A courseware development and e-learning authoring system for Windows from SumTotal Systems, Inc., Mountain View, CA (www.sumtotalsystems.com) that uses a "page and book" metaphor analogous to Apple's HyperCard "card and stack." Its OpenScript language is also similar to HyperTalk. ToolBook was originally a product from e-learning pioneer Click2Learn, Inc., which merged in 2004 with Docent, Inc. to become SumTotal Systems.
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- Flexible Authoring Solutions for Learning Professionals
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- White papers 2007-11-01
- Toolbook Instructor 9: Ideas, Realized
- The new Book Explorer gives more information and better control when working with content. The Explorer provides fast and easy access to all pages, objects and backgrounds simplifying the way one work with the content. In the Explorer view, one can quickly edit, move, delete, copy and perform numerous authoring...
- White papers 2007-05-29
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- Consisting of 180 employees, Cornell University's Division of Financial Affairs houses the university's payroll, accounting and procurement functions, servicing tens of thousands of university students and employees. Approximately six years ago, the Division's Customer Training and Development team began to require training automation when the number of employees that needed...
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- SumTotal Systems Powers Case Study: Holland America Line
- Holland American Line, a leading cruise line and tour company, needed a solution that could easily support a globally dispersed, moving workforce that is on duty 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and represents over 50 nationalities with varying proficiency in English. A SumTotal solution comprised of Learning...
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- SumTotal System Case Study: Telus
- TELUS Mobility provides its more than 3 million clients across Canada with a full suite of wireless voice, Internet and data services through its Mike and PCS digital wireless networks. Telus' Credit Services business unit went through a major reorganization that created a fundamental shift in the delivery of initial...
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- SumTotal System Case Study: Humana
- Humana, Inc., headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the nation's largest publicly traded health benefits companies. Humana created a Contract Information System to keep track of all the terms in all the contracts the company had with its providers. With each contract, students could become overwhelmed by the hundreds...
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- SumTotal System Case Study: Resource Engineering
- Resource Engineering was founded in 1987 and has its headquarters in Tolland, CT. When automotive manufacturing standards changed, Resource Engineering had a library of training programs that were designed around the older standards. Due to the nature of their business supporting quality initiatives, the company's clients had high performance expectations...
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- SumTotal System Case Study: TRW Automotive
- TRW Automotive is the leader in automotive safety, producing advanced active systems in braking, steering and suspension and sophisticated occupant safety systems for inflatable restraints, seat belts and steering wheels. TRW's classroom training, mostly regulatory, was taking too much time and effort. At their pilot site, hundreds of people needed...
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- SumTotal System Case Study: Nielsen Media Research
- Nielsen Media Research is the world's leading provider of television audience measurement and related services. Nielsen clients access audience statistics through Nielsen's National People Meter program. This program allows clients to develop custom queries and reports based upon individual station needs. As this program was created, a simultaneous effort was...
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- SumTotal System Case Study: Professional Software Consortium
- Professional Software Consortium was awarded a contract from the Defense Finance and Accounting Service DFAS to develop sixteen hours of e-learning content within five months for voucher examiners covering temporary duty travel. To ensure this pressing deadline was attained, Professional Software Consortium selected ToolBook and solicited the services of Interactive...
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- SumTotal System Case Study: PerforMax3
- The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations JCAHO standards mandates that healthcare providers employ a systematic approach to education for the caregiver. Healthcare providers need a cost-effective solution to deliver and track compliance training. PerforMax3 provides a suite of products that meets the specific needs of the healthcare industry....
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- SumTotal Systems Case Study: The Institute of Motor Industry (IMI)
- To be successful, the IMI needed to provide a solution to their clients, which would ease the administrative burden and allow fast, secure and accurate skills assessment. Using SumTotal's solution, the IMI developed their Online Assessment System, which met the three most important requirements for assessment of candidates: reliability, assessments...
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