ToolBook Instructor
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ToolBook is an elearning content development application developed and published by SumTotal Systems. ToolBook is the name of the product line which includes ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant. ToolBook allows users to develop web training, CBT, courseware, multimedia applications, simulations for software and other types of interactive content. ToolBook customers have used the solution to increase channel effectiveness, accelerate salesforce readiness, enhance customer service, increase customer satisfaction, educate geographically diverse workforces, and ensure regulatory compliance.
A team led by Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, created ToolBook at Asymetrix Inc. which Paul founded after leaving Microsoft. ToolBook was launched in May 1990 at the New York Public Library. Microsoft Windows 3.0 included the ToolBook runtime and a couple of ToolBook applications. After ToolBook’s launch, it was found that a large majority of ToolBook users were using ToolBook to develop CBT applications. Asymetrix begin to enhance ToolBook to create computer based training in addition to providing various other ToolBook versions that focused on multimedia. Overtime ToolBook has evolved to be one of the industry’s standard for creating online learning applications and CBT, in addition to its continued ability to create Windows applications and general-purpose interactive content. Asymetrix changed its name to Click2learn and then merged with Docent to form SumTotal Systems. SumTotal Systems continues to develop and market ToolBook.
