SumTotal ToolBook® 11.5

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SumTotal ToolBook® 11.5
Rich Interactive Content.
Fast and Easy.
ToolBook empowers subject matter experts and learning professionals
to rapidly create interactive content, quizzes, assessments, and software
simulations.
Value. Easily create quizzes and assessments using
predefined templates—so content has more impact,
and learners are more engaged.
Speed. Rapidly turn PowerPoint® files into interactive
learning—so your existing content gets more use with
no extra development time.
Mobility. Enable on-the-go learning access—and
greater productivity— when you deliver rich content
for mobile devices.
Create Engaging Learning Experiences
with Ease
Using content templates for common course types—including compliance,
health care, new hire, soft skills, and sales training— ToolBook helps you
quickly create professional learning courses. And ToolBook’s SmartPages
feature helps you easily format page types to enable text with graphics, text
with Adobe Flash®, bulleted text, quizzes, and more. Simply select a course
template, and enter your specific content. It’s that easy. Develop your own
custom interactions and branching.
Quickly Create Assessments and
Interactive Content
Test and validate user understanding with numerous assessment types—
including true/false, multiple choice, drag-and-drop, match item, essay,
and more. These objects have built-in functionality that provides feedback
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to your users while supplying you with detailed information about user
activity, so you can get more value from the quiz summary feature. In
addition, ToolBook’s ability to randomize questions and answers helps
ensure greater testing security.
ToolBook also enables you to better engage learners by creating rich and
interactive content, without the need for complex programming. Play media.
Navigate the user to another page or Web site. Display scores or animate
objects. You can even launch a custom interactivity. And interactions can
adapt based on scoring results, user feedback, and other information, so
learning remains productive and dynamic.
Turn Microsoft PowerPoint library
into SCORM-Compliant Courses
ToolBook enables you to convert Microsoft® PowerPoint® content into
ToolBook format and publish to the SCORM learning standard, so you can
rapidly reuse existing presentations in your ToolBook-authored courses.
And because the supported PowerPoint objects—including text, images,
and hyperlinks—become fully editable within ToolBook, you can also
enhance an imported presentation with assessments, interactivity, media,
and rich effects.
Apply a Consistent Look and Feel with
a Single Click
SmartStyles help you change the look and feel of your entire course with
just one click. By applying a SmartStyle, you can be confident that your
entire presentation has a professional and consistent interface.
Empower Users—with No Compromises
The ToolBook Action Editor lets you create custom interactions that
respond to real-time scoring information, conduct user prompting,
access JavaScript, query databases, and more. Ultimately, these actions
help ensure that users have the content they need to become increasingly
proficient and achieve greater results.
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Give Users Flexibility of Desktop, Web,
and Mobile Access
ToolBook allows you to deliver engaging learning experiences across
major operating systems, Web browsers, smartphones, and mobile
devices—so your learners have greater control over when and where to
take learning courses. ToolBook content is HTML-based and compatible
with Microsoft, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod touch,
Apple iPad, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Google Android. ToolBook
also creates Section 508-compliant content.
Geolocation support for mobile
content
This feature—a first for an online content authoring solution—enables
authors to create content that can apply a user’s geographical location in
learning. Here are a few examples of how this might be useful:
•• Courses can be created to display information based on where users are
when they view materials—so users on the factory floor can see training
content relevant to that location, while users in the store front see alternate
content that’s pertinent to where they are.
•• Courses can also use geolocation to ensure learners are successfully
performing learning tasks. For example, a course that teaches fire
safety training can detect if a user is physically locating various fire exits
within a building.
Easily Integrate with Learning
Management Systems
ToolBook supports both SCORM and AICC, making it simple and
straightforward to include the lessons you create as part of a total e-learning
solution. Deliver content using SumTotal’s learning solutions or any
standards-based LMS. You can also deploy content developed in ToolBook
on the Internet, an intranet, a local area network (LAN) or CD-ROM.
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Easily Integrate with Learning
Management Systems
ToolBook supports both SCORM and AICC, making it simple and
straightforward to include the lessons you create as part of a total e-learning
solution. Deliver content using SumTotal’s learning solutions or any
standards-based LMS. You can also deploy content developed in ToolBook
on the Internet, an intranet, a local area network (LAN) or CD-ROM.
Support Learning Standards with Oneclick Ease
ToolBook’s built-in support for SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, and AICC make
it easy to capture user scores and activity information with your learning
management system.
Gain Real Authoring Flexibility
ToolBook also enables you to create custom authoring catalogs that ensure
accurate, project-specific content generation. And the built-in scripting
feature allows you to create authoring extensions to automate repetitive
tasks, or to develop authoring extensions for use by your team.
Rapid Content Development
Features
•• Content wizards
•• Content templates
•• Voice narration
•• Compliance training content
•• Geolocation support
•• Soft skills training
Delivery Options
•• Sales training
•• Factory-floor training
•• Web publishing wizard
•• HTML
•• Mechanical training
•• Certificate feature
•• CD-ROM
•• Media-rich content
•• Content explorer view
•• Apple iPhone
•• Software application simulations
•• Software application simulation
recorder and editor
•• Apple iPod touch
•• Conditional branching
•• Google Android
•• Hyperlinks
•• SmartPages and SmartStyles
•• EXE
•• Question pools
•• Catalog of pre-programmed objects
•• Apple iPad
•• Randomized answers
•• Spell check
•• Windows mobile devices
•• Randomized questions
•• WYSIWYG authoring
•• Online help
Content Types for Production
•• Tutorials and learning guides
•• Interactive content
•• Sample content
•• Assessments
•• Dynamic data access
•• Custom feedback
•• (text, media, remediation)
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Testing and Assessments Features
Standards and Tracking Support
•• Multiple choice (single answer)
•• SCORM 2004
•• Multiple choice (multiple correct)
•• SCORM 1.2
•• True/false
•• AICC
•• Hot spots (invisible touch area)
•• SumTotal Learning Management
•• Fill-in-the-blank
•• Third-party LMS support through
standards
•• Fill-in-the-blank with phonetic
matching
•• Ability to send learner results to
back-end servers or by email
•• Free-form essay
•• Match item (text and visuals)
•• Sequence (sequence the order of
steps in a procedure)
•• Sliders and scales
•• Create-your-own templates and
SmartStyles
•• Customizable authoring interface
•• Randomized answers
•• Specified weighting of answers
•• Specified number of user attempts
•• Timed assessments
•• Multiple security levels for
assessments
•• Text feedback
•• Section 508 Support
•• Support for Freedom Scientific Jaws
screen reader
•• Content can have accessible and definable tabbing order
tags
Extensibility Features
•• Action Editor for easy
•• p
rogramming, branching, and external data access
•• Customizable authoring environment
Media
•• Images: .bmp, .dib, .emf, .gif, .jpg,
.png, .tif, .wmf
•• Audio: .aa, .aif, .aifc, .aiff, .mid,
.midi, .mp3, .mp3 playlist, .rmi, .wav,
streaming audio by Microsoft®,
RealNetworks®, and Apple®
•• Delayed feedback
Accessibility Support
Customization Capabilities
•• Customizable catalog and contents
•• Randomized questions
•• Other:
Adobe
Flash®,
Apple
QuickTime™, Windows media files,
RealNetworks® media files and
Apple® media files
•• Accessible service processes
CGI, PHP)
(ASP,
•• JavaScript and Active X support
•• Database access
•• Built-in scripting
•• Third-party add-ons
•• Video: .avi, .mov, .mpg,
streaming video by Microsoft®, RealNetworks® and Apple®
•• Media feedback
•• Quiz summary view
•• Customizable remediation
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