Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corporation

Microsoft Power Platform development, training, and management services

Platte Canyon's president, Jeff Rhodes, is now available as a consultant for Microsoft Power Platform development/training, agile product management, product owner, change management, and similar engagements. Jeff's resume is available at this link. Reach out to him at jrhodes@plattecanyon.com if you want to discuss possible consulting work.

Platte Canyon Highlights

New Edition of Creating Business Applications with Microsoft 365: Techniques in Power Apps, Power BI, SharePoint, and Power Automate

We are exciting to announce the new edition of this book by Jeff Rhodes has been published by Apress. Order now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or other retailers.

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Storyboarder Version 3 Exports ToolBook Fields/Record Fields to Matching TextBoxes in PowerPoint

This innovative tool creates a Microsoft Word or PowerPoint storyboard document/presentation from an existing ToolBook book. New for version 3 is the ability to create individual text boxes in PowerPoint that match the content, size, location, font, and color of the corresponding fields or record fields in ToolBook. This makes Storyboarder a great tool for importing your content into other authoring tools that accept PowerPoint. Both the Word and PowerPort exports include an optional screen capture of each page, field, button, and other text, question answers/feedback, simulation information, graphic placeholder file names, and other content. Storyboarder is available for ToolBook 11.5, 11, 10.5, and/or 10.

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Tracker.Net Version 6 Adds Divisions, Security Questions, Audio/Video Lessons, jQueryUI, and Much More

Version 6 adds a new Division level, security questions, the ability to link directly to audio and video lessons (playable via HTML 5 when available), and 49 new reports. There are also new lesson settings to skip bookmarks/suspend data, set the maximum number of lesson attempts, or end access after completion. Supervisor Administrators/Reporters can now be assigned at the Organization and Division level. This important version also offers improved Windows Authentication, the ability to "skin" the interface through jQueryUI, the option to hide inactive items, and "external mode" for integrating Tracker.Net into another system, the automatic saving of previously selected reports and graphs, and MUCH more to Tracker.Net's unprecedented power, affordability, and customization ability. The Tracker Scheduler, Tracker Reporter, Tracker Store, and Tracker Reports SQL Server Reporting Services solution are all updated and improved as well.

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Tracker Reporter Offers 178 Reports and Graphs for Tracker.Net Users

The Tracker Reporter allows you to view 86 reports and 92 graphs by student, lesson, course, class, and organization. The Tracker Reporter connects directly to your Tracker.Net SQL Server database. Multiple database connections can be stored and selected quickly.

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AICC Watch™ Makes It Easier to Create AICC Content

Platte Canyon is happy to announce the release of AICC Watch™. This new product allows e-Learning developers to develop Assignable Units (AU's) more quickly and with better accuracy. It does this by acting as a Learning Management System (LMS) and displaying and restoring the various AICC settings and messages. AICC Watch is a complete ASP.NET 4.0 application (with source code included) to help both professional developers and content authors "Build the Perfect AICC".

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Tracker Reports Provides 164 Charts and Reports via SQL Server Reporting Services

Tracker Reports gives you 70 reports and 94 charts for use in SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services. Each report and chart includes its own database access as well as the ability to select some or all students, courses, lessons, classes, or organization. Drill-down for additional data, email reports via subscriptions, and more.

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Order Programming for e-Learning Developers

Order this new book by Jeff Rhodes that covers both basic programming concepts as well as more advanced tasks like dynamically adding hyperlinks, loading media, making SCORM calls, and more. Best of all, learn how to do these tasks in ToolBook, Flash, JavaScript, and Silverlight. Now only $29.95 plus free shipping within the U.S. and inexpensive shipping the rest of the world!

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SCORM Watch™ Released

Platte Canyon is proud to announce the release of SCORM Watch™, a brand new product that allows e-Learning developers to view and test their SCORM 1.2 or 1.3 runtime environment messages.

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