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Get right to the heart of things. It’s the executive summary of how Mastery will benefit your organization.

What’s the Payoff?		What’s the business case for installing Mastery Advantage™ courses and systems?
The Mastery Advantage™		What are the advantages of Mastery’s products? How are they different from any others?
Cutting Training Costs In Half		Just how do we cut our training costs in half? Boil it down to the numbers.
Here’s How It Works		How do the courses train my employees? What is the training like? Here’s a quick course demo in storyboard format.
Training Requirements		How does Mastery help me with scheduling employees for training and monitoring individual employee training requirements?
Customize Your Training		How can we make Mastery’s courses precisely fit our unique requirements?
Put Your Materials On Mastery’s Publishing Platform		How can we fully utilize our investment in our hundreds of PowerPoint, Authorware, and “who knows what else” computer-based training presentations by giving them the power of the Mastery Advantage™?
Your Technology Insurance Policy		How can we get the benefits of current Mastery training today and still take advantage of tommorow’s computer and communications technologies?
Make Our Courses Speak Your Language(s)		How do we offer the advantages of our training and our technologies to all our locations? Around the world? To all our employees?  In their own language?
Network Ready Courseware		How do we integrate Mastery Training with our established information systems?
Frequently Asked Questions (management issues)		What are some of the things management from other companies are concerned about?
Year 2000		Read about how the year 2000 date change will not affect your Mastery systems and how your Mastery systems won’t affect your other systems.

Your quickest way to get detailed information on our courses and software.

Courses by Title		Look at detailed course summaries from an alphabetical listing of all our courses grouped by training category.
Courses by Industry		Look at detailed course summaries from alphabetical listings of our courses which are appropriate for your industry.
Training Manager		Learn about the Training Manager System (included free with every Mastery Advantage™ course) and how it lets you manage training requirements and setting up your training to run precisely how you want it.
Networking		Learn about the ways Mastery Advantage™ courses can be set up for running in various configurations on your network.
Low Bitrate Versions		Learn how specially encoded versions of Mastery’s interactive video courses can even play on WANs, busy LANs and older networks.
STARS		Learn about the STARS: Student Analysis and Reporting System and how it tracks all learner activity, scores, and course completions.
MODIFY™		Learn about the MODIFY™ Courseware Customization System and how it lets you add, change, and delete course content.
MODIFY™ Course Shells		See how you can create your own Mastery Advantage™ courses.
Extended Support Plan		Learn how Mastery can extend its legendary customer support and offer special trade-in and disc replacement provisions.
Price List		Get current U.S. purchase and rental prices.
Price List		Get current Canadian purchase and rental prices.
Cost per worker examples		Learn how to evaluate the cost of training versus not training. Calculate your cost per worker.
Rentals		Learn how you can train small groups of your workers with our Rental Plans.
Hardware Requirements		Get the hardware requirements for playing our courses.
Mastery Runtime System		Learn how the Mastery Runtime System provides courseware management, course delivery, and training requirements management for both Mastery courses and non-Mastery courses.
Technical Summary		Get a brief technical overview of the Mastery product line.
How to Order		When you’re ready to order, purchase or rent, you’ll find Mastery to be very flexible here, too.

Technical FAQ page, free course and program updates, access to our support staff, and links to MPEG drivers.

Extended Support Plan		Learn how you can get unlimited telephone support, automatic product updates, and many other cost saving benefits.
ESP Enrollment		If you’re already a customer, start receiving the benefits of the Extended Support Plan.
Networking Your Multimedia Training		Learn how to use the flexibility of Mastery courses to configure your network installation to get the most benefits from your network.
Networking		Learn about the ways Mastery Advantage™ courses can be set up for running in various configurations on your network.
Program Updates		Get information and free updates to our Runtime Systems and certain Mastery administrative software programs.
Course Updates To Release 6 CDs (for use in Windows)		Get free updates to your Mastery Release 6 CD-ROMs for use in Windows.
Course Updates To Release 5 CDs (for use in Windows)		Get free updates to your Mastery Release 5 CD-ROMs for use in Windows.
Course Updates To Release 5 CDs (for use in DOS only)		Get free updates to your Mastery Release 5 CD-ROMs for use in DOS.
Alternate Graphics for MODIFY™ Course Shells		Download free replacement graphic screens for your MODIFY™ Course Shells.
Plugging PowerPoint Presentations Into Course Shells		Learn how to turn your PowerPoint training presentations into Mastery Advantage™ courses.
Plugging Authorware Lessons Into Course Shells		Learn how to turn your Authorware lessons into Mastery Advantage™ courses.
Inserting Word Documents Into Mastery Courses		Learn how to insert Microsoft Word documents into Mastery Advantage™ courses.
Hardware Requirements		View the hardware requirements for course playback.
REALMagic		Get free drivers to your Sigma Designs REALMagic card.
Windows Media Player		Get Microsoft’s free Windows Media Player directly from Microsoft’s website for software playback of virtually every digital video format on Windows95 Pentium machines. It’s the player we recommend if you use Internet Explorer.
ActiveMovie		Get Microsoft’s free ActiveMovie player for software playback of MPEG files on Windows95 Pentium machines. Use this player if your computer does not have Internet Explorer.  Unzip this file to a temporary directory on your hard drive, then run amovie.exe to install.
PPVIEW32.exe		Download Microsoft’s PowerPoint presentation player to run PowerPoint presentations from your Mastery courses.
Talk To The Support Staff		Get assistance directly from our support staff via e-mail.
FAQs - Frequently Asked Questions (technical support issues)		View listings of the support questions our customers ask most often.
Year 2000		Read about how the year 2000 date change will not affect your Mastery systems and how your Mastery systems won’t affect your other systems.

