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Leading kitchen retailer – Australian Kitchen Industries (AKI), is prospering from the power of Adobe Connect Pro. In recent years, AKI has significantly grown and prospered into a large franchise. With this growth, communicating with, and training it’s geographically dispersed network of franchisees had become particularly difficult and more costly. To streamline training and communications company-wide, AKI found a cost-effective, powerful solution: Adobe Presenter and Adobe Connect Pro software.

Since implementing Connect Pro, AKI have noticeably benefited from the high-impact web conferencing and ease of access that eLearning provides. Over 400 people across the company are now using Connect Pro to conduct online meetings and training. The solution has been so successful that it, amazingly, paid for itself within the first seven months. The team from webqem were instrumental in implementing this solution, which involved: software procurement, installation, hosting & training. A full report is available online.

For all the photographers out there, there are some great eSeminars coming up for September.There are a wide range of topics for the beginners and the advanced. All of Adobe’s photography software are covered: Photoshop, Lightroom & Photoshop Elements. Best of all they’re free! All you need to do is register. If you still need more training, there is always webqem‘s Photoshop training course.

Septemeber eSeminar Photography topics:

• Introducing LightRoom & ‘The Five Rules’. 7th Sept
• Lightroom’s Powerful Digital Asset Management Features. 14 Sept
• Fast Raw Workflow Techniques – PART 2. 21st Sept
• Professional photo galleries with Photoshop, Lightroom and Photoshop Elements. 28th Sept

For the August ACUGA meeting, we were joined by Terry Shane – the President and founder of Refined Data Solutions. Terry showed us the synchronization and automation that can occur between two completely different systems: Adobe Connect Pro and Moodle. Terry’s company has developed a level of integration between the two systems that is “unmatched”. It is so well integrated, that students would never see the Connect system, only the Moodle interface.

The two systems work so well together, it must be magic! No, its just a great piece of technology that has enabled the two systems to work together. For more details check out the recording, or click on the image.

Building studies and virtual classrooms? You would not think they go together. However, a keen teacher from Armidale TAFE in NSW, has managed to successfully put the two together with the use of Adobe’s Connect Pro. Graeme Wilton regularly uses Connect Pro to teach his teach his Certificate IV in Building Studies course to a range of distance education students in North-West NSW. His students “absolutely love it”.  He says that “It’s added an enthusiasm that I haven’t seen for a while, but I must say that part of that would come from me because I’m a little ‘g-ed’ up about the whole thing too,” he laughs.

This is another Connect Pro success story that the webqem team was instrumental in – Good work team! You can read the full report here.

Adobe has announced the launch of Captivate 4 and the new Adobe eLearning Suite. To celebrate the launch, webqem has a limited time* offer – for anyone purchasing or upgrading to Captivate 4, we will give you a voucher for $150 off your next webqem Adobe Captivate Training course.

With Adobe Captivate 4 software, you can rapidly author professional eLearning content with advanced interactivity, software and scenario simulations, quizzes, and other engaging experiences—no programming or multimedia skills required. Go to webqem’s Captivate 4 page to see the great new features of this new release.

Offering seven innovative applications in one complete, integrated package, Adobe eLearning Suite includes full new versions of: Adobe Captivate 4, Adobe Flash CS4, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, Adobe Presenter 7, Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, Adobe Soundbooth CS4, Adobe Device Central CS4, Adobe Bridge CS4, and SCORM Packager. The eLearning suite is great for instructional designers and developer, training managers, and educators. Got to eLearning Suite on the webqem site to find out more information.

Contact webqem for more information about the Captivate 4 and eLearning Suite software, plus the various upgrade paths that will save you money, as well as special education discounts and bundles. webqem is an Adobe Solutions Partner and Adobe Authorised Training Centre and a leading Australian reseller of Adobe products and services.

*Offer ends 31/03/2009

webqem’s Larry Adler and Gavin Perry will be in Hong Kong next week attending the International ITC Expo at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The Expo runs from 14 – 17 April 2008.

While the two will be manning a booth at the Expo, Larry is also part of the speaker line-up – presenting the topic “Rapid E-Learning with Adobe Connect Professional” on Tuesday afternoon.

webqem has recently opened offices in Hong Kong, Singapore and Auckland.

The International ITC Expo is one of the largest information & communication technology exhibitions in the region with product and service providers exhibiting from 18 countries and regions. Details for the International ITC Expo can be found online at http://ictexpo.tdctrade.com/index.htm

Royal Philips Electronics have introduced Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional as a part of their training strategy. Connect’s Training and Meeting modules are being used to deliver training, video conferencing and web seminars to a potential audience of 135,000 registered users of its Healthcare Learning Management System.

Philips has integrated Connect into their in-house SCORM-compliant Learning Management System, using it as part of their healthcare education programs globally.

Additional information is available online from this press release.

ZDNet recently featured an article on Fone Zone’s implementation of Adobe Connect, a solution that was recommended and implemented by webqem. Fone Zone had, in the past, trained employees using PowerPoint. The impetus had been on Fone Zone’s employees to go online and download the presentations themselves. webqem’s solution using Adobe Connect, allows Fone Zone to deliver live PowerPoint content to mulitple employees at once. Read the whole article here.

The Challenge

Hyundai Motor Company Australia had a requirement to assess 1400 technicians across Australia within a month. Their specific requirements were:

• Assessment for three different technician levels.
• Each assessment would be timed for 60 minutes and consist of 40 multiple choice questions that would be pulled randomly from its own unique pool of up to 120 questions.
• Each assessment would consist of varying quantities of questions, based on three levels of difficulty: easy, even and hard.
• Marking of the assessment would only occur once the participant had indicated that they’d completed or if the exam had timed out.
• Participants would be allowed to review the exam results once completed.
• The assessment participants would be tracked on their number of attempts.
• For Hyundai’s analysis, the solution also needed to collect data on the questions, such as how often a question was successfully answered and which answers were selected for each question.

The Solution

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