Formative and summative assessment: integrating Blackboard software and Questionmark

I didn't really want to go to this session, but having not seen QMP for about three years I
thought it time to catch up with any developments.
John Dermo (online assessment specialist apparently) from Bradford asked the audience who
currently uses QMP - only two admitted it.

Drive to online assessment is part of Bradford's 'ecoversity' agenda to reduce paper wasted
on printing hardcopy MCQs, in addition to NSS + feedback, HEFCE strategy on 'enabling
e-assessment', Bradford's LTA and e-strategies, and student expectations. Working on a
Pathfinder Project to 'embed support processes for e-assessment' See:
www.brad.ac.uk/lss/tqeg/projects/caa.php. Outcomes of this project - rules and regs,
training, item banking and learning spaces for QMP. John then spent the rest of his session
explaining the procedures for setting up formative assessments in Blackboard via the QMP
connector, a question type comparison, accessing results in the Gradebook etc, and the
procedures for summative assessment which simply allow assessments to be rescheduled in
event of power/server failure.

QMP still looks the same as the last time I saw it, and is as
difficult to use as ever, and lots of moans from the audience that the connector nor the QM
secure browser doesn't work properly. Really pleased we don't use it.