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Re: Alternative tool for creating & maintaining PowerPoint training decks?
Subject:Re: Alternative tool for creating & maintaining PowerPoint training decks? From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 24 Feb 2015 10:59:29 -0800
What output format do people use for training materials in Captivate?
Having the output in PowerPoint is probably a requirement. That's the
basic problem here: PowerPoint is the lowest common denominator, and
it's really, really low.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 5:27 AM, Sweet, Gregory (HEALTH)
<gregory -dot- sweet -at- health -dot- ny -dot- gov> wrote:
> Does output have to be in powerpoint?
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> If not have a look at http://www.xerte.org.uk/
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> You could use a blend of the desktop and online toolkits to possibly accomplish what you want.
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> It sounds to me like what you are looking for is the age old promise of a functioning SCORM setup. The idea is that every piece of training can be boiled down into SCOs (Shareable Content Objects) so that various training courses can be quickly and easily assembled out of the SCOs you've got lying about.
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> In practice, most systems see complete packages output from Captivate, Camtasia, PPT, and such uploaded into the SCORM system leaving the whole idea of sharable left behind.
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