Outstart Trainer
    Desktop Author (formerly Trainersoft 8)

OutStart Trainer solves the problem of high-cost course development with the fastest, easiest authoring tool available today. Using OutStart Trainer's hundreds of flexible templates and drag-and-drop authoring, you can create rich course content without any programming. To ensure the effectiveness of your courseware, OutStart Trainer delivers extensive assessment and remediation capabilities for advanced testing, learner performance tracking and reporting. The result is compelling content, cost-effectively delivered. In fact, OutStart Trainer customers have significantly improved the quality of learning materials while achieving ROI as high as 300% in less than a year.

With OutStart Trainer you can:

• Achieve faster time-to-value. Outstanding ease-of-use combined with complete authoring functionality reduces the time needed to develop complex courseware.

• Increase learning effectiveness. Enhance learning with delivery in multiple formats and fully integrated testing that automatically take the learner to specific content based on response.

• Increase author efficiency and eliminate redundant development. Enable authors to work collaboratively, sharing content, graphics, templates, simulations and other training media using OutStart Trainer’s optional content management.

• Maximize investments in learning solutions. Expand the effectiveness of your authoring environment with seamless integration to the OutStart product suite including OutStart SoftSim to incorporate simulations in courseware, and OutStart Evolution LMS for one-step course publication in multiple formats.

Key Features

• A complete WYSIWYG authoring environment includes pre-packaged course outline and navigation templates, a media manager for all types of graphics, audio, video and streaming video, Microsoft Word and PowerPoint importing, support for Java, VB, HTML, DHTML scripts, and immediate preview.

• The Course Distribution Wizard makes delivering content in multiple formats quick and easy including online (HTML), offline (.exe), on a CD-ROM and via 3rd party LMS integration.

• Wizards facilitate quick creation of many types of tests and assessments, such as multiple choice and multiple or single answer, true/false, ordered and fill in the blank. Automatic remediation immediately jumps the learner to the right content based on answers.

• Optional content management provides a central repository for sharing and managing content including versioning, searching, content locking and checking in and out.

• Content developed in OutStart Trainer complies with industry standards including SCORM 1.2, AICC and ADA 508.