Overview

Saras™ Test and Assessment, developed by Excelsoft, is a comprehensive platform designed to empower educators and professionals in creating and delivering customized assessments. It supports various assessment models, including formative, summative, diagnostic, adaptive, remote proctored, and traditional pen-and-paper exams. The platform's intuitive interface offers over 40 question authoring templates, facilitating seamless exam creation and delivery across any device. Built on a microservices architecture, Saras™ ensures flexibility and scalability, allowing for customization to meet specific exam requirements and workflows. It adheres to IMS QTI standards, ensuring quality and interoperability, and employs Item Response Theory (IRT) and Classical Test Theory (CTT) models for in-depth item and test data analysis. Saras™ provides secure end-to-end online testing capabilities and is adaptable to both cloud and on-premise environments, catering to educational publishers, schools, universities, corporations, and certification bodies.

Features and Capabilities

• Comprehensive Assessment Support: Facilitates formative and summative assessments, licensing, certification, placement, recruitment tests, evidence-based OSCE tests, diagnostic and readiness tests, regulatory compliance assessments, skills assessments, personality and aptitude tests, and job and pre-employment tests.
• Diverse Question Types: Offers over 40 question types with rich media support for test creation, including audio and video-based assessments, geometry, mathematics, and scientific equations.
• Adaptive Testing: Supports adaptive testing methodologies to tailor assessments to individual candidate abilities.
• Blended Test Delivery: Optimized for low bandwidth and unreliable internet scenarios, ensuring seamless test delivery.
• Pen and Paper Tests: Provides cost-effective solutions for traditional pen-and-paper assessments.
• Multi-Lingual Support: Accommodates diverse linguistic needs with multi-lingual capabilities.
• e-Marketplace Integration: Features integration with payment gateways for e-commerce functionalities.
• Test Center Management: Includes candidate booking and test center management features.
• Customizable Workflows: Allows for the customization of workflows to align with specific assessment requirements.
• Instant Test Creation: Enables rapid test creation using question banks.
• IMS QTI Compliance: Ensures adherence to IMS QTI standards for quality and interoperability.
• IMS LTI Compliance: Supports integration with any learning management system and candidate management system through IMS LTI standards.
• REST APIs: Offers well-defined REST APIs for seamless integration with third-party systems and secure data exchange.
• Modular Architecture: Built on a microservices architecture, facilitating rapid new feature development with minimal effort and cost.
• Accessibility and GDPR Compliance: Ensures accessibility and compliance with GDPR regulations.
• Robust Access Control: Provides robust access control with multi-factor authentication (SAML, oAuth, SSO, etc.).
• Flexible Deployment Models: Supports centralized, test-center based, and hybrid deployment models.
• Scalability: Horizontally scalable to support high-volume test delivery requirements.
• Customization for Data Security: Customizable to meet critical exam data security needs.