Following the success of its Editor application (now used by trainers in 87 countries), online assessment specialist Question Tools has launched a series of solutions that enable quick, low-cost and widespread skills audits and competency evaluations.The NetSeries family of products provide instant web sites that deliver tests, surveys and courses while automatically collecting and analysing the results.
Tests, lessons and surveys can be delivered via a web browser without any plug-ins or players, and yet can still include drawings, photographs, sound, speech and video, as well as feedback on a question-by-question basis.
NetSeries not only records individual results, but automatically generates group averages, and allows a trainer or manager to look through any individualís finished work one screen at a time, with answers marked and feedback shown.
The NetSeries applications are aimed at a wide range of usersóthey can run across intranets or the internet, but require only one-button installation and a double-click to start.
The NetSeries family of products is the commercial arm of a full suite that includes the award-winning Editor software. Question Tools have registered users in 87 countries, and an impressive and growing client list that includes large blue-chip companies, government agencies and educational institutions.
While NetSeries forms the major part of the commercial operations of Question Tools, the company remains very supportive of its users in developing countries, and will continue to provide free software to India, Pakistan, China, Botswana and Vietnam amongst others.
Immediate analysis of results
To run: NetSeries needs only a computer running a normal copy of Windows. There are no database licences, no server licences, no player or distribution charges.
The logo, colours, fonts and look can be easily adapted
Summary, detailed or question analysis
Show results from just one usergroup
Export summaries, question analysis or the raw data
Performance is immediately apparent
Just click on the View button to step through an individualís marked answers screen-by-screen
The NetSeries family
NetTestóan entry-level product delivering tests & collecting results.
NetSurveyóan entry-level product delivering surveys & collecting results.
NetResultóallows lessons, surveys and tests to be delivered. It has a wider variety of analysis options.
NetSchool and NetCollegeóversions of NetResult tuned to the education sector.
NetEnterpriseóallows organizations to sell access to online content. It has all the facilities of NetResult, but with the addition of account management facilities.
NetPublisheróallows publishers to bundle content and sell it with a version of NetResult.
NetExamóallows delivery through the Question Tools Exam software for high-stakes content.
Some users
Time Warner Cable Inc.
Deloitte & Touche
AT & T
InstallShield Inc.
Medtronic, Inc.
PeopleSupport Inc.
Cox Communications Inc.
Convergys Inc.
ITNET plc
Government of New Brunswick, Canada
Rutgers University, US
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Merrill Lynch HSBC
Johnson & Johnson plc
US Air Force
US Navy
US Coast Guard
US Marines
US Army
Department for Education & Skills, UK
University for Industry, UK
Teacher Training Agency, UK
Los Alamos National Laboratory, US
Sahmyook College, Korea
Bishopís University, Canada
University of Natal, Durban, South Africa
University Rome, Italy
Kodak Inc.
Caterpillar Inc.
Telegraph Group plc
Staffware plc
Barclays Bank plc
Department of Transportation, Puerto Rico
Lyngso Industri
HM Land Registry, UK
LabCorp Inc.
Mitel Networks Corporation
American Society for Quality
University of North Dakota, US
Nong Lam University, Vietnam
Deakin University, Australia
Amazon recommends
The huge international retailer Amazon provided a further boost to Question Tools recently when it began to recommend Question Tools free software to some of its shoppers. It has started to do this alongside some books, suggesting that users should visit the Question Tools site, despite the fact that there is no arrangement between Question Tools and Amazon.
The online assessment market is now crowded with competing products, and yet Question Tools is the only software in this category that Amazon recommends.
Question Tools launches NetSeries for online performance evaluation
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