Case Study: Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising achieves instructor control and standardized online assessments with Questionmark

The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising empowers instructors with online assessments

The Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM), which serves 6,000 full‑time students and about 300 online students per quarter across multiple campuses, needed a reliable assessment management system after LMS‑based tests and custom Flash applets proved unreliable and hard to update. The eLearning team selected Questionmark to capture learner data beyond a single semester, build legible reports, and allow instructors to author and manage their own online assessments.

Using Questionmark, FIDM runs roughly 350 online assessments and nearly 3,500 testing sessions per quarter—covering weekly quizzes, midterms, finals, surveys and course evaluations—with instructors using Browser Based Authoring and Windows Authoring and administrators managing schedules through the LMS. Questionmark’s reporting and question repositories have standardized assessments, given instructors fast performance insights, supported data‑driven course improvements, and made accreditation evidence collection more efficient and successful; FIDM is now planning Sakai SSO integration and use of Questionmark’s browser check to further improve the student experience.

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