In addition to their basic functions, Guides can bring personality, humor, stories, and warmth to the learning experience. Like human tutors, Guides can substantially enhance learning outcomes and learner satisfaction. Moreover, they can provide this unique advantage to every individual learner at a small fraction of the cost of human tutors. Guide Development Tools are designed for use by non-technical authors, including course designers, educators, content experts, marketing professionals, customer service experts, and advertising designers. The tools come in two forms.
Authors can customize standardized Guides with their own content.
Within 30 minutes a guide can be created and deployed on the author's site, guiding individual learners and generating daily reports on learner progress and course effectiveness. Alternatively, authors can create their own unique Guides, incrementally developing and enhancing their Guide's function and manner, based on observed effectiveness and learner responses. Viewlet technology removes all barriers to creating and enjoying rich media demos. ViewletBuilder, Qarbon's authoring tool, creates animated software demonstrations that are perfect for showing how software works. Due to the compelling output and the ease of use, ViewletBuilder has become a favorite tool for presenting and teaching software, enterprise systems and Web-based applications.