Feature Matrix

With test.com you have many options, many choices. You can begin utilizing test.com in it’s default simple form or you can turn on many advanced features to make it perfectly fit your organization’s needs.

As your needs evolve, your test.com private account site is designed to evolve with you. There are no optional modules to buy, no costs to switch on features, customization fees or other hidden costs. Every live and trial customer gets our latest version of the test.com application. As a commitment to our excellence and our quality effort, we release updates to test.com on an approximate 3 month schedule. This way our customers have access to absolutely the best online testing solution available in the marketplace.

User - Basic Features	Included
Unlimited number of users allowed per private test.com account website
Unlimited user group membership
Unlimited expandable custom user data fields
My Account feature so users can access their account information, history and certificates (unless administrator restricted)
User default language, country and time-zone (individually, or limit by group membership)

User – Creation Options	Included
Individually or bulk loaded by administrators
Self created with secure passcode
Optional integration with your existing systems (web portals, LMS, HR,… ) using XML, web services or FTP data transfer

User – Navigation Options	Included
User experience controlled by administrators
Content optionally organized by folder, programs, or courses
Content find filter and search
Optional main menus to restart, retake and find required content to take

User – Administrator Advanced Features	Included
Override test/content taken limits (temporarily or permanently)
Override test cost to take (if charging to take tests)
Bulk user email (with mail merge like functionality)
Bulk user deactivate
Manual essay scoring wizard
Limit user system access (by time of day/weekend, referring site and IP address)
Individual (or bulk) test re-score and resend test email pass/fail notices, certificates, results and all other notices

User – Management Reporting	Included
Filter data criteria including user custom fields and group membership
Exception based reporting for required tests to take, past due tests, completed tests/content
Data exports to Excel, PDF, and delimited files
Automated data transfer to your existing systems (using web services and FTP)

Tests/Content – Types	Included
Tests (with single list of questions or unlimited question banks)
Exams (like tests but have individually scored sections)
Surveys (like a test but not scored)
Lessons
Programs/Courses (unlimited grouping of Tests, Exams, Surveys, and Lessons)
Sections/Question Banks (reusable for inclusion in Tests and Exams)

Tests/Content - Basic Features	Included
Unlimited number of tests/content allowed per private test.com account website
Unlimited number of questions/lesson pages allowed per private test.com account website
Activate and deactivate flags (used to make content available for taking)
Control access to tests/content based on user group membership
Custom control of display sort orders in choose to take navigation lists shown to users
Copy and duplicate tests/content
Duplicate and auto translate content into another language
Time limits while taking
Prerequisites based on other content either successfully completed or passed (within an optional time period window)

Tests/Content – Taking Options	Included
Individually control number of questions displayed on a page
Limit site navigation while taking
Optional force the taking of the test/content in security popup window that prevents screen captures, copy & paste and/or printing
Optional controls for back button usage and the skipping of questions
Options to allow test taker to stop and restart taking a test, with or without a stop taking button, limit restart frequency by number of occurrences and/or within an optional time period window
Option to allow a test taker to finish taking a test without answering all the questions and scoring those unanswered questions as incorrect	New
Limit retakes individually by successful, unsuccessful, pass and/or fail counters within an optional time period window
Limit retakes with individual first retake and/or subsequent retakes after a 'cooling off' period of time
Optional displays for the display of an elapsed timer, progress bar, calculator, custom question hints, custom question and/or question bookmarking
Individually customized instructions and/or help pages
Option to enforce a Minimum Time Frame while taking content, for example to track hourly credits and force a user to spend a minimum amount of time taking certain content before being awarded credits or certification	New

Tests/Content – Questions Options	Included
Question types including: multiple choice, multiple answer, fill in the blank, essay, matching, pull down lists, drag and drops
Question display options: automatically formatted, plain text, rich text, rendered HTML, mixed custom images, mixed video/sound, custom JAVA controls
Easily add images, documents, videos and audio clips to questions using test.com's Advanced Express Media Library Display feature	New
Question scoring method options: variable question values, partial credit, all or nothing, credit with deductions, no score
Special scoring for essay and short answer question types: automatically using keywords/phrases/concepts and manual with administrator scoring wizard workflow
Copy and duplicate individual questions
Bulk load questions
Deactivate, delete and hide questions
Optional customized instructions, hints, references and explanations/rationales
Optional possible answers randomization by: all answers, all except last answer, all except last 2 answers

Tests/Content – Questions Randomization Options	Included
Optional limit by maximum question counts
Optional automatic or manual override settings to balance included questions by various difficulty levels	Updated
Force question inclusion specifying question anchor types: force at start of test, force at end of test, or allow anywhere in test
Optional control randomization/question counts individually by sub groups of questions within test sections
Optional randomize possible answers (with selective overrides and the handling of “all of the above” type of questions)
For retakes, option to not the repeat already answered or correctly answered questions within an optional time period window

Tests/Content – Scenario Options	Included
Associate scenarios with one or more questions
Scenario display options: automatically formatted, plain text, rich text, rendered HTML, mixed custom images, mixed video/sound, custom JAVA controls
Easily add images, documents, videos and audio clips to scenarios using test.com's Advanced Express Media Library Display feature	New
Automatically display scenario prior to each question, option to redisplay in full or partially for additional questions that use the same scenario
When randomizing questions, option to force questions with the same scenario together and/or balance questions counts

