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The Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), is a collaborative effort between government, industry and academia to establish a new distributed learning environment that permits the interoperability of learning tools and course content on a global scale. ADL's vision is to provide access to the highest quality education and training, tailored to individual needs, delivered cost-effectively anywhere and anytime.
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The SCORM Best Practices Guide is for content developers, instructional designers, writers, programmers, and subject matter experts tasked with creating new content that is SCORM conformant or converting existing content into SCORM conformant content. The guide provides a step-by-step process for using SCORM and tips to make your SCORM implementation easier. It is not intended to replace the SCORM document, nor is it intended to be all inclusive. The tips and techniques explained here will facilitate your entry into SCORM conformant training. Through your own implementation, you will continue to learn more about the ways you can efficiently create effective SCORM content.
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Very Clear explanations about
* Where does SCORM fit in the context of learning?
* How does Medbiquitous make finding e-learning content easier?
* What do you need to know (and do) before designing SCORM content?
* How do you design good SCORM content?
* What does sequencing mean to content design?
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The Academic Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Co-Lab has developed a collection of Sharable Content Objects (SCOs) as an Introduction to the ADL Initiative and the SCORM. The first group of SCOs - affectionately referred to as the SCOurse - can be viewed in Granada's Learnwise LMS by visiting the link below. Because they are SCORM-conformant, they will work in any SCORM-compliant LMS. The Academic ADL Co-Lab will be demonstrating these and additional modules in other Learning Management Systems in the near future.
This initial group of SCOs in the first of a series of content objects on the SCORM that will be released by the Academic ADL Co-Lab. Check back in the coming weeks as additional content is placed online.
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SCORM - Fundamentals
The SCORM course has been designed for content experts and others who need to understand how SCORM might impact the manner in which e-courses are presented and shared.
SCORM - Advanced
The SCORM Advanced Course is for instructional designers, developers and others who are interested in the design of SCORM-compliant courses.
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SCORM Visualizer lets you see how a course and a Learning Management System (LMS) use the SCORM . Runtime to communicate. Here is what SCORM Visualizer can do for you:
e-Learning System Implementers: Quickly identify communication problems between a course and your LMS.
Course Developers: SCORM Visualizer provides a SCORM . Runtime service for your course so you can see how the course will work when launched by an LMS. SCORM Visualizer will let you prove to yourself and your customers that your course is using the SCORM . API correctly. SCORM Visualizer helps you test and debug your course. With SCORM Visualizer, you can:
* Launch your course in multiple sessions
* Restart your course with specific data items set
* See the result of every function call
* Modify SCORM data items as you run your course
LMS Developers: SCORM Visualizer will let you prove to yourself and your customers that your LMS is using the SCORM . API correctly. SCORM Visualizer can be loaded into your LMS as a course with a single SCO. When you launch the SCORM Visualizer SCO, it automatically shows you all of the SCORM data your LMS provides to the SCO. SCORM Visualizer will also show you all of the communications between your LMS and a SCO.
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. . . DITA XML: A unifying content reuse architecture for learning
While both learning objects and SCORM bring to the fore the need for sharable content, they both specifically leave open the question of a particular format or structure for this content. In fact, it can literally be said that SCORM is a packaging and delivery specification in search of a content model. This brings us to the third and most recent trend: DITA XML.
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) provides an XML-based standard for creating and delivering content. Spawned from a workgroup effort at IBM and now an OASIS open standard, DITA has it roots in best practices for technical authoring.
It's thus no surprise that key characteristics of DITA directly address the crucial building blocks for developing reusable learning objects in general, and SCORM sharable content objects in particular. These DITA reuse characteristics include topics, topic types, domains, maps, and specialization:
* A DITA topic forms the most basic information unit -- short enough to be easily readable, but long enough to make sense on its own.
* A DITA topic type defines the role of a topic within an information set.
* A DITA domain defines vocabularies for common use across more than one topic type.
* A DITA map applies context to the topics. With maps, you organize different combinations of topics for different outputs and deliverables.
* Finally, DITA specialization provides a mechanism for deriving new topic types, new domains, and new map types as extensions to existing domains or types.
