Everything we've released this year has had one goal: to empower educators and learners, making our platform more intuitive, efficient, and versatile. We look forward to seeing how these updates will support you in achieving your training goals.
Mark Gilmore
Assessment Authoring
Work smarter by reusing content
The assessment library
Author once, reuse many times
Your assessment content needs to be consistent, contextual and compliant. That takes significant time and resources.
Now, you can author and save Assessment Items and Marking Scales to the Assessment Library to reuse across your assessments, at scale.
A digital library can store a treasure trove of reusable assessment content.
It's like having a magical bookshelf where every piece of content you need for your assessments is instantly available, perfectly categorised, and ready to be mixed and matched.
Learn more
Your assessment content needs to be consistent, contextual and compliant. That takes significant time and resources.
Now, you can author and save Assessment Items and Marking Scales to the Assessment Library to reuse across your assessments, at scale.
A digital library can store a treasure trove of reusable assessment content.
It's like having a magical bookshelf where every piece of content you need for your assessments is instantly available, perfectly categorised, and ready to be mixed and matched.
Tag, You're It(ems)
items, tags and mapping
Organise with ease, find with speed
Tags are your secret weapon for an organised Assessment Library. Use Tags to filter within the Library, and when adding Items to a Task, quickly locating what you need.
Each Item can also be mapped to Elements and Performance Criteria of Units of Competency, allowing you to ensure consistent and compliant assessment alignment.
Plus, have complete oversight of how your saved Items are being used. View which Assessments, Lessons and Question Banks your Library Items have been used in in a clear list.
Learn more about Item taggingLearn more about Item mapping
Tags are your secret weapon for an organised Assessment Library. Use Tags to filter within the Library, and when adding Items to a Task, quickly locating what you need.
Each Item can also be mapped to Elements and Performance Criteria of Units of Competency, allowing you to ensure consistent and compliant assessment alignment.
Plus, have complete oversight of how your saved Items are being used. View which Assessments, Lessons and Question Banks your Library Items have been used in in a clear list.
Fortify assessment integrity
question banks
Customised assessment delivery
Group Items into Question Banks and apply them to your Assessments.
Question Banks allow you to author a diverse collection of reliable questions that improve assessment credibility and reduce the risk of cheating.
Set an order or randomise the order of Items shown to each learner, or select just a subset of Items from a larger pool.
Learn moreGroup Items into Question Banks and apply them to your Assessments.
Question Banks allow you to author a diverse collection of reliable questions that improve assessment credibility and reduce the risk of cheating.
Set an order or randomise the order of Items shown to each learner, or select just a subset of Items from a larger pool.
Learner Support
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Assessor experience
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Available now in closed beta
AI for Assessments
We recently introduced AI functionality to aXcelerate in a Closed Beta program.
AI Assessment Marking: Speed up Short Answer marking with AI. Compare submissions with model answers and provide tailored feedback.
AI Assessment Question Generation: Effortlessly create customisable assessment questions from text or PDFs. Pro tip: Save your questions to the Assessment Library for easy reuse.
Learn more about AI in aXcelerate
More improvements and updates
The big little things
Online Assessments Widget
We've optimised the Online Assessment Dashboard Widget for faster access to relevant assessments awaiting marking by Assessors.
Shuffle HotSpot options
The order of Hot Spot Assessment Question responses can now be shuffled so that each Learner will receive them in a random order in their Learner Portal. To do this, click the Shuffle icon next to Item Options in the Assessment Authoring area.
Deleting Resources in Learning Plans
When attempting to delete a Resource linked to a Learning Plan, you'll now see a warning to prevent accidental removal of active resources.
Unsaved Assessment Marking Feedback
When attempting to close marking feedback without saving, Assessors will now see a prompt to prevent loss of work.
Class Enrolments Report Filters
Add Filters and Display fields to show the number of linked Online Assessments by status in the Class Enrolments Warehoused report, enhancing reporting on Learner Progression.
Certificate Downloads in the Learner Portal
Give learners access to a download button on the dashboard course card, as well as Download and Preview options in the Certificate Sharing section.
Additional Information in Help Requests
Help Requests now display time and date for greater visibility to enable quick identification of time-sensitive requests and enable easy auditing.
Create new Assessment Instance when linking to Classes
When linking Assessments to a Class, you can now create a new Assessment Instance to enrol Learners into.
Learning Plans Improvements
The Assessment preview button in the Learning Plan is now universally visible, with a new Resource button linking to the Resource Library record, and an option to open Learning elements in a new window.
Bulk link elements in Learning Plans
When authoring your Learning Plans, you can now link Elements to Units of Competency in bulk.
Streamlined Marking Scales
Marking Scales in the Assessment Library now come with default values, streamlining the setup process for new assessments.
Require Feedback for Unsatisfactory Observation Items
You can now force Assessors to leave feedback when marking Observation Items as unsatisfactory. This helps ensure learners receive feedback for the Items needing development.
Consistent Assessment Authoring styles
While you are writing, previewing or publishing in Assessment Authoring your content will look identical
Labelling Learner Signatures in Assessments
Learner signatures now indicate the signing method, showing if signed through the Trainer App for auditing purposes.
Efficient Assessment Management
Access your assessment instances in just seconds for a smoother assessment management experience.
Performance Improvements in Assessments
To improve performance, users can now only be added as Assessors if they have a User Profile and are in the Trainers Table, with any existing Assessors automatically added to the Trainers Table.
We've only just begun
Here’s a just a snapshot of what’s coming to the aXcelerate LMS in 2024-2025.
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