Title: Amgen eTesting Client: Amgen Industry: Pharmaceutical Purpose: Competency online Testing for Sales Training

The challenge:
Amgen Pharmacuetical needed a simple, effective way to track and manage the training evaluation for their sales teams. Sales Managers and students (sales representatives) were spread out across the country, so the application had to be easily accessible and up-to-date. Results of the assessments needed to be captured in a way that would allow Amgen to print off reports.

The requirements of the Online Testing Forum included:

• Secure environment (login access)
  
• Online registration
  
• The ability to create and schedule tests online with no programming knowledge
  
• A navigation function that allows participants to move throughout the test
  
• A help section available to users throughout the test
  
• A database component to track test results
  
• An administration section for Amgen to check test results and print simple reports

Digital Rain's response:
Digital Rain developed a web-based application for the training department of Amgen in order to aid Amgen assess and track student performance on training material. A secure administration function provides trainers and course administrators with the tools to create and schedule tests online with little effort and no knowledge of programming.

Students register, sign-up and write tests online. Once a test has been written, both course trainers and students get immediate feedback regarding the student's results.

Student features:

• Test Registration
  
• Test login
  
• Test completion (timer indicates time remaining)
  
• Test review/submittal
  
• Past test results

Administrative features:

• Test Creation
  
• Test Modification & Deletion
  
• Test Classification according to subject
  
• Question creation (multiple choice, multiple answer, short answer, fill in the blank, T/F)
  
• Question pool
  
• Test Scheduling (by date and time, standardized across time zones)
  
• Student results reports