Courseware Testing and Evaluation

Testing and Evaluating your own multimedia courseware can help you spot problems and make

appropriate changes.

It helps to have somebody else evaluate and test the courseware for you, but you can probably

gain some benefit even if you go through the procedure yourself.

Courseware Evaluation vs Courseware Testing

Testing implies matching a prescribed set of quantifiable criteria against performance to find

errors. For example, to check :

• if the design ideas which are applied are working;
• if the message is communicated perfectly or not;
• If multimedia and interactive elements work properly.
• everything that is used in the presentation is
• relevant to the intended audience, if not then what part is to be changed;

Evaluation is wider in that it is not looking for specific errors but improvements to the design during development or when the program is finished. The things to notice are :

• what is working well; what are the strengths of the
• project; what are clients saying about it;
• what do they like or dislike; is the objective being accomplished;
• if the entire project is to be done over again, what would be done differently.