1. What is Questionmark Perception?
Questionmark Perception is an assessment authoring and delivery program that can be entirely managed in an online environment. This means that assessments can be delivered to students online without the need for face-to-face workshops or seminars. Students can take formative assessments in their own time at home or on campus over a specified period of time. For more summative assessments, a limit on when, where and how many times a student takes the assessment can be imposed.
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2. What question types can I use?
Below is a list of all the types of questions available to authors:
If you are interested but still not quite sure how it all works or what it looks like, why not try it out for yourself. The hyperlink below will allow you to try out an example test. The example test is a simple one with a mixture of all the different question types used. This example will give you a good feel for the types of questions on offer and how the whole thing works. Try an example now
4. If I decide that I want to use it, how do I get started?
If you have read all the information here, have tried out an example test and decided that you think that Perception may be useful to you in your teaching or you want more specific information then do not hesitate to contact the Learning Technology Group who will be happy to demonstrate Perception to you or your department.
Questionmark Perception is a fully customisable product and can be tailored to any number of applications. The possibilities are limited to the imagination of the user. Below is a summary of some of the applications that it can have:
Like all software or application there are limits to its capability. The only restrictive limit discovered from use so far is that Perception cannot automatically mark essay or long answer questions. These questions have to be marked manually after the assessment.
What can it do that a regular paper based test can't?
As mentioned earlier, Perception assessments allow the inclusion of embedded multimedia content to the assessment. There is also the possibility of including "hint" buttons to assessments if students are struggling with a question. Questions and feedback can include hyperlinks to external resources. One of the greatest differences is the ability to adapt the assessment while it is being run. Different questions can be presented to participants depending on previous answers, participants can be made to repeat questions if they answered incorrectly and can be prevented from moving on if they have not acheived a minimum score.