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Tools
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Flash allows designers and developers to integrate video, text, audio, and graphics into immersive, rich experiences that deliver superior results for interactive marketing and presentations, e-learning, and application user interfaces.
Audio/Video Production
Camtasia allows users to create professional-looking screen recordings of Windows desktop activity giving you the ability to edit and publish the recordings in Flash, CD-ROM and streaming video formats.
Director handles the widest variety of media, letting you build compelling, high-performance content—such as learning applications, corporate demonstrations, and games—that delivers measurable results.
MS Producer captures, synchronizes, and publishes audio, video, slides, and images to create rich-media presentations viewable in a browser.
Authoring
Authorware is a visual authoring tool for use in creating rich-media e-learning applications for delivery on corporate networks, CD/DVD, and the Web. Users can 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.
Blackboard offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power e-Education programs in our primary markets – Higher Education, K-12, Corporate/Government and International. Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the Internet for online teaching and learning, campus communities, campus commerce services, and integration of Web-enabled student services and back office systems.
Dreamweaver/Coursebuilder provides a powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support that enables web designers and developers to create and manage websites using its CSS-based design and integration features.
E-Learning Project Analysis Tool (ePAT) is a free interactive software program that analyzes your needs through an on-screen question-and-answer session. Upon completion of the virtual consultation, a report is generated which outlines the estimated costs and services offered as part of an overall e-learning solution that will meet your defined training needs, budget, and project deadlines. This report is provided both on-screen and in print format.
Epiplex eLearning Solutions is a product suite that simultaneously slashes the time and costs to produce or change content, and orchestrates delivery of content in a fashion that will provide considerable and measurable improvement in business process performance.
ReadyGo Web Course Builder is an easy-to-use authoring product that quickly and efficient lets you product Web-based training.
Captivate (formerly RoboDemo) provides an easy way to create interactive demonstrations and software simulations in Flash format that can be published online or burned to CD for use in training, sales, marketing, or user support.
ToolBook Assistant allows non-technical business users to easily create effective, interactive media rich learning content without any programming.
Toolbook Instructor provides a comprehensive authoring solution to create effective software application simulations, assessments, and rich, interactive content.
Trainersoft is a desktop authoring tool for e-learning that offers rapid authoring, comprehensive testing features, and quick delivery on the Web, CD, or network using its Distribution Wizard tool.
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Documentum offers a diverse range of products that manage Web content, power portals, enable collaborative commerce, and solve regulatory content challenges. Its Documentum ApplicationXtender 5 Channel Edition also helps facilitate document imaging, workflow, and report management.
Course Estimation Tools
ADVISOR Enterprise is an Internet based business planning tool to help organizations maximize training investments and achieve objectives faster. ADVISOR provides clear, accurate and comprehensive analysis of the effectiveness, cost and impact of each training activity.
Course Evaluation/Assessments
Centre for Curriculum, Transfer and Technology is a site that was built to assist higher education in using a more rational decision making process to review the many options for a course management system. This site reviews each product by researching and describing more than 40 product features.
E-learning Quick Audit is a tool for people who are developing or evaluating e-learning.
Ingenious Group LLC is a powerful and easy to use, web-based assessment authoring system that allows real-time analysis using browser-based reports or downloading report data in MS Excel, MS Access, CSV, XML, or HTML formats.
Perception for Windows creates, delivers and reports on assessments using the Windows PC platform.
Perception for Web administers assessments using the Internet or Intranets.
LearnFrame provides e-Learning management systems that you can use to automate and measure your learning process as you focus corporate knowledge on business objectives.
Distance Learning
eCollege AU+ is the only course management system built specifically for fully online teaching and learning that fully increases instructor and student efficiency, facilitates interaction and provides the opportunity for course customization.
Forio Business Simulations provides everything to get a simulation running on the web using its Broadcast product to develop your model, create an HTML or Flash interface to your model, and host your simulation without needing to be a web expert.
InterWise offers a comprehensive solution addressing the communications, collaboration and learning needs of today's competitive enterprise - in a single, fully integrated web-based platform, which uses iMentoring, iMeetings, iClasses, iSeminars and iCasts to handle all vital exchanges of information, experience and data in real-time.
