New Enhancements to CourseMill 5.0 LMS

Earlier this year, Trivantis released CourseMill Learning Management System 5.0, which makes the delivery, management, and tracking of online learning easy and affordable.

CourseMill 5.0 includes ecommerce functions, course curriculums, transaction and transcript reports, and more. Adding to these beneficial features, Trivantis made even more enhancements to CourseMill with the release of Service Pack 2 earlier this month. Users now have the ability to add credit hours for courses and curriculums and to select the currency of choice within your shopping cart.

For your convenience, CourseMill 5.0 is available in both software and hosted solutions. Both versions enable you to customize the interface to match your company's branding and/or the look and feel of your courses.

To test drive CourseMill 5.0 free for 14 days, visit http://www.trivantis.com/products/coursemill/trial.html. To learn more about CourseMill, contact Trivantis at 877.929.0188 or visit http://www.trivantis.com/products/coursemill.html.

Lectora User Conference Highlights

Many thanks to the more than 300 Trivantis clients that attended the fourth annual Lectora User Conference in Las Vegas early this month. It was a true success with the help of the energetic and informative sessions given by Lectora users and the involvement of conference participants.

Trivantis clients shown above at LUC reception

At the conference, Tim Loudermilk, founder and chief software architect at Trivantis, announced the Lectora Certification Program as well as a new publishing feature to Lectora 2008 that enables users to publish content to iPhone and iPod Touch. Publishing to iPhone and iPod Touch will be available this summer and current 2008 users will receive this feature free of charge with the Lectora Maintenance Track!

This year’s conference also featured an Ideas Worth Stealing competition for attendees to submit their best course creations. A panel of judges awarded Dave McIntyre from Beckman Coulter a $500 prize for submitting the best elearning course. Congratulations Dave!

For all those that attended, please keep an eye on your inbox for a Lectora User Conference follow-up survey from Message Factors, an independent research company. Trivantis wants to hear your comments about the conference so we can improve upon an already successful event.

For those who were not able to attend, we hope to see you at next year’s event.

New! Purchase and Download Lectora Online

For added convenience, Trivantis now provides the option for you to purchase Lectora with your credit card on the Trivantis website and download the product online. This new offering eliminates shipping fees and provides you with Lectora right when you need it with no wait for the product to arrive in the mail. To order and download online, please visit http://www.trivantis.com/buy_online/store.html.
Please note that state sales tax may apply for some online purchases.

Learn New Lectora Skills at an eLearning Guild Online Forum

Learn more about authoring tools and take your Lectora skills to the next level by attending the eLearning Guild Online Forum "Selecting, Combining, and Using Authoring Tools" on June 5 and 6. This Online Forum looks at different ways to select, combine, and use multiple authoring tools to create a variety of eLearning. Two of the sessions in this series focus on the use of Lectora with other tools such as Flash.

During the online forum, be sure to attend "Best Practices for combining Flash, Illustrator and Photoshop with Lectora," which addresses the common issue of needing to use many types of media when developing eLearning. Attendees will learn how Flash can “talk” with Lectora and also learn techniques for using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator with Lectora.

In addition, attendees can also learn about gaming in elearning at "Serious Games Development Using Lectora, Flash and Maya." This session will provide an informational overview and working samples of how Lectora is used to develop and integrate Serious Games into courseware.

To attend these sessions and other presentations at the eLearning Guild Online Forum, please register here. Costs to attend vary based on your membership level, but you do not need to be a member to attend.

Visit Trivantis at ASTD International

ASTD International, the premier event for workplace learning and performance professionals welcomes attendees from more than 70 countries on June 2-4 in San Diego, CA. The conference features 200+ educational sessions from industry-leading experts. While at the conference, stop by booth #1817 to meet a Trivantis team member, learn more about Trivantis products and services, and receive answers to any elearning questions you may have.
To register, please visit http://www.astd2008.org/.

Lectora Tips and Tricks

Protect Your Published Content
When publishing your title to HTML, you can now prevent your content from being copied and from enabling users to view the HTML source for Web-published titles. When this option is checked during publishing in Lectora 2008, users are unable to access Clipboard functions and right-click context menus

Create Custom Certificates
Lectora 2008 users can quickly and easily add custom certificates for tests and course completions. Simply go to your tools menu and click on Certificate Tool to begin creating your certificates.

Save Time Creating Multiple Choice Questions
To save time when entering your choices in a multiple choice question, enter your question as a fill in the blank type and enter ‘all choices’ in the possible answer box. Change your question type to multiple choice question type afterwards and you’ve just created your multiple choice question in seconds (this will only apply if feedbacks are not provided on an individual basis)!