What is the Open Assessment Platform?

The Open Assessment Platform™ is the name given to Questionmark’s family of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).

The Open Assessment Platform allows developers to:

• Easily integrate with Questionmark products
• Create customized solutions to suit their organizations specific needs
• Create their own extensions to Questionmark products

Using the Open Assessment Platform APIs organizations can integrate Questionmark products with their existing systems. For example, an organization may want to:

• Automate the creation of participants based on user information from a 3rd party system
• Pass result data from 3rd party systems in to Questionmark for reporting
• Launch assessments or view reports directly from within a 3rd party application

Questionmark provides the QMWISe and PIP APIs to support integration with the administration and delivery of assessments respectively.  To find out more about these, please refer to the following Knowledge Base articles:

• What is QMWISe, and how do I find out more about it?
• What is PIP?

Questionmark has created a developer support site to provide developer documentation of the APIs. You'll also find sample code to ensure that developers hit the floor running when it comes to creating their own integrations. To find out more about developing with the Open Assessment Platform visit the developer support site:

http://developer.questionmark.com

The site includes links to projects we use to develop some of our own integration products. This allows developers to download the source code, learn how the integration products work, use them as the starting point for their own projects or even contribute back modifications for the benefit of the whole community. The freely available versions of these integration products are called Community Editions. To find out more about Community Editions, please refer to the following Knowledge Base article:

• What are Community Edition releases?