eInstruction to Acquire Interwrite Learning

Big news yesterday! eInstruction and Interwrite Learning signed an agreement yesterday for eInstruction to buy Interwrite Learning! It will be interesting to see what the future holds going forward from this business deal.

Read the entire press release here…

Enlighten, November 2007

Our latest issue of our monthly newsletter, Enlighten, is now posted on our website. Check out a great mental math program with ready-to-go clicker lessons, get some ExamView/Learning Series tips, view CPS in the news, see our upcoming calendar, and more. Feel free to check out our back issues while you’re there! If you would like to have Enlighten delivered directly to your e-mail, you can SUBSCRIBE HERE!

Your Students Will Love MindPoint Quiz Show!

MindPoint® Quiz Show presents ExamView® questions in a fun and engaging game show format. Students receive instant feedback (while having a hilariously competitive time), and teachers can track performance with a variety of reports. Quiz Show has graphics that appeal to elementary and middle school students, while its sister product Quiz Show SE is designed to appeal to older students (sample screens attached).

The Quiz Show software works with ExamView tests and questions banks, as well as with CPS IR and RF response pads (Windows only). Both Quiz Show and Quiz Show SE are priced at $39 for individual teacher licenses or $699 for a building license.

Contact us if you would like to see a demo of MindPoint® Quiz Show!

Who’s Really Compatible?

The acquisition of FSCreations by eInstruction was probably one of the companies smartest moves and is an exciting one as well. ExamView-formatted questions are shared by educators all over the country, and hundreds of thousands of ExamView-formatted questions are distributed by textbook publishers for over 5,000 K-12 and higher education textbooks. The acquisition of FSCreations allowed eInstruction to do something no other response pad company could…create ’seamless integration’ with eInstruction’s Classroom Performance System.

In a open letter from Darrell Ward, CEO of eInstruction, he explained what ’seamless integration’ meant…

Only eInstruction’s Classroom Performance System (CPS) response pad technology features seamless integration with ExamView products, including the ExamView Assessment Suite (ExamView Suite) and the ExamView Learning Series. Seamless integration with ExamView means:

• The fastest, easiest way to use ExamView-formatted questions and content. Only CPS can open ExamView questions banks directly, requiring no intervention or makeshift intermediate steps.
• It works with content from all versions of the ExamView Suite. Only CPS works with questions from all releases – from v1 to the most recent v6.1 – of the ExamView Suite.
• An accurate display of questions. CPS uses the unique ExamView Suite word processor to display ExamView-formatted questions. Without seamless integration, questions will not display correctly and will not include all related question information (i.e. metadata).
• Only CPS works with ExamView’s dynamic question variations.
• Only eInstructions’s infrared (IR) and radio frequency (RF) response pads work with the family of ExamView educational products.
• Only CPS assessment results are readable by the ExamView Test Manager to provide comprehensive classroom reporting.
• Only CPS can exchange classroom rosters with the ExamView Test Manager.

So, as Darrell Ward puts it, “It really is quite simple. Only eInstruction’s CPS reponse pads work seamlessly with ExamView products.”

It will be interesting to see how these two separate products will morph and blend into each other as new releases continue to be developed.

New ExamView and CPS Training Available!

eInstruction is now offering a new series of complimentary online training webinars. If you need ExamView Learning Series training, be sure to register for the new “Using ExamView with CPS” webinars that are now available. You can register for this new training HERE! Most webinars are about 1 hour in length and are completely FREE.

ExamView and CPS open up so many possibilities in the way of assessments. Find out how to utilize both of these great tools even more effectively!

As of today, Using ExamView with CPS is scheduled for

• 9/6/07 at 4:00 pm CST
• 9/11/07 at 9:30 am CST
• 9/13/07 at 4:00 pm CST

Examview Question Bank Exchange

Be sure and check out the Examview Question Bank Exchange on the FS Creations forums. Remember that forums are only as good as YOU make them. If you get something off of a forum like this, PLEASE feel compelled to share something too. The more people that share, the larger the forum will grow to be, and the more useful it will be to everyone wanting to glean ideas from it. Your 20-question database might be just what the next person was looking for!