Vocational Qualification Providers

For organisations that provide tests to assess practical workplace skills and support for occupational development

Do you aim to...

Create your tests in the most efficient way possible.
Create qualifications that are closely aligned with your assessment plan and deliver the skills employers really need.
Create written or multiple-choice assessments to accompany submitted portfolios of work or practical demonstrations.
Manage many authors from many disciplines (some of whom might not be full time authors).

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We help Vocational Qualification Providers to modernise and enhance their testing

How GradeMaker enables efficient internal quality assurance:

The EQA Framework from the Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education, champions efficiency in it’s core principles, where providers should ‘ensure that the right aspects of quality are measured, the right activity is undertaken by the right people, at the right time’.

The GradeMaker Pro online authoring system is perfectly designed to help you easily and consistently develop and publish your written assessments in line with this guidance.

Ensure the right aspects of quality are measured

Our quality control tools help you to ensure that all questions are written in a consistent format, with optional or mandatory QA forms.
With advanced test coverage monitoring tools you can track development of items across your knowledge and competency areas and ensure balanced distribution of marks across the standard.
GradeMaker Pro also supports high-quality review and feedback processes where contributors can target comments for action as tests move through specific workflow steps.

Ensure the right people undertake the right activity at the right time

GradeMaker Pro enables you to set up different viewing and editing permission based on role, where they are in the workflow, and whether users are working on items or whole tests.
You can more easily manage the workflow, tracking the progress of tests and reassigning work when needed.
With our advanced project management tools you can assign tasks to users for each workflow step for completion by a specified date, so that work automatically moves from one step to the next.

Ensure your system supports a risk-based approach to exam design

GradeMaker Pro enables you to restrict user accounts so they can only perform specified tasks, reducing the number of users with access to final tests.
By running your entire authoring process on one platform you can also reduce the need for print-outs and eliminate content transferal across vulnerable systems such as email.
You can access a complete list of logins by user and IP address, allowing you to audit all access to sensitive materials.
You will also benefit from advanced security protection with multiple cutting edge features to block unauthorised access.