State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation expands testing availability with Innovative Exams!

Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation

Innovative Exams, LLC. has helped the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR) by tripling the number of testing locations in the state of Illinois and surrounding areas, thus providing additional flexibility and convenience to candidates. The Innovative Exams self-service testing kiosk has significantly improved the accessibility for testing candidates while increasing satisfaction. Candidates who used to have to travel over an hour to take their exams can now find a kiosk conveniently located near their home or school.  This has been especially beneficial to candidates who live in communities far from urban areas.

                     Before Innovative Exams                                                                            After Innovative Exams

    

The maps above represent a before and after look at the expansion Innovative Exams has provided:

Before Innovative Exams the IDFPR was offering candidates about five locations spread throughout the state. Additonally these five centers were limited by dates of availability. Their locations included Carbondale in southern Illinois, Springfield Illinois, Galeburg in western Illinois, Westmont in west Chicago suburbs and a location in Downtown Chicago. Innovative Exams has increased the ability to administer IDFPR exams three-fold. Additionally candidates have enjoyed much lower travel times and expanded availability with Innovative Exams' locations. Innovative Exams has expanded the reach of the IDFPR to many suburbs near Chicagoland, northern Illinois in Rockford, O'Fallon Illinois near St. Louis and many other locations.

Solution

Through the implementation of multiple high definition camera angles, leading edge document authentication scanners, and custom security software, Innovative Exams is offering next generation testing today. More importantly, Innovative Exams has been able to greatly increase convenience, cost effectiveness, and flexibility in exam scheduling for testing candidates.

Innovative Exams Launches Partnership with NRFSP!

We are very excited to announce that we have launched a partnership with the National Registry of Food Safety Professionals. The NRFSP understands the value of secure remote testing kiosks and who have an interest in providing cutting-edge services to their certification candidates. The NRFSP has selected Innovative Exams to help reduce their delivery costs as well as provide additional options for their testing candidates while maintaining security.

For more information on NRFSP and our partnership please visit: http://www.nrfsp.com/

Certification Partners Teams Up with Innovative Exams

Certification Partners Teams Up with Innovative Exams
CIW Web Foundations Associate certification exams available through Innovative Exams kiosks 

TEMPE, Ariz., January 29, 2013 – Certification Partners, owner and developer of the CIW professional training and certification series, announces a new partnership with Innovative Exams, LLC, to provide testing services for CIW Web Foundations Associate certification. CIW Exams will be available through Innovative Exams' kiosk business model, which is specifically designed for unique environments where testing volumes may fluctuate greatly. The kiosk model also provides self-study and professional students the convenience of taking an exam on demand with no appointment.

"Certification Partners' relationship with Innovative Exams is evidence of both organizations’ continual interest in providing cutting-edge services to certification candidates," said Certification Partners President and Chief Certification Architect James Stanger, Ph.D. "Innovative Exams offers exam delivery without the overhead costs of preparation and proctor. They are also convenient for exam takers as well as for organizations with training and certification needs."

Innovative Exams administers high-stakes exams at the right place and right time for corporate, licensure and certification testing candidates. Candidates conveniently take exams on remotely proctored kiosks that can be installed in any location, including schools, training centers or corporate offices. The Innovative Exams kiosk business model also allows candidates to easily schedule their certification exam at a convenient location.

"The self-service testing kiosk continues to improve the testing industry by reducing costs and providing more convenient locations for professionals to become certified," said Ruben A. Garcia, CEO and founder of Innovative Exams. "The IT industry continues to lead the way in leveraging new testing models — and Certification Partners' decision to offer its certification program with us demonstrates the company's commitment to being part of a fast-growing trend in computer-based testing. CIW candidates will benefit greatly from this new and innovative model to reach its certification goals."

"Certification Partners will be teaming with the Innovative Exams testing kiosk network to provide additional and more convenient testing facilities to students and professionals seeking CIW certifications," said Certification Partners CEO Barry Fingerhut. "By expanding these testing options, the industry-standard CIW certification is more accessible to students and professionals interested in IT and Web development careers."

About Certification Partners
Certification Partners delivers industry-leading courseware, certifications and training solutions to higher-education institutions, corporations, associations, government agencies, non-profit organizations and career-minded individuals. The company specializes in information technology (IT) job skills with its premier CIW brand, delivers essential workforce training with its LifeSkills certification series, and offers a variety of job skills training internationally with CertPRESS. Certification Partners products bring learners of all ages the knowledge and skills essential to success in the modern workplace. Certification Partners is headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, with satellite offices in Ireland, Japan.

About Innovative Exams
Innovative Exams is continually working to develop new ways of providing testing services to our clients. We changed the paradigm, and are augmenting test center delivery with a highly secure model that boasts flexibility, cost effectiveness and most importantly availability to our candidates. Our clients range from licensure organizations like the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR), to corporations like Accenture and fast growing IT Certification clients like Red Hat.

