Assessment Authoring
Assessment Authoring
An online platform to simplify workflows, assign tasks and deadlines, track progress and maintain quality
We can help you modernise and improve your assessment authoring
We know that the test development process can often be very manual and disjointed. Because of this, many teams we work with have been struggling to innovate, scale-up, or overcome disruption to their assessment authoring process. We have created tools to help them rethink their approach to question writing and simplify their development cycle.
Your authoring could be made easier if…
- The ‘back and forth’ nature of your test reviewing cycle makes for a lengthy and complex authoring process.
- External test authors are hard to keep track of. You’re constantly chasing them to meet publishing deadlines and feel like you're 'spinning plates' to keep things running.
- You have to hunt for old versions of Word documents in email chains from months ago to look back on comments and changes recommended along the way.
- Getting projects ‘over the line’ feels like an uphill battle, you’re constantly balancing the need to improve efficiency with the need to maintain assessment quality.
- Previous disruption to your testing has created the need to be flexible and agile in the way your development team works, but you feel ‘behind the times’.
GradeMaker Pro gives you...
Question creation tools:
- A wide range of flexible question types and associated metadata tagging options.
- The ability to add audio, video, images and even accompanying booklets to your questions and mark schemes.
- Flexible creation options, allowing authors to write individual items and whole-papers.
- The ability to produce and format your content the way you need it using our editing tools.
- The option for reviewers to add targeted, actionable comments within items during the test development process.
Watch a quick look video on the project management and workflow tools in GradeMaker Pro.
Authoring management tools:
- Comprehensive workflow and task assignment tools to fully manage every project in an organised way.
- User assignment options so every project will run through a fixed set of steps, with the flexibility to make changes as your project progresses.
- A customisable progress dashboard so you can see what’s overdue and what’s on track.
Discover the flexible user roles in our authoring management toolkit.
See how these centralised permissions controls reduce the burden of manually granting access and passing work between contributors.
GradeMaker Pro makes better assessment authoring possible
As a test developer using GradeMaker, you will:
- Feel in control of every aspect of your test development process.
- Be confident that you know where every task is in its workflow.
- Be able to inspect every revision and every amend during a question’s journey to publishing.
- Have a meaningful view of the development process and the progress of each test.
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