Increasing need to educate dispersed workforces, the growing popularity of home working as well as time and cost saving initiatives are all key justifications for switching from classroom to virtual training delivery. The social distancing challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic have forced many organisations into making the change sooner than intended, as can be […]
Some of you may know it as the dominKnow Platform but it has recently been revamped and relaunched as dominKnow | ONE. This blog is intended to provide current dominKnow Flow Authors with an introduction to this new incarnation of the platform. As the title suggests, dominKnow | ONE provides access to all of the previous […]
The UPK Knowledge Center offers SCORM-compliant management and deployment of content and is known as a Learning Content Management System (LCMS). It has been shipped with UPK as an integrated module since 2006, but many UPK users don’t utilise it to its full potential. If it’s configured correctly, the UPK Knowledge Center can meet, and […]
When Oracle announced end of life for User Productivity Kit (UPK), we undertook a comprehensive analysis to identify alternative products. What we realised when we were reviewing these other tools was how much the market has changed and as a tool that is now more than 20 years old, UPK is not only competing with […]
What do we mean by rapid authoring? Well, it is essentially (just as it sounds) an eLearning authoring tool that enables you to develop an engaging and appealing eLearning course, from start to finish, quickly and easily, without requiring you to build everything from the ground up. When selecting a rapid authoring eLearning tool, there […]
According to a report from Towards Maturity back in 2013, 47% of organisations were using mobile devices in their training programmes which, according to eLearning Industry is boosting engagement and knowledge retention. 60% of people now use a Smartphone for work according to an article from Forbes and the Bring Your Own Device concept is […]
New UPK enhancements since version 12.1 Oracle User Productivity Kit – UPK 12.1 ESP 3 has just been released and is now available for download from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud. Many existing UPK Developers may not yet have taken advantage of earlier service pack releases in version 12.1, so this is an opportune time to […]
To coincide with OpenWorld at the end of October, Oracle announced the release of UPK Version 12.1.0.2 (Enablement Service Pack 2). Although ‘only’ a service pack release and not a version update it does still bring many new features for existing UPK users to get excited about, not least of which is the new Record It! […]
Oracle’s User Productivity Kit (UPK) is primarily a content development tool that can capture system process steps in any IT system. From a single capture it can create multiple online and documentation outputs to accelerate User Acceptance Testing, Training, User Adoption and Knowledge Retention. UPK is currently shipped in two versions; UPK Standard and UPK […]