Can topic-based DITA XML provide the basis for developing an information architecture for single-sourced XML learning content? This article builds directly on the rich background about reusable content and e-learning delivery in the learning and training fields. Here in Part 1, the authors posit a set of extensions to DITA XML that provide the starting point for a unifying content model for learning. In Part 2, they test their assumptions against pilot content from a training course developed to support a component feature of IBM® DB2 Query Monitor™, and then report their findings and suggest important next steps.
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DITA XML: A unifying content reuse architecture for learning
While both learning objects and SCORM bring to the fore the need for sharable content, they both specifically leave open the question of a particular format or structure for this content. In fact, it can literally be said that SCORM is a packaging and delivery specification in search of a content model. This brings us to the third and most recent trend: DITA XML.
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) provides an XML-based standard for creating and delivering content. Spawned from a workgroup effort at IBM and now an OASIS open standard, DITA has it roots in best practices for technical authoring.
It's thus no surprise that key characteristics of DITA directly address the crucial building blocks for developing reusable learning objects in general, and SCORM sharable content objects in particular. These DITA reuse characteristics include topics, topic types, domains, maps, and specialization:
* A DITA topic forms the most basic information unit -- short enough to be easily readable, but long enough to make sense on its own.
* A DITA topic type defines the role of a topic within an information set.
* A DITA domain defines vocabularies for common use across more than one topic type.
* A DITA map applies context to the topics. With maps, you organize different combinations of topics for different outputs and deliverables.
* Finally, DITA specialization provides a mechanism for deriving new topic types, new domains, and new map types as extensions to existing domains or types.
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Authorware is the leading visual authoring tool for creating rich-media e-learning applications for delivery on corporate networks, CD/DVD, and the Web. Develop accessible applications that comply with learning management system (LMS) standards. Create content by importing Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and integrating them with other media, and then monitor student progress with data-tracking and database connectivity features.
Requires a plug-in.
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Do you produce course material in Word format?
Would you like to find an efficient way of transforming it into an interactive online course?
With courseGenie you can write a complete course as one Word document and automatically generate a multi-page and multi-section online course with:
* a Table of Contents
* navigation buttons
* pop-ups
* hyperlinks (internal and external)
* types of Self-Test Questions
* support for Flash, Quicktime and other multimedia assets
* export to plain HTML
* IMS and SCORM export formats
* full accessibility compliance
* QTI Lite export of Self-Test
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CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver MX Extension
Make interactive web pages with engaging web-based learning content and deliver them across multiple platforms and browsers.
Learning Site Command for Dreamweaver MX
Create a learning site using built-in navigation, tracking features and powerful lesson administration and configuration.
SCORM Runtime Wrapper Extension for Dreamweaver MX
Build or update HTML content so that it complies with ADL standards for the runtime environment.
Manifest Maker Extension for Dreamweaver MX
Create an XML manifest file per the IMS specifications.
Designer's Edge Extension for Dreamweaver MX
Connect your training development team and allow instructional designers, subject matter experts, artists, and media developers to share their design information through Dreamweaver.
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An e-Learning Authoring Tool for HTML Developers
HTML editors such as Dreamweaver and FrontPage are great tools for creating e-learning course content. However, if you want to create test questions, bookmarks and support for SCORM you will spend several weeks programming with JavaScript. You can get documented source code for these essential e-Learning capabilities right now with the e-Learning Course Development Kit. It lets you use your favorite HTML editor to create e-learning courses quickly and easily. The Kit also provides a dynamically created table of contents, rapid download, easy to use navigation and more.
* Test Questions: The Kit lets you create test questions using HTML-based storyboards. You can create true-false, multiple choice, multiple choice with images and order-text questions. The test questions are automatically graded and recorded. Optional feedback can be provided for correct and incorrect answers.
* SCORM: The Kit fully supports SCORM ., the e-learning standard for packaging, launching, bookmarking and tracking a course. The Kit reports the overall score (raw, minimum and maximum), the course status (incomplete, completed, passed or failed) and the results of individual interactions. The Kit saves and restores bookmarks and all of the state data so a learner can take the course in multiple sessions. Courses developed with the Kit will pass the SCORM conformance test.
