Course development is a key feature in the overall development program for new and improved products. Bringing writers, developers and other key personnel up to speed quickly on the latest developments can be critical to a company’s ability to create communications that help employees understand how to sell, install, maintain and use new products and features as well as teach customers how to easily and effectively set-up and use new and improved products.

In today’s lean workplace, gathering employees from different parts of the organization to go over new features can be an expensive luxury, in both travel costs and productivity. That’s why many companies are turning to e-learning programs that enable staff to get up to speed without having to leave their offices, allowing them to stay focused on their day-to-day tasks, saving expenses and taking courses on-demand exactly when information is needed and when work schedules permit.

With years of expertise in training development and delivery, AppGuru offers a full menu of product-related information development services – from technical writing to e-Learning course development.

Our XML training curriculum is the first choice for many global enterprises and we can develop training material based on a comprehensive analysis of your knowledge delivery requirements. Using this collaborative, structured approach, we map the requirements of your organization and develop the learning paths appropriate to your users' needs.

For a leading software company, we redeployed material from two instructor-led courses as self-paced, web courses for the company’s internal content developers. This enabled their instructors to focus on more complex training requirements and significantly reduced the time and costs needed to bring them up to speed.

Our courses are based on training modules that can be combined in any way to fit specific training needs. This enables us to quickly assemble courses that are relevant and appropriate to meet your learning and development goals for your specific end users.

Through a number of projects, AppGuru has built substantial experience in the E-Learning software area. We are experts in developing interactive, flexible solutions for:

    * Content management
    * Learning process management
    * Test and grade management
    * Industry-specific standards (including SCORM and AICC).

As one example, AppGuru has developed a fully web-based content management/authoring system (CMS) for providing on-line teaching and learning implemented on the ASP.NET platform.

The system included the following modules:

    *
      Authoring
      allows users to create, edit and delete content and quiz pages, create, edit and fill SCOs (Shareable Content Objects) with pages.
          o creating and editing content pages with the help of a wizard
          o creating and editing quiz page with the help of a wizard
          o creating a new SCO
          o including pages batch in a SCO
          o deleting a pages
          o changing the order of a page in a SCO ( "Move page up" or "move page down")

    *
      Test Builder
      allows users to create and edit tests
          o creating and editing test pages
          o creating and editing text

    *
      Courses
      allows users to organize courses
          o creating and editing courses with the help of a wizard
          o moving SCOs up and down to out them in the correct sequence
          o copying a SCO from one course into another
          o launching a course

    *
      Publish
          o Exporting SCORM course
          o Export AICC course

    *
      System
      allows administrators to create, modify, delete and set size quotas for domains


Solution highlights:

The system is a fully web-based content management/authoring system (CMS) implemented on the ASP.NET platform (it can be used on Internet Explorer v. 5+) .

The system consists of a base package and optional add-on components, which operate independently and can be seamlessly updated or replaced.