SkillStudio

SkillStudio is a tool that helps organizations enhance their training programs by tailoring SkillSoft courses to specific needs. SkillStudio enables organizations to leverage their investment in SkillSoft courseware while creating courses that will have the same high level of instructional design, as well as the same navigation, behaviors, and overall look and feel of off-the-shelf courses. With SkillStudio, organizations can modify SkillSoft courses regardless of their format.

SkillStudio is designed for those customizing SkillSoft courses or for those developing new courses in the SkillSoft design and format.

Customization:
Organizations can use SkillStudio to make simple course modifications including updating SkillSoft courses with organization-specific content and illustrations, and combining topics or learning objects from SkillSoft courses.

Making New Courses:
While SkillStudio is primarily aimed at allowing SkillSoft customers to increase the impact of SkillSoft off-the-shelf content by tailoring it to their specific corporate needs, organizations can also leverage the tool to produce custom courses from scratch.

Organizations using SkillStudio can build new courses with:
Proven SkillSoft instructional design methodology
Common player for consistency of navigation (look-and-feel) and tracking behavior
Topics combined from all major SkillSoft formats

Benefits
SkillStudio is template driven so no programming is necessary. Common page level edits in existing courseware (such as content and illustrations) can be easily accomplished.

Benefit:
No programming or technical skills required to use the tool.
Reduces or eliminates need for specialized resources (programmers, graphic artists or instructional designers)

A powerful user interface allows you to easily navigate and edit all elements in the course hierarchy. The interface is consistent with the courses from SkillSoft and new course developed using SkillStudio.

Benefit:
Tailors the courses to the specific needs of the organization
Gives learners a seamless experience, which enhances knowledge transfer and ease of use

SkillStudio includes strong embedded instructional design, a hallmark of SkillSoft's quality and instructional integrity.

Benefit:
Consistent and proven instructional design principles implemented across e-learning initiatives

Powerful course development utilities including a previewer and content report generator

Benefit:
Increase productivity and effectiveness in the development of new courseware