* Multiple Delivery: Courses created with the Kit can be delivered from a Learning Management Server (LMS), web server and CD-ROM.
* Rapid Download and Quick Start: The Kit uses only kilobytes of JavaScript to provide all of the e-learning features. The small size guarantees that your courses will download and start running quickly
* Documentation and Source Code: All parts of the authoring tool kit are clearly documented to make it easy for an HTML and JavaScript developer to customize and extend it.
* Languages: The Kit can be used to create content in multiple languages. We have customers from more than countries.
* Use Your Favorite HTML Editor: You can develop your course pages using any HTML editor. Your course pages can include any type of media including GIF, JPEG, Flash, audio, video and animation. You can develop any sort of instructional interaction including tutorials, questions and simulations. There are no special programming requirements for these pages. When you use your HTML editor with the e-Learning Course Development Kit there is no need to purchase and learn new authoring tools.
* Table of Contents: The table of contents is dynamically built from a simple JavaScript array. The table of contents displays the current location in the course and allows the learner to jump to any location.
* Navigation: The built-in navigation makes it easy for the learner to move forward and back within a course.
* Rich Links: Your course pages can have links to important information, areas of potential risk that the learner can investigate, examples and a glossary of terms. The development Kit describes how you can create additional links.
* Storyboards: The Kit contains several ready-to-use storyboards. These storyboards automatically generate HTML and JavaScript code. You can use the prebuilt storyboards or design your own.
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I have often bemoaned the fact that training people do not look to what their colleagues in other departments are doing for examples of how technology can be applied to learning initiatives. There’s a bigger picture out there, yet "learning professionals" often get so precious about their perceived uniqueness that they can’t see the valuable lessons in e-business. The truth is that there is nothing that we do in e-learning that has not already been done, and done a great deal better, in e-business.
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The eLearningDev group was created to discuss all aspects of online training including design, instructional design, ADL SCORM, development, learning management systems, job opportunities etc
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This site is jam packed with "how to" articles, templates and calculators in the tool box, dozens of white papers, time saving book summaries and links to the best sites on the net.
e-Learning Basics for Newbies
Systematic Design for e-Learning
Adult Learning Theory
Usability & Interface Design
Blended Learning
Selling Internally for Support
The ROI of e-Learning
Case Studies: Great ROI
Marketing Internally to Learners
Reusable Learning Objects & SCORM Issues
Managing e-Learning
Miscellaneous
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Worldwide non-profit organization that includes more than Contributing Members and affiliates that develops and promotes the adoption of open technical specifications for interoperable learning technology. Several IMS specifications have become worldwide de facto standards for delivering learning products and services. IMS specifications and related publications are made available to the public at no charge, no fee is required to implement the specifications.
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Create fully interactive SCORM compliant eLearning activities, from software simulations, multiple choice quizzes, through to fully synchronized multimedia presentations, with no programming, and no plugins required.
Activities play back natively in a browser. The award-winning KnowledgePresenter® Professional includes advanced features, the KnowledgePresenter Learning Management System, KnowledgePresenter ScreenTeacher, and KookaCap .
True cross platform authoring - lessons play back on Macs, PCs, and Unix platforms.
KnowledgePresenter is the only e-learning solution that allows you to create:
* Interactive software simulations and demonstrations
* Multimedia presentations and learning, including handouts
* Assessments and multiple choice quizzes
* A complete end to end solution, including Learning Management System for recording and reviewing results
A cutdown version of KnowledgePresenter Professional - at less than half the price. Create fully interactive SCORM compliant eLearning activities, from software simulations, multiple choice quizzes, with no programming, and no plugins required.
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Programming-Free Authoring & Publishing
Lectora Publisher provides single-click publishing to web- ready dynamic HTML, CD, single file .exe, and SCORM< AICC, and LRN learning standards all without the need for programming knowledge. Lectora’s intuitive user-friendly interface and internal content management system makes course creation simple and easy for the average computer user.
