Benefits
There are multiple benefits whose importance will vary depending on the client and their particular situation. The main ones, however, are listed here:
- Huge saving of time and effort and cost for educators, trainers, administrators, markers, and students—it makes the whole process more satisfactory and efficient for all involved
- Enhances quality of marking—eliminates fatigue, favouritism and prejudice
- Sophisticated analysis tools enable the administrator to rapidly identify problem areas and opportunities for improvement
- Improved logistics and faster marking—no papers or data “lost in the post”
- Results made available within minutes when auto-marking is used
- Harder to cheat and client can limit exposure of the questions to the market
- Examination cannot be disrupted by network failure during the exam
- Flexibility—exams and assessments can be concurrent or non-concurrent, anywhere in the world, for any number of students
- Interface is simple to use, even for students who have limited computer skills or whose first language is not English
- The system has the intelligence to identify any weaknesses within questions, discover unmet training needs, and help clients enhance their exam and training programmes