Benefits of Web Course Builder design
ReadyGo Web Course Builder is a tool designed for the content expert and enables them to create web based training as tutorials or courses quickly and efficiently.
Microsoft PowerPointŪ and WYSIWYG tools verses ReadyGo Web Course Builder
- PowerPoint is the most widely used presentation tool. Taking PowerPoint presentations and saving them for the web as a Flash graphic, is a compelling solution from the SME’s (subject matter experts) point of view. Many SME’s tasked with moving information to the web don’t want to learn a new tool and want to quickly repurpose their existing presentations.
From the learners point of view, PowerPoint on the web is awful. Learners comment that PowerPoint to Flash presentations are boring, un-engaging, and frustrating. Our customer studies have shown that the average learner stays on a PowerPoint to Flash presentation 2 to 5 minutes while they stay on a ReadyGo course 25 minutes to an hour.
- On the other end of the market is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) authoring tools (also called blank screen tools). These are tools that allow the creator to design a page of text. They became popular in the late 1980’s with the advent of laser printers.Graphic artists like WYSIWYG tools since they can control the placement of every object on a page. These tools were not developed with a web paradigm.
Course developers must understand instructional design, web design, and the layout of their course before they can begin creating a course. Layout and design is handled on a page basis making it difficult to globally change the look of a course. Interactions (next page, previous page, drilldown page, index, glossary, help, FAQ …) take an experienced developer to create. These types of tools were not natively designed for the Web, making it slow and cumbersome to add web features like new graphic types, style sheet support (CSS), and integration of pages developed with other tools like Dreamweaver or FrontPage.
- ReadyGo has taken a dramatically different approach to creating and publishing web based training. ReadyGo separated entering course content from designing the look and feel of a course, providing a six to ten fold productivity increase over developing courses using WYSIWYG tools. ReadyGo's authoring tool is easy for novices to use and provides powerful design capabilities for experienced web developers. Best of breed web practices are built into every ReadyGo course, simplifying the process of creating effective courses.
Course creators don’t need to learn advanced features since ReadyGo WCB automatically creates advanced interactions like navigation, drill down pages, FAQ’s, and glossaries. Web standards like ADA compliance for blind readers, CSS, and search engine compatibility are built into every course. Integration with new graphic element types is based on the student’s browser – not the authoring tool. Along with one button support for integration of already created objects like flash, movies, sound, and pages created in tools like Dreamweaver. Courses created using ReadyGo Web Course Builder are in reality a sophisticated, multi-tiered web site.
- Would you like to see the difference between a course built with ReadyGo WCB and one built with PowerPoint2Flash? Both of the following courses were built with the same core content. You be the judge. Which one do you think is a better online experience?