Authors can collaborate like this wherever they're located by accessing objects from the Learning Objects Library over local area networks, wide area networks, intranets, or the Internet. Authors can be certain they are working on the one true version of a learning object that exists in the authoring environment. And since courses are broken into their smallest components, authors can work simultaneously on separate course pages or different elements on the same page, without interfering with one another. No other authoring system lets authors work the same way. Authors have to develop the content, run the publishing programs, put it on the network, then test the content again.
Some tools even change the way the content looks once it's on the network.
Competing products require companies to do extra programming to force-fit separate authoring and administrative management tools. Pathlore was first and remains the only provider to integrate authoring, delivery, computer-managed instruction, and student performance management in a single product.