OutStart Evolution LCMS

OutStart Evolution LCMS is the only solution on the market today to offer a complete Learning Content Management System. Recognized as the LCMS industry leader, Evolution LCMS delivers a flexible and adaptive solution for creating, managing, assembling and delivering content. Evolution LCMS provides multiple native and 3rd party authoring options and robust content management that maintains the value of existing and future learning assets. Because the solution manages content from any source and provides content reusability that protects your investment down to the paragraph level, you can be sure Evolution LCMS will adapt to future forms of learning information and emerging standards. And to ensure fast time-to-value, Evolution LCMS installs in one day and requires only a few days of training, so that users are typically delivering personalized learning in less than 4 weeks.

With OutStart Evolution LCMS, you can:

• Increase author productivity. Streamline development with unparalleled content-creation flexibility. Authors can acquire or import content from any source, assemble new courses from existing materials, use a myriad of authoring tools and publish, deliver and distribute content in multiple formats over multiple channels.
  
  
• Maximize learning effectiveness. Create "just-for-me" courses with reusable learning objects that can be dynamically and automatically selected and assembled into content based on preferences, role and prior knowledge. Learners can choose the delivery method that best suits their needs, such as on a PDA, in a classroom with printed student guides or via a virtual classroom.
  
  
• Minimize process re-engineering. Mirror familiar processes while benefiting from automated workflows for content review, assembly and delivery with user-friendly configuration tools.
  
  
• Meet corporate requirements with support for multiple standards. Enforce industry and corporate standards with extensive support for standards and platforms including SCORM 1.2, SCORM 2004, seamless conversion from SCORM 1.2 to 2004, ADA Section 508 Compliance level 1, FDA CFR Part 2, AICC, Microsoft Windows, UNIX® and Linux® platform support.
  
  

Key Features

• Native template-driven authoring, support for multiple 3rd party development tools and media, such as Microsoft® PowerPoint, Word, Adobe® PDF, Macromedia® FLASH® and NETg, allows authors to develop content using familiar tools. Robust configuration tools further streamline development with templates for themes, presentation, navigation, delivery method and language and a highly configurable and flexible metadata engine for all assets and assemblies of assets.
  
  
• Existing content in any form, including SCORM, XML and Adobe PDF, can be imported into the repository for use as reusable learning objects.
  
  
• Single source delivery lets authors create content just once and delivery natively in multiple formats including Microsoft Word, Adobe FrameMaker, PowerPoint, SCORM, AICC and HTML.
  
  
• Content management provides access controls, object locking, configurable partitioning and security, complete versioning and roll-back, workflow and digital rights support for collaborative content creation and editing among distributed authors.
  
  

Extensive assessment capabilities let learners' knowledge drive their learning experience. Using performance-based assessments and testing before, during and after training, Evolution LCMS dynamically assembles and delivers exactly what the learner needs.