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Launched in 2007 efutures is a dedicated website on e-assessment incorporating an online toolkit for e-assessment practitioners. The website is a resource designed to support innovation when using e-assessment in qualifications and explains the policies and regulatory principles related to e-assessment.

The new look site provides case studies and resources to help see the principles in context. Efutures has been designed to encourage dialogue between regulators and stakeholders on the key themes and topics relating to e-assessment, systems and security accessibility, e-testing, e-portfolios and help and support.

Efutures has recently undergone a restructure and redesign incorporating new layers of content and functionality which will enable users to interact more with the information on the site, by providing comments, asking questions and uploading data. The new look site aims to encourage users to participate in communities of practice encouraging dialogue and debate on the dynamic subject of e-assessment and is supported by all the qualification regulators, Ofqual, CCEA, SQA and DCELLS. These communities of practice will help inform us, to develop and improve future policies and thinking on e-assessment.

Efutures aims to ensure that messages on e-assessment will reach all relevant stakeholders. New features and functionality that will help engage users of e-assessment will include:

• Ability to manage a very simple profile
• Ability to manage AO contact details
• Ability to build a tailored new feed /updates
• An interactive calendar of events on e-assessment to link with personal calendars
• Online comments and questions
• Content based on the ‘real world' case studies from awarding organisations
• Links to e-assessment toolkit for practitioners

As an Awarding Organisation, you may be particularly interested in our section dedicated to AOs which enables organisations to input their own details to a brief on their e-assessment activities and we would encourage you to make use of this facility and populate it with your information.

Please take some time to have a look at the efutures website and disseminate the links as widely as possible within your organisations and centres and beyond were relevant. We also welcome any feedback you may have and encourage you to send us your comments and questions via the website.

Alternatively you can contact Fran Dowler directly.

Most notably one of the significant changes to efutures is the web domain which is now

www.e-assessment.org.uk. Please bookmark this site for future use.