1. Questionmark Perception Online assessment (tests & surveys) Suite of software applications which allow:  create questions  organise questions into tests  publish tests for students to access online  analyse results – generate reports (simple or stats)

2. Client software Question Manager: create questions & topics Session Manager: organises questions into tests Publishing Sessions onto server (each Faculty has own server) Security Manager (on the web) Schedule sessions (create timetables) Results reporting Basic through to complex (item difficulty) How it works

3. Question Types Eight question types:  Multiple Choice  Multiple Response  Selection  Fill the Blank  Text Match  Hotspot  Numeric  Matrix  plus Essay, Explanation

4. Multiple Choice (or true/false)

5. Multiple Response

6. Selection

7. Fill in the Blanks

8. Text Match

9. Hotspot

10. Numeric

11. Matrix

12. Create question banks using Wizards Organise questions into topics Define scoring Feedback Question Manager

13. Consist of questions created using Question Manager Can include single/random/all from a topic Question bank Decision branching Security Session Manager

14. Access on line the Security Manager Assign students to sessions (individual or groups) Limit access for specific period Number of attempts/ time limit Scheduling (on line)

15. Recorded & available immediately Access on-line (both staff and students) 8 report types including:  Participant reports  Session Overview reports  Group comparison (t value)  Question Statistics (item difficulty, correlation)  Surveys Results!

16. Short Term: LTDU (me) Long Term:  LTDU (still me)  Faculty based administrator (frontline queries, training)  UH Qmark user Group (code of practise, templates) Support

17. LTDU website (http://www.herts.ac.uk/ltdu/)  Instructions (http://www.herts.ac.uk/ltdu/services/perception/index.html)  tutorials/best practise (http://www.herts.ac.uk/ltdu/tutorials/qmark/index.html)  manuals Questionmark (http://www.qmark.com/perception/help/)website)  tutorials  support (contract)  user group  query search Support

18. Test Server Three sample tests with range of question types http://147.197.200.4/qmtestorc/open.dll Registration required

19. Access – password protected using student record number and barcode no.