Course development program

This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/732,187, filed Nov. 1, 2005 and U.S. Provisional Application No. 60/798,105, filed May 5, 2006. The disclosures of the above applications are incorporated herein by reference.

This invention relates generally to software programs, and more particularly to data capture systems for use in conjunction with course development programs for training systems for various topics including software applications.

Businesses are losing their knowledge base and intellectual property at an incredible rate due to corporate downsizing, early retirement, constant changing technologies, and globalization

Accordingly, businesses need to capture, record and analyze all business processes, manufacturing processes and technical procedures in a step by step format that can be easily conveyed to employees, customers and supply chain, without the large expense of mass training.

Unfortunately, conventional data capture methods typically require the user, e.g., a user, to have rather extensive knowledge of software programming, especially Web-oriented markup languages such as but not limited to HTML and/or the like, or multimedia authoring programs such as but not limited to FLASH and/or the like. This is extremely problematic for users that do not possess this knowledge or are otherwise intimidated and/or frustrated by dealing with these types of course development tools.

Accordingly, there exists a need for data capture systems, especially those used in conjunction with course development programs, that allow a user to quickly and easily capture data, e.g., so as to develop a course, especially those that are used for training purposes, including but not limited to software applications.

The present invention is directed to a method of operating a knowledge capture program. The knowledge capture program has the steps of starting the knowledge capture program wherein a user can access content that is either existing content or creating new content. Once the content has been selected then a source subject matter can be selected and displayed, and then captured and incorporated into the content. The source subject matter can be edited and saved into the content. The content can then be retrieved and played in a desired mode of learning.

Additional advantages and features of the present invention will become apparent from the following description and appended claims, taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.

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The present invention will become more fully understood from the detailed description and the accompanying drawings, wherein:

FIGS. 1a-1g are schematic illustrations of a flowchart illustrating the primary processing steps of startup and manage project data routines of a course development system, in accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention;

FIGS. 2a-2m are schematic illustrations of a flowchart illustrating the primary processing steps of a content manager routine of a course development system, in accordance with a second embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3a-3g are schematic illustrations of a flowchart illustrating the primary processing steps of a quiz editor routine of a course development system, in accordance with a third embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a view of a screen capture illustrating a project manager window with a dialog window on top screen, in accordance with a fourth embodiment of the present invention;

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