Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged Users Conference  New Orleans Slide 1 Training with the Techs: New Features in Perception Authoring Wes Cloven

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 2 Applications in the Big Picture

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 3 Authoring Manager Desktop

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 4 Authoring Manager Desktop

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 5 Authoring Manager Desktop Repository Bar

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 6 Authoring Manager Desktop Navigation Pane

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 7 Authoring Manager Desktop Display Pane

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 8 Authoring Manager Desktop Preview/Properties Pane

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 9 Topic Folders

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 10 Topic Folders  Organize questions into related groups By learning objective By discipline By competency  Build an entire hierarchy to reflect a competency model or a curriculum  Associate performance outcomes with topics  Assign Administrators to root topics for authoring security

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 11 Assessment Folders

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 12 Assessment Folders  Organize assessments into meaningful groups Department/Function Discipline Other organizational unit  Assign administrators to root level folders for security

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 13 Methods for Creating Questions  Question Wizards  Copy and Paste an existing question from another topic And between repositories  Importing from a file QML ASCII – Needs definition IMS QTI XML

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 14 Methods for Importing Items

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 15 Importing from ASCII

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 16 Question Wizard

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 17 Question Wizard – Select type

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide Question Types  Captivate/Robodemo  Drag and Drop  Essay  Explanation  Fill in Blanks  Hotspot  Likert  Macromedia Flash  Matching  Matrix  Multiple Choice  Multiple Response Numeric  Pull-down List  Ranking  Select a Blank  Spoken Response  Text Match  True/False  Yes/No

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide Question Types  Enable authors to create more interesting and probing questions  Reveals more information during an assessment in a shorter time  Not offered by simpler assessment tools in LMS’s

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 20 Compose Stimulus  Stimulus can contain multimedia for high- fidelity, scenario-based questions  Toolbar for what you see is what you get formatting Embed links and variables without coding  Advanced editing mode for HTML markup and other coding

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 21 Enter Choices, Feedback and Set Scores  Choices and feedback can contain multimedia  Toolbar for what you see is what you get formatting  Embed links to instructional content in feedback without coding

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 22 Manage, Shuffle, and Align Choices  Shuffle choices for security All All but last All but last two  Align choices horizontally

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 23 Question Description  Helps you identify question in lists and in reports  Can be used to record associated learning objective

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 24 Question Menu

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 25 Creating Assessments  Assessment Wizard  Copy and paste from one folder to another folder And between repositories

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 26 Assessment Wizard

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 27 Assessment Name and Type  Classify assessment using pre-define types  Each type has default control settings in line with the purpose of the assessment

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 28 Control Settings  Each type of assessment comes with default control settings  Select presentation template

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 29 Select Questions  Three methods for adding questions to assessments All from a topic Randomly from a topic Single question

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 30 Select Questions – All from topic

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 31 Select Questions – Randomly from topic

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 32 Select Questions – Single Question

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 33 Outcomes and Feedback  Enable pass/fail for multiple outcomes Set threshold Tailor feedback messages

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 34 Outcomes and Feedback  Embed links to instructional content or URLs in feedback without any coding using toolbar functions

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 35 Outcomes and Feedback  Personalize feedback by inserting server variables without any coding.

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 36 Outcomes and Feedback  feedback to participants upon completion of assessment

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 37 Storing Questions and Assessments  Repository Database of  Questions  Assessments Resources – graphics, audio, video used in questions and feedback Content – instructional content that can be a self-contained file such as PDF, Word, HTML with embedded Flash movie Templates Contains all of the data, multimedia assets, and other files that comprise your questions and assessments

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 38 Storing Questions and Assessments Accessible by individual user No topic folder or assessment folder security Publish questions and assessments by: Copying and pasting to Shared Repository Publishing to Qpack Local Repository Accessible by multiple users Facilitates collaboration Simplifies publishing across network Additional security, requires login Shared Repository Manager to configure and set repository to be used by Perception Server Shared Repository

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 39 Local Repository Store items/questions, assessments, resources and content locally.

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 40 Remote Repository Store items/questions, assessments, resources, content remotely.

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 41 Working with Repositories

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 42 Working with Repositories

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 43 Resource Management Question resources organized by topic Round-trip resource editing

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 44 Content Management Content files organized by topic Round-trip content editing

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 45 Qpacks  Compressed archives of topics, questions, assessments, resources and content used for exchanging content between users or systems  Can include A single assessment An assessment folder containing multiple assesments A topic with its questions and related resources and content  Qpacks can be imported into a repository with Windows- based Authoring or Browser-based Authoring

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 46 Benefits  Manage all elements of assessment development in one integrated environment  Customize interface to optimize productivity  Embed multimedia and other content without the need for programmers  Manage items and assessments directly in shared repository Changes effective immediately

Questionmark’s 2005 Users Conference  New Orleans Copyright © Questionmark Corporation and/or Questionmark Computing Limited, known collectively as Questionmark. All rights reserved. Questionmark is a registered trademark of Questionmark Computing Limited. All other trademarks are acknowledged. Slide 47 Thank You for Your Attention  Please complete our level 1 assessment!  Technical Services and Support: (800)