Deliver Learning on iPhone with ToolBook 9.5
<strong>July 10 </strong><br />Trainer1, the vendor-neutral e-learning specialist, has revealed that ToolBook’s producer, SumTotal Systems, is about to release ToolBook 9.5.<br /> <br />Trainer1’s Neil Lasher explained: “The launch of ToolBook 9, some 14 months ago, saw a major change in the product. Among other things, it became a 32-bit product, with an improved user interface.<br /> <br />“ToolBook 9.5 marks another new step forward in authoring tools technology,” he added. “New features include an in-built PowerPoint importer and an action script code builder that allows users to build their own actions without having to know all the background programming code — although there is still the option to use drag-and-drop templating if users prefer. Importantly, ToolBook 9.5 will output to the iPhone.<br /> <br />“Although the iPhone has been a consumer product, it’s now a fully running Unix computer with built-in communications running a copy of Mac OS X, with the ability to put applications on the iPhone. So it is becoming a business tool, too,” he said. “The iPhone has Cisco networking capability; compatibility with Microsoft Exchange for push mail and calendar; and a fully working Safari browser.”<br /> <br />Trainer1 has been testing the iPhone and confirms it is possible to connect the iPhone to a learning management system and to use iPhones to deliver learning materials.<br /> <br />“ToolBook 9.5 allows you to create HTML content specifically to run on iPhones,” said Lasher, “and our tests show that this technology works.”<br />
