“As districts face the prospect of preparing their technology for delivering not just instructional content but also a new generation of high-stakes, online assessments, it’s especially important to choose solutions that meet the needs of security and scalable performance,” said Bryan Bleil, vice president, Online & Technology Implementation, Pearson. By leveraging thin or zero clients, IT administrators can also extend the life of their desktop hardware, reduce energy consumption and cut overall operating costs. IT departments choose VMware Horizon View because it reduces the time and resources required to deploy and manage distributed desktop environments, and it gives students better access to coursework with less downtime and a consistent experience across devices and locations. VMware Horizon View has been implemented in educational institutions ranging from K-12 to post-graduate schools worldwide. Students and teachers do not lose valuable instruction time as normal use of the computer is simply a matter of selecting the base student image at login.” “Using VMware ® Horizon View™ with Pearson TestNav enables schools to deliver online tests on virtual desktops, which can eliminate the need to take down PCs for testing. “Because some of our schools did not have enough PCs in the classroom, we had to image PCs in the computer lab to administer online tests, which meant losing them for regular instruction until the testing period was over,” said John Orbaugh, director, technology services, Tyler Independent School District. Horizon View with Pearson TestNav combines state-of-the-art technologies from two industry leaders to meet next-generation testing requirements, delivering large-scale online tests to distributed desktops in a cost-effective manner without disrupting existing IT infrastructure. Pearson is the leader in online assessment and test delivery with more than 10 state and national assessment programs already selecting Pearson TestNav as their solution of choice for online testing. Department of Defense Education Activity have adopted the Common Core State Standards to develop new online standardized tests that will be used in the 2014-2015 school year. states, the District of Columbia, four U.S. “Online testing using virtual desktops is a great fit for educational institutions as part of that journey because of the simplified management and administrative cost savings enjoyed by schools that also offers a user-friendly delivery platform that is preferred by students.”įorty-five U.S. “VMware shares a common goal with students, teachers and parents in the desire to see students grow in preparation for college and succeed as part of the modern workforce,” said Erik Frieberg, vice president, product marketing, End-User Computing, VMware. TestNav delivers more than 9 million tests annually and VMware virtual desktops can now help K-12 schools achieve critical security and testing standards when delivering high-stakes, online assessments via TestNav. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that VMware ® Horizon View™ has been qualified to support the industry-leading TestNav online test delivery system from Pearson. VMware ® Horizon View™ Now Qualified with Pearson TestNav Online Test Delivery System Virtual Desktops Offer Ease of Deployment with Added Security and Integrity to the Administration of Online Tests in K-12 schools for Next-generation Assessments