Elicitus Content Publisher
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Elicitus - eLearning Content Development Suite |
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Elicitus is a leading desktop authoring tool for trainers, educators, subject matter experts and other elearning creators worldwide. Creating great courses with Elicitus requires no programming or scripting knowledge. Even users without page design experience can create visually appealing courses with Elicitus.
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Key Benefits
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Product Features
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No programming or scripting skills required
Wizards, forms, templates make Elicitus easy to master. Provides a variety of question types and navigation styles without programming or scripting. |
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Visual Appeal
Great visual layouts readymade for those who do not have time or skills to create elaborate designs. Flexibility for those who do. A powerful editing environment supports WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) authoring and preview. |
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Standards-compliant publishing
Publishing in a single click to AICC/SCORM LMS, web site, CD-ROM, or slide shows. |
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Productivity
Make one-time changes at master level, which consistently and automatically reflect in related content. Over 200 readymade layout templates are provided with the product and users can create their own. Templates contain pre-built course navigation and display, but course developers can easily customise them. |
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Courses in multiple languages
Elicitus supports courses in many languages supported by Unicode. |
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Short Learning Curve
Two hours to learn, six more to master. |
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System Requirements for Learners
Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements:
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Intel Pentium II Processor or higher |
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64 MB RAM |
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256-color monitor |
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Internet Explorer 5.0 or above, Netscape 7.02, 7.1 and 7.2 |
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Quick Time 6 to play audio on Netscape 7.02, 7.1 and 7.2 |
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System Requirements for Course Creators
Minimum Hardware and Software Requirements:
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Intel Pentium III Processor or higher |
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256 MB RAM |
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100 MB free hard disk space |
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256-color monitor |
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Microsoft Windows 2000, XP/NT 4 SP 6 or above |
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Internet Explorer 5.5 or above |
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.NET Framework 1.1 |
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Supported file formats
| Animation and Multimedia File |
Animated GIF, Flash |
| Video Files |
SWF, AVI, MPG, MPEG |
| Sound Files |
WAV, MID, MP3, RM, RAM |
| Image Files |
JPG, JPEG, GIF, WMF, EMF, ICO, DIB, BMP |
| Text Files |
Rich Text Format (RTF), TXT, HTML |
| PowerPoint® Files |
PPT, PPS |
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Overview
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Productivity: Over 200 ready-made layout templates are provided with the product and users can create their own. Templates contain pre-built course navigation and display, but course developers can easily customise them. |
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Content Reuse: The sophisticated import feature of Elicitus allows one-click import of learning objects from other Elicitus courses. The import is to the most granular level of topic pages, glossary terms, glossary categories, questions and media resources. The author can decide on how the duplicate objects should be handled during the import. |
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Consistency: A unique “master page” for each lesson saves time in creating topic pages under that lesson with a consistent style. Modifications at “master page” level ripple through all such topic pages. |
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Usability: A drag-and-drop interface supports common editing tasks. New course wizard, right-click menus, icons and preview tabs enhance usability. |
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Visual Control: A powerful editing environment supports WYSIWYG authoring and preview. |
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Flexible Navigation: Pre-built navigation bar on each page eliminates the effort of creating course navigation. The look and feel, position and functionality of navigation bar is customisable. This allows authors to control navigation by learners. |
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Questions: Elicitus comes with 11 question types and features a question editor, which allows authors to create interactive questions with multiple level hints and custom feedback. |
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Testing: Authors can create assessments (which are scored automatically) or exercises (which provide immediate feedback). Authors can customise score pages. |
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Glossary: Elicitus also contains a sophisticated glossary builder with word categories, multiple search mechanisms and multimedia support. |
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Interactivity: Authors can easily create hyperlinks to media resources, other pages and assessments in the course. Custom hotspots and buttons can be utilised for added interactivity. |
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Overview Page: Elicitus contains a course outline generator that creates a hierarchical content view. |
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Interoperability: Course published with the tool are compliant with SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2 and AICC level 1 at user-selected granularity. This makes it easy to deploy them from an LMS. |
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Publishing: With a single click, author can publish an entire course to CD-ROM, Web site, SCORM/AICC or slide show. A simple ftp upload interface helps complete the deployment process. |
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Rapid Authoring
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New course Wizard for creation of complete course hierarchy of learning units, lessons, assessments and topic pages with global course preferences. |
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Automatically generated high level course and/or curriculum view (for organising inter-relationship among pages or learning activities). |
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“Master-page” for easy placement and modification of objects on all the topics in the lesson. |
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Automatic conversion of typed hyperlinks to working links. |
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Ability to use persistent navigational controls (without having to have a copy of them on each page). |
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Import utility for direct import of PowerPoint® content. Single click or selective import of a PowerPoint® presentation. |
