The final post from Wimba Connect (I promise!)

There is another new product on the horizon to be called Wimba Assess. Wimba recently bought Brownstone who have a number of products including Diploma, Tutor & Edu. The first two are desktop applications and are currently distributed by publishers rather than Brownstone / Wimba themselves. Diploma is a question editor like Respondus but appears more powerful and easier to use. Questions are all rtf format though which apparantly limits options for import / export. Although you can import to certain VLEs (not Moodle though), it is not possible to retrieve questions from a VLE.

Tutor is for students and is simply sets of question banks from publishers.  Edu is web-based system for developing & delivering of self-scoring assignments.  It seemed to be pretty good a Maths Questions including some that involve plotting graphs.  Questions can also be authored in Diploma for use in Edu.  Edu’s used at Keele if we want to know more from a user.