ID tools helps in drafting, editing and publishing content. Following are the frequently used tools to design and develop course materials for both educational and corporate platforms.
Technical Standards
1. Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)
Microsoft Office Suite
a) MS Word: Microsoft Word is a word processing program.Some of the
nifty things that people use Word for include:
b) MS Power Point: The main purpose of MS PowerPoint is to enable the user to create dynamic, informational slide shows through the use of text, graphics, and animation. Slide shows created with the software are often displayed on projection screens for business, training, or educational presentations, although they can be distributed as stand-alone files. Additionally, the slides can be arranged and printed as handouts for reference.
6. Finding Profit Break even
Finding break even is never easy without using Excel. To manually find out the break even for a project, you have to perform many calculations using different numbers as it's inputs. And the calculation becomes even more complex if the components include fixed cost and step up cost. But with the goal seek function in Excel, this task can be completed in a few seconds.
Drawing Tools
MS Visio:
Microsoft Visio is one the the latest additions to the Microsoft Office suite. Visio is drawing software package that helps you with all of your drawing and graphing needs - from organization and flow charts - to database designs automatically imported and generated from existing database systems. Software developers can also use Visio to draw UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams to visualize their designs. Furthermore network diagrams can easily be drawn and kept up to date with Visio. Already a popular tool prior to Microsoft's acquisition in 2000.
Graphic Design Tools
1. Adobe Flash:
Adobe Flash (formerly called "Macromedia Flash") is a multimedia and software platform used for authoring of vector graphics, animation, games andRich Internet Applications (RIAs) which can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisement and interactive multimedia content to web pages, although usage of Flash on websites is declining.[1]
Technical Standards
1. Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)
Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) is a collection of standards and specifications for web-based e-learning. It defines communications between client side content and a host system called the run-time environment, which is commonly supported by a learning management system. SCORM also defines how content may be packaged into a transferable ZIP file called "Package Interchange Format".[1]
SCORM is a specification of the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, which comes out of the Office of the United States Secretary of Defense.
SCORM 2004 introduced a complex idea called sequencing, which is a set of rules that specifies the order in which a learner may experience content objects. In simple terms, they constrain a learner to a fixed set of paths through the training material, permit the learner to "bookmark" their progress when taking breaks, and assure the acceptability of test scores achieved by the learner. The standard uses XML, and it is based on the results of work done by AICC, IMS Global, IEEE, and Ariadne.
2. Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee (AICC)
The Aviation Industry Computer-Based Training Committee (AICC) is an international association of technology-based training professionals. The AICC develops guidelines for aviation industry in the development, delivery, and evaluation of CBT, WBT, and related training technologies.
AICC specifications are usually designed to be general purpose (not necessarily Aviation Specific) so that learning technology vendors can spread their costs across multiple markets and thus provide products (needed by the Aviation Industry) at a lower cost. This strategy has resulted in AICC specifications having broad acceptance and relevance to non-aviation and aviation users alike.
Source: WikipediaMicrosoft Office Suite
a) MS Word: Microsoft Word is a word processing program.Some of the
nifty things that people use Word for include:
- Letters
- Flyers
- Website Creation
- Forms
- Reports
- Hand Books
- Resume
- Newsletters
- Agendas
- Brochures
- Envelopes and Labels
b) MS Power Point: The main purpose of MS PowerPoint is to enable the user to create dynamic, informational slide shows through the use of text, graphics, and animation. Slide shows created with the software are often displayed on projection screens for business, training, or educational presentations, although they can be distributed as stand-alone files. Additionally, the slides can be arranged and printed as handouts for reference.
c) MS Excel: Microsoft Excel is a commercial spreadsheet application written and distributed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. With its powerful functions, Excel has been a very widely applied spreadsheet in many fields, this article shows some example on What is Microsoft Excel really used for?
1. Manage data records like name list
The commonly usage of Excel is to manage data records and name lists. You don't have to plan in advance on how the table should look like, as the preset layout allows you to create the tables on the fly, just fill in the information, the table is developed on the go. Another more attractive point is that you have the ability to sort the list and filter the listing like a database tool. You can download the template of list.
2. Used as an analytical tool
Besides the good use on managing data, Excel is a great analytical tool for business. With the pivot table contained within Excel, you can easily analyse a large number of data, as the pivot table can automatically sort, count, and total the data stored in one table or spreadsheet and create a second table displaying the summarized data. It has gone through many revision. In each revision, we see its power being enhanced. In the latest version of Excel 2010, there are many new features added: It added almost six new calculations, a 'Show Value As' function and some great visual tools. Download this sales analytics if you need.
