Enhance my career by learning how to implement my own e-learning designs

If you feel that your e-learning designs are limited by the capabilities of your tools, or if you rely on others to implement your designs, then you have an opportunity to provide more effective and complete solutions that will get you noticed. SmartBuilder can be learned in a few days and gives you the power to build impressive and effective e-learning yourself.

Learn how to use a powerful tool without pulling my hair out

More and more instructional designers are trying to learn Flash, but the learning curve is steep. An eLearning Guild survey found that of Flash users with less than 6 months experience, almost none rated themselves as experts, only 10% rated themselves as intermediate proficiency and 90% rated themselves as novices.

Using SmartBuilder, you can achieve an intermediate skill-level in a few days, and still use a tool that is powerful enough to create effective and inspiring e-learning.

Create more effective soft skills training

While most authoring tools can only provide static content and canned interactions, SmartBuilder provides the capabilities to make learning engaging, relevant and effective. Using SmartBuilder, you can build content that includes multi-step interactions, branching scenarios, delayed feedback, intrinsic feedback and other designs that will engage your learners and let them practice new skills.

Create more effective IT application training

SmartBuilder enables you to integrate software simulations from a variety of leading tools such as Captivate and Qarbon, and then enhance the learner experience by:

• Adding context setting so that learners understand the "why's" and "when's" relating to the new application that they are learning.
• Create multi-step exercises or quizzes to reinforce key concepts.
• Bundle multiple simulations and job aides into a seamless course.
• Use smart navigation sequencing so that, for example, users can't access certain simulations until pre-requisite assessments or simulations have been completed.

Create interactions involving audio and video

Using SmartBuilder, you can do more than just play audio and video, you can interact with it. For example, you can:

• Set cue points in your audio or video to trigger other actions such as showing or hiding objects, or jumping to another page.
• Pause, play, or restart media based on any learner action such as a button click, timer expiration, or score achieved.

Create cool transitions and animation effects

You can make objects appear or disappear with a variety of spin, zoom, mask, fade, or slide effects. You can specify transitions for a specific object, or quickly apply transitions to groups of objects.

Use SCORM to track what learners are doing at a high-level, or in detail.

SmartBuilder's "Question Set" object provides a point-and-click interface to set up scoring and sequencing rules. Scores are automatically transmitted "behind the scenes" to your LMS using the SCORM API.

For even tighter LMS integration, you can set up advanced SCORM functions, without using scripting, to store data to, or retrieve data from your LMS.

SmartBuilder content is certified SCORM 1.2 compliant.

Re-use interaction models that others have already built

SmartBuilder comes with an ever-growing library of pre-built templates to help you get up and running quickly. And if you work in a team environment, SmartBuilder lets you "templatize" your own backgrounds, interactions or multi-page instructional design models that you'd like to share within your department or across your organization.

Re-purpose courses for different clients or languages

SmartBuilder's translation feature enables users to create multiple versions of text and media within the same the same lesson. This enables you to rapidly re-purpose content for different customers, or for learners who speak different languages. Since translated versions are linked to a source version, updates to common elements such as layout or interactivity can be made in just the source version and then instantly applied to all translation versions.

Make my training more relevant to learners

SmartBuilder gives you the flexibility to build unique navigation paths through lessons based on a variety of criteria such as learner role, demonstrated knowledge/skill level, self-reported knowledge/skill level, or learner interest.