All Alberta provincial exams to go digital by 2019

Provincial tests for Alberta students in grades 3, 6, 9 and 12 will all be taken online within two years, Alberta’s education ministry says.
To do it, the Alberta government is spending $12.6 million to write its own provincial exam software, and dispensing with the Quest A+ system that crashed while 8,000 students attempted to write diploma exams in 2015.
“I think a computer would be a good idea,” said 15-year-old Vivica Addo, who wrote Grade 9 provincial achievement tests las