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Benefits for students, staff and UQ

  • Stable platform. A stable and reliable platform offers a more reliable and less stressful assessment experience for students.
  • Better feedback. Easier provision of multiple types of feedback for students including 'common' feedback to the entire cohort.
  • Accessibility. Inspera supports a broad range of accessibility features including text size, inverted contrast, text to speech and extra time.
  • Assessment quality. Improved quality of assessment (authentic, inclusive, valid, reliable) is listed as the most common impact seen after reviewing, enhancing and/or re-designing assessment for Inspera.
  • Efficient marking. Save time with 15 automatically marked question types. Assign marking to your team and mark online in your own space and time.
  • Authentic, contextual assessment. Inspera has over 20 question types (15 automatically marked) and multi-media functionality that makes it easier to design rich assessment tasks.
  • Content management. Use titles and labels to effectively manage assessment items, easily reuse or re-purpose content, easily share content with collaborators.
  • Academic integrity. Combine a number of assessment design strategies and technological features to boost academic integrity and assessment security.
  • Digital exams. Less paper, no distributing or separating exam booklets and re-assembling them, no lost exam papers.

Read the Inspera Pedagogical Evaluation Report

Why has UQ introduced Inspera?

In a world where there is increased competition for students’ attention, assessment can sometimes be the only part of their formal learning program they engage with, so it needs to be thoughtfully designed to be meaningful, relevant and explicitly beneficial. 

In addition to the strategic imperative of building a personalised, digital experience to meet changing student and industry expectations, UQ also needs to manage key risks around academic excellence and reputable degrees through enhancing assessment security and academic integrity.

UQ staff and students have overwhelmingly reported that Inspera is easy to use.

Students have provided feedback that an absence of distractors on the interface allowed them to concentrate on their assessment (Inspera Pilot Evaluation Report, 2021). Further testimonials from staff and students about the benefits of Inspera are also available for viewing.