Tuesday, February 14, 2006
CourseBuilder Beta available for Dreamweaver 8
Adobe (as Macromedia) selected Rapid Intake to oversee the future of CourseBuilder and the Flash Learning Interactions. A beta version of CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver 8 is now available from the Rapid Intake website. Updates are summarized here, (text repeated below for convenience):
CourseBuilder for Dreamweaver 8 BETA release: We have completed internal development and QA testing for the Dreamweaver 8 update. We are fixing some known bugs in the current version of CourseBuilder as well as making sure it is compatible with Dreamweaver 8 for both the PC and MAC. We expect the final version to be released by March 1.It will be nice to have CourseBuilder working well and stable with Dreamweaver 8. I'm also hoping for more features and tighter SCORM 1.2/2004 integration in subsequent releases.
Comments:
I hate to sound like a /. nerd...but they don't run in Firefox. ;)
I've never liked Coursebuilder. (Then again, I'm a control freak and work mostly in Flash.) I don't know if the UI might make sense to a non tech-savvy instructional designer, but as a coder it makes little to no sense to me. It also feels too restrictive in terms of what you can do.
If you want to customize the design or throw some passive learning content (text, audio) inbetween, you're going to have a web designer on hand anyway, so I don't see why it would need to be made friendly to anyone outside a web designer.
One would think with JS control over documents in Studio8 apps, this product could have a better wizard interface, it doesn't. Heck, the JS it uses still has comments from 1998.
Seems more like a 'get it to run in 8' job than a real update. It's a shame, with the resurgence of AJAX/DHTML, a well-thought out version of this could gain some steam.
I've never liked Coursebuilder. (Then again, I'm a control freak and work mostly in Flash.) I don't know if the UI might make sense to a non tech-savvy instructional designer, but as a coder it makes little to no sense to me. It also feels too restrictive in terms of what you can do.
If you want to customize the design or throw some passive learning content (text, audio) inbetween, you're going to have a web designer on hand anyway, so I don't see why it would need to be made friendly to anyone outside a web designer.
One would think with JS control over documents in Studio8 apps, this product could have a better wizard interface, it doesn't. Heck, the JS it uses still has comments from 1998.
Seems more like a 'get it to run in 8' job than a real update. It's a shame, with the resurgence of AJAX/DHTML, a well-thought out version of this could gain some steam.
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: 6:39 AM
The "doesn't run in Firefox" feedback should go to Rapid Intake; I bet they care. (see original link).
As I understand it there's a roadmap that STARTS with getting it to run in Dreamweaver 8 and DOES move on from there.
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As I understand it there's a roadmap that STARTS with getting it to run in Dreamweaver 8 and DOES move on from there.
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