Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 has created a huge splash, providing major enhancements to an already powerful toolset. From all facets of design through interactive publishing and development, there’s now even more you can accomplish. So how can you be sure you’re getting the most out of it?
Hands-on, classroom training.
For the next few months we’re running an extensive range of classroom training programs covering all facets of CS5, at our training facility in Sydney. We’re celebrating the Adobe CS5 launch and you have a great opportunity of booking 3 people for the price of 2, saving 33%. Please note this offer is for a limited time only and on selected courses.

textbooks for the iPad.

They certainly look very beautiful and richly presented, but the real beauty lies in the collaborative functionality – bringing the textbook alive with shared notes from both peers and the trainer. Brilliant stuff.

Mark Upton, specialist coach for the Adelaide crows, approached webqem for advice on how to solve their issues around reviewing game footage. Previously players and coaches had to watch the game together to gather feed back, which didn’t make efficient use of their time. The solution was eLearning, using Adobe Flash Media Server, LiveCycle Collaboration Service, Connect and Adobe Captivate Mark has created a remote access training environment and conduct regular training with interactive opportunities.

As a result, the Adelaide Football Club have streamlined access to training, greater flexibility for the team players and coaches to meet and discuss strategies in real time and improve retention of training information.

Read the full success story to find out more about how webqem helped the Adelaide Football Club

Moodle Learning management system.

We are pleased to have John Treloar, Director of Education at Adobe, presenting a paper on  how educational institutions are communicating and collaborating with their students in the 21st Century with Adobe Connect.

We will also be demonstrating the newly released api plugin that integrates Adobe Connect with Moodle.

Inline with Massey Universities 2020 strategy for teaching and learning, Mark Brown Director of Distance Education has announced the expansion of their electronic tool set to include:

• Acrobat Pro
• Adobe Presenter
• Adobe Connect

Acrobat Pro will enable them to enhance their accessibility, usability and quality of some of their online material. Presenter amplifies the teachers voice and provides a more engaging interaction with subject content online, and Connect will connect (pardon the pun) teachers with their students, including regular online tutorials, consultations with small groups, and offshore distance delivery.

Read the Massey article or view Adobe announcement presentation.

webqem looks forward to hearing the creative uses of these tools throughout the University.

Join Larry Adler as he takes you through online web conferencing and self paced online learning. You’ll get all the tips and best practices in driving efficient and effective communication online.

Larry will also show you how Adobe Connect Professional can work within your organisation to cover the spectrum of communications tasks:
Live meetings, seminars and instructor led training on

- On-demand presentations

- E-Learning and tracking

-Rapid content creation

This event will take place on the 10th of June from 12:00pm-1:00pm AEST. If you wish to attend this event, register online, select Rapid E-Learning in Education with Adobe Connect Professional.  There are many other eSeminars for you to take part in and help you refine your skills.

webqem is running a seminar on Adobe Connect focusing on driving down travel costs in your organization.

This event will include topics that will allow you to dramatically reduce training and travel costs while securely staying connected to people from all over the globe. We will show you how to create secure online meeting rooms within seconds, allowing you to communicate with greater frequency and quality and boost your audience attendance and participation. E-Learning, tracking and rapid content creation will also be covered.

The event will be running on the 15th June  from 8am to 9:30am. It is to be  held at Novotel, 200 Creek St, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, AUS. If you would like to attend please email Thomast@webqem.com or register online.

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webqem is running a seminar on Adobe Connect focusing on driving down travel costs in your organization.

This event will include topics that will allow you to dramatically reduce training and travel costs while securely staying connected to people from all over the globe. We will show you how to create secure online meeting rooms within seconds, allowing you to communicate with greater frequency and quality and boost your audience attendance and participation. E-Learning, tracking and rapid content creation will also be covered.

The event will be running on the 18th May from 8am to 9:30am. It is to be  held at the Duxton Hotel, 1 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA 6000 Au. If you would like to attend please email Thomast@webqem.com or register online.

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

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.

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

Adobe Connect (formerly Macromedia Breeze) was chosen as the Learning Management System (LMS) to deliver the assessment. Connect Training has tools to create, deliver and manage courses and curricula; and manage, track and report on participants. Connect Training also conforms to the AICC standards widely used by many LMS’.

Another two Adobe products, Captivate and Presenter, which are used to build content and quizzes, were integrated with Connect Training. Neither Captivate nor Presenter however, offer random questions or timed exams which was part of Hyundai’s requirements. In light of this, webqem built a custom solution for Hyundai with Adobe Flash that conformed to the AICC standards. Each assessment is configured by an individual XML manifest file that allows Hyundai to set variables such as the maximum amount of time for the exam and the number of questions to ask from the pool.

Standard quizzes produced by Captivate and Presenter are marked on a question by question basis as they’re answered, which means that there is no review process before an assessment is completed. The solution built by webqem is non-linear, meaning participants can navigate through to any question that has already been attempted, review their answer and change if required. Marking does not occur until the participant has finished reviewing their answers.

Another issue addressed by the webqem solution is the full reporting of questions and answers to Adobe Connect. Standard Captivate, Presenter and Flash quizzes only report the question text and the id of the chosen answer. Due to Hyundai’s requirements, webqem’s solution reports all details of the 40 questions selected randomly from the 120 question pool. The question copy and the full copy of all answers are reported to the Connect Training server for each participant.

Hyundai can create new course content in an Excel spreadsheet and convert this into XML, used by Adobe Flash and Connect. The XML, Flash and JavaScript components are then uploaded as content for a course, in Adobe Connect. Finally, participants are uploaded in a CSV file into Adobe Connect, and the course is ready for training.