Key Benefits:

• Both learners and administrators can work with one, easy-to-use visual interface, no need to re-invent the management system with each new course
• Provides a central repository of online learning activities and allows you to integrate data from traditional training (such as classroom or video instruction) into the curriculum
• Supports the AICC industry standard so you can use any compliant training courses as part of your curriculum and also capture a richer range of data
• Collects all performance data to one central location-simplifying overall administration and making it easier to calculate return on investment and to demonstrate the critical role training plays in achieving overall business goals
• New browser module gives students cross-platform access to online learning; no plug-in or player needs to be installed on each learner system; only a Java-enabled browser is required
• Supports ODBC compliant databases such as Oracle and SQL Server so that you can deliver training enterprise-wide
• Direct links to Registrar to enhancing classroom capabilities

Other Features:

• Includes browser-based student module and easy-to-use administrative module
• Automatically generates performance data reports
• Exports data easily to popular database and spreadsheet programs such as Excel, Access, and Lotus 1-2-3
• Cross platform compatible for access to student data (PC, UNIX, NC, MAC, etc.)
• Provides a custom learner profile for each student, complete with classes to take, scores, and completion timelines
• Includes templates to customize student interface
• Supports online learning created in multiple authoring systems including Quest, Authorware, ToolBook and IconAuthor
• Supports ODBC database connectivity to allow more learners on line and facilitate better server-based student data collection
• Automatically sets "recertification" deadlines to remind learners when to re-take critical learning activities, such as OSHA safety requirements
• Easy to set pre-requisites to ensure learners are prepared for advanced learning activities
• Extensive online help system, including a private product web page for immediate technical support and upgrades

Dynamic Management Tools for Enterprise-Wide Online Learning

Manager's Edge™ 2.0 Net Edition helps trainers organize and deliver online learning activities and collect critical performance data-all in one easy-to-use, visual environment.

Whether you launch training from CD-ROM, LAN, WAN, corporate intranet, or from an Internet server, Manager's Edge provides a centralized learning repository-a "training central"-for the delivery and tracking and your online learning.

With Manager's Edge, learners have easy access to assigned course activities, and training administrators can manage and collect data for both online learning and traditional training methods such as classroom lectures and videotaped instruction. Online content can include tutorials, tests, electronic documents, simulations, and the list goes on.

Manager's Edge 2.0 gives you the tools you need to centralize all your training and the power to take it enterprise wide.

"Designer's Edge, Net Synergy, Quest 6.0 and Manager's Edge Net Edition represent a departure from retrofitting and a focused commitment on providing a full solution to effective, efficient online learning. New features in all of the tools assure that clients with varied skills and backgrounds, delivering to a variety of platforms, will have success."

Training Net, January 1998

"Manager's Edge 2.0 lets students take exams and review materials from anywhere in the world, by logging onto a central server. It also maintains a custom learning profile for each student."

Multimedia & Internet Training Newsletter, March 1998

Build an Online "Training Center"

Working within one easy-to-use, visual environment, you can manage the delivery of all your training from a centralized online repository. Learners have easy access to the courses assigned to them and administrators can track performance data from various training activities and store the results to a single location.