Archive for the ‘Training’ Category

One Click Rendering Solution

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

Why?

After completing a project taking 15 months with a team of developers, a different client with the same aircraft type required a similar course generated quickly. This required new visuals of the aircraft to be generated specific to the client’s branding on their aircraft. There are steps which can be implemented using built in tools from various software to reduce the amount of time taken to reproduce the visuals, but this still requires a large amount of time to recreate all the visuals. With such a large project a more manageable, flexible and efficient system is essential to provide the same high standard of quality in a shorter time period. The one click rendering solution described here was our answer to this problem.

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Getting to grips with Flash

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Flash and I have a bit of a chequered history. Being of the ‘Authorware’ school of programming I have always struggled to translate my thoughts to the timeline based architecture of Flash where the item I’m looking for could be buried 6 layers deep inside a whole string of movie clips. Sure there are probably techniques to search for it, but in Authorware it would be just there in front of me, but I digress…
My previous forays into Flash have been pretty much as a ‘Pretty Picture’ tool. Simple animations, and software simulations involving making the cursor move across the screen and showing different screens. However, I had to use it properly, in Anger on one of my recent projects.

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SCORM 2004 overview

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Introduction
So your customer / boss / whoever has said that you need to produce SCORM conformant stuff?? What is that all about then?
SCORM comes in a number of different versions including 1.1, 1.2 and 2004. The most common used are 1.2 and 2004, with 2004 being the latest version. Although there is a large amount of overlap between the different versions, I will be discussing 2004 in this document.
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ILIAS Learning Management System

Monday, January 4th, 2010

What is ILIAS?

Ilias is an open source learning management system. It is a complete system to be used on a web server to create, display and track many forms of e-learning/computer based training and also utilise many related web 2.0 technologies.

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