AQA – the UK’s leading assessment organisation – has acquired GradeMaker, a specialist assessment technology company, with the aim of expanding the platform’s capabilities to deliver even better services for all its customers.
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4 Reasons Awarding Bodies Are Switching To Decentralized Authoring
Until now, standard office software has been commonly used by awarding organisations to develop exams. Authors would, at every stage of the project, either have to meet up in person or share content back and forth with team members for reviews and revisions via emails.
Implementing a decentralized authoring process can bring significant benefits to organisations and even reduce some of the risks associated with traditional authoring methods.
What is ‘Modularity’ and How Does it Help Awarding Bodies Navigate Change?
Exam providers are protecting themselves from disruption by using specialized, integrated tools to manage each area of their operation.
Find out more about how we support this future-ready way of working.
6 Features You Won’t Find in Any Other Authoring System
Exploring new test authoring systems can be complicated. There are lots of options available and weighing their pros and cons is a lot of work. And because rolling out a new exams system is a significant investment; you’ll want to be sure you have chosen the best value service that meets your specific needs.
All too often, however, systems designed to modernise exams neglect the critical authoring side of the process.
Documentation in Disarray? Easy Organisation for your Author Guidance
Keeping essential author guidance up-to-date, organised and easy to access can be challenging.
Discover the easy way to centralise all your guidance documents and improve the quality and efficiency of your authoring processes with GradeMaker Pro.
What Makes Cloud-Hosting the Most Secure Option for your Exam Authoring?
Are you comparing local vs cloud-hosted question development systems? Get answers to the most common questions awarding bodies ask when updating their test authoring.
Easy Paper Composition: Balance your Tests Faster with Digital Authoring
Are you manually calculating the composition of your papers? Does it take a lot of time and effort to make sure you have a well-balanced test?
See how our paper composition tools can help you to achieve the perfect paper balance — every time.
5 Ways to Improve Exam Quality at a Time of Digital Transition
Quality will always be the primary consideration when developing high-stakes exams.
So at a time of transition from paper to online test delivery, a key challenge will be in ensuring your quality assurance process remains robust as you introduce new workflows, new item types, and new ways of trialling tests.
Improving Productivity, Compliance and Author Satisfaction: The Potential of 2FA for your Exam Development
Two-Factor Authentication is now standard to most high-stakes online services, but its benefits are not limited to simply enhancing security. By modernising authoring technology to incorporate 2FA you can now significantly improve your processes in other ways too.
The 3 Tech Innovations That Elevated Exam Authoring in 2022
These innovations have made it easier for exam creators to design, review and deliver assessments, ultimately improving the overall testing experience.