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Iprax Releases Free CD-ROM Featuring Demo of CourseWorks Software and Eight Interactive Training Courses.


LEXINGTON Lexington.

1 City (1990 pop. 225,366), seat of Fayette co., N central Ky., in the heart of the bluegrass region; inc. 1832, made coextensive with Fayette co. 1974.
, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 1998--Iprax Corporation today released a free demo demo - /de'moh/ 1. A demonstration of a product, often of an early version or prototype. A demo is a far more effective way of inducing bugs to manifest themselves than any number of test runs, especially when important people are watching.

2. demo version.

3.
 CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc.
CD-ROM
 in full compact disc read-only memory

Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser).
 which provides a comprehensive overview of the CourseWorks(TM) platform for building, delivering, and customizing multimedia training courses. The free demo CD-ROM contains eight demo courses-covering topics such as lock-out/tag-out, fire behavior, forklift operation, safety awareness, and sexual harassment-from the more than 300 titles currently available in the CourseWorks library. Iprax offers the broadest industrial and safety skills training multimedia library available on a single platform.

"Training managers today are being asked to deliver results with fewer people, tighter budgets, and less time," explains Ames Ames, city (1990 pop. 47,198), Story co., central Iowa, on the Skunk River; inc. 1870. Its chief manufactures are electronic, water-analysis, and water-treatment equipment; motor vehicles; construction materials; and machinery. Iowa State Univ.  Abbot, president of Iprax. "With CourseWorks, Iprax presents organizations with comprehensive training solutions by offering: 1) over 300 off-the-shelf titles on the CourseWorks platform; 2) CourseWorks 3.2 software to build and customize CD-ROM training programs and track the progress of trainees; and 3) full development and customization services for those who wish to outsource course creation and modification."

With CourseWorks an organization has a uniform platform to develop, deliver, and customize standalone stand·a·lone  
adj.
Self-contained and usually independently operating: a standalone computer terminal. 
 and networked training programs. There are currently more than 300 titles available on the CourseWorks platform-any of which can be customized to meet an organization's specific needs. A single set of intuitive point-and-click point-and-click
adj. Computer Science
Allowing the activation of commands by moving the cursor over certain areas or icons and clicking a pointing device: a webpage with point-and-click access to other sites. 
 commands simplify navigation through the wide array of CourseWorks training programs, ranging from health and safety to technical and management skills.

CourseWorks 3.2 is a suite of four software products. "Deliver", which is included with most CourseWorks based courses, provides playback Playback could mean:
  • The re-playing of recorded media.
  • Gapless playback, the seamless playback of digital audio formats (i. e. ipods, mp3 players)
  • Playback singer, a practice in Bollywood musicals.
 of interactive courses along with basic tracking and customization capabilities. Optional enhancements to the CourseWorks platform include: -- "Track Pro", which provides advanced tracking and reporting

features -- "Customize Pro", which gives trainers the ability to add or

delete To remove an item of data from a file or to remove a file from the disk. See file wipe, trash and undelete.

1. (operating system) delete - (Or "erase") To make a file inaccessible.
 entire course segments and to add specific test questions

to existing CourseWorks programs -- "Publish", a powerful but easy-to-use authoring tool designed

to give trainers with no programming experience the means to

quickly develop their own interactive CD-ROM training programs

containing graphics, video, text, and audio.

"We were converting an entire company to a new system and replacing mainframe terminals with PCs," said Martin Reisinger, Principal, Reisinger Resource Group. "A major training effort was needed and, with our many locations, PC-based training was clearly the way to go. We needed the tools to enable personnel assigned as·sign  
tr.v. as·signed, as·sign·ing, as·signs
1. To set apart for a particular purpose; designate: assigned a day for the inspection.

2.
 part time to the project to create eight CD-ROM programs from scratch. CourseWorks enabled our non-technical designer to spend her time worrying about the content, because the management and tracking tools were already built in."

If an organization prefers to outsource course development, Iprax offers complete course development services. Iprax's professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products.  staff, experienced in all facets of courseware Educational software. See CBT and OpenCourseWare.

(application) courseware - Programs and data used in Computer-Based Training.
 design and production, will work with an organization to define training goals, develop scripts, and integrate training materials. The finished product is a custom interactive course designed to meet the organization's specific training needs.

To obtain the free demo CD-ROM and find out more about how usetts, 02173. CourseWorks "Publish" may be purchased separately for $1,495, "Track Pro" for $295, and "Customize Pro" for $495. Visit Iprax's website at www.iprax.com for more information about CourseWorks 3.2 and for a complete list of the over 300 CourseWorks-compatible CD-ROM training program titles.

CONTACT: Hawthorne Associates

Christine Sullivan, 617/489-4084
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michele vadnais
michele vadnais (Member): iprax 3.2 3/6/2008 10:07 AM
We are trying to print out groups of employees and cannot figure out how to use the track pro for printing. Is there a manual or a website that can help with this? Also, we are needing a Spanish version. Please let me know asap of any help you can provide. <br>Thank you,<br>Michele Vadnais<br>Fritz ind.

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