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LMS Evaluation Report

Products

Globalteach

TWI AG: http://www.globalteach.com
TWI AG, Biel, Switzerland.
Last major evaluation update: Jan '03

strong points

  • excellent support for SCORM 1.1 and 1.2 including SCORM debugger
  • efficient and flexible customization possibilities
  • extensible framework with various documented APIs
  • complete technical documentation
  • good contact to geographically close developers in Switzerland

weaknesses

  • Severe drawback: authoring tool (content upload, quizz management, ...) is a Windows application (no Mac/Unix versions)
  • Administration tool is a Windows application (no Mac/Unix versions)
  • no higher education users community
  • Server runs on MS .net infrastructure only