I don't know about non-commercial products that facilitate audio testing and evaluation of student recordings, but the data management involved is one of the strengths of our LangLab PASSPORT product. Lessons can be tests, kept hidden until the moment of use, revealed, and perhaps hidden again afterward. It is possible to allow secure remote access to the server, enabling students to bring up a module that connects automatically to the server (from a computer on the LAN or via the Internet), log into a course, select a lesson that is a test from a pull-down menu, and click to go from item to item, with their recordings going automatically on the server. Instructors can then bring up a module for assessment (including on a computer in an office or at home), which connects automatically to the server. They can select students from a pull-down menu, select the test-lesson from a menu of items, click to go from item to item, click to retrieve a recording for an item, listen to it, and, if desired, insert comments at any point. For placement testing, including for students not yet enrolled, it is easy to put students on a roster temporarily. A text window can accommodate written questions and answer mechanisms, for testing of listening comprehension and aural discrimination as well as reading/writing skills. It's quite affordable. Those interested might look at www.elanglab.com and draw their own conclusions. --Richard Laden ____________________ Dr. Richard A. Laden Director, E-LangLab, LLC Berkeley, CA, USA E-mail [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], or [log in to unmask] *********************************************** 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. Subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives at http://listserv.dartmouth.edu/scripts/wa.exe?A0=LLTI Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************