A single source for all your e-learning needs
A unique offering has emerged from combining more than 25 years of consulting and software development in the field of e-learning.
Why CBTL is the right partner for you!
Since 1999, our comprehensive service portfolio has made us one of the leading providers of integrated solutions for implementing e-learning in training programmes.
Our services
As a premium provider in the e-learning industry, we offer our customers the highest level of professionalism and quality in all areas of business.
Authoring tools
As a leading e-learning company, we offer our own award-winning authoring tools developed in-house.
AUTHORING PLATFORM EVOLUTION³ is the authoring tool suite with three editors: FIRST-TRAIN, FAST-TRAIN and EVOLUTION.
EVOLUTION³ is a very powerful authoring tool that experts can use to create extensive e-learning courses.
With FAST-TRAIN and FIRST-TRAIN, we have created a user interface that is so easy to use that it is also suitable for inexperienced users.
Use the FIRST-TRAIN and FAST-TRAIN editors, for example, to convert your existing materials into learning nuggets and share them with little effort. With the EVOLUTION³ editor, you can have an expert refine the simple courses in the second step.
Content creation
We don’t see ourselves purely as an IT company, but rather as an e-learning provider that places great value on the didactic quality of its learning programmes. Our experienced e-learning experts, educationalists, technicians and media designers are happy to take on the complete creation, maintenance, updating and localisation of your learning content as a complete business process outsourcing service.
- Custom Content
- WBT, CBT, App, eBook, Print …
- SCORM, xAPI, AICC … (all LMS)
- HTML5 Content (all end devices)
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Services
Our support team, based in Germany, is available to provide prompt and expert assistance should you have any technical questions about our authoring tools. We also offer didactic support in the areas of conception, raw or detailed concept, exercises, exercise types, feedback or test scenarios.
We offer you a range of training courses on how to use our authoring tools. The training courses build on each other, so that the appropriate techniques and ideas for your requirements are taught depending on the desired scope or complexity of the task.
High-quality media makes your e-learning the course that your employees talk about. Soundtracks, music, film and graphics complement the content and significantly increase learner acceptance. You can also simply request media creation independently of a joint e-learning production.
Consultancy
As a company specialising in the field of education and training, as well as customer and product training, we support companies in the planning, creation and roll-out of modern teaching materials. We advise our customers on the design and implementation of specific e-learning strategies, thereby ensuring that your e-learning strategy is the best possible one.
Our authoring platform
Our authoring tools are constantly being developed and optimised so that they are always optimally adapted to the needs of users and new technical developments.
authoring platform EVOLUTION³
Our AUTHORING PLATFORM EVOLUTION³ is a unique authoring solution – a system with different user interfaces:
FIRST-TRAIN:
- Easy to use
- Quick to create
- Responsive content
- Fast publishing
FAST-TRAIN:
- The authoring tool for knowledge carriers
- Easy to use (WYSIWYG editor)
- Template-based
- PowerPoint import
EVOLUTION:
- Excel import (e.g. test)
- The authoring tool for e-learning experts
- Creative freedom
- Huge range of functions
Assistance tools
The AUTHORING PLATFORM has special tools for special tasks.
Review-Tool:
- Quality control and acceptance directly in the tool (instead of cumbersome e-mail or similar)
- Incl. note and screenshot function
Translate-Tool:
- Translations and text changes via a special user interface
- Including note and screenshot
Task management:
- Create/delegate milestones and tasks
- Calendar function
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Online collaboration
AUTHORING PLATFORM EVOLUTION³ has been developed for team-based project work. It allows teams of any size to work simultaneously on a project, distributed worldwide, with a wide range of tasks. Each project participant has access only to the tools defined for their team role.
- Facilitated integration of external service providers (e.g. agencies, translators)
- Simultaneous work by different project members in the same course
- Powerful and flexible role and rights management
- Release or blocking of individual pages, chapters or courses is possible
- Projects/courses are always up to date for all project participants
- Central storage system for your media (images, audio, video, documents, etc.)
Learning objective control
Various test scenarios are available for the AUTHORING PLATFORM EVOLUTION³. This greatly simplifies the creation of learning objective controls.
- Import of test questions via Excel file possible (time saving for extensive tests)
- Tests with different exercise types
- Draw from any number of question pools (e.g. topic, difficulty, random or compulsory questions)
- Subsequent expansion of tests with new or revised questions or question pools
Collaboration
Depending on your skills and resources, CBTL provides you with the exact level of support you need to produce learning content.
Key-Account-Manager & Support-Team
CBTL provides customers with a dedicated key account manager and an in-house support team, based at our headquarters in Munich. This ensures rapid response times and fluent communication between key account managers, our support team and our development team.
Services
We offer a wide range of services, from simple technical support for users to the complete creation of entire e-learning modules, and we are happy to offer any type of collaboration between these two poles.
