We’re extremely pleased to announce that Testcraft version 5.50 has been released to all hosted account customers.  This new release contains several new features, reports, and issue fixes.  As with most Testcraft releases, the changes included in this release will not affect your existing assessments.  The new features included in this release are simply new options and settings made available through the authoring interface.  You may choose to make use of them or ignore them if they aren’t needed within your assessment environment.  Below is a brief summary of those changes.

New With Release 5.50

•  New Testcraft skin for an improved look-and-feel.
•  New Contact Information custom field set to reliably capture a respondent’s address and contact information pre-assessment.
•  New Matrix survey question type.
•  New Weighted Multiple Choice test question type.
•  New functionality when viewing a respondent to edit their login information for corrections or general modifications.
•  Updated rich-text editor and spellchecker.
•  New Question Group Passing Analysis report for visualization of respondents’ performance on all question groups.
•  New Respondent Row/Column Analysis report for easy custom reporting with tools like Microsoft Excel.
•  New Respondent Score Basic Analysis report for reporting on overall respondent score distribution and performance across groups.
•  Ability to flag an assessment as archived, so it will be disabled and no longer show within the assessment listing.
•  Enhancements to the assessment editor allowing for more flexibility at the end of the respondent’s assessment on the review pages.
•  Enhanced authoring and technical guides.
•  Several issue fixes and minor functionality enhancements.

If you have any questions or concerns about this new release, please email me or post within the Testcraft forum.