Question: What software is absolutely essential to you

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 5, 2011 at 07:48 PM

BG welcome!

I am surprised that for developing training material you don’t use specialised software developed for this purpose. I understand that we are talking regular training rather than e-courses but still. I am not particularly acquainted with such tools, but stuff that I remember being discussed here in the past includes Scenari http://scenari-platform.org/ and InfoHesiveEP http://www.2brightsparks.com/

Other than that, have you tried using a mindmap program as the main tool for developing the content, and publishing via export to Word or Powerpoint at any time, as you suggest? At least some mindmappers programs provide quite powerful (and well formatted) export capabilities.

bgoutliner wrote:
> For me, the ideal outliner tool would allow me to work through the entire training development process (analysis, design, development, implementation…) and allow me to publish documents at any point in the process. For example, generate a ?Design Document? in the design phase or ?Lab Book? in the development phase.