About Tūhura Standards

A tool for finding and exploring NZQA standards — built for NZ teachers and lecturers.

Version 1.1.0

Tūhura Standards is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with the New Zealand Qualifications Authority (NZQA). It is an independent tool that reads publicly available data from the NZQA website.

What Tūhura Standards does

Tūhura Standards makes it easier to find and explore the standards registered on NZQA’s Directory of Assessment and Skill Standards (DASS). It is designed for secondary teachers and lecturers in New Zealand who need to:

Search for standards by keyword, level, type, or status
Browse the full hierarchy of Fields, Sub-fields, and Domains
Filter standards by their school or organisation’s Consent to Assess
Quickly access PDF and Word versions of standard documents

What Tūhura Standards does not do

It does not replace the official NZQA website or its data
It does not guarantee that data is current — always verify important decisions with NZQA directly
It does not provide official NZQA accreditation or consent information
It is not a submission or results tool

How data caching works

To improve speed and reduce load on NZQA’s servers, Tūhura Standards caches standards data on its server:

Standards hierarchy (Fields, Sub-fields, Domains) — refreshed automatically every 30 days. One manual refresh can be triggered per calendar day (NZ time) from the Ed Orgs settings panel — this limit is shared across all users, so if another user has already refreshed today, it will be available again tomorrow.
Domain standards — cached for 30 days as you browse. Revisiting the same domain is instant.
Search results — cached for 30 days per keyword. Repeating the same search is instant.
Consent to Assess data — stored in your browser until you manually refresh it.

Your saved Ed Orgs and filter preferences are stored only in your browser and never leave your device.

How to refresh data

Open the Ed Orgs panel (top right) and scroll to Standards Data Cache. One manual refresh of the standards hierarchy is available per calendar day (NZ time), shared across all users. If the data has already been refreshed today by any user, it will be available again tomorrow.

Data source

All standards data comes directly from the NZQA Directory of Assessment and Skill Standards and the NZQA Education Organisations database.

☕ Support Tūhura Standards

Tūhura Standards is free to use and always will be. If you find it saves you time and you’d like to support its ongoing development and hosting costs, a small one-off contribution is very welcome — but there’s absolutely no obligation.

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Feedback

Tūhura Standards is actively developed and your feedback is very welcome. If you’ve found a bug, have a feature request, or want to share how you’re using the tool, please get in touch.