MODIFY Course Shells

MODIFY™ Course Shells

Move your other training to Mastery’s publishing platform
Order a Course Shell. Create your audio, video, and/or graphic files with your favorite tools. Or use your existing Authorware lessons, Powerpoint presentations, or Word documents as course content. Write your questions and glossary terms with your favorite word processor. Then spend an hour or two with MODIFY™ to bring it all together into a complete Mastery Advantage™course. Your new course will automatically work with Training Manager, Training Requirements, and STARS. Others in your organization can even use MODIFY^™ to make changes to your course to precisely fit their unique needs.

Course Shells are complete
Mastery Advantage™ courses
Don’t think that because your shell-based course is simple and inexpensive to create that it will lack the legendary features that have made Mastery courses the most effective and manageable courseware in the industry. Your shell-based course looks like any other Mastery Advantage™ course to our runtime and management systems. It will have all these capabilities:

Output records to STARS
Installable with the Install Mastery Products program
Automatically included on the Course Listing
Controllable with Training Manager
Supported in Training Requirements
Customizable with MODIFY™
Run over networks
Video can be scaled to full screen or played in quarter screen
Presentations can include video, audio, graphics, and text.
Glossary of terms
Topical index
Full learner control bar navigation
Help screens
Automatic quiz reviews for incorrect answers
Scrambled question sequence option
Follow up review
Express option
Full user test results printing options
Full pretest options
Full learner enrollment options
600% Guarantee of thoroughness and satisfaction

Ordering a Course Shell is easy
Just tell us the title of the course you want to create and the title of each lesson you want to include in your course. We’ll create a Course Shell on a floppy diskette, or email attachment file. You install the shell just like a course. By the way, you’ll love the price! Our introductory price is only $100 per shell. Make all the copies you want of your finished shell-based course for your company’s own use.

Creating your audio, video, and/or graphic files is easy
Use the multimedia tools that come free with Microsoft Windows or use other popular programs you’re already familiar with to create your audio and graphic files. Use any MPEG or AVI video encoding board you like to turn your videos into digital video files.

Writing your questions and glossary terms is easy
Use your favorite word processor to compose your questions and glossary terms and definitions (if desired) then “paste” them into the course with MODIFY™.

Using MODIFY™ to bring it all together into a complete course is easy
Copy your multimedia files to your course’s directory and link them to the scripts provided with your Course Shell. You’re done!

Using MODIFY™ to distribute your course to other computers is easy
MODIFY™ lets you create an installable file set for placing on a zip drive, CD-R or diskettes with the click of one button! Your Course Shell license allows you to duplicate your course anyplace you want for use within your own company.

Convert other training to
Mastery Advantage™ Courses
The process is simple and the gains in effectiveness and manageability are enormous. Put all your training on the Mastery platform using Course Shells.

Microsoft Powerpoint presentations: export the slides to your Shell Course or just play the entire PowerPoint presentation directly from a course playback script.
Authorware training presentations: just play the entire presentation directly from a course playback script.
Any program or presentation that can be played from (or as) an executable (.exe) file.
CDROM courses from other vendors: simply drop them into playback scripts or re-author them with MODIFY™.
Digital photos right from Digital cameras.
Photos and drawings scanned and saved as either JPEG, PCX, or BMP files.
MPEG movies right from MPEG Camcorders.
Video tapes encoded as either MPEG, QuickTime, or AVI video files.
Audio tapes encoded as either MPEG audio or WAV audio files.
Overhead transparencies, converted to PCX, JPEG, or BMP files.
Workbooks, directly from Microsoft Word document files.
Manuals

We can help create your video and audio digital files
You can encode your own audio and video files with readily available hardware and software. Use either MPEG, QuickTime or AVI for video and MPEG or WAV files for audio. If you need assistance, we can help. Services for digital encoding of your audio and video tapes are available.

You want to resell your shell-based course?
No problem contact us about the licensing arrangement. We may even choose to help you distribute your course.