Doug, sorry if this is too late, but here is data from Loyola Chicago: 1. What placement test do you use? --WebCape for French, German, Spanish. Interviews by professors for other languages. 2. Is credit awarded for classes that they place out of? If so, how does that work in your institution? --No, and no fulfillment of any requirement, ever. These exams are not comprehensive enough, in our opinion, to enable that. Not to mention that they are given online, so there is no proctoring. 3. Are students required to take the exam in-person even though the exam is online? If not, how have you addressed the potential for academic dishonesty? The placement exam is for placement only. To meet our language requirement, students must either take a class at a certain level and pass it with a C- or better, OR take a proficiency exam, administered on campus and proctored. For French, German, Spanish, Japanese and Chinese we use the STAMP exam, developed at the Univ. of Oregon. For other languages, we use exams with guidelines developed by us, but written and graded by outside evaluators, who are paid for that. So far, all is working well. David Pankratz Loyola University Chicago *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************