License

Albeda College

-School of ‘Welzijn’ (Social care) only

-Organisation, delivery, support comes from bureau for examination Welzijn (Examenbureau Welzijn)

-Technical support IT services

Kinston University

-University wide

-Support Academic Development Centre (ADC)

-Technical support It services

E-assessment tools

Albeda College

Non, except for formative test provided by publishers

Kingston University

-Respondus,

-Bb Test Manager,

-Web applications like Hot Potatoes, eXe

Installation

Albeda College

Standalone application

-Databases SQL

-QMP v3 nl (2006-2007)

-QMP v4.3 nl (2006-2007)

Kingston University

Integration with Blackboard using the Blackboard Connector

-Databases Oracle

-QMP v4.3 and Blackboard v7 (2007-2008)

-QMP v4.4 and Blackboard v8 (2008-2009)

Scheduling

Albeda College

Scheduling done for every term/assessment. Groups, names & assessment provided by team coordinators. Scheduled by Examenbureau Welzijn

Kinston University

Scheduling for assessment done automatically by Bb Connector using same name and group as Bb module

Delivery

Albeda College

Web link provided by invigilators

Login and password delivered separately

Kingston University

Delivered as a link in the Blackboard module

Authentication done by Blackboard

Practice/usage

Albeda College

Intensive use of QMP at the end of each term

-Approximately 3800 summative assessment 2008

-Centrally organised by Examenbureau Welzijn

-10 different locations

-done under supervision and in computer labs

Kingston University

All year round, with peaks end of term

-Approximately 4200 formative and summative assessment 2008

-Organised by individual lectures

-Different locations

-Computer labs & online access

Administration

Albeda College

QMP administrators bases at Examenbureau Welzijn

Training of administrators done by STOAS (QMP distributor in the Netherlands)

Kingston University

Every lecturer administrator of courses in Blackboard and administrator in QMP

Training provided by members of ADC