Gary Spivack, Senior Product Manager
November 5, 2024
With the Pro! v4.4 update, we’re thrilled to bring you a suite of powerful enhancements designed to make your experience smoother, more flexible, and fully accessible. Here’s what’s new:
Dive into greater accessibility with alt-text support for digital assets, ensuring ADA compliance is built right into your workflow. For those handling item reviews, our new passage-based review rounds make it easier to focus solely on the passage, streamlining your entire review process.
Need more flexibility? Pro! v4.4 now supports numeric answer keys and an expanded API, allowing you to create examination forms and pool books easily. We’ve also fine-tuned the platform with key maintenance fixes to make publishing, editing, and accessibility work seamlessly.
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View the Pro! V4.4 release notes.
Enhanced Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Support
Unlock the full potential of your digital assets with Pro! Our innovative platform empowers you to seamlessly add and manage alternative text (alt text), ensuring every image is ADA-compliant. Whether you’re introducing a new exhibit or enhancing existing assets, Pro! makes the alt text integration a breeze.
Picture this: with just a few clicks, authorized users can enter, view, and modify alt text directly from the catalog or the Exhibit search results page. Plus, when you’re ready to publish, the alt text flows directly to the Pearson Vue Athena Browser Edition QTI, and is available to be read to candidates by screen readers.
Ready to elevate your digital asset accessibility? With Pro!, you comply with regulations and make every interaction inclusive and meaningful. Let’s make your content accessible, impactful, and compliant—effortlessly!
Passage-Based Item Review Rounds
Passage-based item review rounds are a powerful new, intuitive, and streamlined feature. Our passage-based review feature makes it easier for your team to focus on the heart of the content, saving time and enhancing quality. Here’s how:
For your Secondary Reviewers (SR), this update is a game-changer. They no longer have to review at the item level; SRs can now complete comprehensive, insightful reviews at the passage level. They’ll be able to focus on the passage content, all within a single review round.
But that’s not all—once a Secondary Reviewer completes the review, the feedback is instantly applied to the entire passage and its associated items. Imagine the clarity, consistency, and time saved! The SR’s work queue will highlight each passage, making navigation as intuitive as the process.
Application Programming Interfaces (API)
Unlock new possibilities with our latest API additions! Integrating the creation and management of examination forms and pool books into your systems and processes is easy and intuitive. With detailed online documentation and robust validation and messaging, your organization’s workflow will be smooth and worry-free.
Pro! is your partner for test creation. With innovative features and a focus on efficiency, precision, and flexibility, there’s never been a better time to upgrade. Empower your team and elevate your exam creation process today!
Coming Soon
We are excited to announce that our new automated Forms Assembly feature has moved into beta! Create your exam by specifying parameters and letting our artificial intelligence (AI) do the heavy lifting. Save the input specification as a template that can be used for subsequent builds.
Additionally, we are in the validation stage of a new feature that will generate X-ray images from a trained model.
See us at the I.C.E. Exchange conference, where we will discuss our semantic similarity engine in more detail.
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About Pro!
Our enterprise item bank offers collaborative and systemized management of the entire exam development process. Pro! enables unlimited users to author and edit unlimited items anywhere across the internet. Use Pro!’s item development workshop functionality, and allow your staff to communicate with item writing and review teams. Write traditional multiple-choice items or design complex simulation items with Pro!. Assign metadata to the items, including classifications, rationales, comments, references, and user-defined fields through user-friendly, easy-to-navigate screens.
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About the Author
Gary Spivack has worked in the testing industry since the mid-90s as a software engineer, developing complex software systems that span item authoring, examination delivery drivers, scoring, and reporting systems. His drive to have systems be best-of-breed in the industry inspired him to become the product owner for Strasz Assessment System’s suite of products. When not at work, Gary continues self-improvement through martial arts and, of course, follows the Philadelphia sports teams.