Tests/Content – Lesson Pages	Included
Lesson page display options: automatically formatted, plain, rich text, rendered HTML, mixed custom images, mixed video/sound, custom JAVA controls
Easily add images, documents, videos and audio clips to lesson pages using test.com's Advanced Express Media Library Display feature	New

Tests/Content – Program/Course Type Options	Included
Optional assessable period of time content access limit based on either created dates or due dates
Option to force program content to be taken in sequence
Option to allow for electives and nested sets of electives that count for program completion
Manages optional due date and due date notification
Manages optional expiration date and expiration date notification
Other uniquely controlled custom notifications for: created by, assigned by, completed, purchased, past due, reminder, and to be repeated
Optional repeat frequency from either created or completed date

Tests/Content – Delivery of Results	Included
Uniquely controlled if recipient is the user, test taker, proctor or administrator
Ability to hide scores and generate customize messages based on passing threshold
Email full results, partial results, or notices to any combination of the user, administrators in the user’s user group, the user’s manager(s) and/or hard coded email addresses
Ability to fully customize all generated emails and on screen messages using plain text, rich text, HTML and/or graphics
Differentiate emails based on completion, passing or failing scores
Hold overall scoring if any questions are set to be optionally manually scored (such as for essay questions)
Generate a custom “mail merged” certificate in a printable PDF format attached to emails or available on screen, triggered upon completion or a passing score
Customizable results available on screen to the user immediately post test and/or on user’s My Account test taken history pages
Differentiate on screen results based on correct answers, incorrect answers, completion, passing or failing scores
Control and/or hide selective questions, user’s answers, and answer keys based on correct/incorrectness and/or completion/passing/failing scores
Display optional question explanations (the rationale why a question answer is either correct/incorrect) by correct/incorrectness and/or completion/passing/failing scores
If using test sections, display a customizable section summary table detailing sub scores by section
Option to display question administrator configurable results at the end of the test and/or after each question (or page of questions) while the test is being taken	Updated

Tests/Content – Custom Certificate Templates	Included
An unlimited number of certificate templates can be created
Certificate templates can be customized using plain text, rich text or HTML to include your borders, your images and/or your graphics
Easily add graphics including logos, backgrounds, seals and signature scans to certificate templates using test.com's Advanced Express Media Library Display feature	New
All international paper sizes and orientations are supported
Over 50 mail merges like codes can be included in certificates to add user, content and test taken information
Administrators have full control of information/graphic placement, sizes, text, colors and alignment
Certificate templates are reusable, can be duplicated and/or deactivated

Tests/Content – Charging Test Takers to Take Content (optional)	Included
Built in integration with PayPal and/or Google Checkout
Custom integration with existing shopping carts using web services
Selectable number of days window content can be taken after purchase
Variable charge (or no charge) for retakes
Override costs/charges by individual user and/or user group membership
Bundling of content into one chargeable purchase
Optional usage and administration of “points” (in user groups) instead of currencies like US Dollars (supports selling blocks of “X” number of tests to users in a group)
Selectable currency based on user’s or test’s country setting

Reporting	Included
Filterable quick reports that display tests/content currently being taken and previously taken
Filterable individual or all taken reports in a variety of formats: on screen, PDF, excel, delimited for export
Filterable tests/content statistical reporting suite in a variety of formats: on screen, PDF, excel, delimited for export
Filterable tests/content item analytics reporting suite in a variety of formats: on screen, PDF, excel, delimited for export
Exception user reporting based on user group membership
Required to take tests/content based on either variable number of days since user hire date, recurring on user anniversary date, or content taken on anniversary
Filterable tests/content user purchase history

Proctoring for High Staking Testing (optional)	Included
Content/Test unlock by a proctor associated with a group of users
Large audience/classroom content unlock based on user group membership
Optional control to allow printing tests to be taken off line
Optional control to allow editing of user records

Site Settings	Included
URL builder to auto navigate users to test/content and trigger events
Override system menus, page titles, page headers using plain text, rich text or HTML to include your images and/or your graphics
Override system log in page and optional new user self add page using plain text, rich text or HTML to include your images and/or your graphics
Override all look and feel settings
Override default system SMTP gateways to use your mail servers so all automated generated emails (such as for: results, pass/fail notices, invites, reminders, etc...) appear as if they are coming directly from you instead of test.com directly. Using this feature greatly minimizes the chances the emails being received will not be blocked by SPAM filters	New
Optionally add your own CCS and custom java script functions

Security	Included
Security roles set and managed by user group membership
Variable roles to allow any combination of user, content, reporting and proctoring administration
Additional variable sub-roles to limit viewing, editing or deleting information
Limit site access using IP ranges and/or referral address uniquely controlled by user group membership or site master defaults
Optional browser SSL support

Logs and Auditing	Included
User access log
User information data change logs
User group change logs
Content and tests change logs
Question, scenario and lesson page change logs
Rescore and re-notice logs
Bunk entry transaction logs
Web services transaction logs