New features include:
- New Style Builder tool – create your own styles
- Internationalization – new language options for generating lesson content
- Two new activities: Interactive TimeLine, Slide Show
- Create internal bookmark links within a lesson
- Ability to name pages in the Table of Contents
- New online score tracking options
- New CD-ROM packaging option
- 40 New pre-built style options
- New Multi-page print option
- Ability to integrate PodCasts and YouTube video as a media type
- Ability to optimize image sizes and automatically convert image file types
Enhancements include:
- Text wrapping around aligned images and image resizing in the editor window
- Improved “list” handling, allowing nested lists and improved list editing
- Equation Editor within activities
- Increased image size provided in Hot Spot Image and Labeling activities
- Option to increase text size in Flash Card activity
- Crossword activity allows special and foreign characters
- Improvements to table editing, including visible borders when the width is zero
- Display of point values for quizpoppers and activities
- New Keyboard shortcuts that match those in Microsoft Word
- Page footers can now include links, text formatting and special characters, and images
- New easier installation process
- New software update process allows control of update by user
2 comments:
I am very, very disappointed in version 4. I don't think there is enough difference between 3 and 4 to warrant spending 500 bucks on this. The only real new option is the slideshow. And this version is much slower than 3 as well. I have been a big fan of SoftChalk up to now, giving presentations on it at my college and using it quite a git in my online courses, but now I feel like I have been overcharged for what should have been a free upgrade. I'm glad we didn't but the 10 pack! This is still good software, but there is no good reason for a person to upgrade from 3 to 4.
SoftChalk V5 is scheduled for release May 2009. There are a lot of great new features including a media search tool, insert widget tool, and a publish to Blackboard option (which I have a feeling you would really like).
Sneak Peek webinars are being conducted right now. Check out http://www.softchalk.com/webinar for the schedule.
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