The staff at SALLII, LLC. use Respondus 3.5 to author assessment questions. Respondus 3.5 is a client-based authoring tool which is used at thousands of institutions to create and manage assessments. It will export items in the IMS QTI 1.2 standard thus allowing compliant assessment systems to easily import the items. In conjunction with the Joomla Quiz Tool (JQT) extension for IMS QTI, Respondus 3.5 provides a powerful, time-saving way to create or convert assessments for the Joomla platform and SALLII's "JQT" extension.

Respondus 3.5 Features

Authoring

• Includes distinct user environments (called "personalities") for ANGEL, Blackboard, eCollege, WebCT, and IMS QTI
• Create exams and assessments offline using a Windows interface
• Supports up to 7 question types, including algorithmic formats.
• Import questions from MS Word (including embedded images), rich-text, QTI and tab/comma delimited formats
• Use the Exam Wizard to create an assessment in minutes
• "Spell check" an entire exam file (includes dictionaries for American English, Canadian English, British English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Finnish, and a comprehensive medical dictionary)
• Add tables, bulleted lists, font changes, and enhanced formatting (e.g. bold, italics) just like in a word processor
• Insert mathematical and scientific symbols using the Respondus Equation Editor or MathType
• Embed graphics, audio, and video without writing or viewing the underlying HTML
• Resize graphics and convert them to JPEG format with one click
• Add links to multimedia content on other servers with the Web Links tool

• Preview questions before publishing them to the server
• Determine point values and exam settings offline
• Print exams/surveys directly from Respondus, or save files to MS Word or rich-text format

• Retrieve exams from the leading eLearning platforms, complete with media files*
• Archive and restore exam/survey projects (including media content) with one click — ideal for providing a colleague with a ready-to-use exam
• Quickly locate questions using keyword searches

• Full context-sensitive help
• Respondus User Guide (MS Word/Wordpad format)
• An incredibly easy-to-use interface that makes the online help and user guide woefully neglected by most users
• Access to over 1,000 publisher test banks in Respondus format -- FREE to instructors who adopt a participating textbook