Why CBTL

As a leading e-learning company, we offer our proprietary, award-winning, authoring and production platform.

The SATELLITE platform provides a suite of tools for authoring, translation, localisation and quality assurance, including two editors: FAST-TRAIN and EVOLUTION³.

EVOLUTION³ is a very powerful authoring tool that gives experts full control of the creation and editing or e-learning courses.
With FAST-TRAIN we have created an interface with streamlined functions and optimised settings that is suitable even for inexperienced users.

For example, the FAST-TRAIN editor can be used to convert existing materials into learning nuggets to share online without the need of an LMS. With the EVOLUTION³ editor, an expert can refine courses and content created in FAST-TRAIN into sophisticated chapterised content and assessments.

We do not see ourselves as a software provider, but rather as an e-learning content service provider that places the greatest value on the educational quality of the learning content, courses and assessments that are created using our platform. Our experienced e-learning experts, instructional designers, as well as technicians and media designers, are happy to take over 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, AICC … (all LMS)
• HTML5 Content (all devices)

Our in-house support team provides you with a direct contact person who will help you promptly and competently with technical questions about our authoring tools. In addition, we also offer you support services in the areas of instructional design, storyboarding, content navigation, learner interactions, assessment, LMS reporting, and, of course, template development.

We offer various training courses on how to use our authoring tools. The modular training courses build on each other, so that, depending on the desired scope or complexity of content creation, the appropriate techniques and ideas for your requirement are taught.

High quality media will make your e-learning course the one that your employees talk about. Recordings, music, film and graphics complement text based content to significantly increase learner engagement. Even if we are not working with you to produce a particular course, you can request media creation, editing or optimisation services from us.

As a company all about learning and development, as well as customer and product training, we support companies in the planning, creation and roll-out of state-of-the-art learning content. In doing so, we advise our customers on the design and implementation of specific e-learning strategies, helping ensure that your have the best possible e-learning solutions in place.

CBTL offers its customers a dedicated key account manager and an in-house support team based at our headquarters in Munich. This ensures fast response times and fluent communication between key account managers, our support team and our development team.

We develop our tool entirely in-house, this allows for far greater flexibility in supporting individual customer requests.

We offer a wide range of services from simple technical support for users to the full creation of entire e-learning programmes and we are happy to offer any kind of collaboration in between.

We are used to supporting not only the team members within a client’s organisation, but also the third-party agencies working on behalf of the client.

For SATELLITE numerous templates have already been created for different course and assessment situations. This greatly simplifies the creation of learning content:

Time saving due to a large number of sophisticated presentation, interaction and exercise templates

Customisation and user editing of templated designs is possible at any time

Template free working starting with an empty page is of course possible

Expandable with additional custom-built templates to meet your specific requirements

Brand switching: courses can be switched between several different brand layouts conforming to CI specifications

Control over the interactivity within presentations and exercises of videos, 360°, panoramas, 3D objects and much more.

The combination of powerful editors with sophisticated templates whose functionality can be extensively customized allows customers to benefit from the continuous development of our standard platform while receiving a customized, templated application that always meets their requirements.

New features created for one brand or organisation within a larger enterprise can be easily customised and shared with other organisations within the same company or group.

All elements of our player can be fully customized to match a client’s CI requirements, and the layout change feature allows switching between different brand themes and layouts within a company.

Using the layout change function, modules or parts of modules such as chapters or pages created for one brand can be converted to another brand

The integrated data exchange manager makes it easy to copy pages or entire chapters or courses from one project to another – eliminating the need to exchange large projects via email or file share.

The extensive version management features allow changes in a new version of project to be rolled back or updates to the original version of a project to be carried forward into new versions. Authors of the original project can configure “mandatory” elements which cannot be changed in new versions.

Our platform offers options for

• traditional fixed-stage templates with sophisticated interactions and information rich screen layouts for high-quality learning
• adaptive-responsive templates in which layouts can be adapted and fine-tuned for presentation on different sizes of smaller screens
• fully responsive templates where the layout automatically responds to any screen size

While these three modes are based on different templates, all projects are managed on the same platform and edited with the same editors, allowing easy reuse and repurposing of learning content and media with the same set of familiar tools.

The CBTL production platform enables a structured, fast and flexible overall workflow for the creation and localisation of e-learning projects.

Real-time collaboration:

• Multiple authors can simultaneously work on one project
• Integrated project management tool for task management

Real-time review:

• Integrated communication system for review/feedback
• Select between a “Test” interface (with messaging function) or an editing mode (e.g. “Translate” mode for the correction of typos or translation errors)

Time-efficient localisation:

• Translation interface (translation directly in the course) and XLIFF-based workflows with external translators are possible. All text elements, including narration scripts, image hints, etc. can be managed in these processes.
• Media used in the course can be defined as language-dependent and managed as part of localisation processes.
• Updating of higher-level elements (e.g. layouts, menus, help and navigation elements) can be done in one project for all language versions. Version management can be used to take account of variations to the structure, functionality and content that may be required for specific localisations.