By Tomas Lund on Monday, February 23, 2009 11:23 PM

Today I am launching my first product for sale:

Formatted Feedback Editor for ToolBook.

I am very excited about this launch and hope that you will find it useful.

In short the tool allows you to use text formatting in the feedback you specify for your ToolBook questions - without using hidden fields or any action editor code.

Here is a screenshot of the editor.

 

See a sample and read more here.

I plan to make more of my tools available for sale in the time to come. So stay tuned.

PS. parts of the code in this tool is based on code originally written by Simon Price. ( Read More »

By Tomas Lund on Monday, January 12, 2009 2:08 PM

Disable browser printing in ToolBook

UPDATE 20 January 2009: Updated the sample and download to include some protection against the user pressing Printscreen.

This sample demonstrates how one can prevent users from printing elearning content created with ToolBook .

Updated samples are here: Live version or download the source from the Download page (file is called DisablePrint2(9)).

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By Tomas Lund on Monday, December 01, 2008 3:32 PM

Did you know that you can use ToolBook to create surveys and use your LMS to collect the information you collect?

The only thing that is required is ToolBook and an LMS which is able to show question level feedback in reports.

I have created a sample that you can download but will also explain what is required.

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By Tomas Lund on Monday, December 01, 2008 3:10 PM

Build a smartstyle, or download a free SmartStyle, or win a custom SmartStyle

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By Tomas Lund on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:44 AM

I have tested HTML output from ToolBook 9 and  ToolBook 9.5 on Googles new internet browser called Google Chrome and guess what, it works!

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By Tomas Lund on Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:17 PM

This article and sample files demonstrates how one can control if the user clicks the window x rather than the navigation provided within the content. This solves a very common problem which causes a lot of support: Users close a course using the x one last page thinking they passed a test, only to find later that the course was marked as incomplete.

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By Tomas Lund on Friday, August 22, 2008 10:17 AM

There seems to be what I would describe as an elearning standards war looming: ADL recently announcing the Letsi initiative and SCORM 2.0 and late last week I got an email from IMS/GLC with a link to a FAQ about Common Cartridge.

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By Tomas Lund on Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:12 AM

Implement keyboard navigation using the ALT key in combination with the arrow keys. Learn how to attach custom JavaScript handlers to DOM elements in ToolBook HTML files - without editing the ToolBook HTML files.

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By Tomas Lund on Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:08 PM

In my previous article "Keyboard shortcuts in ToolBook HTML" I showed how one can implement keyboard shortcuts using the arrow keys to navigate between the pages.

Now what if you wanted to use a combination of keys to navigate?

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By Tomas Lund on Thursday, July 31, 2008 11:59 PM

Improve the accessibility and usability of your ToolBook HTML content by providing keyboard shortcuts in addition to the onscreen navigation.

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