www.quicklessons.com July, 2010 1. What is QuickLessons? 2. Why QuickLessons? AGENDA 3. Features and Interface 4. Clients and Case Studies 5. Licenses and Add-ons 6. Contact Us What is QuickLessons? www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Market Interface Clients Case Studies Overview QuickLessons is Software as a Service (SaaS) platform for creating and managing elearning content collaboratively. QuickLessons is a fully web based solution accessible by all end users over the Internet, eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer's own servers. Therefore: Licenses Add-ons 1. Traditional software maintenance and support requirements are removed. Company 2. Customers gain immediate access to updates, upgrades and customizations. Distributors 3. There are no costs associated with hardware or software requirements. Resellers 4. Service based subscription model reduces upfront investment requirements. Trial 5. Customizable licenses based on usage provide flexible budgeting options. Contact 6. End users can collaborate within the same accounts sharing assets, courses and learning objects. www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Market Interface Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact Overview • Wide library of instructional templates and other elements to put up a course or learning object with your own educational content. • Templates allow to create animated and dynamic screens to present concepts, exercises, games and evaluations. • Accessible anytime from any computer connected to the Internet to manage all content, edit and update whenever you want. • Courses created using Flash technology without requiring programming or designing skills. • Export courses in SCORM 1.2, 2004 and AICC compliant packages to upload to any LMS to check on learner’s development and evaluations. • Export projects to an offline or online package and host it server side for use in a CD or DVD or to present at meetings. www.quicklessons.com Why QuickLessons? www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Market Interface Clients Case Studies Who should consider QuickLessons • • • • Instructional designers; Subject Matter Experts (SME); Teachers, tutors and instructors; Educational content developers. Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact Why • • • • • • • Reduces up to 60% of production time; Offers a template library for content, exercises, games and evaluations; Allows management of courses and learning objects; Makes content update much easier; Provides self-sufficiency for creating courses with professional results; Exports online, offline and SCORM / AICC compliant versions of your course; 100% online. No software installation required. www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Benefits Features Market Interface Academic institutions Clients Case Studies Customers Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Big production teams Contact www.quicklessons.com Smaller companies Overview Benefits Benefits Features Market Interface Academic institutions Clients • Case Studies • Customers Licenses Add-ons Company • • • • The Campus Agreement license makes an author out of every faculty member. Assets, content and media can be shared, gaining production speed and enriching the creation process. Using templates and styles to standardize courses. Template, character and media library. Quiz Pack included. Free online support. Distributors Resellers Trial Big production teams Contact www.quicklessons.com Smaller companies Overview Benefits Benefits Features Market Interface Academic institutions Clients Case Studies Customers Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Big production teams Contact Smaller companies • • • • • www.quicklessons.com Licenses for 3 or 5 users that can also work simultaneously. Assets, content and media can be shared, gaining production speed and enriching the creation process. Template, character and media library. Quiz Pack and other add-ons can be included in the license for additional costs. Free online support. Overview Benefits Benefits Features Market Interface Academic institutions Clients Case Studies Customers Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact Big production teams • • • • • 10+ user licenses with extensive collaboration capabilities. Assets, content and media can be shared, gaining production speed and enriching the creation process. Template, character and media library. Quiz Pack included. Free online support. www.quicklessons.com Smaller companies Features and Interface www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features The 10 Most Wanted Features in Tools to Create Online Courses (Brandon Hall Research, 2008.) Market Interface Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers 1. Novice friendly, yet has underlying extensibility for complex interaction types. 2. No plug-in required (with the exception of Flash output). 3. Adherence to SCORM and AICC (both). 4. Short learning curve for new developers. 5. Extensive library of very interactive question types. 6. Robust testing engine (with randomization, drawing from a test item pool, etc.). Trial Contact 7. Rich media support. 8. Ability to repurpose content quickly from other sources, such as PowerPoint, Word, and specialty authoring tools. 9. Minimal time spent creating navigational control structures. 10. Low cost (for stand-alone authoring tools). www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Market Competitive Landscape There are three categories for eLearning authoring tools in the market as seen below. ReadyGo* WYSIWYG ** Power Tools*** To become proficient and one to two days one to two weeks three to six months Time to create new courseware 80 page document 10 hours 80 page document 40 hours (one week) 80 page document 40 to 80 hours (one to two weeks) Interface Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Rapid development – appearance can quickly be modified. (Positive) Trial Contact Development environment www.quicklessons.com Must generate to see what course looks like (however, this gives a more realistic idea of what the students will see) (Negative) Precise control over positioning of elements on the page (Positive) Course developer needs to understand browser graphic rendering limitations when creating courses (Negative) Precise control over positioning of elements on the page (Positive) Takes longer to develop and deliver courses (Negative) *ReadyGo – new generation Rapid eLearning tools. **WYSIWYG – similar approach but with more time to learn and develop. ***Power Tools – destined to power users. More time to learn and develop. Overview Benefits Features Competitive Landscape Market ReadyGo* WYSIWYG ** Power Tools*** Highest level of SCORM adherence (ADL Labs internal test 2003) Integrates with SCORM, AICC, some LMS’s LMS integration is done independent of Macromedia (user group) through free add-ins Visual design tool Almost unlimited capability to create simulations and interactive element types. (Significant training needed) Interface Clients Case Studies Integration Licenses Add-ons Company Look and Feel Distributors Resellers Accepts any web viewable elements Trial Contact Look applies to entire course (maintains consistency) Graphic Development Access www.quicklessons.com Encourages distribution of development to those who are most proficient on each topic (e.g. graphic designers to create visual elements, subject matter experts to collect content). Internet Access (SaaS) All in one graphic and course development Desktop Access All in one graphic and course development Desktop Access *ReadyGo – new generation Rapid eLearning tools. **WYSIWYG – similar approach but with more time to learn and develop. ***Power Tools – destined to power users. More time to learn and develop. Overview Benefits Features Market Interface Competitive Landscape Classifying the most relevant tools in the market: Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Macromedia and Adobe suites Power Tool Lectora Rapid Intake Flypaper WYSIWYG Trial UDUTU Contact Articulate www.quicklessons.com Rapitivity ReadyGo QuickLessons Overview Benefits Features Home Page Market QuickLessons’ interface is very similar to a web site, allowing users to become familiar Interface with it very quickly. The home page is a shared dashboard of recent account activity. Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Characters Market Unique animated characters can be selected for use in each course to be Interface developed. Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Template Library Market Course scenes are created selecting from an ever expanding library of Interface customizable and multiuse templates. Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Exporting Courses Market Completed courses are automatically packaged and available for unlimited Interface download in different modes depending on the final use. Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Review Mode Market This powerful yet simple interface enables users to share comments and Interface suggestions during the content development process. Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact www.quicklessons.com Clients and Case Studies www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Main Clients Market Interface Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Market Case Study Customer: Portal Educação – Learning Provider. Interface Clients Has been involved in the Distance Learning market since 2001. Has already trained over Case Studies 65,000 professionals in 56 countries throughout the world with its courses on the Internet. Licenses Add-ons With the demand on rise, there was a need for a solution that would reinforce productivity and at the same time increase the visual appeal (Portal Educação used to develop e- Company learning content using HTML). Distributors Today, the Portal uses QuickLessons as its main work tool and has produced over 250 Resellers courses in less than a year. Trial Contact “The time-to-market of new courses has accelerated considerably thanks to our new production standards, which are 40% higher with QuickLessons.” - André Akagi, CIO. www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Market Case Study Customer: Sanofi Aventis – Corporate. Interface Clients Leading global pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, produces and markets Case Studies therapies focused on health care, cardiology, oncology and internal medicine, as well as Licenses Add-ons Company metabolic diseases, central nervous system disorders and vaccines. Used Power Point presentations for internal training but needed a way to gain production speed and quality. Distributors Resellers The company started with a license for 5 users, but have upgrade the license to 10 users Trial within just a few months. Today there is a large team of content developers in house Contact working with QuickLessons to develop easily content with extended features in place of PowerPoint alone. www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Market Interface Case Study Customer: Sky TV (DIRECTV Group)– Corporate. Clients Sky is the biggest Latin-American company for providing services of digital cable TV, with Case Studies approximately 1.600.000 100% digital subscribers. Licenses Add-ons Company Used to hire other companies - providers of eLearning services – for content development and graphic design. Needed a tool that could give them more autonomy in the development process and more control over its projects. Distributors Resellers The company has a license for 3 users and have purchased many extra elements in their Trial account, such as characters, frames and templates. They have now a dedicated team of Contact developers working with QuickLessons as their main internal content development tool reducing dependency from external service providers. www.quicklessons.com Licenses and Add-ons www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Licenses Market Interface Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Users 1 5+ Faculty Content Templates 100+ 100+ 100+ Exercise Templates 16+ 16+ 16+ Frames 10+ 10+ 10+ Characters 16+ 16+ 16+ Evaluation Yes Yes Yes Learning Objects 50 Unlimited Unlimited Courses 10 Unlimited Unlimited Quiz Pack Optional Included Included Contact www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Quiz Pack Add-on Market Interface Quiz Pack is an add-on package with extended set of templates and exercise Clients to create customized quizzes for end users of the contents created within Case Studies QuickLessons. Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Market Interface Clients Case Studies Licenses Other Add-ons Individual and multiuser licenses can be enhanced by selecting from an ever expanding list of add-ons: • allows to upload legacy presentations developed in PowerPoint and convert Add-ons each individual slide into a Flash based animated scene to be used within a Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact FlashPoint: This powerful PowerPoint converter available for all licenses QuickLessons course. • 5 Users Pack: This special license extension available to Corporate Licenses is a discounted option to increase the number of users on any account. • 10 Courses Pack: For Individual Licenses that require additional courses on the account. • Student Pack: This extra option of the Campus Agreement extends the use of the platform to a selected number of students of the academic institution. www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Market Interface Clients Case Studies Licenses Services As a product based on SaaS, clients can start with a base license and customize it by adding new elements. There are many elements in QuickLessons that are naturally customizable and others that can be ordered on demand. Add-on services include: Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact www.quicklessons.com • • • • • • New characters New assets (images, animations and video) New color palette New template New exercise New quiz or game Overview Benefits Features Company Market Interface Clients Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers • QuickLessons LLC is a joint venture between Affero and Nexus Global Partners for the global distribution of QuickLessons. • • • • Affero is a leader in Knowledge Management and eLearning solutions. Nexus Global Partners is a cross border investment and advisory firm. QuickLessons LLC is headquartered in Miami, FL. Quicklessons LLC main objective is to grow and support a global network of resellers and distributors. Trial Contact www.ngponline.com www.quicklessons.com www.affero.com.br Next Steps www.quicklessons.com Overview Benefits Features Next Steps Market Interface Enroll for the FREE trial and see it all for yourself. During the trial period, you Clients will be able to: Case Studies Licenses Add-ons Company Distributors Resellers Trial Contact • • • • • • Create interactive Flash-based courses and objects. Build evaluations. Use of the libraries of templates, characters and media. Insert characters to your projects, with voice-over and movements. Add even more interactivity to your courses with the Quizzes. Download your projects as a SCORM compliant package or in online and offline versions. • www.quicklessons.com Get free support by e-mail. Overview Benefits Features Next Steps Market Interface Clients Case Studies Licenses Subscribe to access the evaluation version of QuickLessons, free for 15 days. 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