Advanced Testing & Survey Capabilities
Create review questions and complete tests using any combination of true/false, multiple choice, essay, and short answer formats. Testing options include automated grading, multiple or single page testing, per- question feedback, timed testing, show/hide results from student, randomized test questions from master question lists, set passing and failing scores, and more!
Flexible Actions Palette
Lectora’s user-friendly Actions Palette enables users to create unlimited interactive learning objects using show and hide functionality, mouseovers, object visibility toggling, executables, and much more. Users can incorporate Variable Knowledge Objects with the Actions Palette to create didactic and branched learning scenarios.
Automated Tools
Lectora features a helpful set of automated tools to ensure speed, efficiency, and accuracy for course authoring. Featured tools include the Title Wizard, Button Wizard, HTML Error Check, Spell Check, Variable Manager, Table of Contents, and Reference Lists. The Import From an Existing Title tool promotes collaborative work environments enabling multiple users to work on a single title.
Multiple Output for Test Results
Submit test results via email, CGI script, XML or any SCORM, AICC, or LRN standards compliant Learning Management System.
Certified AICC compliance and SCORM conformance
Lectora Publisher has been tested and certified to meet the latest AICC- certification guidelines and SCORM specifications. Lectora authored content integrates with all Learning Management Systems certified as Compliant with AICC guideline AGR- - Web-based Computer Managed Instruction. These specifications allow for the development of common open-architecture guidelines for interoperable learning environments.
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RapidBuilder v. Deluxe is a special advanced edition of RapidBuilder v., XStream's x award-winning, Programming-free Simulation-Authoring Technology for creating, customizing, and deploying Fully Interactive, Multimedia Simulations that realistically duplicate the functionality of the live Windows environment.
RapidBuilder v. Deluxe includes all of the familiar RapidBuilder features and capabilities, including continuous capturing of live software applications, multimedia edit suite featuring appended/inserted frames, text, graphics, audio files, recorded sound clips, embedded sound tracks, video, navigational hyperlinks, links to external files and web pages, menus, mouse pointer animations, and much more, and support for popular media formats including Flash (SWF), Microsoft Word (DOC), AVI, ASF, MOV, MPEG, and EXE.
RapidBuilder v. Deluxe is both a SCORM-compliant technology and a -compliant technology. As a SCORM-compliant technology, RapidBuilder v. Deluxe enables developers to create SCORM v. and v. courses (both RBX-based and Flash-based), which are courses created and deployed in a universal XML-based format that may be shared with any SCORM-compliant Learning Management System (LMS). As a -compliant technology, RapidBuilder v. Deluxe complies with the accessibility guidelines outlined in Section of the U.S Rehabilitation Act. By supporting the use of keyboard equivalents for all mouse actions, as well as all the Windows Accessibility Options, RapidBuilder v. Deluxe may be fully accessed by all users, including users with physical disabilities or limited mobility.
RapidBuilder v. Deluxe also includes a host of other deluxe features, including provisions for importing/exporting text for language translation, text-to-speech (automatic audio) capabilities, viewing frame thumbnails, importing Flash files and animated GIF files, importing multiple images to frame backgrounds, saving recorded sound clips, implementing audio interruption capabilities at the frame level, importing audio onto a single frame (as opposed to multiple frames), customizing hot keys, and additional support for wildcard characters in the Validation Field object.
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Test Generator Features
Three User Types
There are three types of Users and four user levels in Test Generator. The three user types include Administrators, Instructors and Students.
The four user levels include:
* One TG System Administrator: Full privileges.
* One or more non-system Administrators: Fewer privileges.
* Instructors/test authors: Can create and activate tests, view reports and perform other tasks as assigned by TG's System Administrator.
* Students: Restricted to logging into the Tester module. Access is controlled by the TG Administrator.
Ten Question Types
* Multiple Choice - Only one correct answer
* Check Boxes - More than one correct answer
* True/False
* Ordering - Distractors (answers) must be selected in a specific order or sequence.
* Fill in the Blanks - Questions can contain one or more blanks.
* Short Answer - Allow one or more acceptable answers. Example: "milliliter" or "ml".
