Here's Course Builder Evaluation version and online documentation/tutorial.
Course Builder is a graphical multimedia authoring package, that rivals the extremely expensive Authorware Professional, except that it is much, much cheaper and much easier to learn and just as capable.
The user basically assembles a flow chart of the various elements of the course and inserts (or creates) the graphics, text etc. The flowchart than executes. The program can create stand alone application and there are no royalties or runtime fees of any kind. The comapny will be releasing a Windows translator by the end of the summer. So any course authored on the Mac will be able to run under Windows. The reason that this is called Course Builder, rather than some kind of a multimedia presentation tool, is that user input evaluation (testing) is built-in. So the students can be tested (or test themselves) by getting immediate feedback after they answer a question. And all this is there without writing a single line of code.
Some of the significant built-in features:
Drawing tools built-in
Painting tools built-in
Animation tools built-in
Quicktime built-in (very extensive feature list for controlling the Quicktime movie)
Text tools built-in
Graphical interface
Input evaluation tools built-in
Standalone runtime built-in
Transition effects built-in
Cross Platform (Mac-Windows) compatible
etc., etc.
Just a bit of interesting info:
The fellow who wrote the 1st 2 versions of this program is Bill Appleton, who also wrote Supercard, Creepy Castle, Lunicus, Jump Raven etc.
