ToolBook – Comprehensive

Target Audience

This training is intended for users who want to:

• Move beyond the basics of ToolBook and want to create interactive courses rapidly
• Create some amount of custom interaction
• Learn about the new ToolBook features that enable rapid development
• Explore the potential of more advanced features that allow custom development

Course Description and Key Learning Objectives

This training covers the Smart features within ToolBook that allow rapid development as well as introduces the more advanced features that allow custom development. Smart features include SmartPages and SmartStyles: prebuilt pages and visual treatments designed to allow rapid development of content. It will also get you started with some of the other key development tools within ToolBook, such as the Actions Editor.

After completing this course, learners will be able to:

• Identify design considerations before developing ToolBook courses
• Describe and use different components of the ToolBook interface
• Create, manage, and save course books
• Create, use, and manipulate ToolBook objects
• Create a course background using ToolBook objects
• Add text, graphics, and media to your course
• Add standard interactivity to objects and pages
• Create a menu page for the course
• Build a template
• Reuse objects, pages, and books
• Package ToolBook courseware for Web deployment
• Use the Book Wizard to create courses with SmartPages and Styles
• Work with interactive pages
• Create a test with different types of questions
• Build enhanced interactivity using the Actions Editor
• Create content drill-down objects using Actions Editor script
• Understand important best practices, tips, and tricks for the coding process
• Explore the Actions Editor interface, how the Actions Editor works in general, and what it outputs
• Add more functionality and interactivity to Catalog objects and templates
• Create custom interactions
• Control media like audio, video and Flash
• Create menu options for simulation modes
• Create events that occur in time with audio
• Create custom LMS communication behaviors with the Actions Editor by setting up custom Exit buttons
• Utilize variables and conditional statements in the Actions Editor
• Build custom actions based on quiz score and other performance factors
• Design software simulations to meet your learning objectives
• Develop simulations that can be used to demonstrate features, give learners opportunities to practice steps, and test learners on their interactions
• Add instructions and feedback to simulations
• Add custom functionality to simulations to make objects hide and show, and respond to specific simulation events
• Create an application recording using the Sim AutoBuilder Recorder
• Generate and modify simulations from Sim AutoBuilder recordings
• Make simulation templates to speed up the development process

Class Details

Format: Instructor-led class

Duration: 1-day Onsite or 2 x ½ -day Virtual

Prerequisites

• Meeting the basic system and connection requirements necessary to view and participate in the training, including:
• Hardware Requirements: Intel Pentium III 500 MHZ processor or equivalent, 256 MB RAM minimum, 150 MB free space on system drive.
• Bandwidth Requirements: 256+ Kbps connection.
• Proficiency using a Web browser
• Basic Windows knowledge, including the ability to launch applications using the Start menu, use the taskbar to switch between Windows applications, and use Windows Explorer to navigate the file structure, change the view of file listings, move and copy files, and create new folders (or directories)