You have to work with spaces to arrange the text look. On the positive side, the text tools permit easy changes in color, typeface, drop shadow, text rotation, timed text and hypertext links or web connections. All Activities Those who are new to the creation of IMM, especially IMM courseware, may be surprised to learn of the time required. Earlier efforts reported 200 hours of programming and debugging for every hour of instruction produced. Quest appears to require 60-80 hours of data entry and debugging for each hour of instruction.
Time is required for designing, story-boarding and media creation in addition to authoring.
A general idea of time requirements is provided in the figure where the percent of all development time is laid out in a pie chart. You will notice that the more time-consuming tasks include media creation, authoring, storyboarding and content outlining. Problems and Weaknesses Most of the problems I experienced with Quest stemmed from my inexperience with a new tool. However, my Media Player wasn't set up properly for MPEG1 file playback, which caused several false starts. Once the computer was correctly configured, media files played back as expected, with the occasional exception of MPEG1 files.