Assessment

Ideally, online assessment provides the same flexibility and ease of use as traditional tests. It also helps instructors take advantage of opportunities to customize course content based on students' performance. Online assessment in these products includes standard multiple-choice, true or false, fill in the blank, matching, and essay questions. Instructors benefit from storing questions in a database because they can categorize, reuse, and search for existing questions when creating additional tests.

Feature	WebCT	Blackboard	Prometheus
Courseware product can store questions in a database	Get help	Get help
Instructors can upload questions from file to database	Get help	Get help
Instructors can download questions from database to file	Get help	Get help
Instructors can create questions offline in a program, such as Microsoft Excel
Instructors can organize question database into self-created categories	Get help	Get help
Instructors can select questions from database according to specific characteristics	Get help	Get help
Instructors can select a random set of questions from question database	Get help	Get help	see below
Instructors can reuse existing questions on a new quiz	Get help	Get help
Instructors can embed HTML within quiz questions	Get help	Get help
Instructors can embed images within quiz questions	Get help	Get help
Instructors can embed equations within quiz questions and answers
Instructors can embed images within multiple-choice answers	Get help	Get help
Instructors can allow more than one answer to multiple-choice questions	Get help	Get help
Instructors can allow students to take quizzes multiple times	Get help	Get help
Courseware product can store grades for multiple attempts at quizzes
Instructors can regrade all quizzes if the answer key changes	Get help
Instructors can assign weights to answers for partial credit	Get help
Instructors can set time limits for quizzes	Get help	Get help
Instructors can view indicator when students exceed time limit of timed quizzes	Get help		see below
Instructors can create anonymous surveys	Get help	Get help
Courseware product can mark multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions automatically	Get help	Get help
Courseware product can announce quizzes automatically		Get help

Prometheus allows random selection of questions from the questions in a given quiz, but not from a question pool. Prometheus also displays the time a student spent on a test in the gradebook, but does not have a time.