What's new in ToolBook 10.5

As a busy professional, you require a fast and easy solution for creating learning content. ToolBook, the SumTotal solution for creating interactive content, quizzes, assessments, and software simulations, has now been enhanced for even greater ease in creating rich, interactive, and mobile content quickly.

	Apple® iPad® and Microsoft® Windows Mobile® Devices are now supported.   A greater variety of devices can now be targeted by ToolBook content. You can now deploy content to a learner community with even more devices, providing more flexibility and greater learner access. Geolocation support. This feature allows you to provide mobile content which is truly mobile, responding to your learners’ locations with tailored content.

Simpler, more functional Quick Start tab on the startup dialog

The Quick Start tab has been updated to include a set of templates sized for optimal viewing on various devices. Users of prior versions of ToolBook will also notice that the "Show Preview" button has been removed. The preview is now shown all the time.

Support for Apple iPad and Windows Mobile devices

ToolBook now produces content for Windows Mobile and Apple iPad, in addition to the already supported iPhone, iPod Touch, and Google Android. Key benefits:

• Organizations can provide learning on a greater variety of mobile devices, enabling easier access to learning throughout their learner community.

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.

iPhone support for drag and drop

With the new ability to drag objects around the iPhone screen with a fingertip, users of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch can more easily apply the question types match item, drag object, and slider in a style that's consistent with the overall user experience on these devices.

Smoother resizing of graphics

Resizing graphic images within ToolBook will now result in smoother, better-looking images.

Exit Buttons functionality and appearance improved

The Exit Buttons in the catalog have been updated to use actions, so a course author can now modify their behavior easily. For example, a confirmation prior to exit can now be added simply by adding one action in the actions editor. In addition, these buttons will now match the current style of the book.

Paste unformatted text menu item

Now, this selection beneath the Edit menu allows for fast pasting of text into fields while simultaneously stripping out all formatting. The keyboard shortcut is ctrl-shift-v.

Checkbox added to Publish to Web Wizard to enable diagnostics

This option activates the diagnostic or "debug" mode for the published HTML. This will prompt a separate window to open when the course is opened in a browser, which displays diagnostic information.

Prompt to resize page when changing styles

When the pages of a book are sized differently from the default size for a style, and a new style is then applied to the book, ToolBook will now prompt the author to decide whether to resize the book to match the default for the style, or keep the current size.

Other enhancements in this release:

• Advancements in support for Section 508 content creation
• Reduction in learning curve with changes to startup user interface components
• Improved clipboard support for Microsoft Office products

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