News stories from BTL in 2008

BTL to exhibit and present at Assessment Tomorrow, Edinburgh

BTL | 06 Nov 2008

BTL Group Ltd is delighted to sponsor the Assessment Tomorrow event at the Grosvenor Hotel, Edinburgh on the 12th November 2008.

BTL to exhibit and present at CBT Conference 2008, Baarn Holland

BTL | 08 Oct 2008

BTL Group Ltd is proud to support the CBT (Computer Based Testing) conference in Baarn, Holland on 16th October 2008. The aim of the conference is to share experiences in using computer based technology to administer exams.

BTL to exhibit at Federation of Awarding Bodies 2008

BTL | 07 Oct 2008

BTL Group is pleased to announce it will be exhibiting at this year's Federation of Awarding Bodies Conference, Ricoh Arena, Coventry on the 15th and 16th of October.

BTL e-Assessment Tools Ranked Number One in Recent UKCDR Analysis

BTL | 14 Aug 2008

The University of Manchester's UKCDR project team (UK Collaboration for a Digital Repository for High Stakes Exams) found that BTL e-Assessment solutions came out on top in their independent study analysing current e-Assessment tools. The study, funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee), was conducted to determine which tools could potentially form part of an e-Assessment solution that would be sophisticated enough to support in house and national examinations.

BTL and AlphaPlus launch e-Assessment Development: Principles and Practice

BTL | 25 Jun 2008

- An Essential Course for Authors Facing the Challenge of Creating e-Assessments - BTL Group Ltd, a leading independent provider of e-Assessment solutions, has teamed up with AlphaPlus, a team of highly experienced educational consultants with extensive experience in e-Assessments, to launch the 'e-Assessment Development: Principles and Practice course'.

BTL commits to ITIL: best practices in the provision of IT services

BTL | 24 Jun 2008

BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK e-Assessment development and delivery company, announced today that all of its senior management and the majority of its Project Management, Software Development and IT/Technical Support teams are now ITIL qualified. This further enhances the commitment previously made by BTL to ensure all Project Managers and other relevant members of staff are PRINCE2 qualified.

SQA Releases White Paper on Sustainable Development of e-Assessment

BTL | 23 Jun 2008

The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), a prominent BTL Group Ltd customer, has released a white paper, Innovating Assessment in Scotland, outlining a sustainable model of e-Assessment development utilising BTL's state-of-the-art authoring tool, ContentProducer.

Q-Validus, in conjunction with BPP Learning Media and BTL launch Spreadsheet Safe™

BTL | 15 May 2008

The Spreadsheet Safe™ training and certification programme was created in response to the growing requirements of organizations to reduce the risks posed by unsafe end-user developed spreadsheets. Spreadsheet Safe™ has been developed with the involvement of some of the world's leading experts in the area of spreadsheet design and control.

TDA awards BTL 3 year e-Assessment contract for test development

BTL | 14 May 2008

BTL Group Ltd, a leading independent learning and assessment solutions provider, is pleased to announce the award of a new 3-year contract with the Training and Development Agency for Schools (TDA) for the content development of the Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) skills tests.

BTL provides AAT with complete e-Assessment solution

BTL | 23 Apr 2008

BTL Group Ltd, a leading UK Learning and Assessment solutions provider is pleased to announce that they will be assisting the AAT (Association of Accounting Technicians) with a three-year project to move from traditional paper based exams to On-Screen delivery.

SQA signs landmark e-Assessment contract with BTL

BTL | 07 Apr 2008

Alpha Plus/BTL white paper reviews the current and future vision of e-assessments

BTL | 04 Apr 2008

WoLLNET project to use BTL e-Assessment tools

BTL | 27 Mar 2008

BTL converts 13 National Qualification ESOL units into interactive assessments

BTL | 17 Mar 2008

BTL enters into a 3 year agreement with Cambridge International Examinations

BTL | 04 Feb 2008

BTL reinforces its commitment to PRINCE2 - raising the standard of project management

BTL | 28 Jan 2008

Meet BTL at Learning Technologies 2008

BTL | 28 Jan 2008