Gnowledge officially announces the launch of their free-to-use test publishing platform today. The platform, www.gnowledge.com, allows anyone to create, publish, share and take tests online. Eventually it aims to provide a global repository of user-generated test, assignment and exam questions that can be accessed by educators, students and parents of school-going children all over the world. The platform also provides an automated on-the-spot marking system that takes the tedium out of self-marking and self-assessment.
Gnowledge aims to build their international test paper syllabus database by attracting a wide pool of educators to use the platform and set questions for their students. To achieve this, Gnowledge has made the platform easy to use and has specially programmed the platform to accept questions and answers in a format that can be automatically marked.
“As any educator knows, marking 40 sets of Multiple Choice Questions is tedious and monotonous. By eliminating the need for educators or parents to mark test papers, Gnowledge provides a very attractive time-saving feature – time that can be better spent putting together a better lesson plan, or teaching. We realized that technology was able to provide just this solution, but there was no one out there doing this, so we decided to make one,” says Choong Chong Yew, Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Gnowledge. “Imagine the number of hours we can help educators save globally!”
The technology team at Gnowledge researched ways to input questions and answers that could be accepted by the automated marking system and have come up with some novel solutions for the multiple choice questions, fill in the blanks, true/false and match questions, with more in the works.
With the attractive, automated marking feature, students are able to assess areas they went wrong, see the correct answers and learn on the spot, while educators and parents can log in remotely to view their ward’s assessment scores and see where he/she went wrong in order to focus on the child’s weak areas.
“We hope the self-marking feature will encourage students to use the platform regularly for self assessment. To that end, what we have included is the question and answer randomization. This makes each test different each time it is taken, forcing the student to think about the answer again,” adds Choong.
Gnowledge was beta-launched in February to start accepting questions and feedback from users. Since then, the portal has attracted, mainly by word-of-mouth, almost 9,000 users worldwide. So far, the bulk of early adopters hail from Singapore, Malaysia, Mexico, Hong Kong, United States and the United Kingdom.
“When we first conceptualised Gnowledge, we wanted to democratize learning and make learning truly global – no matter where you were, you could login in at any time, and take a test or an assignment or an exercise. Educators from around the world can create, publish and share the tests. Everyone can then tap into the global expertise of educators and the best of teaching practices worldwide,” Choong shares.
Features currently available on Gnowledge include:
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FEATURE |
DESCRIPTION |
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Creation/search of tests for any subject or topic |
Tests are categorized by title, subject, grade, school and/or country and can be searched in any manner. |
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Sharing Feature |
Tests published on Gnowledge can be shared via e-mail, Facebook, Twitter and over 250 other social media networks, blogs and websites with one mouseclick. |
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Randomization of question and answer orders |
Test takers taking the same test multiple times will find that the question and answer orders change each time they take the test. Test takers will have to rethink the answers for every question each time they redo a test. |
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Online marking and archive |
Test results, scores and answers to every test and individual question are stored online and are accessible anytime Registered users have access to results of their test history and review anytime they wish Educators can review the results of their students for each test they publish. |
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Test Activity Report feature |
Allows test creators to view and analyze: - a list of all test takers who have taken tests created by them including username, test duration and location - assessment frequency of individual test takers - results, score and answers of every individual test administered. |
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Save function |
Test takers can save the progress of tests assessed midway and complete them at a later time. |
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Optional timer |
Included for when the test taker wishes to be competitive, simulate a real test environment, and/or assert him/herself during a test. |
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Vanity Page for each user |
A one-stop homepage that contains all the tests created by the individual. Anyone can access any registered user's Vanity Page directly by typing the URL in a browser window: www.gnowledge.com/username. |
Gnowledge is free-to-use. Additional features will be added incrementally and periodically based on user feedback and demand and through Gnowledge's internal research and development efforts. For more information, visit www.gnowledge.com.
Issued for and on behalf of Gnowledge by Roi Strategy Consultants Pte Ltd.
