ToolBook 10.5

Looking for a comprehensive content authoring solution? ToolBook gives you everything you need to quickly create engaging interactive content, quizzes, assessments, and simulations. Now you can deliver appealing and effective learning experiences across major operating systems, Web browsers, smartphones, and other mobile devices..

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Product Highlights

Drive content in the fast lane

Create professional learning courses right out of the gate with Content Templates, SmartPages, and SmartStyles.

Content Templates
Gain access to over one dozen content templates for common types of learning—including compliance training, health care training, new hire training, soft skills training, sales training, and more. Simply pick a template, and enter your information. It's that easy!

SmartPages
With SmartPages, you have access to over forty of the most common page types found in professional e-learning courses. These pages come with built-in interactivity—so all you have to do is choose the ones you need, replace the placeholder text and images with your own, specify any assessment information, and publish.

SmartStyles
Designed by professional graphic artists, SmartStyles define your course's overall style and layout, providing the professional look your course deserves.

Add assessments that grab attention

Choose from over a dozen different graded question types—including true/false, multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, hotspot, drag-and-drop, and more. ToolBook enables you to:

• Incorporate Flash, images, and narration to add clarity to your questions.
• Provide feedback for remediation to a user on either a question-by-question basis or at the end of the quiz. Feedback can be text, audio, Flash and more.
• Brand your quizzes with your corporate logo and other stylistic elements.
• Navigate to other pages, play Flash, or do various other actions based on a user's test results.
• Use the Quiz Summary feature to give learners detailed assessment results right within their course.

     

Turn your Microsoft PowerPoint library into SCORM-compliant courses

With the ability to import Microsoft PowerPoint files into ToolBook, you now have even more choices when developing content. For example, you can quickly re-use existing PowerPoint content to cut development time — simply import the PowerPoint file into ToolBook as described in the picture below. Then, add assessments, interactivity, media, and rich effects using ToolBook. For deployment, publish the content to the SCORM format using the ToolBook Web publishing feature.

You can also increase the involvement of your Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in content authoring. After instructional designers create a PowerPoint-based storyboard, SMEs can populate the storyboard using the familiar PowerPoint interface. Next, these PowerPoint files are imported into ToolBook as shown below. For deployment, just publish the content out to SCORM format using the ToolBook Web publishing feature. PowerPoint speaker notes and audio files can also be imported, giving you even more options when reusing PowerPoint content.

Give users flexiblity of desktop, Web, and mobile access

ToolBook allows you to extend the value of your learning experiences across major operating systems, Web browsers, smartphones, and other mobile devices. ToolBook content is HTML-based and compatible with Microsoft, Safari, Firefox, Apple iPhone, Apple iPod touch, and Google Android. New additions include support for Apple iPad and Microsoft® Windows Mobile® devices.

In addion, iPhone support for the drag-and-drop feature now gives users the ability to drag objects around the iPhone screen with a fingertip. This makes it much easier for users of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch to apply the question types match item, drag object, and slider in a style that's consistent with the overall user experience on these devices.

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Geolocation support for mobile content  

This new 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.

Create certificates to signify success  

When you acknowledge the success of your learners, you help increase satisfaction and encourage greater adoption and usage of your learning solution. ToolBook offers more than a dozen professional certificate templates, as well as custom certificate capabilities, so you can easily reward learners as they complete courses.

Engage your learners with voice narration feature

The addition of sound to a course opens a new sensory channel for users, so they are more apt to absorb and retain data. New voice recording playback options give your learners more control. Play, pause, stop, and restart can now be made available to your learners when they are listening to voice narrations or any audio type.

Use XML to maximize content from other sources

ToolBook XML support enables developers to repurpose content drawn from databases or created with other authoring tools. Using XML, this information can be quickly converted to the fully editable ToolBook format.
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Customize interactions and branching

Want to develop your own custom interactions? With ToolBook Actions Event Editor, you can create custom action sequences that automatically export to DHTML.

Simulate realistic software applications

ToolBook includes a software application simulation recorder and simulation editor, so you can develop effective, interactive simulations that automatically assess and record user performance through SCORM and AICC standards. Author once and then deploy simulations in any combination of demonstration, practice, or assessment modes.

Support learning standards with one-click 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..

Easily integrate with Learning Management Systems

ToolBook has built-in support for publishing and deploying content with the SumTotal Learning Management System, Pathlore, and Docent.

Click here to learn about SumTotal LMS.

Leverage flexible authoring views

Use the Explorer view to gain more information and maximum control when working with your content. You can see a high-level view of your content, and then rapidly target and edit elements in your course.

Collaborate with greater ease

ToolBook authors can exchange notes and embed other project information that helps streamline content creation between multiple collaborators. These notes are stored at a page level in your course and can be easily found by authors, project managers, artists, and other authoring team members.

Updates to interface improve user experience and other enhancements

The product catalog now features a new visual color scheme that makes authoring easier on the eyes. Other interface improvements and enhancements include:

• Advancements in support for Section 508 content creation
• Smoother resizing of graphics
• Exit Buttons functionality and appearance improved
• Paste unformatted text menu item
• Checkbox added to Publish to Web Wizard to enable diagnostics
• Prompt to resize page when changing styles
• Improved clipboard support for Microsoft Office products

Additional Information

• ToolBook 10.5 Datasheet
• Recorded ToolBook web seminars
• Getting started guide (PDF file 586KB)
• ToolBook 10.5 Manual (PDF file 4.56 MB)
• ToolBook OpenScript Manual (PDF file 1.10 MB)
• Accessibility support (section 508 support) in ToolBook (PDF file 96KB)
• ToolBook System Requirements

Contact SumTotal If you would like to speak to a ToolBook representative, use the contact information below. To contact us, call +44 (0) 1753211 904 and ask to speak to one of our ToolBook representatives, or fill out the Call Back Request form to have us contact you. You can also reach us via email at toolbookuk@sumtotalsystems.com.