The Industry Standard Instructional Design Tool for Trainers
Designer's Edge® 4.1, the latest version of this software training design and planning tool, incorporates significant enhancements for developers of training applications. These include the ability to do task analysis and report customization, as well as combined interfaces throughout the tool to increase user productivity and encourage the creation of reusable elements.
By combining Net Synergy® with Designer's Edge, developers are able to distribute cross-platform training through a web browser across the Internet or Intranet, eliminating the need for additional plug-ins, HTML programming or authoring knowledge.
The tool's Enterprise version includes the desktop capabilities as well as enterprise database support through ODBC connectivity, security features and the functionality for exporting training titles directly to HTML and Java through Net Synergy
"Designer's Edge, Net Synergy, Quest 7.0 and Manager's Edge represent a departure from retrofitting and a focused commitment on providing a full solution to effective, efficient online learning. New features in all of the tools assure that clients with varied skills and backgrounds, delivering to a variety of platforms, will have success."
Training Net, January 1998
Key Benefits
- Increases trainers' productivity by an average of 36 percent (Kagel Associates)
- Provides a starting point and step-by-step guidance through critical decision-making stages and design processes
- Standardises the design process for entire development teams
- Integrates data and displays it in a visual course map for easy access
- Provides a fully integrated script-storyboard with visual screen layout capabilities, showing thumbnails of graphics used
- Powerful online help puts a virtual encyclopaedia of learning strategies and instructional design expertise at your fingertips
Other Key Features:
- Direct output to HTML and Java helps you get quality cross-platform training online quickly using Net Synergy®
- Links directly to popular authoring systems such as Quest®, Authorware®, and Toolbook® II for final development
- Trainers can customize the interface and wizards to support their own design methodology
- Creates a central media log of video, graphics, audio, etc.
- Provides flexibility to execute functions (such as reports and synergy outputs) for individual modules from the course map
System Requirements
- PC compatible, running Windows™ 95, Windows™ 98 or Windows™ NT (3.5 or higher)
- Minimum Pentium® 90 processor (Pentium® 133 recommended)
- Minimum 32 MEG RAM (64 or higher rec-ommended)