Red Hat launches Innovative Exams' kiosk delivery system in 4 new locations

Red Hat & Innovatie Exams - Individual Exam Sessions

Red Hat and Innovative Exams have partnered to bring our revolutionary kiosk delivery system to 4 new locations nationwide. This means more locations, more convenience and more time to study for Red Hat candidates than ever before. The flexibility and security offered through Innovative Exams kiosks retains the high testing standards of Red Hat exams.

Same great exams ... now on your time!

If you've ever needed a little bit more study time before your exam or preferred a more individual test taking experience; look no further. Innovative Exams has made it easier than ever to find a location that is convenient for you and the ability to choose when you'd like to take your exam. Red Hat and Innovative Exams have added 4 new locations to take your exams: Atlanta, GA | Columbia, MD | Reston, VA | New York, NY 

Randy Russell, Director of Certification for Red Hat, goes in depth about the Innovative Exams solution!

Registration is just a few clicks away.

1. Click the Enroll Today button next to the exam you're interested in and complete the registration process.
2. Create an account with Innovative Exams.
3. Schedule your exam by choosing your exam, date, time, and location. You will receive an email confirming your scheduled exam and detailed instructions on what to do on your testing day.
4. Show up for your exam on the chosen date and time, and take your exam.

For more information and to sign up for your exam today please visit:http://www.redhat.com/training/certifications/exam-kiosk.html

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2011 Changing The World of Testing

2011 - Reinventing High-Stake Testing

2011 was a very interesting year for Innovative Exams, LLC. We really worked hard to develop new ways of providing testing services to our clients. We changed the paradigm, and are augmenting test center delivery with a highly secure model that boasts flexibility, cost effectiveness and most importantly availability to our candidates. Those are just a few of the reasons why the World's Largest Consulting Company trusts Innovative Exams to administer their High-Stakes Certification Exams. (Accenture Case Study Here!)We deployed kiosks to the U.S., Canada, India, UK and more on the way!
With the launch of our scheduling website (www.examslocal.com) as our registration and scheduling system.

Exam + Your Location = www.examslocal.com

www.examslocal.com is the Google of registration and scheduling websites. It's simple and streamlined. We worked really hard to keep the sophistication under the hood, while providing an attractive and focused front-end to your testing candidates. On average it only takes a candidate 154 seconds to create an account, log in and schedule an exam. www.examslocal.com is unique, simple and fast.

Say Goodbye to Vouchers!

Oh and we killed the Voucher Number too! We weren’t looking to adopt legacy and inefficient models in our commerce system, so we did away with those cumbersome voucher numbers, voucher discounts, etc. We adopted a better model that uses your candidate’s email addresses as the identifier to issue their exam credits. Your partner sites can buy exam credits in bulk on our system, upload a list of email addresses and assign credits to those candidates. Candidates receive an email notifying them of their credit. Candidates then select their exam and redeem their credit via www.examslocal.com. You can always un-assign a credit and reissue it to another candidate if you want to. It’s that simple! You’ll never see your discounted vouchers numbers for sale on eBay!
Although the front-end of the registration and scheduling is critical, we have also developed an open platform, all the way from opening access to our seat inventory and most importantly we are changing the way you publish your exams, empowering you to manage the publication process, all in real-time, using the best tools out there.

Why BYOT?

At our party, we let you Bring Your Own Test-Driver. So why is that important? It’s really about content portability and control. Our first goal was to give you control of your content by not locking it up in our system. We also didn’t want to get into the content management business or test driver business because there are some great tools out there and we’ve partnered with those folks to put their On-line Test-Drivers into our secure testing kiosks. In addition, if you’re like our clients and have a home-grown system or an on-line based performance test driver, it gives you the flexibility to keep your content there. You can publish new exams, make changes to content and we don’t stand in the way of making those changes on our system. Theoretically, you can publish a new exam, QA it and activate it on our system all within a couple of hours.

Live Look-In and Instant Replay!

We’re kicking it up and are pushing the envelope on Innovation. Imagine a world where you can teleport yourself into any testing site to check in on how well the sites are following the security protocols. Well, you don’t need to buy that expensive Star Trek Transporter! We’re making that possible with a click of your mouse. Simply log on to our Sponsor Management Portal and Look-in to any LIVE sessions for your testing program. You’ll see the real-time interaction between our monitors and your candidates, along with some high-quality video and audio feeds.

You can put away the De Lorean, there’s no need to build that Time Machine! With Innovative Exams’ Instant Replay technology, you can see an entire testing session as it took place. This is a great feature to have to review candidate sessions during protest periods as well a method of auditing our monitors.
There’s more to come! We’ll be sharing more things shortly! Thank you for your time and interest!

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