Training providers: placement, learning outcomes and evidence for your quality audit
The assessment tool that sits alongside your management software rather than replacing it.
Evalmee is not a training-management system: no training agreements, no attendance sheets, no invoicing, no activity returns. It sits alongside your training-management software, whichever one you already use, and covers what it does not: the placement test on entry, the assessment of learning outcomes during and at the end of the course, and the dated evidence of both.
Four challenges of a training provider
An entry test photocopied, marked by hand, then filed away. Before the audit, someone has to find it course by course and show that it was used to adapt the programme.
A round-table at the end of a session, or a satisfaction questionnaire, does not measure what the learner has learnt. An auditor, like a corporate client, asks for an assessment tied to the objectives of the course.
Papers, grades and dates live in three places. Someone gathers them before the audit, and if a trainer has left with their files, the trace is missing.
Your trainers change from one session to the next and have no time to learn a tool. The test has to be ready, reusable, and to mark itself on the closed questions.
What Evalmee adds to your management software
Placement on entry
A placement testPlacement testA test taken at the start of a course or training programme to locate each participant against the objectives of the pathway: what they already master, what they lack, and therefore where to begin. It is the form diagnostic assessment takes in vocational training. A placement test differs from a level test, which ranks a person on a general scale, A2 or B1 in a language for instance, with no reference to a particular course; placement measures the gap between what a participant brings on entry and the content of a given programme. Its result is not a mark that counts: it serves to adapt the duration, the pace or the modules, to exempt participants from what is already acquired, and as a baseline for measuring progress at the end of the course. Example: before a thirty-hour spreadsheet course, a fifteen-question test spread over formulas, references, sorting and charts; a participant who passes the first two blocks skips the first day. Quality frameworks for training providers generally ask that needs and prior achievements be identified on entry to the programme; the test, its grid and the report handed to the participant are the usual evidence. In the UK and the US, colleges use placement tests to assign students to the right level of a course, most often in mathematics, writing and languages. is built once per course and taken by every new intake, in the room or remotely. Closed questions mark themselves, and tags by competency say, for each learner, which block is acquired and which is not. The placement test template published on this site imports as it stands.
- Excel import of the paper, with tags by competency and points
- True/False, single-answer and multiple-answer questions marked automatically against your scoring rules
- Success rate question by question on the Statistics screen
- The same test at every session, with a random draw per participant if you want one
Assessing learning outcomes
During the course, short formative quizzesFormative assessmentAn assessment carried out during learning, whose function is to inform learner and teacher about what is currently being acquired. Its useful output is the feedback, not the mark: it is frequent, low-stakes, and serves to correct course while there is still time to do so. The term comes from Michael Scriven's work in 1967, taken up by Benjamin Bloom, which sets the assessment that forms against the assessment that takes stock. In practice a formative assessment is recognised by three traits: fast, precise feedback on every answer, a result that carries little or no weight in the final mark, and a teaching decision taken from the errors observed. Example: a ten-question quiz at the end of every session, marked automatically, with the reason for the correct answer shown at once; the teacher reads the per-question statistics and returns, in the next class, to the notion that half the group missed. The testing effect strengthens the case: testing yourself consolidates memory more than re-reading does. The same question can serve in a formative or a summative setting; what decides is the use made of the result, not the format., with the correction shown after each question and multiple attempts if you allow them. At the end of the course, a graded final assessment, with a grade per criterion beside the overall grade when the rubricRubricA grid crossing assessment criteria with performance levels described in full sentences, from the weakest to the strongest. The marker places the paper in a cell rather than awarding a figure: the mark becomes the consequence of a description shared in advance. mode is switched on. The detail is on the formative and continuous assessment page.
- Correction shown after each question on formative quizzes
- Overall grade and grade per criterion on the final assessment
- On written answers, Evalmee AI suggests a grade and a feedback that the trainer approves
- Grades sent to each learner by mail merge, from the application
The evidence for the audit
Every sitting leaves its trace with no extra work: the marked paper of each learner as a PDF, the grades as Excel, and the start and end of every attempt timestamped. All of it exports from the Grades tab and joins the session file in your management software, where the trailAudit trailA timestamped log of every event in a session: sign-in, display of each question, successive answers, network incidents, invigilator actions. It is what makes it possible to reconstruct a contested exam and to answer a complaint with something other than memory. stays readable session by session.
- A .zip archive with one PDF per participant, or a single PDF of every paper
- Simple grades as .xlsx downloaded immediately, detailed grades sent by email
- Start and end of every attempt timestamped, returned by the REST API
- One session per group and per date, with its own opening and closing times
What an audit asks for, what Evalmee produces
Quality frameworks for training providers, and the corporate clients who buy your courses, ask the same two questions: how you place each participant on entry, and how you measure what they have learnt during and at the end of the course. The table sets out what Evalmee produces for each, and where to find it.
