WBT Systems Offers Content Re-Use With New Version of TopClass Publisher

Rapid Content Development and Assembly Tool Supports Latest Versions of Leading Open Standards for e-Learning.

WBT Systems today announced the latest release of TopClass Publisher, which brings support up to Version 1.2 of the SCORM specification. Significantly, SCORM 1.2 Export in TopClass protects customers e-Learning investment by making all content created, assembled or imported into the system SCORM compliant. This ensures it will work with any other Learning Management System or Learning Content Management System that is also SCORM compliant.

Publisher offers tools and templates that allow experts in the field to rapidly author content, along with features and functions that provide true re-use of Learning Objects from the TopClass repository. "The extensive publishing tool and reusable-object structure has reduced our design and development time by 40%" said Stuart Williams, Director of the Excellus Project at Syracuse University."The reusable object environment lets us design adaptive learning into the system from the beginning, minimizing costly modifications later in the development cycle", he explained.

"The ADL has been enormously successful in building SCORM into a practical and workable set of specifications that can deliver significant flexibility and future proofing to e-Learning programs, and we are proud to be involved in that process" said Duncan Lennox, CTO of WBT Systems.

July 9th, 2002