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Test maker

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Use this test maker to create your own tests with custom scoring, multiple
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Here’s how Pointerpro’s test maker can improve your professional training
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    Identify the lack of knowledge on certain subjects

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More than 1.500 companies and consultants use Pointerpro

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Curious how it works? Give it a go!

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Why use Pointerpro’s tests & quizzes in your courses?

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Get immediate feedback

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The test maker shows which answers were right and wrong immediately after the test.

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Track progression

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You can track the progression of all your students with our detailed reporting.

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No fear of failure with anonymous answers. Plus they can improve their score by retaking the test, enhancing retention of the course material.

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The importance of tests in a training and educational environment

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Tests incorporated in the classroom will enhance the learning experience for your students. Studies have shown that after 20 minutes students who simply studied the material had already forgotten 40%.

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Can you imagine the results after two weeks, a month, a year?
That’s right, more than 90% is lost.

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By implementing assessment tests into the learning process, you can slow this regression down, tremendously.

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Here’s how test maker works:
To realize you are not fully remembering a concept, your brain has to make the mistake first hand.
By taking a test, you can actually see where your errors lie. Your brain then recognizes the mistake and updates the information.

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6 Best practices of educational tests

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Enhancing your tests with online test maker software

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Pointerpro’s test maker has numerous features to make your tests more fun, interactive and educational:

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    A progress bar gives students an indication of how long the test will take them.

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    Apply score weighting to add importance to certain questions. These are worth more (“heavier weight”) and have a higher impact on the final total score.

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    Redirect to course material or chapters they should review based on their scores. Lead students to parts on which they didn’t score well, making for easy reviewing.

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Typically, the most useful feedback comes from your VIPs and your vendors. These keys groups are small enough for you to manage the feedback, are educated in events well enough to recognize the good and “needs improvement” elements, and often respond to feedback requests.

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To ease the process of making tests, we also made a nifty tool, the One-Click Quiz Maker.

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It’s a free online test maker with which you can create a quiz/test about any well-known person or company in 5 seconds flat.

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To adjust the questions, be sure to ‘claim’ your quiz at the end.

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It is important that the feedback details can be collected efficiently and analyzed objectively and professionally to make meaningful conclusions.

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Given the limitless capabilities of the Pointerpro platform, organizations envision audacious assessment projects to catalyze their business. 

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Whatever resources you may lack to manage the scope of your imagination, we can handle for you.

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You think it, we’ll build it.

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We’re ISO 27001:2022 certified!

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ISO 27001 certification assures our customers of a steadfast commitment to maintaining the highest standards of information security and safeguarding their valuable data.

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This certification underscores Pointerpro’s dedication to meeting global benchmarks and instilling confidence and trust in the reliability and security of its services.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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Pointerpro is a software platform to create your own online assessments, automatically generate personalized reports and manage the distribution of assessments.

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Our headquarters are based in Belgium, Europe. However, our team is distributed across multiple time zones to ensure responsive support, no matter where you are. This global presence allows us to provide timely and efficient assistance around the clock.
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Your assessment challenges and objectives are unique to you. So is our pricing. Request your quote and find how we can help you.

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Yes, we are.

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This depends on the plan. You can pay monthly for the Professional and the Enterprise plan.

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Pointerpro’s servers are hosted at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Ireland (EU/EEA) (more info here) and in Australia for Australian users, the world’s largest and most reliable cloud infrastructure provider. This ensures compliance with EU data protection regulations and guarantees high standards of security and reliability. All our servers are set up redundantly to prevent loss of data or unavailability of any kind. Our SLA with AWS ensures any issue be taken up with the highest priority. Our specialized infrastructure and operations provider keeps a watchful eye to make sure everything is done following the highest standards and operating smoothly. For more info check Pointerpro’s security statement.

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We have over 50 languages supported. You can create each assessment and report in one or more languages. You can check the full supported languages list here.

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We offer two approaches: Do-it-yourself (DIY) and done-for-you (DFY).
DIY is a hands-on approach to building everything by yourself. We will ensure you learn how to use the key features to build a great assessment and report. Likewise, we’ll support you until you are ready to go live and launch the assessment to the respondents

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DFY is the quickest way to get there. Our team will do the heavy lifting here. You will simply share with us the existing version of the assessment and pdf report and we will translate them into Pointerpro. Once we are done, we will teach you how to make changes to it, teach you how to distribute the assessment for you to master your desired workflow. You can reach out to support@pointerpro.com/fr

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It’s best to get started right away but our team is there to help you to feel comfortable when using the tool based on your own needs and timings. We also have a clear onboarding process in place.

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We offer a do-it-yourself solution to build your own assessments, ranging from personality to skills to cybersecurity, and far beyond. The aim of our platform is to help you leverage your own expertise. That means, we don’t provide any content for your assessments.

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Our onboarding process is designed to help you get up and running smoothly - whether you're starting from scratch or already have something in mind! The Onboarding Team will guide you through the key steps to create and launch your assessments and reports with confidence. After the Onboarding, our support team is available whenever you need extra help or have additional questions.

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We are a global company that serves businesses across every industry with stories similar to yours. Check out our gallery of customer case studies or feel free to ask for some other specific cases we can share.

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