Features

COLLABORATIVE AUTHORING

With CoAuthor, authors, designers, subject-matter experts and reviewers can collaboratively work on projects regardless of location or time-zone. CoAuthor’s sophisticated groupware authoring environment allows projects to be managed and stored at a central secure location and provides real-time access based on user-profile.

Web-based collaboration
Version locking and control
Centralised object and asset library
Built-in task management helps to streamline the development process
Track project progress and overall development status with reports

RAPID CONTENT AUTHORING

Creating professional looking e-learning content is quick and easy in CoAuthor. Predefined functional modules and pre-loaded assets offer rapid content authoring without compromising on quality and usability.

Objects and assets are reusable, helping maintain consistency
Use existing templates or customise them to save time
Pre-designed elements can be dropped onto a page and used instantly
Real-time preview, for quick and easy edits
Course and object tagging makes it easy to search for and reuse assets

COAUTHOR INTERACTIVITY

Creating dynamic content is simple with CoAuthor’s library of e-learning exercises and interactions. These elements can be easily drag-dropped onto a page, and are immediately usable – no need for programming or complex configurations. Interactive elements are customisable, so authors are not limited to the standard look and feel. Interactive elements include:

Multiple choice
Drag and drop for sorting, sequencing or match the objects
Fill in the blanks
Hot-spots
Hot-words
Point and click
Interactive learning games

ASSESSMENTS & QUESTIONS

Creating interactive assessment to gauge how much a learner has retained what they have learnt is effortless with CoAuthor. The system supports single or multi-chapter tests with predetermined or randomly assigned questions and includes a sophisticated grading mechanism that allows assignment of different weights per chapter or question.

Questions repository for ‘random’ or self-adapting questions
Immediate test results calculation and presentation
Immediate feedback on a question or provide summaries at the end
Options for review and re-sit of the tests when a student fails

POWERPOINT INTEGRATION

CoAuthor can turn your PowerPoint Presentations into SCORM compliant e-learning through its import feature. Choose between importing the entire presentation or a selection of slides. Objects imported from PowerPoint into CoAuthor remain in their editable state for ease-of-use and reusability.

MULTILANGUAGE

CoAuthor features multi-lingual support, so that courses can be written in a number of different languages from East-Asian to Middle-Eastern languages. This feature also supports right-to-left writing direction – a powerful feature for global organisations.

HOSTED OR DEPLOYED

Cobent offer a hosted or deployed option. With the hosted option, the system is hosted on our servers, so you don’t have to worry about the technical set-up. The deployed service provides customers with the option of installing the system on their own servers, this is ideal for any regulated organisations that have strict internet access policies.

INTEGRATION

CoAuthor is SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004 and AICC PENS compliant, so content created can be imported into Cobent LCS to be tracked and managed seamlessly.

PUBLISHING

Courses can be published to the following formats for easy deployment: