Zoho Reinforces Zoho Challenge

Online, December 8, 2009 (Newswire.com) - PLEASANTON, Calif. - December 8, 2009 -Zoho today announced new features for Zoho Challenge to make online testing easier than ever. Designed to simplify the evaluation of students, job applicants, and other test-takers, Zoho Challenge now offers a unified login that supports Google, Google Apps, and Yahoo credentials, as well as new workflows, improved collaboration and more.

"Education users are important to us as early adoptors of Zoho products, and Zoho Challenge is a perfect fit for them," said Raju Vegesna, Zoho evangelist. "Our online testing application is the easiest way for teachers to evaluate students at every level, from grade school through college. It's also a great tool for testing outside of the classroom, including skills evaluation, exam preparation and certification testing."

Taking the Zoho Challenge

Zoho Challenge lets teachers - and professors, evaluators and other test givers - create and conduct powerful, online examinations, as well as maintain test histories and manage reports. Teachers can create a test from scratch or reuse questions from an existing test or question bank, assign the test to the students or candidates, and then evaluate the answers online. Zoho Challenge supports multiple question banks and open, closed, fixed- and open-duration testing.

Now, Zoho Challenge has been upgraded with the following features:

• Unified login lets Google, Google Apps and Yahoo! users log into Zoho Challenge using the usernames and passwords associated with their accounts on those third-party sites.
• New workflows make it easier to reuse tests and define test templates.
• Improved collaboration lets testers invite multiple evaluators and share question banks.
• Improved security includes coded and IP-restricted tests.
• Intuitive Question editor lets testers embed multimedia content in questions.
• Flexible Question papers support section-by-section tests and multiple question types - multiple and single choice, fill in the blank, true/false, and descriptive.
• Automatic and manual evaluation expedites test assessment for all test types. Manual evaluation can be assisted with a key.
• Improved analytics and graphs provide at-a-glance views of test results for in-depth analysis.
Pricing and Availability

The upgraded Zoho Challenge is available immediately and includes a free edition. For details about pricing, please visit http://challenge.zoho.com/pricing. For more information on Zoho, please visit www.zoho.com. To get breaking Zoho news, please visit and subscribe to the RSS feed at http://blogs.zoho.com/, and follow the company on Twitter at @zoho.

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