SH!FT is excited to announce the Scenario Builder!
At DevLearn 2010, you’ll experience a whole new way of creating e-Learning that combines instructional design best practices with complex graphic design inside our newest application, the Scenario Builder.
Creating animated scenarios for simulation is an excellent strategy for instructional design. (Figure 1) Traditionally, creating these scenarios has been a time-consuming, expensive task that involves instructional designers, graphic designers, and sometimes programmers as well. The development process involves several days’ labor and constant, back and forth communication between team members. This means that the traditional development process takes longer and has high development costs.
Figure 1. Using animated scenarios in a simulation is an excellent strategy for instructional design.
SHIFT has addressed this by integrating a scenario builder into the SHIFT authoring ecosystem. By leveraging SHIFT’s automation technology, it is common for developers to realize labor savings of 50% or more over other authoring tools.
With this new scenario builder, instructional designers with zero graphic design or programming skills can create a complex scenario in just a few minutes. They accomplish this through the extensive automation technology built into SHIFT’s e-Learning authoring system.
Editing existing scenarios, adding scenes, adding avatars, and changing dialogues is just as easy, and you can do it in minutes, driving maintenance costs to minimal levels.
Some of the features for the new scenario builder include:
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60 pre-configured backgrounds available including offices, malls, parks, restaurants, schools, etc. (Figure 2)
Figure 2. Pre-configured backgrounds are easy and quick to use.
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Capable of loading images, Flash animations or Flash movies as a custom backgrounds
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16 avatars, automatically synchronized to audio (recorded audios with SHIFT’s recording studio, built-in TTS engine, or third party recording software)
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Each avatar can be automatically configured to show five different emotional states. (Figure 3)
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You can rotate each avatar to face the viewer, or to show sides, back, or sitting to facilitate scene composition
Figure 3. Avatars can be automatically configured to show various emotional states.
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The engine supports scenarios consisting of up to 14 scenes, with any number of avatars in each scenevatars in each scene.
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You can customize all text inside the dialogues and display it as a “closed caption” text box located inside the screen either to the top, bottom, left, or right.
For more information, please visit us in the Expo at DevLearn 2010, November 3-4 in San Francisco, or online at www.shiftelearning.com