* Point and Click - Import images into TG and use the image as the distractor. The test taker selects their answer by clicking on the image.
* Essay - Useful for fact-based or critical thinking test items. Answers can be a word, phrase, sentence, paragraph or lengthy essay. Essay questions are scored manually.
* Numeric - Allow a precise number (integer, decimal, or fraction), or inclusive/exclusive range. Numbers may be in the form n or n.nn...n or n/n:n/n or (n:n).
* Likert - Useful for questionnaires/surveys. For example, "I think the current administration's environmental policy is earth friendly." The answers would be in the form "Strongly Disagree", "Disagree", "Neither agree nor disagree", "Agree" and "Strongly agree". Each answer box is assigned a number value.
Feedback
The test author can enable any of the following test behaviors.
* Show Feedback after each Question - Provide the test taker with one of three types of feedback: Text, Media or URL. The choice of text, media or URL link can be enabled per question.
* Show Correct Answers after each Question - Immediately inform a test taker whether he/she has answered a question correctly or incorrectly. If they answered incorrectly, it will highlight the correct answer.
* Allow User Feedback During Test - Enable a test taker to provide the test author with feedback/comments per question, during an active test session.
* Show Feedback After Completion - At the completion (submission) of a test, the test taker is given the option of selecting a feedback link. Feedback links are displayed under a test’s Summary List. If a test taker chooses to view question-specific feedback, they would click the Feedback link. Note: viewing feedback is not mandatory and not all questions require feedback. The type of feedback presented to the test taker will depend on which feedback option was chosen during test creation. Feedback choices include: Text, Media or URL. This option is available to the test taker once the test has been submitted for grading.
* Allow User Feedback After Completion - Enables a test taker to provide the test author with feedback/comments at the completion of a test.
* Allow Test Review After Completion - At the completion (submission) of a test, allow test takers to view, but not change, their test.
* Show Score After Completion - Displays X points scored out of X possible points and the percentage score. Example: "Total: out of ( %). Also, a View Scores by Subject/Question button enables the test taker to view their test scores organized by either Subject or Question. The View Score by Subject option displays the Subject, the number of test questions related to that subject and the test taker’s percentage score for that subject.
* Show Pass/Fail After Completion - Displays a "Passed" or "Failed" message at the bottom of Tester’s Summary List screen. The Pass/Fail percentage is defined (by the test author) under Test Properties.
* Print Certificate After Completion - Pr
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Simple Learning Creator - FREE
The Simple Learning Creator is a rapid eLearning authoring tool that requires no programming to create high end online learning and desktop presentations or instruction. Creates regular learning modules or SCORM conformant learning modules. Develop learning on any platform, Windows, Mac or Unix.
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Interact - FREE
Free Quiz Interaction - Free Version - Non-Branded Version - Open Source Version
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myLinqs - FREE - Create your own web directory
Review Point - FREE
Review point is a web based comment tracking system that allows your team, staff, or clients to review your eLearning project and make real time comments right from the content.
Simple SCORM Packager
Create SCORM conformant packages in minutes. Compatible with SCORM . and SCORM . Works easily with your own content or with the Simple Learning Creator. $
Sculptoris Voices
Sculptoris Voices Studio allows you to create D & D lifelike characters which export to Macromedia's Flash file format. Voices allows your eLearning course or website to grab the attention of your viewer easily and helps them to retain your message.
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Overview
E-Learning Tools for Microsoft Office and more...
THESIS Professional is a suite of ELearning tools which takes advantage of the SCORM standards and are integrated with Microsoft Office. This combination enables a user to author e-learning resources and objects straight from the familiar Microsoft Office applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Visio and Producer. The "Learning Object Manager" allows a user to author complete lessons for online teaching and instruction, using multiple learning objects from different sources.
Store, Share, Search and Sell your educational content with THESIS Librarian
THESIS Librarian is a web or intranet based repository where subject matter experts can store and control access to online content they have created in private or public libraries. Access permissions can be set to allow:
* Searches to identify and structure course content.
* Learning objects to be checked out, edited and checked back in.
* Learning objects to be copied.
