Remark Office OMR Software

New Features in Remark Office OMR 6.0

New Interface

The interface for the software has been completely updated. In addition to the new look and feel, you will find a task pane on the left side of every window to help you navigate the software. This task pane updates automatically based on the last step performed to help you understand your possible next steps. The task pane can be turned on or off via the View menu.

Multiple Question OMR Regions

A single OMR region can contain one or more questions. You can now access the entire region's properties or just the properties of individual questions within the region. This feature allows you to create one OMR region around question groups, yet change the properties for single questions within that region (e.g., if one out of ten questions in a region allows more than one response, you can create an OMR region around all ten questions, but change the multiple responses allowed property for a single question within the region).

Database Verification

Database Verification has been changed to Database Lookup. With this enhanced feature, you can still verify that data exist in an external database and lookup and replace data. However, you can now lookup an entry once and replace it multiple times (e.g., lookup a student ID number and replace it with First Name, Last Name, etc.). You can also designate the replace options to be respondent identifiers on your reports.

Auto Form ID, Auto Page ID and Respondent Tracker

In addition to the Auto Form ID feature, where you can process various form types and have the software automatically match a form to its corresponding form template, we have added the ability to automatically match pages to a form and keep respondent's data together. Through the use of form, page and respondent identifiers, you can process various forms, pages and respondent's data together and the software will figure out the form, page and respondent to which the data belong.

Reset Images

If you have an existing form template that needs new images due to a minor change in the form, you can use the Reset Images feature. This feature provides a quick way to refresh your form template images without creating a new form template from scratch.

Read Wizard

There is a new Read Wizard that controls form processing. When scanning forms, you no longer have to have an even number of pages when scanning double sided forms. In addition, images for each scanned form are automatically stored and each image has a time and date stamp in its name so that you don't have to worry about overwriting existing images when you scan a new batch of forms.

Updated Recognition

We have updated our recognition to improve form processing accuracy.

Batch Scanning

You can now scan batch header forms that contain information about the group of forms you will be processing. The batch header form is scanned first and the information gathered from it is pre-pended to each data record that follows.

Respondent Detection

If using Database Lookup, you can run a report that shows which of your respondents have been processed, which have not and which have been processed more than one time. Remark Office OMR will look at what is in the data file and compare it against the external database used for Database Lookup.

Remark Office Archive Format

A new Remark Office OMR Archive format is available when saving data. This format packages the form template, data file and stored images from scanning forms into one file. You can then open this file on another system with a Remark Office OMR license and you will have everything you need to process more forms, clean the data or run reports.

Review Exceptions (formerly Review Mode)

Review Exceptions has been updated with a cleaner interface and more searching options. You can even play sounds to alert you when an exception is found.

PDF Support

Remark Office OMR can now read PDF files and save scanned images as PDF files. Note that use of this feature is very memory intensive and should only be used on systems with robust processors and memory.

New Remark Quick Stats

Remark Quick Stats has been completely overhauled. You will still see your favorite reports, but with a new look and feel, plus some new reports. A new comparative report allows you to look at cross-sections of your data on a single report.

Grading: The Grade Wizard now supports the following features:
- Benchmark scores to compare student progress to established benchmarks, Multiple test version (answer key) scoring,
- Easier to use learning objective measurement screen, including benchmarks for each objective and a separate grade scale for all of the learning objectives,
- The ability to change question properties on the fly for one or more questions (e.g., points awarded, respondent identifiers, question text, etc.).
Surveys: A new survey wizard supports the following features:
- Benchmark scores to compare respondents responses to established benchmarks,
- The ability to group questions together to gain an overall survey analysis as well as a concentrated analysis on specific, related questions. You can also weight individual questions within the group for emphasis on those questions that are most important to you.

For those of you who have a favorite report in your current version of Remark Quick Stats (now called Legacy Analysis), you can still use this version, too. Legacy Analysis can be turned on in the software preferences, via the Tools menu.

All of the new features in this version are too numerous to mention. We have highlighted some of the bigger features here. To see the changes for yourself, download a free working demo today!