MODIFY™ Course Shells
What is a Course Shell?
A Shell is just like it sounds — it's a "blank" course or template. It's a completely installable course but without content. The Shell comes with empty "placeholders" for your content.
When you install a Shell and display it as a course, you'll see a placeholder title screen, a single placeholder graphic for the lesson, and a single placeholder question in the quiz. Simply replace those placeholder graphics and questions with your own content!
Course Shells have the Mastery Advantage
Just because your shell-based course is simple and inexpensive to create don't think it will lack the legendary features that have made Mastery courses the most effective and manageable courseware in the industry! Your shell-based course has all the runtime and management features of any other Mastery Advantage course, including:
- Output records to MasteryNet™ LMS
- Installable with the Install Mastery Products program
- Automatically included on the Course Listing
- Controllable with MasteryNet™ LMS
- Supported in Training Requirements
- Customizable with MODIFY
- Run over networks
- Video can be scaled to full screen or played in quarter screen
- Presentation flexibility: use video, audio, graphics, and text.
- Glossary of terms
- Topical index
- Full learner control bar navigation
- Help screens
- Automatic quiz reviews for incorrect answers
- Scrambled question sequence option
- Follow-up review
- Express option
- Full test results printing options
- Full pretest options
- Full learner enrollment options
- 600% Guarantee of thoroughness and satisfaction
Creating your Course in 5 easy steps!
1. Order a Course Shell
Start by filling out a Course Shell order form. Just give us the course title and each lesson title. We'll create a Course Shell and deliver it to you as an email attachment file. Install the shell just like a course.
By the way, you'll love the price! Our introductory price is only $100 per shell. Make all the copies you want of your finished shell-based course for your company's own use.
2. Add your content
Use the multimedia tools that come free with Microsoft Windows or use other popular programs you're already familiar with to create your audio and graphic files. Use any MPEG or AVI video encoding board you like to turn your videos into digital video files.
Or use your existing PowerPoint presentations, or manuals as course content.
3. Write your questions and glossary terms
Use your favorite word processor to compose your questions and glossary terms and definitions (if desired), then "paste" them into the course with Modify.
4. Bring it all together with Modify
Copy your multimedia files to your course's directory and link them to the scripts provided with your Course Shell. You're done!
5. Distribute your course to other computers
MODIFY lets you create an installable file set for placing on a zip drive, CD-R or diskettes with the click of one button! Your Course Shell license allows you to duplicate your course any place you want for use within your own company.
What can you play in the Mastery Course Shell?
The process is simple and the gains in effectiveness and manageability are enormous. Put all your training on the Mastery platform using Course Shells.
- Microsoft Powerpoint presentations: export the slides to your Shell Course or just play the entire PowerPoint presentation directly from a course playback script.
- Call any program or presentation that can be played from (or as) an executable (.exe) file
- CD-ROM courses from other vendors: simply call them from playback scripts or re-author them with Modify
- Display digital photos right from Digital cameras.
- Photos and drawings scanned and saved as either JPEG, PCX, or BMP files.
- MPEG movies right from MPEG Camcorders.
- Video tapes encoded as either MPEG, QuickTime, or AVI video files.
- Audio tapes encoded as either MPEG audio or WAV audio files.
- Overhead transparencies, converted to PCX, JPEG, or BMP files.
- Workbooks, directly from Microsoft Word document files.
- Manuals
Let Mastery help create your video and audio digital files
You can encode your own audio and video files with readily available hardware and software. Use either MPEG, QuickTime, or AVI for video and MPEG or WAV files for audio. If you need assistance, we can help. Services for digital encoding of your audio and video tapes are available.