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Single click or selective import from another Elicitus course. |
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Apply layout option to questions by applying the layout of one question to another. |
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Question forms optimised for rapid entry. |
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Enhanced usability through right-click menus, tabs, menus, shortcuts, etc. |
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Supported Standards
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Elicitus is fully compliant with Section 508 Guidelines. |
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The courses can be published with AICC level 1 compliance at user-selected granularity. |
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The courses can be published with SCORM 2004 and SCORM 1.2 level compliance at user-selected granularity. |
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Interoperability with Learning Management Systems
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Pathlore |
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Plateau |
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Saba |
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THINQ |
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Tracorp |
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Trainontrack |
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Blackboard |
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ThinQ |
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SST MX |
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Aspen (Sumtotal) |
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LearnerWeb |
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WebCT |
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EKP (NetDimensions) |
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Assessment and Tracking capabilities
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Set the time for an assessment |
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Questions can be randomised in a quiz or test |
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Test questions can be drawn from a pool of questions |
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Supports built-in learner performance reporting |
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Questions can have immediate feedback |
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Questions can have delayed feedback (at the end of the exam) |
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Test questions can be imported from tab or comma delimited file formats (i.e., .csv file) |
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Separate full score can be assigned to each question |
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Setting of passing score for assessments |
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Option to give a different feedback for each distracter and correct answer |
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Custom navigation in assessments allows you to implement your assessment-navigation policy |
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All questions are scored automatically |
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Custom score page displays score |
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Facility to email score information/ print score page |
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Review feature, which allows learner to optionally review and compare answers with correct answers |
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Custom question layout and visual appearance |
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Automatic numbering of questions |
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Question Types Supported
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Multiple choice |
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True/ False |
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Drag and drop |
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Fill in the blanks (in-line entry) |
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Match the pairs |
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Multiple correct answers |
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Graphic choice |
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Multiple text entry |
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Visual identification |
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Sequencing |
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Fill in the blanks with wild cards |
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Import mechanism for content reuse
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The sophisticated import feature of Elicitus allows one-click import of learning objects from other Elicitus courses. The import is to the most granular level of topic pages, glossary terms, glossary categories, questions and media resources. The author can decide on how the duplicate objects should be handled during the import. |
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The import of PowerPoint® slides using Elicitus SlideConverter allows content reuse. Information on slides can be imported as separate objects to allow customisation within the course topic page after import. For more information on Elicitus SlideConverter click here. |
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Leverage existing questions and assessments. Import test questions from comma delimited file formats. |
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Full-featured glossary builder
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Create sophisticated glossary using the glossary builder |
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Provides 4 search mechanisms |
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The glossary terms can be categorised in one or more categories |
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Each term can be explained better using the media resource attachment |
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Instructional Templates
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200+ page layouts
Over 200 readymade layout templates are provided with the product and users can create their own. Templates contain pre-built course navigation and display, but course developers can easily customise them. |
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Eleven Question Types
Elicitus comes with 11 question types and features a question editor, which allows authors to create interactive questions with multiple level hints and custom feedback. |
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Customisable Course Outline
Elicitus contains a course outline generator that creates a hierarchical content view. The course outline can be customised using the course outline editor. |
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Customisable Score Page
Elicitus contains a readymade template for the score page of each assessment. The fully customisable score page shows the score, assessment result, assessment name, course name and also emails the score to administrator. It also provides option for printing of the score page. |
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Over a dozen navigation controls
- Elicitus contains more than a dozen readymade navigation controls such as Previous, Next, Jump to, Back, Replay, Glossary, First Topic, Last Topic, Previous Lesson, Next Lesson, Help, Course Menu, Exit.
- The look and feel, images, sequence, position and functionality of navigation bar is customisable. This allows authors to control navigation to the learners
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