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Advanced e-Learning
Management System Now Available
Clearwater, FL - December
4, 2000
Online Development announces the release of a totally-enhanced
version of its best-of-breed Learning Management System, FlexTraining.
The new release brings usability and utility enhancements in its
Student, Administrator, and Instructor modules.
FlexTrainingT Web Based software is a complete, flexible Learning
Management System which works with any modern web browser over the
Internet or a corporate Intranet. The system runs on the NT Server
(or Windows 2000 Server) operating system and Microsoft's popular
Internet Information Server.
FlexTraining lets customers build, deliver, and manage custom Online
Training over a local or distributed network, without programming,
utilizing a common web server and browser.
Leveraging these existing tools means that companies don't have
to spend time and money installing special client "plug-in" or other
software on the personal computers of all students.
It also means greater ease-of-use for online learners, because
they are using the same interface, a web browser, that they use
for all their web access. FlexTraining even comes with complete
Source Code, for customers who need to customize their system beyond
the considerable flexibility offered by numerous easily-set configuration
options.
Online training tools are well past the stage of merely delivering
web pages for students to read. The best WBT systems feature remote
signup, online testing, course guides, and web-based setup and administration.
Combined with the version 3.1 release this past April, version
3.2 of greatly expands the utility of this flexible e-Learning solution.
For more information, including an online demonstration, proceed
to the Getting Started section.
Release 3.2 New Features
1. FlexVideoT Video Management Support
FlexTraining now includes video management features distributed
throughout the Student and Administrator modules, allowing streaming
video to be added to courses sections, and mixed with other types
of content, without programming.
Streaming Video clips may be presented within a course as a stand-alone-frame,
or accompanied by user-defined HTML pages, in either a vertical
or horizontal split-screen layout. Video management logic is embedded
directly into the appropriate video-display pages, to make sure
streaming is optimized and tightly integrated into the FlexTraining
framework.
Video clips may also be added to a FlexTraining test, to be played
on-demand by the online test-taker.
2. Virtual Document Libraries
FlexTraining now includes a complete Virtual Document Library facility,
allowing customers to store course-related or student-related documents
for quick retrieval from within FlexTraining. The facility includes
both uploading and user-defined search and retrieval functions.
Users can set up their own Libraries, Document Types, and Document
Attributes, such as Author, Date, Title, Subject, Keywords, and
any other required information.
The document libraries can accept and manage any web-deliverable
file format, including MS Word or Excel files, Adobe PDF, HTML,
charts and photos, plain text or even streaming video. The actual
library contents may be maintained on the web server, or at any
other web-addressable location.
Libraries for Student-related documents such as Employment Applications
and Performance Evaluations are accessible to the Course Administrator
and Instructor, while Course-related libraries and material are
accessible to the online learners.
The Virtual Document Libraries are integrated directly into the
FlexTraining Administration and Student Modules, for ease of use
and quick access. In addition, the Administrator can turn the entire
set of features on or off instantly, for customers who do not wish
to utilize this facility.
3. Automated Course Templates
For quicker setup of new courses, FlexTraining adds Automated Course
Templates processing. A course developer can duplicate an entire
course with a couple of mouse clicks and by typing a title for the
new course. An on-screen option lets the developer choose to replicate
the course framework only, or to copy Course Sections, the Course
Guide, and Online Tests as well.
For example, a software company might offer one version of a training
course for software end users and another one for programmers, with
a lot of the material common between the two. Now the course developer
can create the second course based on the first, and may elect to
keep the course sections and course guide chapters to start with,
while discarding the tests and starting fresh.
Course templates processing copies the Lesson Plan and the user-selected
content items to a new course structure. From there, the developer
may continue to refine and adjust the material for the new course.
4. Multi-Organization Mode
This new feature is an option that may be selected by the Administrator
at any time after installation. In Multi-Organization mode, a student
sees only classmates and enrollment lists from his or her own company.
This allows a FlexTraining customer to develop course catalogs for
several different companies or organizations, and have students
from each company feel like they have their own training site.
Each online learner identifies his organization at initial enrollment
time, and viewable student and enrollment lists are all filtered
for that specific organization.
The Course Administrator may still see consolidated reports that
show activity across all organizations. Reports built with the FlexTraining
Ad-Hoc Report Builder may also choose to filter results for a Single
Organization.
5. Instant Performance Graphing
New on-demand graphing capabilities allow the Course Administrator
to visually depict test scores and trends. Instant Line Graphs
or Bar Graphs are generated to display trended average (all students)
scores from test to test
6. Enhanced Flexibility for Students and Administrators
Various other enhancements throughout FlexTraining improve usability
and flexibility, including:
- The ability for students to download and save their course notes
from the FlexTraining online student notebook.
- A Student Gradebook feature which displays all test scores and
course progress, for current and previous classes.
- A user-defined currency symbol, for when courses are paid for
using FlexTraining's optional built-in Credit Card processing,
in a foreign currency.
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