Information for videotape and CD-ROM training producers, and multimedia and training sales professionals who would benefit from a business relationship with Mastery.

The Mastery Group		If you are a seasoned training and multimedia sales specialist please look into our Mastery Group program.
Content Supplier Partners		If you own or produce top quality job skills and management skills video-based training programs, please consider a relationship with Mastery. Learn about the significant business advantages of working with us.

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MODIFY™ Course Shells		Learn how to create your own Mastery Advantage™ courses from Course Shells.
Mastery Runtime System		Learn how the Mastery Runtime System provides courseware management, course installation, and training requirements management for your courses that have been built from Course Shells.
Training Manager		Learn about the Training Manager System that is included free with the Runtime System, Training Manager lets customers manage training requirements and setup their training to run precisely how they want it.
Networking		Learn about the ways Mastery Advantage™ courses can be set up for running in various configurations on a network.
Low Bitrate Course Versions		Learn how specially encoded versions of video-based courses can even play on WANs, busy LANs, and older networks.
STARS		Learn about the STARS: Student Analysis and Reporting System and how it tracks all learner activity, scores, and course completions.
MODIFY™		Learn about the MODIFY™ Courseware Customization System and how it lets your customers add, change, and delete course content.
Technical Summary		Get a brief technical overview of the Mastery product line.

For our repeat visitors.
Highlights new features to the site.

March		New Course.  "Industrial Radiation Safety"
February		This month’s Ten-Day Free Trial! “Powered Pallet Jack Safety” Each month a new course is offered to qualified persons/organizations to preview for ten business days. Come back each month to see what’s available.
January		Two New Courses.  "Powered Pallet Jack Safety" "Fundamental Skills of Managing"
December		This month’s Ten-Day Free Trial! “Respiratory Protection” Each month a new course is offered to qualified persons/organizations to preview for ten business days. Come back each month to see what’s available.
November		Putting your Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, Authorware training, and even Microsoft Word documents on the Mastery Platform just got easier. With release 2.004 of MODIFY™ and release 6.147 of the Runtime System, you can play any .exe file within a Mastery Course. Powerpoint player and Authorware presentations are just a few! Embed Microsoft Word documents or any other program you want into a course. These new “multimedia” types will play as smoothly and seamlessly as any other current media file. This month’s Ten-Day Free Trial! “Lockout Tagout: Take Control” Each month a new course is offered to qualified persons/organizations to preview for ten business days. Come back each month to see what’s available.
October		Comply with the new OSHA Respiratory Standard "Respiratory Protection" course upgrade is available immediately. The new Respiratory Protection Standard took effect this month on October 8. If you have not yet upgraded your respirator training to comply with the new standard, then you should do it now. If you are a subscriber to the Extended Support Plan you can upgrade to this new course under the Course Trade-In Provisions of the plan. This month’s Ten-Day Free Trial! “Hearing Conservation” Each month a new course is offered to qualified persons/organizations to preview for ten business days. Come back each month to see what’s available.
September		This month’s Ten-Day Free Trial is a DOUBLE! “Hazard Communication: You're In Control” and “WHMIS: Learning The System” Each month a new course is offered to qualified persons/organizations to preview for ten business days. Come back each month to see what’s available.
August		MODIFY™ release 2.0 Available! The new MODIFY™ we’ve all been waiting for is here. Incredibly fast and powerful. Simple to use. Support for alternate course versions and improved support for adding alternate languages. MODIFY™ Course Shells Announced. Make your own Mastery Advantage™ courses using MODIFY™. Course Shells let you move your other training materials to Mastery’s complete publishing platform in hours! No programming. No learning some “Jack of all trades, Master of none” authoring program. Use the standard off-the-shelf multimedia tools that you already know to create your graphics, audio, and video files. Then add the files to your Shell with MODIFY™. As simple as that!
July		This month’s Ten-Day Free Trial! “Respiratory Protection” Updated for the new OSHA Standard 29 CFR 1910.134. Each month a new course is offered to qualified persons/organizations to preview for ten business days. Come back each month to see what’s available.
June		This month’s Ten-Day Free Trial! “Elements Of An Ergonomics Program” Each month a new course is offered to qualified persons/organizations to preview for ten business days. Come back each month to see what’s available.

Helpful information you can use.

Training Requirements in United States OSHA Standards		This is a hypertext version of Publication 2254. This document also includes links to the Mastery courses that help you meet those requirements.
Safety Training Regulations in Canada Labour Code		This is a hypertext document comprised of excerpts from the Canada Occupational Safety and Health Regulations from Part II of the Canada Labour Code. This document also includes links to the Mastery courses that help you meet those requirements.
The Mastery Group Course Catalog		This 180-page book features detailed descriptions of our software products and courses.
Ten-Day Free Trial-of-the-Month		Each month we select a title to offer our prospective customers for a ten-day trial. Check out this month’s selection.
Alternate Graphics for MODIFY™ Course Shells		For our MODIFY™ Course Shell customers. Download free replacement graphic screens for your MODIFY™ Course Shells. Choose from nine sets: three themes, three colors schemes each.

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