NetMeeting offers a solution using your PC and the Internet to hold face-to-face conversations with friends and family, and collaborate with co-workers around the world.
Sametime is IBM's market-leading product and platform for real-time collaboration.
Games
GameShow Pro offers trainers and educators ultimate flexibility to customize a fun, interactive, total learning experience that can be used for CBT, instructor-led, or self-paced training.
Quiz Rocket allows users to create a test or survey on any topic, deliver it to students via the Internet, an intranet or LAN, by e-mail or on disk, then track results and measure learning.
The Safety Game provides safety-related courseware for the workplace with LearningWare's new ready-to-use General Safety and Regulatory Compliance Gameshow Pro 2 games.
Graphic Design
CorelDraw! is an illustration, digital imaging and motion graphics software that now includes MS Office and WordPerfect Office export capabilities, so you can easily enhance text documents and presentations by adding graphics.
Illustrator is an essential design tool for anyone who needs to express ideas visually in print, on the Web, and in any other medium.
PaintShop Pro is the most complete, easy-to-use software for creating professional digital imaging results combining the use of automatic and precision tools with an integrated learning system.
PhotoShop is an illustration, digital imaging and motion graphics software for use by graphic and Web designers, photographers, and video professionals.
PowerPoint is a presentation graphics program for improving the way you create, present, and collaborate on presentations. It also has enhanced multimedia capabilities available for delivering presentations with more impact.
Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Centra an online training solution that allows you to address the needs of the individual and the organization simultaneously; to capture, share, and manage information and skills in a variety of formats to meet the requirements of specific learners or job tasks. Deliver highly-effective blended learning programs quicker and cheaper, and accelerate your staff's productivity.
SumTotal (formerly Click2Learn) is an enterprise-wide, globally scalable application for managing learners, content, and resources.
IBM Lotus Domino Express is a complete messaging and collaboration solution for companies having 1000 employees or fewer. share, manage and organize information more efficiently.
Screen Capturing
Camtasia allows users to create professional-looking screen recordings of Windows desktop activity giving you the ability to edit and publish the recordings in Flash, CD-ROM and streaming video formats.
Captivate (formerly RoboDemo) provides an easy way to create interactive demonstrations and software simulations in Flash format that can be published online or burned to CD for use in training, sales, marketing, or user support.
SnagIt is a screen capture product that lets you capture screen images, text and printer output from your Windows PC with SnagIt's award-winning interface, then quickly enhance with the in-line editor.
Storyboarding
QMIND develops and markets web-based software enabling teams to collaboratively write, design, and produce interactive multimedia for e-learning or online marketing collateral.
Web Conferencing
Centra provides Web conferencing, virtual classroom and web meeting solutions using elements of the CentraOne platform that can be installed on-site or accessed through Centra's secure ASP.
LiveMeeting is a Web conferencing tool that is a powerful communications medium that allows companies to share information with anyone in the world without having to be physically present at that meeting or event.
Raindance integrates audio, web and desktop video capabilities so remote meetings become a full sensory experience, inspiring genuine participation and greater productivity.
Webex provides an effective, efficient, and affordable way to train employees, customers, and partners worldwide.
Yahoo!Podcast is like a radio show. You can listen to episodes one at a time (say using your web browser) or you can 'subscribe' to the entire podcast series using software on your PC. Publish your own, or subscribe to a series.
Web Site Construction
ColdFusion lets you build and deploy powerful web applications and web services with far less training time and fewer lines of code than ASP, PHP, and JSP.
Dreamweaver/Coursebuilder provides a powerful combination of visual layout tools, application development features, and code editing support that enables web designers and developers to create and manage websites using its CSS-based design and integration features.
FrontPage is a Web site creation and management program that provides the features, flexibility, and functionality using its professional design, authoring, data, and publishing tools to create dynamic, sophisticated Web sites.
Word Processing/Desktop Publishing
Framemaker is an enterprise-class authoring and publishing solution that combines the simplicity of word processing with the power of XML. It uses WYSIWYG authoring in either a familiar word processing, style-tagging mode or a fully structured environment optimized for the editing and production of valid XML.
Word is a best-selling word processing software that lets you easily create, share, and read impressive-looking documents and helps you work better with others.
