The Tool for your Entire Team

A New Way to Build eLearning

Most Authoring Systems on the market expect a single individual to build eLearning on their own via some sort of WYSIWYG or Wizard.

Thinking Cap® takes the opposite position. Thinking Cap envisions a group of professionals working together to create eLearning.

 In Thinking Cap, you define the roles and responsibilities, but typically, the head of this team is an Instructional Designer who is responsible for the definition of the pedagogy. Working side by side with them is a Graphic Designer who is responsible for designing the layouts of the content that has been written. Programmers take these designs and create the Delivery Template that bring the whole project to life. Finally, Subject Matter Experts / Authors craft content following the rules set out by the Instructional Designer.

The Key Advantages of this approach are:

  1. Pedagogical Consistency across the entire project
  2. Separation of Content from Presentation allowing Single Sourcing and Reusability
  3. Instructional Designers don't need to review every single page created! They know their rules have been followed.
  4. Programmers don't have to build each page from scratch. Once they build an Activity like a Drag and Drop or a Simulation it can be used with different content over and over again.
No Compromise!
Thinking Cap Author allows non-technical users to work without being tangled up in technology and at the same time allows technical users to work without limits.

The Tool for Everyone

Thinking Cap Author was created to allow for collaboration. Some of the features that support this are:

  1. 100% Web-based to allow team members to collaborate from anywhere at any time.
  2. A Roles-based system where you can bundle Thinking Cap permissions together to insure your team members have the responsibilities and privileges you see fit.
  3. XML editing without the use of XML coding. Authors need no training in XML and work like they would in a Word Processor.
  4. Developers can create templates using XSL, CSS, JavaScript and Flash with no limits on their imagination. They can even write their code in their favorite IDE and connect to Thinking Cap Author via WebDav.
  5. Automatic email notification from Thinking Cap when work is promoted to a level where you need to act.
  6. A complete Asset Request system that streamlines the process of Authors requesting multimedia work.