessary processing, not blanket consent to tracking.

Assessment attempts, submissions and activity logs are held on the platform rather than solely in cookies. We use these records for educational administration, security and academic integrity as described below and in our Privacy Policy. Cookies alone do not establish cheating. External websites have their own privacy practices; following a resource link takes you to that provider. We do not treat a provider's advertising or analytics as an essential Institute cookie.

Monitoring and academic integrity

A certificate from this Institute is a statement about a person. If it can be obtained dishonestly it is worth nothing, and it wrongs those who earned theirs properly.

What we record now. The platform keeps records of your sign-ins, the network address you sign in from, the pages and activities you open, the files you submit, and the timing of your quiz attempts.

What we may introduce. Any new monitoring requires an appropriate lawful basis, a clear advance notice and, where required, separate consent. Agreement to this policy is not blanket consent to future monitoring. We may analyse patterns of access, timing and answering to detect collusion or impersonation; require identity verification before an assessment or before a certificate is issued; require a secure or locked-down browser; require an assessment to be supervised or proctored, whether in person or remotely; and use software to detect plagiarism or undisclosed use of artificial intelligence.

We shall use no more of this than the integrity of the award requires, and we shall always tell you within the course before an assessment is actually supervised, identity-checked or locked down. Concerns are dealt with under the Formation Policies, and you have a right of appeal. All monitoring is carried out in accordance with our Privacy Policy.