Features | Composica Enterprise | Web-based Competitor | Desktop Competitor |
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| No installation required for developers |
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| Collaborative Web-Based infrastructure | | Limited | |
| WYSIWYG authoring environment | | | |
| Central repository for learning objects | | | |
| Central repository for media | | | |
| Content reusability | | | Limited |
| Inheritance of styles and layouts | | | |
| Entirely programming-free | | | |
| Workflow management and tasks | | | |
| Familiar windows-like look and feel | | | |
| Embedding of media and documents |
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| Central installation and maintenance | | | |
| No installation required for developers |
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| PowerPoint Integration |
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| Improved workflow management & tasks |
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| Special Contributer role for SME |
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| Universal Media Player |
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| Smart Content Preloading |
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| Cost | $ | $$$$ | $ |
| Dashboards and Team Visibility |
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| Development Blogs, comments, RSS |
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| Built-in Chat |
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| Resources Tagging |
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| Course Blogs |
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| Course Comments |
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| Ratings |
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| Embedded RSS Feeds |
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| Built-in Spell Checking |
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| Alignment tools |
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| Spacing/distribution tools |
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| Size matching tools |
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| Built-in vector graphics tools |
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| Media explorer |
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| YouTube Movies |
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| Google Charts |
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| Multiple Search Engines |
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| Navigation is based on course structure | | | |
| Various dynamic navigation elements | | | Limited |
| Links to external pages | | | |
| Links to internal pages | | | |
| Games Based Learning |
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| Multiple choice question | | Limited | Limited |
| Drag and Drop | | | Limited |
| Fill in the blank | | | Limited |
| Hot Spots |
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| Visual effects | | | |
| Questions can be randomized | | | |
| Questions answers can be randomized | | | |
| Immediate or delayed feedback | | | |
| Questions can be drawn from a pool | | | |
| Configurable score weights | | | |
| Question can be any interaction | | | |
| Control of partial answer handling | | | |
| Built-in Narration Recording |
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| Automatic Narration Sequencing |
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| Closed Captioning for disabled learners |
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| Multi-byte character support |
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| Enhanced bi-directional support |
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| Publish online | | | |
| Publish offline (CD, desktop) | | | |
| Content can be run without a plug-in |
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| SCORM 1.2 compliant |
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| SCORM 2004 compliant |
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| Integration with a third party LMS |
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