The assessment authoring platform that drives smarter exams
Manage teams of item writers easily, track items through customizable workflows, and create high-quality assessments backed by psychometric best practices.
Simplify Assessment Creation and Management
Our assessment platform helps you streamline item authoring by uniting writers, reviewers, and psychometricians in a single workflow to draft, edit, and approve high-quality items.
Easy Item Creation
ASC’s intuitive WYSIWYG editor makes creating a variety of question types like multiple-choice, essays, and video responses simple for any user, no technical expertise required.
Efficient Item Authoring
Create and organize high-quality items tailored to your needs. Assess.com ensures that every question is clear, measurable, and aligned with your goals, whether for quizzes or certification exams.
Automated Item Variations
Quickly generate item variants to expand your item bank, enhance diversity, and ensure your assessments are robust and varied, all with minimal effort.
Collaborative Review
Easily collect feedback from multiple reviewers and stakeholders to refine items before final approval, ensuring the highest quality and consistency in your assessments.
Customizable Blueprints
Create and upload custom blueprints to align items with specific standards. Tailor every assessment to meet your precise needs with custom fields and objectives.
Automated Standard Setting
Use the Angoff method for defensible standard setting, and easily export ratings for analysis to ensure fairness and reliability in your assessments.
Workflow Management
Track and manage item progress with an engaging Kanban board, making it easy to stay organized, assign tasks, and ensure timely review and delivery.
Flexible Publishing
Publish assessments online, print for paper exams, or export in QTI format, ensuring flexibility for various delivery methods and integration needs.
What is Assessment Authoring Software?
Assessment authoring is the process of creating tests, which is far harder than it looks if you do it right. Each item is carefully crafted to meet psychometric and quality standards, ensuring accuracy and fairness. With the right tools, you can build a reusable item bank to assemble multiple test forms quickly and efficiently. You also need to store metadata, past usage, and much more, then run items through a review workflow.
Once you’ve authored your items, you can publish your assessments online, print them for paper exams, or export them for use in other delivery systems.
Item Writing
Item writing is the first step in the authoring process. Subject matter experts (SMEs) are given topics to write about, materials, and guidelines.
Assessment authoring goes far beyond typing multiple-choice questions into a text box. ASC’s intuitive WYSIWYG editor supports a wide range of item types, from essays and simulations to video-based responses, so you can design assessments that truly measure skills and knowledge.
This reduces rework, supports accreditation requirements, and ensures your exams can withstand legal and professional scrutiny.
Item Review
The next step is to have items reviewed by other SMEs. Items typically go through several stages of review, gaining insightful comments, meaningful edits, and other input like Angoff ratings. Our Kanban-style interface makes this process easy to manage.
When teams work in silos, it’s easy for items to get stuck in review and for quality to be uneven. ASC’s collaborative workflows solve this by keeping every contributor aligned, moving items smoothly from draft to approval, and guaranteeing that exams are consistent, defensible, and delivered on schedule.
Test Publishing
Items are then assembled into test forms, which typically follow blueprints. The is is also the step where you establish all the operational aspects of the assessment, like sections, time limits, and instructions.
AI-Powered Item Generation & Analytics
Developing enough items to maintain fairness and security has always been one of the biggest challenges in assessment. ASC solves this with Automated Item Generation (AIG), which uses item models to create high-quality variants in minutes instead of weeks.
Why AI-Powered Item Generation & Analytics?
Many organizations struggle to scale their item banks fast enough to keep up with demand. AIG accelerates item creation and enhances fairness across test forms. This results in larger, more diverse banks that make your exams harder to compromise and easier to defend.
Every great exam starts with thoughtful assessment authoring.
FAQ: Online Assessment and Psychometrics
It’s not easy to build and deliver a high-quality exam. It requires extensive experience, a team of psychometricians, and software designed specifically to manage best practices like item response theory. New to all this? Here’s some FAQ.
Yes, you can publish assessments online, print them for paper exams, or export them in QTI format for integration with other systems.
ASC provides comprehensive onboarding, user guides, best-practice resources, and ongoing support to ensure that your team is fully equipped to use the platform effectively.
You can create a wide range of question types, including multiple-choice, multiple response, drag and drop, fill in the blank, equation editor, essays, simulations, video responses, and more, all within an intuitive WYSIWYG editor.
Yes. ASC supports collaborative authoring, allowing teams of writers, reviewers, and psychometricians to work together seamlessly in one secure environment.
Items are protected with role-based permissions, audit trails, and secure storage. Access is controlled at every step of the authoring workflow to prevent unauthorized use. We’ve achieved the SOC2 Type 2 level of security accreditation.
Every item is stored with full metadata, version history, and audit trails. You can always track who made changes, when, and why.
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