Scantron has won several documentation awards, including:
APEX is the Annual Awards for Publication Excellence Competition sponsored by the editors of Writing That Works (Communications Concepts,Inc.)
The Society for Technical Communication recognizes exceptional manuals in an annual competition.
Scantron's user guides are organized how you need to see information:
Scantron knows few people read manuals cover-to-cover, but most need answers to specific questions. Each Achievement Series User's Guide and help file contains a Table of Contents and index or keyword list so you can find exactly the answer you need. In addition, the help files and the PDF versions of the guides support full-text searching.
Each online tutorial provides a handson chance to try out and practice common critical tasks, such as using the Item Editor.
All guides contain the following features:
Complete user's guide to the Achievement Series Item Editor. Includes guidelines for writing usable items.
Complete user's guide to the Achievement Series Scan Station tool.
Complete user's guide to the district- and school-level features of Achievement Series.
Complete user's guide to the school-level features of Achievement Series.
Complete user's guide to the location controller features of Achievement Series.
Set of four User Guides for Achievement Series: Working with Items, Working with Scan Station, User's Guide Administrator's Version, User's Guide Teacher's version. See previous (or next; depending on where you put this) listings for details on each guide.
All lab packs contain the following features:
Each proctor lab pack contains one copy of each of the Achievement Series Proctor Quick Reference cards:
Each student lab pack contains 15 copies of one of the following:
Each poster pack contains five 11" x 17" durable, glossy, full-color copies of one of the following: