CourseLab для Windows

Ключевые особенности и функции

Layout and usability
· Familiar PowerPoint-like authoring environment;
· Course Structure Pane displays tree-like course structure;
· Module Structure Pane contains thumbnails of all slides in the module and slides hierarchy;
· Frame Strip contains thumbnails of all frames of current slide;
· Visual Frame Timeline;
· Multipurpose Object Pane;
· Frequently used options are accessible via toolbar buttons.
Editing
· WYSIWYG environment - no HTML or other programming skills required;
· Embedded Rich Text editor enables formatting text to a specific font, color, font size, including hyperlinks,tables, lists and pictures;
· Drag-and-drop objects placing;
· Simple frame-based animation;
· Action-based object's animation.
Rich-media support
· Pictures in various formats;
· Simple inserting and synchronization of audio files in various formats;
· Adobe Flash movies;
· Adobe Shockwave applications;
· Java applets;
· Video clips in various formats.
Rapid Development
· Large (and user-expandable) set of ready-to-use module templates;
· Inheritance - capability to re-use once inserted objects in entire module;
· Global default font settings applicable to all text-containing objects;
· Scenario feature enables building complex multi-object interactions with one mouse click;
· Import PowerPoint presentations into the learning material **.
Testing and Assessment
· Built-in test creation capability;
· Supported types of questions: single choice, multiple select, ordered items, numerical fill-in-blank, text fill-in-blank and matching pairs;
· Tools for creating custom questions and interactive exercises of virtually any type.
· Objective-based scoring allows creating scaled tests.
Interactivity
· Any object can be active click (or mouseOver/mouseOut) area;
· Any part of text can be active click (or mouseOver/mouseOut) area;
· Hotspot areas can be defined on pictures;
· Current values of form elements (such as Text Input Fields, CheckBoxes, Radiobuttons etc.) can be used in actions;
· Simple intuitive action description language;
· Event-Action mechanism enables utilizing virtually all functionality of CourseLab depending on user action;
· Launching applications and documents in new window (Power Point®, Excel®, Word & PDFs).
Special effects in playing mode
· Programmable object's appearance and disappearance;
· Configurable transition effects applicable to any object;
· Rotation of objects;
· Capabilty to drag the objects by mouse;
· Programmable moving of objects.
Software simulations
· Simple-to-use wizard-based screen capturing mechanism;
· Customizable recording window size;
· Freeze recording window capability for partial capture mode (for example, to capture drop-down menu etc.);
· Automatic recording of cursor movements;
· Recorded simulation can be edited in CourseLab to add comments and interactions.
Scoring and evaluation
· Objective-based scoring mechanism;
· Various conditions can be used to create Success and Completion statuses defining Rules for objective;
· Cascading Rules - objective's statuses can also be used in conditions.
· Publication options and eLearning standardsSimple wizard-based publishing;
· Publish to HTML package;
· Publish to CD-ROM;
· Publish to AICC package for import to any LMS supporting this standard;
· Publish to SCORM 1.2 package for import to any LMS supporting this standard;
· Publish to SCORM 2004 for import to any LMS supporting this standard.

Специальные требования

Minimum system requirements for CourseLab editor
· Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher;
· 50MB hard drive space;
Minimum system requirements for viewing learning modules
· Internet Explorer 5.0 (Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher recommended),
· Mozilla FireFox 1.0 or higher, Netscape® 7.2 or higher;
· JavaScript enabled;
· XML support enabled (Microsoft® XML Parser 3.0 or higher
· recommended for Internet Explorer**).