Better student view

improved training plan

We've made big changes to the student's view of the top level of their training plan. We've separated active items from completed activities and now present a simpler, better prioritized presentation.

The changes will be especially appreciated by your students who have very large training plans. While most students from our clients have relatively focused training plans, we do have some organizations who assign large portions of their content libraries at some students. The new presentation significantly speeds up the display of the training plan for these students and makes it easier for them to find specific activities:

• students can now search for activities and their plan gets filtered as they type
• plans are presented in pages (typically 10 activities per page)

Faster searching

We significantly improved the performance of searching throughout the system. Many people love how simple and consistent searching is in our system. At times, however, searching could be slow if dealing with large data sets — thousands of people or activities.

That is now fixed. We spent a lot of time optimizing things so that search is snappy and filters the data as you type, even when dealing with lots of data. We've also added feedback to indicate that search is working in the cases when it takes longer than half a second to return.

More good stuff

Other notable new features in this release include:

• Bulk deletion of activities and events
• Reports can now be targeted at a single organization or a specific role within an organization
• Better handling of SCORM 1.2 content, both when loading and for status roll-up
• Ability for an administrator to specify the resource navigation to display (useful especially for SCORM 1.2 content that does not embed exit navigation)
• Activity Detail Report which improves upon and replaces the old Group Activity Report

You can read the release notes for Version 2.7. We hope you enjoy the improvements made.

Read the release notes for Version 2.6.

We created a document that compares Captivate 2 and 3, and acts as a guide on how to create SCORM compliant training content using the new version. It outlines specific recommendations and instructions on optimizing the functionality of training courses you create. You can find this document in the resources section or here:

• SCORM Content Authoring Tool - Captivate 3 (13 pages, 627 KB)

We welcome your comments!

Read the release notes for Version 2.5.

Both of these products are general purpose content development environments — generating SCORM packages is just one of their output options. We found that each product has its strengths and weaknesses. Our advice for which of the products to choose really depends on what you want to use it for. We've added our findings to our resources section, but you can also find them here:

• SCORM Content Authoring Tools: Comparing Captivate 2 and Camtasia Studio 4 (12 pages, 696 KB)
• HOW TO GUIDE - Captivate 2 SCORM Content Authoring (11 pages, 237 KB)
• HOW TO GUIDE - Camtasia Studio 4 SCORM Content Authoring (6 pages, 308 KB)

Let us know what you think.

Read the release notes for Version 2.4.

Granting content allows a content provider to maintain control over their resources. They can load their content once, and then share it out to their clients for specific periods of time.

Watch the granting content screencast.

We are working on a number of screencasts to demonstrate some of the features that make our LMS unique. In our first screencast, Andrew demonstrates the new content management feature "tagging", introduced in our most recent release (Version 2.3).

Watch the tagging screencast.

Read the release notes for Version 2.3 and Version 2.3.1.