Flexibility
Since we develop our tool completely in-house, this enables a much higher level of flexibility in supporting customer enquiries.
Third-party agencies
We are accustomed to supporting not only authors within our clients’ organisations, but also third-party agencies working on behalf of the client.
Data protection & IT security
We guarantee information security and data protection in accordance with the GDPR at every step of the e-learning production process.
Internal & external audits
We have external data protection and data security officers and undergo regular internal and external audits.
In 2020/2021, CBTL GmbH once again expanded its information security management system (ISMS) and underwent several external audits, including a TISAX assessment for the protection goals ‘Info Very High’ and ‘Data’.
No installation necessary
The EVOLUTION³-, FAST-TRAIN– and FIRST-TRAIN-Clients are 100% browser-based, i.e. no installation is necessary on the client computers.
open web standards
CBTL AUTHORING PLATFORM is an internet-based client-server platform that is built on open web standards.
Certified data centres
For our customers with high data protection requirements, we offer dedicated servers in ISO27001-certified data centres in the EU, so that it is always clear where the data is hosted and stored, both during the creation and the review process.
No telemetry data
User interactions on the platform are logged to the extent necessary for IT security purposes. However, our client does not collect or send any telemetry or usage data related to the client PC to us. Logging, data storage and backup, and the retention/deletion periods can be set up according to customer requirements.
Flexibility & sustainability
The variety of media that you can generate from a single source is one of the reasons for strategic implementation at a central point in e-learning producing departments. With the AUTHORING PLATFORM EVOLUTION³, you can create complete curricula with all the associated learning and teaching materials from the same course.
Template-based working
Numerous templates for different course and test situations have already been created for the AUTHORING PLATFORM. This greatly simplifies the creation of learning content:
- Time savings thanks to a variety of pre-designed presentation, interaction and exercise templates
- Personalisation and adaptation of existing pages is possible at any time
- Template-independent work (‘blank sheet’) is of course possible
- Extension with additional, even customised page and exercise templates
- Brand change: CI specifications for several (e.g. brand-specific) layouts can be stored centrally and existing courses can then be switched over at the push of a button.
- Didactic control also of videos as well as 360° panoramas, 3D objects and much more
Customisable
The combination of the basic editor with powerful templates, whose functionality can be extensively customised, allows customers to benefit from the continued development of our standard product while essentially receiving a customised application implemented through templates.
New features created for a brand or organisation within a larger company can be easily adapted and shared with other organisations within the same client company.
All elements of our player can be fully customised to match the client’s CI layout, and the layout change function makes it possible to switch between different brand layouts within the same company.
Modularisierung
Mittels der Layout-Wechsel-Funktion können Module oder Teile von Modulen wie Kapitel oder Seiten, die für eine Konzernmarke erstellt wurden, in das Markenlayout einer anderen Marke umgewandelt werden
Der integrierte Datenaustausch-Manager macht es einfach, Seiten oder ganze Kapitel von einem Modul in ein anderes zu kopieren – der Austausch großer Projekte per E-Mail entfällt.
Die umfangreichen Funktionen zur Versionierung von Modulen ermöglicht das Anlegen von Projektversionen, bei denen das Delta zwischen der Masterkopie und den Versionen verfolgt und synchronisiert werden kann. Autoren der Masterkopie können konfigurieren, welche Elemente geändert werden können und welche nicht.
Adaptive-Responsive-Optionen
Unsere Plattform bietet Optionen für
- traditionelle Fixed-Stage-Layouts mit professionellen Vorlagen und Bearbeitungsoptionen
- adaptive-responsive Templates, bei denen unterschiedliche Layouts für definierte Bildschirmgrößen definiert und feinjustiert werden können
- vollständig responsive Vorlagen, die sich automatisch an alle Bildschirmgrößen anpassen
Während diese drei Modi auf unterschiedlichen Vorlagen basieren, werden alle Projekte auf demselben Server verwaltet und mit demselben Basis-Editor bearbeitet, was eine einfache Wiederverwendung von Medien und Grundkomponenten von Projekten ermöglicht.
Localisation
The CBTL production platform enables a structured, fast and flexible overall workflow for the creation and localisation of e-learning projects.
Real-time collaboration:
- Several authors can work on a project at the same time
- Integrated project management tool for task
Real-time review:
- Integrated communication system for reviewers/feedback
- Option to choose between a review interface (with comment function) and an editing mode (e.g. for correcting typos or translation errors)
Time-efficient localisation:
Updating of higher-level elements (e.g. layout) can be carried out centrally for all language versions. However, market-specific deviations can be taken into account.
Translation interface (localisation directly in the course) or XLIFF-based workflow possible. Voice-over texts are taken into account.
Media used in the course can be defined as language-dependent and identified and exchanged as part of a localisation.
