WBT
Manager™ Features FAQ
Is WBT Manager™
AICC-compliant? SCORM-compliant ?IMS-compliant? IEEE-compliant?
WBT Manager was the world's first AICC-certified Web-based
CMI and remains fully-compliant with the AICC Web-based
CMI Specification.
The ADL SCORM specification is based on the AICC specification.
During collaboration the AICC added a new interface
mechanism consisting of a set Javascript API functions
(LMSAPI) which are called by lessons to communicate
with the CMI. WBT Manager is SCORM 1.2 runtime-environment
compliant and can import SCORM 1.2 manifest files. See
here for SCORM 1.2 self-test results.
The IMS (Instructional Material Standard) is currently
under development. Some of the IMS specifications
have been made public and are beginning to be rolled
into the SCORM and IEEE standards. WBT Manager
does not currently support any of the IMS specifications.
We will be supporting those specifications which become
widely adopted and are of benefit to our customers.
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Does WBT Manager™ offer student self-registration?
Does it offer self-enrollment in courses?
WBT Manager includes a set of scripts that
can be used to create custom forms used to
create new students and enroll students in courses.
These scripts can also be used to create e-commerce
interfaces to WBT Manager.
Self-enrollment in individual courses is fully supported
in the current release. The system administrator can
define each course as allowing (or not allowing) self-enrollment.
The course catalog will display an "Enroll Now" button
next to all courses for which self-enrollment is allowed.
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Can I establish a separate Log On
page for each Corporate University I set up?
You can set up a separate home page for each customer
and have the link jump to the login script within WBT
Manager. The student menus can be customized to a certain
extent by inserting HTML at the top or bottom.
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How is Question Mark/Perception
integrated with WBT Manager™?
There is a good deal of information about this on the
Question Mark/Perception support site. For additional
information about Question Mark's assessment tool, visit
their home page.
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Does WBT Manager™ offer secure access
and password protection?
Yes. Student data is stored in a database and protected
by database security mechanisms. All access to data
through WBT Manager requires user login id and password.
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What databases can WBT Manager™ be
used with it?
WBT Manager runs against a relational
database. Full description of tables and columns is
supplied. See
system requirements for supported DBMSs and versions.
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Will WBT Manager™ run on a UNIX system?
WBT Manager requires Microsoft Windows and
IIS (see system requirements)
for the Web module, but content could be located
on a Unix web server and the database engine could be
run on a Unix system.
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Can WBT Manager™ track and report
on multiple levels? What specific items are tracked?
WBT Manager currently tracks time-in-lesson, last-score,
and number of attempts for AICC-compliant lessons. Completion
is tracked at the lesson, course, and certification
class level. (A certification class is a group of courses
tracked together).
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Does WBT Manager™ allow creation
of custom reports?
Simple columnar reports and CSV download reports can be created using
the Ad-Hoc Report function in the web-based local administrator interface.
For more complex reports any reporting tool which can access a
relational database may be used to create custom reports.
We currently use Crystal Reports from SAP
for reports run through the system administrator module
and ASP scripts for reports run through the web module.
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Is remote administrative access
to reports available?
Yes. Local web administrators can be set up at any hierarchy level who will be able to access reports
through the web interface.
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Is WBT Manager™ compatible with my
preferred course authoring software?
General answer: If the resulting product can be opened
in a web browser, it can be used with WBT Manager. The
courseware needs to be compliant with AICC or SCORM
specifications in order for the more sophisticated tracking
and reporting functionality to be used.
Results tracking for non-AICC compliant courseware
on a custom basis if the data can be made available
to WBT Manager.
For more information see Using Third Party Authoring Tools and
Building Courseware for WBT Manager.
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Can WBT Manager™ be synchronized
with multiple web servers and network servers?
WBT Manager can be run on multiple web servers against a central database.
Round-robin load-balancing is supported starting with version 2.1. Earlier
versions require session-aware routing.
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Can WBT Manager™ link to an outside
tutor or mentor service, reference materials, discussion
groups, chat rooms, etc.? Can it send e-mail to the instructor?
WBT Manager allows HTML code to be embedded on the
Student, Certification Class, and Course Menus. Links
to e-mail and newsgroups or other external resources
can be added to these menus. This allows the user to
choose the "best-of-breed" for these resources instead
of being locked in to an arbitrary selection that we
might make or develop. See the white
papers section of our documentation page for an
example.
Additional integration may be available on a custom
basis.
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Are browser plug-ins needed to run
WBT Manager™?
