kathy@wrcola.UUCP (Kathy Vincent) (01/26/88)
I'm looking for some information about computer-based-training packages.
I'd appreciate some recommendations and assessments from people who
have used authoring systems and/or authoring languages to produce
training packages, tutorial diskettes, point-of-sale presentations,
electronic brochures, etc. What have you used? What do you like?
What *don't* you like? Please include info about graphics capabilities,
possible interfaces between an authoring system and another program
(say, for simulations), hardware requirements and expansion possibilities.
Are menus available for beginning authors? Can experienced authors
bypass or ditch the menus - and even work straight with the authoring
language, if they want to?
I'm interested on the one hand in
Getting the maximum use out of a bare-bones 6300.
Most of the time, I won't be able to control the environment
in which users would use the resulting products, so I have to assume
(for starters, anyway) the lowest common denominator of equipment.
and on the other hand in
In exploring the options made available by expanding that 6300
(via hardware *or* software) and really coming up with something
nifty for a controlled environment.
For example, I understand some packages allow connecting to videodisc
and videotape machines and some make use of fancy graphics cards -
all things I couldn't *count* on a user having unless I were
prepared to provide it. Some some also enable authors to use
graphics files generated by other software packages.
Thanks.
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