3. Create forms and consolidate results
You can use Excel to create not only a simple form that contains boxes, but also professional forms which include option buttons that allow you to select answers, dropdown list to select a particular answer from list of items. Together with charts, you can use Excel to compile answers to tests or quizzes and analyze the profile of the class (If you are a teacher) or your team (If you are a supervisor).
4. Corporate Budgeting
A major business application of Excel is in corporate budgeting. Many companies, from big corporations to small companies use Excel for their budgeting. Despite numerous calls by suppliers of Business Performance Management Systems (BPM) to move away from Excel as a budgeting tool, 70% to 80% of all corporations still use Excel as their primary budgeting tool. This is a marketing budget plan from Microsoft website.
5. Inventory Management
Excel provide many functions and formulas that will not only help you manage your data records efficiently but will also allow you to analyse your data based on your constantly changing business environment. Through the use of Microsoft® Excel formulas, you can create comprehensive drop down boxes to facilitate data inputs and reduce erroneous entries. And through the use of pivot tables, you could get a good detailed analysis of your stock movement and also your inventory level at any point in time.
Finding break even is never easy without using Excel. To manually find out the break even for a project, you have to perform many calculations using different numbers as it's inputs. And the calculation becomes even more complex if the components include fixed cost and step up cost. But with the goal seek function in Excel, this task can be completed in a few seconds.
Drawing Tools
MS Visio:
Microsoft Visio is one the the latest additions to the Microsoft Office suite. Visio is drawing software package that helps you with all of your drawing and graphing needs - from organization and flow charts - to database designs automatically imported and generated from existing database systems. Software developers can also use Visio to draw UML (Unified Modeling Language) diagrams to visualize their designs. Furthermore network diagrams can easily be drawn and kept up to date with Visio. Already a popular tool prior to Microsoft's acquisition in 2000.
Graphic Design Tools
1. Adobe Flash:
Adobe Flash (formerly called "Macromedia Flash") is a multimedia and software platform used for authoring of vector graphics, animation, games andRich Internet Applications (RIAs) which can be viewed, played and executed in Adobe Flash Player. Flash is frequently used to add streamed video or audio players, advertisement and interactive multimedia content to web pages, although usage of Flash on websites is declining.[1]
Flash manipulates vector and raster graphics to provide animation of text, drawings, and still images. It allows bidirectional streaming of audio and video, and it can capture user input via mouse, keyboard, microphone and camera. Flash applications and animations can be programmed using theobject-oriented language called ActionScript. Adobe Flash Professional is the most popular and user-friendly authoring tool for creating the Flash content, which also allows automation via the JavaScript Flash language (JSFL).
2. Adobe Dreamweaver:
Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development application developed by Adobe Systems. Dreamweaver was originally developed by Macromedia in 1997,[1] and was maintained by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.[2]
3. Adobe Photoshop:
Adobe Dreamweaver is a proprietary web development application developed by Adobe Systems. Dreamweaver was originally developed by Macromedia in 1997,[1] and was maintained by them until Macromedia was acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.[2]
Adobe Dreamweaver is available for both Mac and Windows operating systems.
Following Adobe's acquisition of the Macromedia product suite, releases of Dreamweaver subsequent to version 8.0 have been more compliant with W3C standards. Recent versions have improved support for Web technologies such as CSS, JavaScript, and various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP (ASP JavaScript, ASP VBScript, ASP.NET C#, ASP.NET VB), ColdFusion,Scriptlet, and PHP
3. Adobe Photoshop:
Adobe Photoshop is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems.
Adobe's 2003 "Creative Suite" rebranding led to Adobe Photoshop 8's renaming to Adobe Photoshop CS. Thus, Adobe Photoshop CS6 is the 13th major release of Adobe Photoshop. The CS rebranding also resulted in Adobe offering numerous software packages containing multiple Adobe programs for a reduced price. Adobe Photoshop is released in two editions: Adobe Photoshop, and Adobe Photoshop Extended, with the Extended having extra 3D image creation, motion graphics editing, and advanced image analysis features.[5] Adobe Photoshop Extended is included in all of Adobe's Creative Suite offerings except Design Standard, which includes the Adobe Photoshop edition.
Alongside Photoshop and Photoshop Extended, Adobe also publishes Photoshop Elements and Photoshop Lightroom, collectively called "The Adobe Photoshop Family". In 2008, Adobe released Adobe Photoshop Express, a free web-based image editing tool to edit photos directly on blogs and social networking sites; in 2011 a version was released for the Android operating system and the iOS operating system.[6][7]
Adobe distributes Photoshop in Windows and Macintosh versions.
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