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Exam Management Suite Release Notes v5.6

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This release focuses on making everyday work in the Back Office faster and more consistent, while also strengthening authentication and expanding what candidates can do during Test! delivery. In Pro! Back Office, users get a range of quality-of-life improvements: item relationships can now be edited in place, exhibit names are clickable throughout the system, references sort alphabetically by default, and single-well items can now be associated with passages just like other item types. Administrators gain a new configurable item-status workflow, letting them control which statuses are active and whether content can be edited at each one, so the workflow can be tailored to their organization’s process while a handful of core statuses remain fixed to keep the workflow functioning correctly.

Release Notes v5.6

Exam Management Suite Release Notes v5.5

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This release reflects Strasz Assessment Systems’ ongoing commitment to listening to client feedback and simplifying the workflows that item authors and project managers rely on every day. A significant number of enhancements in this release were driven directly by client requests. Bulk operations on passage-associated items, inline role management for project members, and coordinated user deletion across Account Provisioning and User Management further increase the productivity of high-frequency tasks.  

Release Notes v5.5

Exam Management Suite Release Notes v5.4

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This release simplifies role permissions, introduces a new XML publishing format, and expands Poolbook XML export to support media, passages, and MathML. Passages and Poolbook names are now section-scoped. UI refinements and tooltip enhancements improve everyday workflows, and Activity and Event logging now captures print and export actions. Remote Item Authoring and Review expands passage-based project support to include Multiple Selection Multiple Choice items. Secondary Reviewers gain post-review read-only access, and the Round Summary page adds a configurable page size control. Users can now self-manage their profiles and manually sign out.

Release Notes v5.4

Exam Management Suite Release Notes v5.3

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Pro! v5.3 introduces a range of enhancements to improve usability, accessibility, and efficiency across item authoring, review, and publishing workflows. Key highlights include AI-powered rationale generation, expanded passage-based item authoring, MathML equation rendering for improved accessibility, and support for alternate text across delivery channels. Additional updates enhance authentication, user management, and publishing workflows, while new capabilities, such as Find and Replace and the export of review comments, improve content management and collaboration. These improvements are complemented by UI standardization, system performance updates, and targeted maintenance fixes.

Release Notes v5.3

Exam Management Suite Release Notes v5.2

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This release introduces significant improvements to authentication and user management, delivering a more secure, flexible, and streamlined administrative experience. The platform now supports multiple modern authentication models—including Google, LinkedIn, Active Directory, and passwordless email magic links—with built-in single sign-on, centralized security controls, and a unified credential set across the Pro! Back Office and Remote Item Writing and Review. User management has been fully redesigned, enabling administrators to more easily create and manage users and roles, quickly find users through search and filtering, update key account details, and perform bulk actions.

Release Notes v5.2

Exam Management Suite Release Notes v5.1

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This release introduces several enhancements across Pro! Back Office and Remote Item Authoring and Review. Back Office authors can now preview and version Single-Well Ordered List items more effectively, including real-time formatting previews, version comparisons, and small hover previews, with improved reporting support. Dictionary functionality has been expanded to support both global and user dictionaries across multiple editors, with spellchecking that travels with the author.  Additionally, the Remote Item Writing Reference component has been changed to align with the updated user experience.

Release Notes v5.1

Exam Management Suite Release Notes v5.0

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Pro! v5.0 introduces major usability enhancements for your volunteers. A redesigned user interface for remote item authoring and review maximizes screen space and reduces vertical scrolling. Key improvements include side-by-side rationale editing, dynamic WYSIWYG editor menus that appear only when active, and a clean layout that streamlines review tasks while maintaining all existing business rules. This release also adds support for a new Single-Well Ordered List item type for Athena Pearson Browser Edition exams. Unlike traditional single-selection response items, this item type allows candidates to reorder tokens within a single well.

Release Notes v5.0

Exam Management Suite Release Notes v4.8

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This release introduces several enhancements to improve the item authoring and review experience. You can now clone Direction items to save time, and Pro! can auto-generate intelligent item names based on passage titles with configurable numbering. A new HTML Item Report offers a cleaner, customizable format for poolbook exports—ideal for workshops and reviews. Remote Item Writing now supports a “View by Passage” mode for better organization of passage-based content, and APIs support easier access to item comments and statistical data.

Release Notes v4.8

Exam Management Suite Release Notes v4.7

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The Pro! v4.7 release delivers a series of impactful enhancements focused on improving usability, flexibility, and accessibility across the item development and review workflow. Key updates include a redesigned item authoring interface for Single Selection, Likert, and Passage items, featuring dropdown navigation and improved save performance through separate handling of metadata and content. Accessibility is enhanced through a new color-switching preview option that supports ADA-compliant color combinations directly within the authoring interface. Additionally, project managers now have the flexibility to close review projects with active items, supported by detailed warnings and activity logs.

Super Users benefit from expanded capabilities, including the ability to roll back item submissions, create items under any passage, and assign existing items to any passage within a project, regardless of original ownership. Authors and reviewers can now preview entire passage sets, view answer keys, and edit their own comments inline. Super Users can edit all comments, with audit trails reflecting the updates.

Release Notes v4.7

Exam Management Suite Release Notes v4.6

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This release introduces examination cloning, allowing exam development specialists to duplicate exams quickly while maintaining settings and layout configurations. Item assignments have been improved, enabling users to assign all items to a single Primary Reviewer in one step. The Data and Comments tabs have been replaced with more flexible popups, allowing easier access to modification history, statistical data, and comments while viewing item content. Item-level printing enhancements now support including an item’s rationale, and API logging improvements provide better control by separating audit logs from debug trace logs.

Release Notes v4.6