The wordings below are ours, not your framework's: the text that applies to you is what counts, and your certifying body or your client remains the only judge. No accreditation requires software. It requires a written procedure, applied, and a trace of that application. Evalmee provides the trace; the procedure, and the decision to adapt the programme, stay yours.
What the table calls an outcome is what a learner can do, measured by a question they got right or wrong. The learning outcomesLearning outcomesA statement of what a learner must be able to do at the end of a course, written with an observable action verb. Written that way, learning outcomes translate directly into assessment criteria, which an objective phrased in terms of "knowing" does not allow. announced in your programme become tags on the questions of the test, and the reading is done competency by competencyCompetency-based approachThe organisation of a course and its assessment around competencies — capacities to act in a given situation — rather than around subject content. Assessment then takes the form of complex, contextualised tasks, judged against a rubric rather than on a total of correct answers..
| What is asked for | What Evalmee produces | Where to find it |
|---|---|---|
| Place every participant on entry to the course | A placement test taken online, marked automatically on the closed questions, with a result per competency thanks to the tags | Statistics screen, success rate question by question |
| Assess prior learning on entry in order to adapt the programme | The grade of each learner and, in rubric mode, a grade per criterion on their paper | Grades tab, on clicking a participant |
| Assess how far the objectives are reached during the course | Formative quizzes with the correction shown after each question, and the success rate of the group for each question | Exam settings, then Statistics screen |
| Assess learning outcomes at the end of the course | A graded final assessment: overall grade, grade per criterion, grades sent to each learner | Participant's paper, Grades tab |
| Keep the evidence of both | One PDF paper per learner, the Excel export of the grades, the start and end of every attempt timestamped | Grades tab, Export button; REST API for the timestamps |
For a provider with two or three trainers, the Mini and Pro plans usually cover the need: they count one examiner each and are metered in graded papers per month. The quotas, and the Organization plan with no limit on examiners, are on the pricing page.
What Evalmee does not do
Evalmee is not a training-management system. It handles neither agreements and quotes, nor attendance sheets, nor invoicing, nor activity returns. It does not replace the training-management software you use: it sits alongside it.
Moving from one to the other is done by file. Grades come out of Evalmee as Excel, papers as PDF, and you attach them to the session file in your management software. If your team wants to automate the exchange, the REST API returns the results participant by participant.
Evalmee does not judge compliance either. A test taken is evidence only if your procedure provides for that test and for what you do with its result. And if your organisation mainly assesses gestures at the workstation or oral practice in real time, a written test online covers only part of the need.
What Evalmee changes for a training provider
Placement happens at every intake with the same test, with no photocopying and no manual marking of the closed questions.
Learning outcomes are measured question by question, tied to the competencies of the programme, not to an impression at the end of a session.
The evidence exists on the day of the test: PDF papers, Excel grades and timestamps, ready to attach to the file.
An occasional trainer runs a test that is already built, from a browser, with no training on the tool.
They trust Evalmee
What's more, the Evalmee team is incredibly responsive when issues arise. Within 30 minutes (sometimes even less) you get a response, and a solution.
I can only recommend Evalmee to every school!
The anti-cheating features gave me incredible peace of mind: no more suspicious papers, no more cheating attempts, and above all fairer grades.
And most importantly, I get back precious time: before, I used to spend 30 minutes of class time going over the MCQ answers with students, now that half hour is reinvested in teaching.
The real plus is the peace of mind: I can see at a glance where each student stands, without wasting time on follow-ups or endless verifications.
For an instructor who has to manage courses alongside professional activities, this time and clarity gain changes everything.
Today, everything is gathered in one place: exam papers, submissions and results. I can monitor in real time what's happening, analyze submissions with relevant indicators, and above all make graders' work easier.
What I also appreciate is that Evalmee is constantly evolving in the right direction.
As a researcher-teacher, this time saved is significant: I can reinvest it directly in my research work, rather than in time-consuming administrative tasks.
Frequently asked questions
No. Evalmee sits alongside your management tool for the placement test, the assessment of learning outcomes and the evidence a quality audit asks for.
For placement on entry, a test taken online at every intake, marked automatically on the closed questions, with a result per competency thanks to the tags. For learning outcomes, formative quizzes during the course and a graded final assessment. No accreditation requires software: the written procedure and its application stay yours, and your certifying body remains the only judge.
The marked paper of each learner as a PDF, one by one or as a .zip archive, the grades as .xlsx, and the start and end of every attempt timestamped. The timestamps are also returned by the REST API, participant by participant.
Yes. The same test is taken in the room or remotely from a browser, session by session, with opening and closing times that belong to each session. A random draw per participant is possible if you do not want the same paper twice.
There is no native connector. The exchange happens by file: grades export as Excel, papers as PDF, and you attach them to the session file in your management software. To automate it, the REST API returns the results and the attempts as JSON.
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