Easily Create Database-Driven, SCORM-Compliant Exams and Surveys

Exam Engine now has both Flash and Silverlight versions!

New in Version 3

• Deployment via Adobe® Flash™ or Microsoft® Silverlight™ cross-browser plugin
• New question types including Hot Objects, Hot Spot, Matching, Matching (Lines), Numeric, Sequencing, and Sequencing (Images)
• XML-based question templates editable in Adobe® Flash® Builder™ or Microsoft® Expression Blend™
• Up to four graphics (.png, .jpg, .gif [Flash]) and four media (.wmv [Silverlight], .swf [Flash], .flv [Flash], .mp3, or .wma [Silverlight]) for each question
• Correct, Incorrect, and "Partially Correct" media feedback
• Deploy without a virtual directory on any web server
• Optional web service for emailing results, saving question and exam results, and emailing technical support
• Package exam with question database or load questions at runtime from the web service
• New Reporter program for displaying reports for question analysis and on question and exam results
• Completely updated Question Editor with enhanced editing features and "phrases" available via a right-click menu
• Improved Configuration Editor with rapid exam publishing
• Source [Flex/ActionScript or Visual Basic] included to allow advanced users to extend product
• Countdown timer that displays time remaining for question and turns red when 75% of the time has elapsed
• Optional transitions like wipe, fade in, fade out, and shrink [Silverlight]
• Much more!

Other Great Features

• Support SCORM™ 1.3/2004 Runtime Environment and Packaging (in addition to 1.2)
• Easily support multiple languages
• Automatically email results in Microsoft^® Word, Microsoft Excel, HTML, and/or plain text formats (using optional web service)
• Display an optional Login page for capturing user name when not run via a Learning Management System
• Hide exam results if desired for high-stakes tests
• Redirect to a URL when SCORM is not detected
• Display an optional technical support email message, link, and input screen for communicating with a help desk or administrator

Pull Random Questions from a Pool By Objective

Associate questions with one or more objectives. Then grab a designated number of questions from each objective, giving each student a different exam. The questions and objectives are stored in either SQL Server, Access, or XML -- your choice.

Communicate with a SCORM Learning Management System

Simply check a box in the configuration editor or change your URL query string and your exam will send all interaction information to your SCORM 1.2 or 1.3 (2004) LMS. The exam can be packaged as a complete SCO (including manifest). Exam Engine reads the mastery score, maximum time allowed, and more from the LMS.

Store or Email Individual or Composite Results

In addition to (or instead of) sending results to your LMS, you can have composite results (including question responses and time per question) stored on the web site in Access, SQL Server, or XML. Individual results can be emailed in Word, Excel, HTML, or plain text formats to one or more addresses either automatically or via student interaction. Composite results can be emailed if stored in Access or XML. Use the optional Reporter program to view question analysis and other reports from anywhere in the world.

Highly Customizable Yet Easy to Use

Questions can be multiple choice (with more than one correct answer if desired), true or false, fill-in-the-blank, hot objects (images), hot spot (images), matching (drag & drop images), matching (lines), numeric, sequencing (text), and sequencing (images) . They can have up to eight answers and four levels of feedback. The questions can have up to four associated graphic or media files. You can also have correct, incorrect, or "partially correct" media display upon scoring the question. The developer can completely customize the colors and graphics associated with each question state (initial, selected, correct, and incorrect). You can even have a “Show Answers” button display after a defined number of wrong answers. Tweak question templates and/or button graphics if desired or just use the defaults and be up and running in five minutes. Either way, there is absolutely no programming!

Allow Your Subject Matter Experts to Write Questions Rather Than Try to Learn an Authoring Tool

Exam Engine has a special “Question Editor” (with built-in spell checker and reporting) that your Subject Matter Experts can use to add, edit, or delete questions and objectives. They spend their valuable time writing dynamite questions and associating them with objectives rather than trying to learn an authoring tool. They can even create reports of questions by objectives, media required, objectives associated with each question, and much more!

View Question Analysis and Student Data Reports

Exam Engine has an optional "Reporter" application that allows you or your customers to connect directly to your Exam Engine web service and view these reports: Answers per Question, Detailed Question Results by Exam, Exam Scores, Question Results by Exam, Scores by Exam, Scores by Exam and User, Scores by User, Scores by User and Exam. Limit reports to particular exams, users, and/or questions.

SCORM and Native Tracking

In addition to standard SCORM tracking, the Platte Canyon^® TBK Tracker™ Learning Management System (LMS) now tracks Exam Engine (Flash) content. This is the perfect solution for tracking native (non-web based) content run from CD or on a local area network. Even better is that the SAME content can be used for running on a SCORM-based LMS. We also have a product called Tracker Sync™ that will allow you to synchronize your TBK Tracker content with our Tracker.Net™ LMS.

System Requirements:

Client Machines

Adobe® Flash or Microsoft® Silverlight™ browser plugin, depending on the version purchased

Database

Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 or later, Access 97 or later, or none at all (XML format)

Development Computer

	Ability to load the .NET 2.0 Framework (Windows 2000 or later)
	Adobe® Flash or Microsoft® Silverlight™ browser plugin

Price

Exam Engine

Technical Support

Upgrades from older versions as well as between the Flash and Silverlight versions are available.

Try It Out

User Comments

	We really like your product and I look forward to using the new version which I believe can now store student responses in the Exam Engine database without having to involve our LMS. We used Exam Engine for a Spanish Placement test this summer to better place new Spanish students. I produced a Crystal Report from the results which allowed the language chair to make placement decisions (for those students who completed the online test) start to finish in under an hour--before it took hours to manually grade the tests before even starting the placement process! I also produced a summary report by question category which gives the Spanish teachers heads up about areas that incoming students are weak. Next year we want to expand it out to other languages and departments.
	Great product!! The more I experiment the more I like it.
	We exclusively use Exam Engine for all assessments developed.
	BTW, you guys did a REALLY nice job with the VBTrain controls and Exam Engine!