| What
is TraineeTracker About?
What language is TraineeTracker LMS written
in?
How
can TraineeTracker LMS be customized?
How
do I develop content for TraineeTracker LMS?
Is
testing/assessment part of TraineeTracker LMS or do I need to use
a third-party product?
What operating systems is TraineeTracker
LMS compatible with?
What client platforms is TraineeTracker LMS
compatible with?
Is TraineeTracker LMS Compatible with e-Learning
standards such as AICC, IMS and SCORM ?
What
is TraineeTracker About?
TraineeTracker
LMS is a powerful, low-risk solution with high degrees of scalability,
robustness and flexibility. It has an open architecture patterned
after industry standards established by Macromedia, a recognized
leader in distance learning technologies and solutions. This open
architecture is what permits TraineeTracker to efficiently and cost-effectively
adapt its LMS solution to meet a wide variety of industry needs
and requirements. TraineeTracker LMS has all the standard LMS tracking
and management functions, but accomplishes this without reliance
on bulky, expensive or proprietary infrastructures. It works as
easily on Windows as it does with Linux, giving us a number of price/performance
alternatives when crafting solutions for our customers.
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What
language is TraineeTracker LMS written in?
TraineeTracker
LMS is written in ColdFusion
- a Macromedia product that has been available for the last few
years as the web scripting engine which Macromedia is basing new
data-driven development on.
A few existing
big-name LMS's using ColdFusion are:
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How
can TraineeTracker LMS be customized?
TraineeTracker
LMS completely adheres to the W3C Web Scripting standards supported
by ColdFusion and PHP with easy conversion to XML as necessary.
TraineeTracker can be modifyed to meet virtually any need or situation
that may arise.
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How
do I develop content for TraineeTracker LMS?
Construction
is based on simple HTTP web pages.. Any designer can work with this
LMS if they can program in HTML. Because TraineeTracker LMS is based
on web scripting versus proprietary programming, as little as one
line of code is all that is needed to incorporate virtually any
form of web content (HTML, XML, Powerpoint, Flash, etc.)
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Is testing/assessment
part of TraineeTracker LMS or do I need to use a third-party product?
The
LMS has its own online assessment tool called TQuizzer for recording
Scores etc. to the database, but is also compatible with Macromedia
CourseBuilder for practice exercises where there is no need to write
to the database. A customer can modify their copy of TraineeTracker
to allow Scores created within CourseBuilder to be written to the
database. We have one customer doing this.
TQuizzer allow building questions and answers through a web interface
that is password protected.
Types of questions are:
- Multiple
Choice
- True/False
- Fill-in-the-blank
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What
operating systems is TraineeTracker LMS compatible with?
TraineeTracker
LMS has been tested with NT/2000/XP using MS Access and Linux using
MySQL servers. TraineeTracker will run on any system that supports
ColdFusion Web Server scripting (this includes Sun Solaris with
Oracle).
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What
client platforms is TraineeTracker LMS compatible with?
It
is Platform independent - runs with Windows, Mac, and Linux clients.
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Is
TraineeTracker LMS Compatible with e-Learning standards such as
W3C and SCORM?
We
are compatible with W3C standards.
When
we were planning on converting TraineeTracker into full Open-Source
PHP and MySQL, we also planned to add SCORM capabilities. Since
making the decision to support Open-Source LMS's Moodle
and ILIAS
and leave TraineeTracker as ColdFusion only, we will let the Open-Source
vendors worry about SCORM compliance. For more details, go to our
new sister site (GlobalLiteracy.org).
TraineeTracker
courses can be moved to one of our supported SCORM complaint Open-Source
LMS's and easily modified to SCORM standards if need be. We can
help in the move or do all the moving from TrainingTracker LMS to
Moodle/ILIAS LMS.
SCORM is not supported by Moodle and ILIAS at present. However,
ILIAS has SCORM 1.2 and AICC support in their upcoming Version 3
(See
ILIAS Software Development Roadmap). Once ILIAS has full SCORM
compliance, then by the very nature of the Open-Source GNU license,
other Open-Source LMS's can copy the code and use it in their products.
Compare this with proprietary LMS's in which each vendor has to
re-invent the wheel for having SCORM compliance. Moodle will have
basic support for IMS and SCORM in their upcoming Version
2.
If
you can't wait a few months for Moodle and ILIAS to support SCORM,
you need to consider one of the proprietary LMS's. There are a number
of good ones (start at around $50,000) that are SCORM complaint.
Three we are familiar with and can recommend taking a close look
at are:
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TraineeTracker
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