Powerful Templates Out of the Box

Thinking Cap Author comes with comprehensive SCORM compliant templates for Web and PDF making it simple for your team to hit the ground running. Interactive activities and assessments support a number of different instructional approaches and are customizable to your organizations branding. ...Learn More

The Tool for your Entire Team

Thinking Cap Author is built as much for the non-technical user as the highly skilled programmer. In Thinking Cap, programmers are able to design courses without limitations or constraints. At the same time non-technical subject matter experts are able to create content without technology getting in their way. ...Learn More.

Manage the Complete Process in One Place

Configure Thinking Cap's user roles, workflow, notifications and metadata to support your team's process for content creation. With simple reporting, granular permissions and system wide revision control your content is always protected and you are always in control. ...Learn More.

Reuse Content

Thinking Cap Author's powerful semantic searching helps you find a needle in a haystack of content. The aggregation editor allows you to drag and drop learning objects and set sequencing rules using a simple visual tool. Take advantage of the power of SCORM for reusability while shedding SCORM’s complexity. ...Learn More.

Create Once, Delivery Anywhere and Anyhow

When you author in Thinking Cap, you author to the semantic structure of your subject matter not to a single delivery modality. Deliver the same content to web, print or to mobile devices without reauthoring! Customize the delivery of learning to divergent audiences, all with unique needs. ...Learn More.

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Thinking Cap® Author is a powerful tool for managing large stores of content, team members and workflow. Built for both the non technical and highly technical, Thinking Cap brings efficiency, constancy and usability together under one tool.

Easy Authoring

  • Create SCOs using our built in content structure or your own content schemas.
  • Constrain users to follow your instructional design model
  • Annotate your project by adding editorial notes to content
  • Create SCORM 1.2 and 2004 aggregations using simple to use Visual Editor that supports rich SCORM sequencing rules
  • Author online via your browser and offline on your desktop
  • Author to any language and export entire courses with one click to localization providers
  • Easily embed assets into your SCOs
  • Built in revision control and version rollback
  • Start creating content on day one with powerful built in templates
  • Preview courses using full SCORM API
  • Work in the language of your choice. Thinking Cap is translated into English, French, German and Italian

Define your Own Content Schemas and Delivery Templates

  • Schemas follow XSD specification as well as support for simple editor view customization
  • Delivery templates allow you to define rich educational outputs for web, print and mobile using XSL, XSL-FO CSS and Flash.
  • Complete separation of content from presentation allows for true reusability
  • Create classroom templates to preview course and see how they would look in your own Learning Management System

Asset Management

  • Browse and search for assets of any format
  • Built in support of Adobe streaming server
  • Workflow built in to manage asset requests by team members
  • Integrate Thinking Cap's asset library with Adobe Photoshop and Flash for streamlined asset development
  • Integrate asset library with any Asset Management System via XML web services
  • Full support for multilingual assets

Workflow and Administration

  • Define your own metadata for proper cataloging of content
  • Define your own roles based on Thinking Cap's permissions
  • Manage any size team from a few members to large groups
  • Define rich metadata via multi level taxonomies
  • Instant search catalogs of any size via enhanced indexed XML
  • Define your own workflow rules including built in notifications to users and groups
  • Built in backup and recovery tools

Create Project Domains

  • Create separate domains for different project groups
  • Each domain may have its own workflow, team members, permissions and content
  • Domains may share their content with some or all other domains

Export Anywhere

  • Exports for XML, HTML and PFD
  • Exports for SCORM 1.2 and 2004
  • Exports for non SCORM formats like Blackboard / Web CT, SABA and Aspen