Librarian can store any content that is SCORM . compliant whether created by THESIS Professional or by any other SCORM . compliant process. Librarian is a multi-user SCORM package repository which includes a search capability of metadata for results.
Administrator management with the ability to:
* Manage packages with check-in and check-out
* View and update metadata inside the system
* Preview capability for the package look and feel in an LMS
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A Metadata Standard for Learning Objects
As learning objects grow in number and importance, institutions are faced with the daunting task of managing them. Like familiar items in library collections, learning objects need to be organised by subject and registered in searchable repositories. But they also introduce special problems. As computer files, they are dependent on a particular hardware and software environment. And as materials with a pedagogical intent, they are associated with metrics such as learning objectives, reading levels and methods for evaluating student performance. The conventional wisdom is that a learning object should be accompanied by a metadata record, whose minimal form would contain the information typically found in the description of a book or journal article, such as title, author, subject, and a unique identifier. But a more complete record would describe the technical and educational context required to activate the learning object and connect it with others to create a rich educational experience for an appropriate audience.
. . Which elements are most widely adopted? Can a viable record be assembled from the most popular elements-i.e., one which would describe the unique characteristics of learning objects, or at least support discovery and harvesting?
. What are the prospects for interoperability in a complex metadata scheme that consists entirely of optional elements?
. What can be learned about the motivation for developing an application profile-either from the coded data or the supporting documentation? Should the LOM standard be revised?
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The x.hlp Adaptive Learning Suite is a family of tightly integrated software products that combine to enable organizations to effectively train, test, support, and track users of their mission-critical software applications.
The unique quality of x.hlp Adaptive Learning Suite is that it provides enterprise-wide training and performance support in a format that engages employees and customers - and which is easily modified to mirror the changing needs of an evolving organization. ALS Version , x.hlp's latest release, contains significant enhancements for both content creators and subject matter experts, and for end users and learners.
With the x.hlp Adaptive Learning Suite you can:
* Deploy content based on learner profiles and rights, and track learner performance and progress
* Seamlessly integrate your x.hlp content with your existing eLearning infrastructure
* Create attractive and customized learning modules in hours or less
* Accelerate the learning process and reduce application adoption timeframes through linear and branched simulations and tests
* Enable subject matter experts to efficiently capture and cascade their knowledge to your employees and customers quickly
* Support employees through every stage of the learning cycle by producing classroom tutorials, performance checks, on-demand help, and call-center assistance
* Enable employees and other end-users to learn a particular process or application thoroughly, at their own pace, with interactive simulations that graphically direct them through each step
* Help learners whenever and wherever they need it with context sensitive online reminders that visually demonstrate specific tasks
* Easily edit your training content to ensure that it's always up to date and complete
What's New in ALS :
* Create linear and branched simulations and tests, enabling learners to explore multiple pathways to the end solution
* Automatically import application data from a variety of sources including remote PC's, Pocket PC, PowerPoint presentations, and more
* Quickly create Word-template based documentation directly from all lesson and course content
* Create post-training support Guides, which run within learner browsers with no plug-ins or client side software required
* Deploy content and tracker learner actions using learner profiles, management reporting tools, and course content management tools
* Publish content for Learning Management Systems using AICC and SCORM (., .) industry standards
* Generate multimedia output for learners using high-quality audio compression, saving valuable bandwidth while providing a rich environment for learning
x.hlp Adaptive Learning Suite consists of the following products:
* x.hlp Designer, helps you create learning modules and courses fast and efficiently
* x.hlp Guides, intuitive graphical help files that effectively 'walk a user through' the successful completion of a task.
* x.hlp Learning Manager tracks the learning process, allowing valuable performance data to be extracted using existing reporting technologies
* x.hlp LMS Integrator, for seamless publishing to existing Learning Management Systems
* x.hlp Assistant, a powerful Performance Support System that enables the creation of context sensitive assistance to almost any software application
* x.hlp Content Publisher deploys the modules and courses rapidly to LAN, web, desktop and CD
* x.hlp Course Content Manager makes it easy to efficiently reuse learning modules across numerous courses | |
