Questionmark Partners with Electronic Portfolio Leader ePortaro, Inc.

For Immediate Release

Questionmark Partners with Electronic Portfolio Leader ePortaro, Inc.

Anaheim, CA , Stamford, CT and Herndon, VA – November 4, 2003 – The leading vendor in the rapidly developing electronic portfolio market, ePortaro, Inc. and Questionmark™, the leader in testing and assessment software, today announced a partnership at Educause to integrate Questionmark™ Perception™ testing and assessment software with Folio by ePortaro™.

The integration will be built by ePortaro and will provide ePortaro clients with the opportunity to make use of the powerful Perception evaluation and assessment tools as a part of their electronic portfolio environment. Faculty and other evaluators will be able to provide sophisticated assessments of students’ knowledge, skills and aptitudes and post these to portfolios for review by third parties of the students’ choosing. Further, students and instructors will be able to easily post the results of Perception tests and assessments to any of their portfolios.

Questionmark clients will be able to take advantage of robust electronic portfolio technologies to archive and categorize their assessments and assessment results relating them to other learning artifacts like assignments, achievements, and grades for collaboration and reflection. In addition, Questionmark students will now be able to demonstrate longitudinal improvement in their performance as they grow, learn, achieve, and attain new skills and competencies. Questionmark clients will have the opportunity to implement full portfolio functionality of the Folio product at reduced cost.

“We are delighted to form this alliance with Questionmark, the leader in testing and assessment software for colleges, universities and the commercial training sector", said Joseph A. Chalmers, president of ePortaro. “This relationship will provide our clients with yet another way to expand the value of their electronic portfolio programs.”

“Portfolios are becoming an important part of academic life,” commented Questionmark President Eric Shepherd. “We are very pleased to have ePortaro join us as a partner whose highly configurable portfolio solution will bring substantial new benefits to our clients.”

About ePortaro, Inc.:
ePortaro, Inc. gives organizations and individuals the ability to organize diverse artifacts, events, data, and efforts, and to present and share them collaboratively over the Internet. Folio by ePortaro supports the collection, reflection, and assessment of an individual’s efforts in both standards-based and ad-hoc formats. Institutions worldwide are leveraging Folio by ePortaro, the leading solution for enterprise ePortfolio management. More information can be found at www.eportaro.com, or by calling 703-220-6902.

The ePortfolio revolution in higher education is gaining speed as more universities find more ways to use electronic portfolios. Higher education’s “killer application”, ePortfolios promise to improve the educational experience and to allow students and faculty to take advantage of the Internet to easily demonstrate learning, accomplishments and skills.

About Questionmark:
Questionmark has been producing testing and assessment software since 1988, enabling educators and trainers to write, administer, and report on tests and surveys securely using individual PCs, local networks, the Internet, and intranets. Perception users can categorize their question banks into topics and sub-topics from which to assemble tests and surveys. They can shuffle questions and answers for each participant and preview assessments to see how they will appear post-deployment. They can present questions with videos, graphics and a wide variety of styles. Participants receive feedback as specified by the author. Answers are saved to an encrypted file for scoring and analysis in a variety of report formats.

Some 1,800 businesses, governments, schools, colleges, and universities in more than 50 countries use Questionmark Perception. Typical applications include exams, quizzes, study aids, diagnostic tests, pre-course skills assessments, and course evaluations. Questionmark has offices in the United States, England, and Belgium, with distributors worldwide. Complete details are available at 800-863-3950 or www.questionmark.com.

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