Consilium wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Between the bank holidays we are available as usual, with exception of Friday 27 December.
Best wishes,
Team Consilium
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News and events
Release ConTest version 3.5
A new release of ConTest will be available soon for current and new users of the exam processing program. This version 3.5, amongst other things, offers a new feature to close, finish or archive a selection of tests in one go. Furthermore, the release counts with a variety of security updates and improvements including support for LDAPS and a safer mail function through SMTP port 587 and TLS.
Please contact us for the What’s New documentation en Release Notes. Of course we’d also be happy to give you a demo of ConTest v3.5!
Reinforcing student engagement with the ‘Closing the Loop’ plug-in for evasys
Increasing student engagement is a challenge for many educational institutions. In the context of course evaluation, student engagement has different implications. When student engagement is low, response rates will be too. At the same time, student engagement – and therefore the response to course evaluations – will increase when participants receive proper feedback regarding course evaluations.
The Closing the Loop plug-in for evasys, developed by Consilium, facilitates the student feedback process and thus ‘closes the loop’ in the evaluation cycle, reinforcing student engagement.
Using the plug-in, course coordinators or teachers manage their feedback to students who have participated in a course evaluation or similar survey. After reviewing the evaluation results, feedback may be entered following a pre-defined template. Subsequently, the feedback report can be configured and distributed to the concerning survey participants.
Version 1 of the plug-in, compatible with evasys v9.1 or higher, is now available; Please contact us for the brochure with more information. If you feel ‘Closing the Loop’ may enhance your utilization of evasys, we’ll be happy to discuss the possibilities with you.
Ascension Day and Pentecost
In relation to Ascension Day and Pentecost our offices will remain closed on the following dates: 18, 19 and 29 May 2023. For urgent support issues we will keep an eye on the mailbox of our support desk (support@consiliumdcs.com).
evasys v9.1
A new version of evasys is now available: v9.1!
Possibly the most important renovations are of a technical nature; evasys’ programming language PHP has been updated to version 8.1, and the MySQL database to version 8.0. With these updates, (security) support by the producers is guaranteed up to November 2024 and December 2026, respectively.
Furthermore, the v9.1 version of evasys offers a variety of new features and improvements, amongst others concerning the ‘online survey template’, the scheduling of surveys via ‘Scheduled Tasks’ and the HTML reports.
For more information and documentation, please do not hesitate to contact us!
ConTest version 3.4
A new release of ConTest is now available for current and new users of the exam processing program. This version 3.4, amongst other things, offers an extension of the ‘Retention Service’ for the cleanup of old tests and student data, as well as an improvement in the verification of exam sheets. Furthermore, in this new version additional security measures have been taken and various fixes have been implemented.
Please contact us for the What’s New documentation and Release Notes. Of course we’d also be happy to give you a demo of ConTest v3.4!
Log in to evasys version 9.0!
Coming soon: the new release of evasys with renewed interface. Stay tuned!
Easter
Consilium will take an Easter break and our offices will be closed on Good Friday and Easter Monday (15 and 18 April). For urgent matters, please mail us at support@consiliumdcs.com; we will keep an eye on the inbox.
We wish you all a happy Easter period.
Release ConTest v3.3
ConTest version 3.3 is now available!
This new release brings ConTest up-to-date with respect to data security and offers a few very interesting new functions. One of these is the ‘Retention Service’ that allows the clean-up of ConTest eliminating test and/or participant data older than x years automatically. Another new feature is a log and search function for imported student numbers which highly benefits managing the Participant Import.
In short, ConTest v3.3 is a security update with some new features and we recommend all users to upgrade their current version. And if you are not a ConTest user but interested in the automated processing, analysis and reporting of tests, then we’d be happy to introduce ConTest in more detail to you!
Christmas time
Dear customers and partners,
The Christmas holidays are approaching rapidly, and Consilium wishes you a great and healthy time!
Please note that on 24 and 31 December we are only reachable per e-mail and our response time may be a bit longer than usual. On all other working days we are available, as usual, from 09:00 to 17:30 hours.
All best wishes,
The Consilium Team
Phone: +31 10 4400560 (General), +31 10 4400570 (Support)
E-mail Supportdesk: support@consiliumdcs.com