Higher Education Institutions
Higher Education Institutions
For colleges and universities creating tests, from entrance exams to final assessments
Do you aim to...
- Constantly improve the credibility, validity, and reliability of your assessments.
- Run your exam review and approval processes in a more secure and efficient way.
- Use a single source to publish exams to digital and print, without the burden of extra formatting or typesetting for each version.
See how the right tools can help you to add rigour to your exam review process, without creating extra workload.
We help Higher Education Institutions to make their testing more efficient and rigorous
How GradeMaker supports Higher Education Institutions:
- We give you a single source solution for all your test authoring, making it easy to organise assessments across authors and reviewers internally and externally.
- Quality assurance forms and reviewer tools give you complete control over the sign-off process so you can track key metrics and improve quality at each stage of the authoring process.
- Our question development tools provide a wide range of options for testing at the highest level. This includes:
- a range of flexible question types which meet the need of every subject;
- the ability to use special characters and complex mathematical equations;
- tools for creating accompanying booklets for longer reference extracts;
- asset management for briefs, images, sources, and extracts;
- storing audio for exams which require listening elements;
- rich metadata options, including the ability to add performance data to items and map items to your subject domain;
- version control and a powerful item bank search facility, allowing you to construct tailored tests for different cohorts in minutes.
- The ability to control user permissions so users can only access content relevant to their tasks – significantly improving the efficiency and security of your authoring process.
- We work closely with all our customers and design tailored implementation strategies so that every faculty gets the best out of the system.
What can you do with GradeMaker?
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