Create Course Content
Interaction is most powerful when the content is rich and interactive. Rich content is only feasible if it is easy to create and can be easily repurposed.
Educational institutions are looking beyond basic course editors to Wimba Create authoring tools to simplify the production of interactive, reusable learning content. Wimba Create produces content that is compatible with, but not permanently locked into a virtual learning environment. Course creation has never been so simple.
Quickly and easily convert your Microsoft Word documents into content for your online courses. From one Word document you can generate a set of webpages that includes navigation and interactive features that are easily uploaded in to your course.
To dig deeper consider the features, requirements, and Licensing Information of Wimba Create.
Benefits
Create Course Content
Creating a great course online can be intimidating, and require advanced technical skills, but it doesn’t have to be that way. With Wimba Create, anyone who can use Microsoft Word ™, can easily create, edit, and maintain robust online courses.
Utilize a Familiar Authoring Environment
Wimba Create enables instructors to generate rich courses complete with navigation tools and interactive features from one Microsoft Word document. Create new course material in Word or simply reuse your existing Word documents.
Work Efficiently
You work entirely within Word using special styles, dialog boxes and tool palettes that Wimba Create adds to the normal Word environment which means you save time and avoid using complicated web-authoring tools.
Promote Interoperable Content
Portable content reduces production costs and increases innovation. Wimba Create allows instructors to easily produce content that can be used across multiple online learning environments. And when Course Management Systems change, any course created using Wimba Create can be converted between the most popular formats at the push of a button.
Leverage Existing Learning Technologies
Wimba Create allows course designers to create courses directly from Microsoft Word for the Blackboard Learning System - Enterprise, Basic, Campus Edition and Vista Licenses – Moodle, or ANGEL. By making course creation simple, Wimba Create encourages faculty adoption of the virtual learning environments on campus.
Produce Accessible Content
Wimba Create enables content authoring compliant with SENDA, W3C WAI and Section 508, and even includes an Accessibility Checker, allowing your course designers and instructors to check their content before generating the final content package.
Leverage Your eLearning System
Produce well-structured, interactive course material that integrates seamlessly with your CMS/LMS/VLE.
Support Multiple Learning Formats
From Word with Wimba Create you can export to a:
• WebCT IMS package
• Blackboard package file
• Moodle SCORM file
• Microsoft LRN IMS format
• SCORM 1.2 package
• IMS QTI Lite (assessment questions)
• Set of plain HTML pages ready for web or CD delivery
Save Money
Wimba Create is a cost-effective bridge between desktop software you are likely to already own and your existing LMS/CMS/VLE, making it affordable to bring learning materials online.