The WELL Project has created an online language testing system to enable participating institutions to create unique, secure tests for their students. The system gives students immediate feedback on exercises and gives tutors a record of results for whatever tests they want to see. 8 universities have collaborated on question production. For the start of the autumn semester there will be around 10,000 questions in the database in French, German, Italian, Spanish, ESOL, Portuguese, and Dutch.
Some questions use graphics or audio files.
Ease of use is one of the main features of this system. When you log on, the system recognises whether you are a student, a tutor or an administrator, and shows you only the relevant options. Confidentiality of results is guaranteed. The only people who have access to student results in a specific institution are the nominees of that institution. It is not possible for anyone to access the results of other institutions.