Feedback and Features
Long time no post, but I wanted to put this out. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been gathering lots of feedback from people - some really great stuff has come out of these discussions. It is so important to just get out there and talk to people about your business and your ideas. The insight you gain truly helps to mold the product into what it needs to be. Based on the feedback, I’ve decided to cut out three features for the v1.0 release of iPresent Producer.
- SCORM and AICC support: SCORM and AICC are the leading e-Learning technical standards that define methods for creating shareable and reusable e-learning elements such as courses, quizzes, and other instructional materials. This was a feature I was initially developing for the Higher Educational market, where Learning Management and Course Management Systems are prevalent. In speaking with quite a few Babson professors it seems this requirment is just not deemed critical, particularly for a first release.
- Screen capture to video: This feature allows you to create “screencasts”, or videos of the computer desktop while narrating audio. This allows you to create software demos or even step by step “how to” tutorials explaining how to perform certain functions within a piece of software or website. The users I spoke with seemed far more eager to use the audio with synchronized slides, podcasting and video webcast creation features as opposed to the screen capture capabilities.
- Quiz and survey authoring: Since we will not have iPresent Online up and running by the time we release v1.0 of iPresent Producer, it just doesn’t make sense to offer this feature initially. These features go hand in hand with viewing user reports to see how your viewers faired on a quiz or to view survey results. Since iPresent Producer v1.0 will be a stand-alone tool without iPresent Online integration (and therefore no back-end database yet), it just didn’t make sense.
Anyhow, I think this was the right decision as it will help me to focus on the most critical features first. I am putting together a detailed Features page for the website along with screenshots that will clearly show what iPresent Producer will be able to do. Stay tuned.
