WebCT integrates with Questionmark Perception

For Immediate Release

WebCT integrates with Questionmark Perception

PEABODY, MA/VANCOUVER, BC - November 11, 1999 - WebCT and Questionmark today announced the integration of Questionmark’s Perception testing and assessment software with WebCT’s popular teaching and learning platform. Colleges and universities can now take advantage of Perception’s scoring and analysis capabilities along with WebCT’s unique tools for authoring and delivering educational material.

WebCT, the world leader in Internet-based higher education teaching and learning tools, gives instructors and course designers the ability to create online courses to their own specifications, provide communication tools for course participants, and track student progress. The integration of Perception software with WebCT brings robust, easy-to-use test authoring and delivery capabilities to the WebCT system along with sophisticated analysis and reporting mechanisms. Perception analyses the results of every test, quiz, and assessment, offering seven standard reports as well as customised reports.

We chose Perception for the quality of their product, and the ease in which it is integrated into WebCT’s existing educational tools,” said Sasan Salari, Vice President of WebCT Canada. “The combination of Perception’s testing and assessment software with WebCT’s learning platform is a perfect fit, and offers instructors even greater flexibility in course preparation and presentation.”

We are very pleased to be able to respond to our customers’ requests for this integration,” remarked Eric Shepherd, president of Questionmark. “WebCT has been a pleasure to work with, and we are excited by this integration. Linking ‘best of breed’ products is going to help our mutual customers deploy their tests and assessments easily, safely, and securely.”

About WebCT
Some 1,100 colleges and universities in more than 45 countries have licensed more than 4.7 million student seats for more than 116,000 WebCT courses during the current academic year.

WebCT is widely used both for distance education and Web enhancement of local classroom-based courses. WebCT's flexibility gives every instructor the academic freedom to teach their own class in their own way at their own level of technological comfort.

Students overwhelmingly rate the quality of WebCT courses as good to excellent. Many colleges and universities have made institutional commitments to WebCT and have scaled quickly to offer faculty and students its benefits on an enterprise-wide level.

Since May, WebCT has rapidly expanded its sales, marketing, services, and levels of user support to match the rapid growth of its users. The company's two main offices are in Peabody, MA, in the U.S. and Vancouver, British Columbia, in Canada. More information about both the product and the Company can be found at http://www.webct.com .

About Questionmark
Questionmark was founded in the UK in 1988 and was one of the first software companies to provide an authoring framework to create tests and assessments to run on PCs. Today the company offers a full range of software for the testing and assessment marketplace spanning Windows and web environments. Businesses, governments, and universities in over 40 countries now use Questionmark software.

More information on Questionmark Perception can be found on the Internet at http://www.questionmark.com/uk/. If you would like any other information about Perception, contact Vivienne Shaughnessy at Questionmark Computing, telephone: +44 (0)800 731 5895. Email: vivienne.shaughnessy@questionmark.co.uk .

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