What’s New in Questionmark™ Perception™ version 5?

Now it's easier than ever to deliver assessments to multiple different types of devices (including smartphones and internet-connected handhelds such as the Apple iPhone), or to create learning and assessment mash-ups by embedding quizzes or surveys within wikis, blogs and web pages.

Perception Version 5's new auto-sensing, auto-sizing delivery features take the guesswork out of blended delivery, enabling you to author an assessment once, schedule it once and then deliver it in as many different ways as they like.

When delivering an assessment, Perception v5 auto-senses the participant’s device and browser, then delivers the assessment formatted appropriately for the device/browser’s requirements. Perception’s “on the fly” auto-sizing dynamically adjusts and sizes the “screen furniture” and “skin” of an assessment – the buttons, controls and template graphics — so they fit (and look great) on just about any screen size or resolution imaginable.

• Click to try out out the participant experience
• Or try the following URL on your mobile device: www.questionmark.com/go/v5mobile
• Example assessment embedded in a wiki
• Example assessment embedded in a web page

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• Delivery software renders HTML optimized to work with assistive technologies such as screen readers
• Assessment templates include text-sizing and contrast controls within assessments to aid participants with low/partial vision:
  

  Try an assessment with text-sizing and contrast controls

  
  
• Improved capabilities for navigation of assessments via keyboard and/or alternate devices to accommodate participants who are unable to use a mouse.

These and other improvements will help organizations comply with Web accessibility standards such as those described in Section 508 Web accessibility standards in the United States and the International web Accessibility Initiative Guidelines (WCAG) of the World  Wide Web Consortium (WC3).

- Questionmark Perception v5 VPAT - Voluntary Product Accessibility Template: Section 1194.22 (PDF)
- Knowledge base article: Accessibility in Questionmark Perception

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Questionmark Perception version 5's optional Translation Management System helps test publishers, businesses and other organisations that need to deliver assessments in multiple languages by streamlining the management and delivery of localised content to multinational workforces.

Try out a multi-lingual assessment

Translations can be conducted on the fly within a new browser-based tool in Perception, or items and assessments can be exported for translation by a third-party application or vendor.

Once translated, the assessments remain connected to their base-language counterparts for efficient management of subsequent edits and reporting:

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Introduced in Version 5, Perception Server’s three-tiered architecture provides an option for deploying the Perception’s presentation tier and business logic tiers on separate servers. In addition to the enhanced security, this model allows users to run Perception’s presentation tier on either Linux or Windows-based web server. Users who prefer may still opt to install Perception Server on a single Windows-based server.

• New, improved option for LDAP integration
• Support for Windows Server 2008
• Support for Windows 7 (Perception Authoring Manager)
• Support for Oracle 11 and SQL Server 2008