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Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.5

By : Dirk Manuel
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Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.5

By: Dirk Manuel

Overview of this book

As the complexity of software applications increases and the length of the implementation life cycles decreases, companies are looking for effective ways of training users in new applications, and the new releases of existing applications. Oracle's User Productivity Kit solves these problems by enabling the rapid creation of software application simulations, which are used for training purposes or to generate business documents. Although UPK provides such advanced features, nothing has been written about this application yet. This book provides a guided approach to building high-quality, re-functional simulations of tasks performed in software applications. With this book in hand, it is easy for organizations that are implementing or upgrading software to meet their full training and documentation requirements. This book explains how to harness all of the functionality provided by Oracle's User Productivity Kit, formerly known as OnDemand, to develop better quality training. It also covers the advanced topics of customizing UPK's built-in delivery formats, and defining new ones to extend the capabilities of UPK. This book explains how to make the most of Oracle User Productivity Kit's available functionality to create high-quality simulations. These simulations can be used during instructor-led training, self-directed learning, or refresher training. By following the approach described in this book, you will create world-class training material that your trainees will find useful, engaging, and informative. As a result, they will remember more of what they are taught, and will be better equipped to use the application on which you are training them. In turn, they will become more productive sooner, make fewer mistakes, and require less support. To ensure effective knowledge transfer through training simulations, it is necessary to add a business context to recordings, and to provide additional explanations. This book will teach you more than simple mouse-clicks and keystrokes.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.5
Credits
About the author
Acknowledgment
About the reviewer
Preface
Object Types

Importing and exporting sound files


In addition to recording sound files from within the Topic Editor, you can also create sound files outside of UPK, and then import these into the Topic Editor. There are some good reasons for doing so (apart from the fact that recording from within UPK just doesn't seem to work with some software and/or hardware set-ups). The most significant of these is that you may choose to use external "talent" to record all of your sound files. Perhaps you don't personally have the most engaging voice (as you will see if you play the sample exercise for this chapter, I include myself as one of those); perhaps you have someone within your organization who sounds like Richard Burton or Don LaFontaine (now that would make for an interesting exercise!); or perhaps you can afford to hire a professional.

Alternatively, you may already have sound files that you want to use. Perhaps these are sound files from another Library, or a previous installation of UPK (or OnDemand...