PHOENIX

The Intelligent Computer-Based Training (CBT) Solution

Large organizations worldwide have found a proven training solution in PHOENIX® from Pathlore. PHOENIX is engineered for the enterprise- for students, trainers, and administrators. It's an intelligent solution that delivers the training and bottom-line results you want – at the right time.

Delivering the right training at the right time

PHOENIX offers authoring, administration, presentation, and reporting on IBM and IBM-compatible mainframes. PHOENIX allows you to manage all phases of the computer-based training (CBT) life cycle-from design through evaluation. And your students and authors have to learn only one product. PHOENIX lets you:

• Deliver consistent effective training-to the right people at the right time
• Design and update courses easily, and make them available to all employees-no matter where they are
• Author courses in your preferred environment and distribute them across mainframes
• Distribute, maintain, and administer training easily
• Produce reports that document student performance, improve training, and prove return on investment
• Offer instructor and student menus in multiple languages and author/edit menus in French, English, and Italian
  

INDIVIDUALIZED LEARNING

PHOENIX offers highly interactive courses that engage employees and help them easily assimilate and retain information. And it offers various features that help you determine employees' pace of learning and skill levels, so you can individualize training to match their specific needs. PHOENIX courses use:

• Fully functional application simulations that allow students to learn through trial-and-error safely
• Drill and practice exercises that integrate various question types with Tutorial Dialog to reinforce retention
• Feedback that tells employees how well they are doing by confirming correct responses and explaining incorrect ones
• Pre- and post-tests to measure employee competence, course mastery, and training results
• Response-analysis features that let authors analyze student responses to further specify factors such as anticipated responses, synonyms, acceptable variations, and wildcard characters
  

Based on student responses and results, course authors can then customize courses and link students to more advanced or remedial instruction. PHOENIX facilitates highly interactive courses, so employees easily assimilate the information they are given.

EASY AUTHORING

PHOENIX lets authors take advantage of their own creativity and instructional design expertise without forcing them to learn additional programming. The PHOENIX menu-driven system lets authors create courses quickly and easily. In addition, PHOENIX gives authors:

• Built-in editors with features that permit quick content modification, boosting author productivity
• Presentation capabilities such as highlighting, color, extended characters, windows, and overlays, so authors can direct employee attention to important areas and create visually appealing courses
• Variables that can be used to display changing data
• Capabilities such as screen capture, course testing, easy-to-modify templates, and multiple authoring sessions that let authors toggle between creating screens and viewing them
  

And with PHOENIX, authors can set up profiles that incorporate editing preferences including accelerator keys and fast-path commands, greatly enhancing their overall productivity.

RESULTS-ORIENTED REPORTING AND ADMINISTRATION

PHOENIX offers substantial reporting and administration features to help training administrators coordinate and measure the overall CBT program. Reporting features enable administrators to verify employee competence, make improvements in training, and meet auditing and regulatory requirements. They also help administrators monitor and fine-tune overall training efforts, especially when courses are first introduced or revised.

PHOENIX reports are key-word driven, making them easy to create. With PHOENIX you can generate both composite and individual performance reports, including mastery levels, average scores, and time spent on the course. PHOENIX offers reporting features like overviews, individual reports, even user-defined reports. Administrators can use online reports to track employee activity in real time, or print reports offline.

With PHOENIX reports you can also discover:

• Items most students found difficult
• Areas of confusion or unclear wording
• Difficult versus easy topics
  

And easy-to-use PHOENIX administration functions let you:

• Edit the sign-on screen
• Print courses
• Register students and authors
• List courses and current users
  

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Supports any 3270 device, including PCs connected to the mainframe as 3270s
• IBM 30xx, 43xx, ES/9xxx, Z-Series or compatible
• All supported release levels of MVS, VM, or OS/390
• Optional XA memory support (above the 16 M line) for MVS
• MVS teleprocessing interfaces with VTAM, TSO, CICS, IDMS, or IMS
• VM teleprocessing interfaces with CMS or VTAM