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ToolBook 10.5 is here! Order now from Platte Canyon. Full versions come with a $100 credit and upgrades come with a $50 credit on any Platte Canyon product or The e-Learning Authoring Conference.

When it is time to create cutting-edge training that involves thorough instruction, great use of media, interactive content, and innovative navigation, ToolBook is often the clear choice.

The ToolBook 10.5 matching question showing curved lines and gradients.

New features of version 10.5:

  • Apple® iPad® and Microsoft® Windows Mobile® Devices are now supported:  A greater variety of devices can now be targeted by ToolBook content. You can now deploy content to a learner community with even more devices, providing more flexibility and greater learner access.
  • Geolocation support:  This feature allows you to provide mobile content which is truly mobile, responding to your learners’ locations with tailored content.
  • Simpler, more functional Quick Start tab on the startup dialog>  The Quick Start tab has been updated to include a set of templates sized for optimal viewing on various devices. Users of prior versions of ToolBook will also notice that the "Show Preview" button has been removed. The preview is now shown all the time.
  • iPhone support for drag and drop:  With the new ability to drag objects around the iPhone screen with a fingertip, users of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch can more easily apply the question types match item, drag object, and slider in a style that's consistent with the overall user experience on these devices.
  • Smoother resizing of graphics:  Resizing graphic images within ToolBook will now result in smoother, better-looking images.
  • Paste unformatted text menu item:  Now, this selection beneath the Edit menu allows for fast pasting of text into fields while simultaneously stripping out all formatting. The keyboard shortcut is ctrl-shift-v.
  • Checkbox added to Publish to Web Wizard to enable diagnostics:  This option activates the diagnostic or "debug" mode for the published HTML. This will prompt a separate window to open when the course is opened in a browser, which displays diagnostic information.
  • Prompt to resize page when changing styles:  When the pages of a book are sized differently from the default size for a style, and a new style is then applied to the book, ToolBook will now prompt the author to decide whether to resize the book to match the default for the style, or keep the current size.

Great features from version 10.0

  • Quiz Summary:  Use the innovative Quiz Summary feature to display a configurable summary of questions, student answers, score, and more. Users can then click a link to try the question again or review it. Users can use the special Print Summary to print the complete summary list, even if it displays with scrollbars within ToolBook.
  • Improved PowerPoint Import:  Take your existing PowerPoint 2007 slides and import speaker notes, audio, as well as your content and graphics into ToolBook. You can even save the intermediate XML version of the content. 
  • Google Android/Apple iPhone/iPod Touch/Safari Browser Support>  Your web-based ToolBook content can now support the Macintosh as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch. They are all just extra choices in your web export. There also specialized SmartStyles™ for the iPod layout.
  • JPG, GIF, PNG, WMF, and EMF Graphic Support:  ToolBook now supports all the major graphic formats internally, giving great quality for both native and web-deployed content. This greatly simplifies graphic management for both native and DHTML applications.
  • New Image object:  Related to the new graphic formats is a new object exclusively for displaying graphics. No longer do you need to use transparent buttons to display your graphic resources. The image object simplifies graphics considerably.
  • Control Voice Recordings:  After you record your narrations within ToolBook, you can now control them either with catalog objects or the Actions Editor.

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At Platte Canyon, our developers say they like ToolBook for the following features:

  • Powerful:  ToolBook has the capabilities to do everything we have dreamed up so far. Whether it be with the Actions Editor, the Simulations Editor, or the OpenScript language, it is extremely rare not to be able to implement your vision.
  • Easy-to-Use:  SmartStyles™, SmartPages™, Actions Editor, Drag and Drop, Question objects, Question Summary, Text Panes, and much more make the product very easy to use. SCORM and AICC support is built in.
  • Dynamic:  ToolBook's interface and capabilities may be enhanced through add-ons such as the Plug-In Pro.
  • Expandable:  ToolBook's support of ActiveX controls allows your courses to incorporate content and materials from other packages.  For instance, developers may easily use Flash movies in their ToolBook courses.
  • Fast:  ToolBook allows us to be more efficient than with any other Authoring Tool we have seen.
  • Flexible: applications created with ToolBook may be deployed via "traditional methods" such as CD-ROM.  They may also be exported to a web-ready set of DHTML files. This ability to deliver in multiple ways offers the developer wonderful choices when deciding on the delivery platform for a training application.
  • Easy to Learn:  if you purchase our training CD series entitled Learning & Mastering ToolBook, you'll be developing killer training applications in no time.

Platte Canyon is the Number 1 SumTotal Systems authorized Gold Value Added Reseller for ToolBook. We sell so many copies of ToolBook because we strongly believe in the product and because we know it very well. People also choose to buy from Platte Canyon to receive the Platte Canyon deal.& Customers who buy ToolBook from Platte Canyon receive a $100 credit on the purchase of any Platte Canyon product or The e-Learning Authoring Conference ($50 credit on upgrade purchases).

Platte Canyon sells ToolBook for $2,595.  However, new ToolBook purchases MUST be accompanied by a support agreement. We therefore recommend the bundle of ToolBook and support for $3,411. Upgrade and full pricing info is available at the Platte Canyon store.

We offer special pricing if you are looking for multiple copies or multiple products. Email us for a written quote.

Our agreement allows us to sell ToolBook to customers within the US or Canada.  If you are located outside of these countries, please look at the SumTotal web site for international reseller contact information.  

For more information on ToolBook, please feel free to contact us or visit the ToolBook web site.


Platte Canyon Customer Service Comments
Jeff you are a star........................whatever they are paying you, you deserve more. Send me a customer satisfaction survey if you have one.
Jeff. Over the years of reading the listserv, I have always been amazed on how many people you have responded to with all kinds of issues. I am glad you have remained such an integral part of keeping ToolBook alive. Thanks again for the edification and all of your time you spent with me this week. A person can always replace money with more money. However, you cannot replace time with more time. So thanks again for everything!
First let me thank you for your outstanding help!
Your "customer service" is the best! We sort of use you and your team as a benchmark.
Your customer service is outstanding - it's like having a coach!

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