IMS Assesst Designer is assessment creation tool is designed specifically for user friendliness. Authors can create, modify, delete and rearrange questions in assessment with ease. This complies with open standards such as the IMS Project Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) Specification. The system provides several types of questions (multiple choice, multiple response, matching, numerical and string fill-in-black). Assessment data can be exported and imported in zipped file according to IMS QTI specification. Image and HTML materials are supported.

The Assesst Designer is a web-server and currently requires an Intel-based server running Windows 98 or Windows NT, 2000, Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher. A Unix version of the system has been planned.