WBT Manager's web interface is composed of standard
HTML components with JavaScript functions for window
control and form validation. Prior to version 2.1 the SCORM API interface
was implemented as a Java applet. No plug-in is required
to use the WBT Manager system itself.
Lesson content may, however, may require plug-ins.
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Are there browser-specific requirements
for WBT Manager™?
WBT Manager is certified
to run on FireFox 3 and higher or Microsoft Internet
Explorer 7 and higher. Other browsers may work
if they support the following:
- Frames
- JavaScript 1.1 or higher
- Cookies (for login session control only)
- Java (for the SCORM API only)
- XMLHTTPRequest object
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Can WBT Manager™ be used easily in
systems with firewalls?
WBT Manager uses standard HTTP GET or POST requests
for all web interface functions. There are no special
ports or other "tricks" likely to be blocked by firewalls.
Also, except for the SCORM API adapter in versions prior to 2.1, it does not
use Java applets.
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Can data fields be customized?
WBT Manager includes 10 user-defined text
fields (255 characters max) in the student record. Additional
user defined fields will be added in future versions.
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When a student logs in, is there
a personal welcome by name?
The student menu shows the student name but does not
include a specific welcome message. The system does
support custom HTML code, which can be embedded at the
top of the student menu for a generic welcome message.
WBT Manager also includes server-side objects containing
an API that allows a user with some programming skills
to create custom student and course menus.
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Does WBT Manager™ support enforced
prerequisites? (I.e., you must complete lesson X before
starting lesson Y)
Yes, WBT Manager supports prerequisites at both the
course and course element level. Prerequites can be
a simple as requiring lessons to be completed "in
order" or by adding scripting.
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What standard reports come with WBT Manager™?
| Certificate Program Reports |
- Certificate Program Course List
- Certificate Program List
- Certificate Program Rosters
- Certificate Programs Assigned to Organizations
- Organizations Assigned to Certificate Program
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| Course Reports |
- Course Certificate Program Listing
- Course Content Listing
- Course Listing
- Course Rosters
- Courses Assigned to Organizations
- Organizations Assigned to Courses
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| Instructor-Led Training reports |
- Course Section Rosters
- Training Schedule (by Course)
- Training Schedule (by Date)
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| Interaction Reports |
- Question Response Detail Report
- Question Response Detail Report - II
- Question Response Summary Report
- Raw Interaction Data
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| Lesson and Instructional Block Reports |
- Course Element Linkage Report
- Course Element Listing
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| Miscellaneous |
- Administrator Listing
- Organizations Assigned to Reports
- Report Listing
- Reports Assigned to Organizations
- Student comments (by lesson)
- Student comments (by student)
- Training Supplier Content Cross Reference
- Training Supplier Listing
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| Objectives Reports |
- Objective Assignments Listing
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| Results Reports |
- Certificate ProgramHistory
- Certificate Program Status
- Learning Objectives Status - I
- Learning Objectives Status - II
- Learning Objectives Status (by course)
- Student "Tries" data
- Student "Tries" data (first attempt)
- Student Course Results (current enrollment)
- Student Course Results (historical)
- Student Detail Results (current enrollment)
- Student Detail Results (historical)
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| Student Reports |
- Student Certificate Program Enrollment
- Student Course Enrollment Listing
- Student Listing
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| Usage and Billing Reports |
- Course Billing Report
- Hourly Billing Report
- Time in Course Report
- Time in Lesson Report
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| Web Reports - Local Administrator |
- Certificate Program Progress
- Course Progress
- Course Results
- Scheduled Training Attendance
- Student Listing
- Training Calendar
- Training Schedule
- Training Schedule (by Course)
- Training Schedule (by Date)
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| Web Reports - Student |
- Certificate ProgramProgress
- Course Progress
- Course Results
- Training Calendar
- Training Schedule
- Training Schedule (by Course)
- Training Schedule (by Date)
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Can the appearance of the WBT Manager™
web module be customized?
Yes. WBT Manager allows the look of the Web module
to be easily customized in the following ways:
Custom HTML can be inserted on the Student, Course,
and Certification Class menus, and can include logos
and other graphic elements.
Custom buttons can be used as links to certification
classes, courses, and lessons.
The home page and top banner are HTML pages and are
easily modified or replaced.
Navigation buttons can be replaced with custom buttons.
· Background color or graphic can be easily changed.
Text attributes (font, size, style, color) can be changed.
We do require an acknowledgment of Integrity eLearning
or WBT Manager™ on the page. Your sales representative
will be able to provide full details.
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