[AAMT] Re: Certiport and Premiere Pro exam results from our AAMT meeting
- From: Colin Byers <cbyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "aamt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <aamt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 16:05:14 -0600
That's Great!
Colin Byers,
CTS Lead Teacher & Media Arts Instructor
Bert Church High School
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Bell, Susan M <smbell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree, but they say it is in the testing centre information, though we
> have never seen it.
>
> That said, I tried the fix just now and you are talking to a newly
> certified Adobe Premiere Pro!
>
> Open Chrome and drag the testing centre icon onto it. Works like a charm.
>
>
>
> Sue Bell
> Senior Education Specialist – Innovation and Learning Technology
> Calgary Board of Education (www.cbe.ab.ca<http://www.cbe.ab.ca/>)
>
> Have you tried CORE yet? (www.albertacore.ca<http://www.albertacore.ca/>)
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> Colin Byers [cbyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2014 3:33 PM
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> Subject: [AAMT] Re: Certiport and Premiere Pro exam results from our AAMT
> meeting
>
> Thanks for looking into this Sue, you'd think that they'd create the test
> platform to be compatible with any browser, or at the least, provide the
> information for test centres.
>
>
> [X]Colin Byers,
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> CTS Lead Teacher & Media Arts Instructor
> Bert Church High School
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> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Tamarra Price <tp1358@xxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:
> tp1358@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> Sue,
> Thank you for finding out about this. Probably better this happened to us
> and not students.
> Once you have retaken the test I think it is worth us speaking to our
> sales rep about the vouchers.
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Bell, Susan M <smbell@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:
> smbell@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> I agree it seems odd. However, the first four tests were developed two
> years ago, when Safari and IE were the standard. Illustrator and InDesign
> were developed in the past six months and Chrome has become the defacto
> standard browser lately it seems as many web based software apps that have
> limited budges are developing for only one browser to save funds are are
> choosing that one in particular.
>
> Anyway, I hope this information helps. I will be trying the test again
> this afternoon, using the correct browser, and will let everyone know if it
> resolved the issue.
>
>
> Sue Bell
> Senior Education Specialist – Innovation and Learning Technology
> Calgary Board of Education (www.cbe.ab.ca<http://www.cbe.ab.ca>)
>
> Have you tried CORE yet? (www.albertacore.ca<http://www.albertacore.ca>)
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> aamt-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:aamt-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] on behalf of
> Tim Jeffares [Tim.Jeffares@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:Tim.Jeffares@xxxxxxxxx>]
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> cbyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:cbyers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>'
> Subject: [AAMT] Re: Certiport and Premiere Pro exam results from our AAMT
> meeting
>
> Hi Gang,
>
> Ohhhh, so that's why I failed Premiere Pro...for a while there I thought
> it was because I was not a pro!
>
> On a serious note, thanks Sue for finding this out...it will be useful for
> the future! Although, I must say, it seems odd that the testing system is
> set up that way.
>
> Tim
>
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> aamt-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:aamt-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>] On Behalf Of
> Bell, Susan M
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> aamt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:aamt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>>
> Subject: [AAMT] Certiport and Premiere Pro exam results from our AAMT
> meeting
>
> Hi Colin and all,
>
> I am on the phone with one of the tech guys at Certiport trying to resolve
> the testing environment issues we are having with our PCs at CBE. While I
> had him on the phone, I spoke to him about the issue we had with the
> Premiere Pro exams at our AAMT session two weeks ago.
>
> He has indicated that there are some scoring issues with exams if the
> device is using the wrong browser.The challenge is that some of the exams
> need Safari (InDesign and Illustrator) and some need Chrome (Photoshop,
> Premiere, Dreamweaver, and Flash). Since Premiere Pro exam needs to be
> taken using Chrome, if it was run using Safari, he said that it looks like
> it works, but there can be issues with scoring.
>
> Apparently when you click the desktop icon, it will launch the exam in
> whatever the default browser is set as. So when you want to take exams on
> the browser that is not the default, you need to open the correct browser
> first and then drag and drop the desktop icon onto the correct browser to
> launch it.
>
> I am not sure which browser is the default at your lab in Rocky View,
> Colin, but that may have been part of the problem. I hope this helps.
> Unfortunately, we wasted at least 6 vouchers on exams that produced invalid
> results. I am not sure whether we want to ask for replacements or not. They
> have said we would need to go through our regional sales person.
>
> Sue Bell
> Senior Education Specialist - Innovation and Learning Technology Calgary
> Board of Education (www.cbe.ab.ca<http://www.cbe.ab.ca><
> http://www.cbe.ab.ca/>)
>
> Have you tried CORE yet? (www.albertacore.ca<http://www.albertacore.ca><
> http://www.albertacore.ca/>)
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