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HunterStone’s SCORM eLearning Customer Solution
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THESIS Transforms Microsoft Office into a Dynamic
Tool for 21st Century Learning
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Microsoft Corporation
- Education
- Headquarters: Redmond, WA
www.Microsoft.com/Education
Industry
- Worldwide Education
Solution
- SCORM-conformant learning
tool for Word, PowerPoint, and
Excel
Products Used
- THESIS Lite
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Learning
Essentials for Microsoft Office
Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office
provides a friendly, academic interface with
education-specific tools for students and
educators to get the most out of their
familiar Microsoft Office applications.
Curriculum based templates and toolbars for
Microsoft Office Word, the Microsoft Office
PowerPoint® (presentation graphics program),
and Microsoft Office Excel® (a spreadsheet
software) help students and educators get
started, stay organized, and successfully
complete high-quality work. Academic
tutorials from leading education publishers
give just-in-time coaching for common
assignments and tasks.
Learning Essentials includes tools for
authoring additional content and eLearning
resources, a smaller network-based
installation and centralized server
administration, including support for the
popular Microsoft Office SharePoint® Portal
Server 2003.
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Organization Profile
Working closely with worldwide education
communities, Microsoft has developed technology,
tools, programs, and solutions to help address
education challenges while improving teaching and
learning opportunities.
Challenges Faced
The Microsoft Education Product Team was faced with
getting SCORM conformant tools to the market place
in an expeditious manner. Facing a “Build or Buy”
decision Microsoft licensed SCORM technology from
HunterStone in the form of THESIS Lite.
The Microsoft SCORM Investment
Learning Essentials adds new Sharable Content Object
Reference Model (SCORM) Tools to Microsoft Office.
The SCORM tools are a component of the comprehensive
THESIS e-learning solution from HunterStone, a
Microsoft Gold Partner and a leading provider of
e-learning and IT tools for Microsoft environments.
THESIS seamlessly converts Microsoft Office and Web
documents into standards-based objects available and
re-usable by any SCORM conformant Learning
Management System.
Benefits
• Quality assurance by the reliable
conversion of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
files to SCORM learning content
• Fast turnaround of learning projects
• Ease of use
Getting LMS-Ready: The Global
Challenge
THESIS Lite for Microsoft Learning
Essentials is currently available in
English, Spanish, Italian, French, German,
Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Hebrew, Danish,
Dutch, and Arabic. The dynamic flexibility
of the tool allows educators around the
globe to easily and rapidly transform new
and existing learning materials into SCORM
learning object.
Success
Strategy
A Challenge Met
This enhanced functionality transforms
teachers and trainers into interactive
learning creators with a few simple mouse
clicks. Custom content development is
reduced for training organizations, which
results in cost-savings and productivity
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In regards to
HunterStone’s
entry to the Microsoft Learning
Gateway Mr. Hines stated “I'm
thrilled to introduce
HunterStone, a US
based
partner with extensive SCORM
knowledge.
HunterStone has
established
themselves as a VIP Learning
Gateway
partner by providing
SCORM support to users of this
community and providing a
Document Library and
Search
tool that promotes and
searches for
educationally
relevant metadata.”
Mike Hines, Education Product
Manager,
Microsoft Corporation
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Distribution
Microsoft Academic Volume licensing customers are
licensed for Learning Essentials at no additional
cost with their volume licenses for Microsoft Office
XP or 2003 (media cost may apply). Learning
Essentials also can be down-loaded from the
Microsoft Download Center.
Since the release in September of 2006 over 100,000+
educators around the world have downloaded Microsoft
Learning Essentials with THESIS Lite. As part of the
agreement, these educators can upgrade to THESIS
Professional and receive a special Learning
Essentials upgrade price.
The THESIS product family provides four (4)
application options that help an organization create
SCORM eLearning objects from virtually any type of
lesson content file. THESIS Professional, Learning
Object Manager, Lite, and Librarian comprise the
suite. For full product information visit
www.GetTHESIS.com.
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HunterStone is the innovative developer of THESIS –
An eLearning and IT tool for Microsoft environments.
HunterStone is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
with competencies in ISV and Information Worker
proficiencies.
HunterStone, Inc. • 10628 C Broad River Road, Irmo,
SC, USA 29063-9688 • 803 749-8980 •
www.HunterStone.com • www.GetTHESIS.com HunterStone,
the HunterStone logo, THESIS and Librarian are
either registered trademarks or trademarks of
HunterStone, Inc. in the United States and/or other
countries. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners. © 2000-2008 HunterStone, Inc..
All rights reserved. |
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