Contingency Planning and Solutions for Remote & Online Assessments

To help you think through your own plans and readiness activities in response to the coronavirus, we are proactively providing you with information to help.

We have dedicated additional resources from our engineering and development operations teams to this situation and will continue to evaluate the best options available given this evolving situation. 
Through our partnership with clients in affected regions and beyond, we are continuously improving our own processes and readiness. Our cloud-based technologies, including SwiftAssess, allow us to scale in times of heavy usage to the maximum extent possible. We are working with our technology and hosting partners and internal engineering teams to make sure we have solid plans in place for continuity of service.

Creating these plans requires collaboration and discussion. You can play an important role in our planning by working with your account and support teams to discuss your current usage, monitor changes in behaviour over time, and communicate what potential pedagogical changes you plan to roll out in response to the coronavirus.

As you are thinking about how to take your assessments remotely & online, here are some solutions that we put together you can leverage in your planning:  

SwiftAssess is a cloud-based, outcome-based assessment management platform. That means, if you need to run your exams online without having to be at school or on-campus, you can do that with ease. Additionally, SwiftAssess is hosted on Microsoft Azure, a robust, powerful, and scalable cloud platform that is available all over the world, giving you the reassurance of high-availability during peak times for exams, as well as minimum latency due our advanced caching technology and hosting options it in-country or in-region. SwiftAssess is also highlighted as a Microsoft Preferred Cloud solution