Course Genie for Windows

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Developer’s Description

By Horizon Wimba

Create interactive online courses and Web sites.

Rapidly create interactive content for online courses and Web sites- all from your existing Word documents. Perfect for instructors, Course Genie transforms existing or new documents into dynamic online courses with Flash Cards, Quizzes, Video/Audio, Navigation, and images. Course Genie will enable authoring of content compliant with SENDA, W3C WAI and Section 508. From Word with Course Genie you can export to: a WebCT IMS package, a Blackboard package file, Microsoft LRN IMS format, a SCORM 1.2 package, IMS QTI Lite (assessment questions), a set of plain HTML pages ready for Web or CD delivery Use what you know (Word) instead of a complicated authoring tool to save time and money while creating highly interactive online courses and Web pages.

Course Genie for Windows

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: March 21, 2006

Latest update: November 7, 2008

Version: 2

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows 10
Windows NT

Additional Requirements: Windows Me/NT/2000/XP

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Total Downloads: 2,844

Downloads Last Week: 0

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User Reviews

4/5

1 User Votes

Quirky and crash-prone BUT well worth using.
towhiteheadOctober 25, 2010
Pros
Course Genie does what it says -- From Word-based documents produces excellent and highly usable multipage HTML courses. The end product is easy to navigate and attractively formatted.To limited extent the appearance of the pages can be customized.
Cons
It takes some work to put in place the special tags that allow Course Genie to do it's thing. The program is quirky and often crashes in the middle of course compilation for reasons that never became clear to me despite months of use.
Summary
I used Course Genie version 2.0. Despite its flaws, I know of no other product that does what this does. When it works, it does its job brilliantly. To use it you have to learn a set of special tags, so there's a learning curve. But it's not that steep. About the crashes: Smaller files generally compile with no problem. But in my experience as the input document gets larger crashes become more frequent. The reasons are generally hard to pin down. So it's a matter of just jiggering around with the input document until you hit on a version that will generate the desired output. Unfortunately for me, some of my courses are quite lengthy. All that said, the end product is satisfactory in every way. Despite the problems I have continued to use this product because I like it!