Products Pebblesoft Learning Library The heart of the Pebblesoft Learning System is the Pebblesoft Learning Library. This product contains all the information and learning materials of your curriculum in a web-based, networked, interactive, multi-media learning environment on the internet and intranets. It also contains information about your learners, their learning requirements, and their individual progress. The Pebblesoft Learning Library stores learning materials in chunks called Pebblesoft Learning Objects. These objects include multiple levels of hierarchies such as Course, Units and Lessons and non-hierarchical levels such as Introduction, Summary and Collaboration. The Library provides facilities to: Map HTML-pages into learning objects for the Library. Reuse learning objects any number of times to create customized versions of higher-level learning objects. Search for learning objects. Provide pre-formatted administrative reports. Retreive learning objectives of assigned curricula and descriptions and goals for the curricula. Assign courses to curricula, curricula to job descriptions, job descriptions to learners. Tie curricula to a job title, degree or certification. Interactive Catalog The Interactive Catalog can be used by learners to search the Learning Library for curricula and learning objects not specified for their job performance, degree or certification in order to improve their qualifications. They also can access any curriculum or learning objects assigned to them in the past to refresh their memories. However, the employer may control access to certain administrative functions. Additional Library Facilitates: The Notebook Learners can "highlight" a learning object in a course by storing a reference to it in their private notebook. Comments can be added to the section (like margin notes in a book). References to learning objects in the workbook are automatically updated when the learning objects are updated in the system. The learners always have the most current information in their notebooks. Learning materials are organized into folders for easy access at any time. Notebooks can be published for review by others. The Commentator Learners can add private or public comments about the learning materials. A group dynamic can be created in the learning process by allowing others to access the public comments. The Collaborator Third-party, web-based collaboration tool may be integrated into and accessed from within the Pebblesoft Learning Library environment. A built-in PebbleChat function creates sessions within the courses which can be stored within the Pebblesoft database for review. Pebblesoft CourseMaker Workbench Stocking the Learning Library with learning materials is surprisingly easy, thanks to the Pebblesoft CourseMaker Workbench. Any HTML-based learning materials can be added to the Pebblesoft Learning Library without modification. However, the CourseMaker Workbench makes it easy for the user to adapt content in such a way that it takes full advantage of all the features of the Library and delivers it to the best advantage over the Internet. The CourseMaker Workbench tools are single-user programs which require Windows 95TM as their operating platform. Course Mapper is a tool designed to create a course map from a collection of HTML-based content pages. Course Mapper is capable of: Analyzing the input HTML content and displaying the existing relationships between the pages. Organizing learning objects into hierarchies (Course, Unit, Lesson, etc.) or non-hierarchies (Introduction, Summary, Collaboration, etc.). Creating a course map of these learning objects with simple drag and drop operations. Incorporating one or more HTML pages or part of an HTML page into a learning object. Adding its learning object menu items to the menus of supported HTML editors and authoring tools, so users can work directly in their accustomed environments while mapping HTML pages into the Pebblesoft Learning Library. Inserting collaboration activities into existing course material. Once a course has been mapped into Pebblesoft Learning Objects, it may be loaded into the Library. However, there is another useful step that can be taken using the following tool. Pebblesoft Multimedia Processor The Multimedia Processor is a tool that compresses video, audio and image files in a single batch operation using third party tools. It automatically invokes compression for any media file in a course. Pebblesoft's Application in Your Organization Most corporations can easily install and begin using Pebblesoft in a matter of days. Call us for a hosted solution or for information about installation on your server. Requirements: A 486 or better PC or MAC. Netscape Navigator 3.0 or better. A UNIX or NT server with an illustra database and web datablade. The server and the above mentioned accompaniments can be provided by Pebblesoft for an additional fee. home | supporting information | about us | partners | PebblesoftNet | contact us