CourseLab is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, e-learning authoring system that offers programming-free WYSIWYG environment

CourseLab is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, e-learning authoring system that offers programming-free WYSIWYG environment for creating high-quality interactive e-learning content which can be published on the Internet, Learning Management Systems (LMS), CD-ROMS and other devices.

Here are some key features of "CourseLab":

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.


Requirements:

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**).