Powerful & Affordable Learning Management of SCORM™-compliant Content
New in Version 6
- Adds new Division level that is a grouping of organizations. Courses and Classes can be assigned at the Division level.
- Optional Security Questions for resetting your password.
- Supervisor Administrators/Reporters can be assigned at the Organization or Division level as well as configuring the supervisor's direct reports.
- Adds 49 new reports/graphs.
- New Audio and Video lessons. Link directly to the media file and Tracker provides all SCORM communication. Optionally play in HTML 5 when supported and revert to Windows Media Player otherwise.
- Additional lesson settings to skip bookmarks/suspend data, set the maximum number of lesson attempts, or end access after completion.
- Greatly improved Windows Authentication.
- Ability to "skin" the interface through jQueryUI.
- Automatically saves your last report/graph selected.
- Special "External Mode" for integrating Tracker.Net into another system.
- Redesigned and improved Global Settings screen.
- Settings to hide inactive classes, courses, lessons, and/or students in the Administrator or Reporter.
- Improved interface that is easily accessible from mobile devices.
- Updated Tracker Reporter
application allows users to view 109 reports and 118 graphs by student, lesson,
course, class, organization, and division.
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Scheduler
application can now send division emails as well as organization/course/class emails.
Any student information such as username and password can be included.
- Updated and expanded Tracker Reports SQL Server Reporting Services solution boasts 101 reports and 125 graphs by student, lesson,
course, class, organization, and division.
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Downloadable trial version
- Much more!
View Features Added in Version 5
New in Version 5
- Adds graphs for the first time. There are a total of 92 graphs: 14 student, 18
lesson, 19 course, 21 class, and 20 organization.
- New and redesigned reports featuring drill-downs and popup certificates. There
are a total of 97 reports: 23 student, 17 lesson, 24 course, 14 class, and 19
organization.
- Reports and graphs can include multiple students, lessons, courses, classes, or
organizations at a time.
- Reports can now be saved to PDF, Word, or Excel.
- Ability to sequence courses.
- Can limit access to courses on a particular date, once completed, or X days
after first use.
- New Termination Date
for students for only allowing access to the system for a fixed amount of time.
- Updated Tracker Store
offers the ability to extend the Termination Date as well as email
username/password to users.
- Ability to set the status, times, score, etc. for multiple students at once.
- New interface for selecting which reports you want included by category.
- Match certificate graphics to organization, lesson, course, or class.
- Choose individual lessons, courses, and classes to produce Continuing Education
Unit (CEU) certificates.
- Choose "filter" or "search box" interface for Administrator and Reporter
screens.
- Can optionally persist the filter or search box information between sessions.
- Highly-optimized SCORM communication that dramatically reduces delay when
exiting lessons.
- Option to hide correct answers in student reports.
- New Tracker Reporter
application allows users to view 86 reports and 92 graphs by student, lesson,
course, class, and organization.
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Scheduler
application can now send organization emails as well as course/class emails.
Any student information such as username and password can now be included.
- Can choose to display lessons in a frame rather than a popup window. This
avoids popup blocker issues as well as gives the e-Learning developer more
control on exit behavior.
- Ability to organize "Open Enrollment" courses into a Catalog.
Users can then choose which course(s) to add to their "My Courses" screen.
View Features Added in Version 4
New in Version 4
- Set course and lesson status via Administrator.
- Support of offline lessons.
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My Courses
screen updates status without the need to refresh.
- Optional "Lesson Update Message" when lessons information successfully
received.
- New Report Viewer
reports in addition to standard tabular reports.
- 14 New Reports.
- Ability to email and save certificates to HTML.
- New Scheduler
application for sending course/class emails based on student status.
- Dramatically faster Administrator operations.
- New Tracker Store
e-Commerce site for courses and classes.
- Improved Student Import Utility.
- Ability to set students, courses, and lessons to inactive.
- Support for Windows Authentication.
- Various new settings like the ability to match graphics to organizations, the
ability to set email credentials, the option to count failed lessons
toward course completion, and more.
- Support of up to 10 simultaneous languages.
- Ability to discard interaction data and lock lesson status once completed.
- Ability to run lessons on other web sites with the optional Remote Tracker
product.
View Features Added in Version 3
New in Version 3
- Fully multilingual with simultaneous support of six languages.
- Supports Internet Explorer™, Firefox™, Chrome™, and Safari™ browsers.
- Supports the SCORM&153; 2004 Runtime Environment.
- View or email reports as Microsoft®
Word, Microsoft Excel, or HTML.
- Send students notification emails when they are assigned a course.
- User-configurable Alert, Critical, and Expired status.
- New My Courses
interface options.
- Filter courses and lessons by status or keyword.
- Assign courses and classes by organization.
- Improved password-changing options.
- Ability to customize and close lesson window.
- Many new reports.
- More notification email options.
- Required course completion dates.
- Notification messages for individual courses, lessons, and classes.
The Problem:
Organizations around the world need to manage e-Learning. The leading standard for the communication between the content and the Learning Management System (LMS) is the SCORM Runtime Environment. Tracker.Net applies the awesome power of ASP.NET and Microsoft® SQL Server™ to this task. Come join customers like Circle K, British Airways, Syncrude Canada, YMCA of the USA, Long Island Rail Road, American Signature, Mac's Convenience Stores, L-3 Communications, St. Francis Healthcare, Copenhagen Airports, Drug Free Business, various government agencies, and many more!
My Courses Screen
Tracker Scheduler Application
Tracker Reporter Application
The Solution:
Tracker.Net implements all mandatory and optional communication elements listed in the SCORM 1.2 and 2004 Runtime Environment Specification. Rather than messing with SCORM manifest files, you use Tracker.Net's Administrator interface to define lesson locations, organize lessons into courses, set passing scores, and more. You can even set lesson and course completion status via the Administrator in addition to having it set automatically via SCORM. Tracker.Net manages ToolBook HTML, Flash, Dreamweaver, Lectora, Captivate, ASP.NET, and any other content that can communicate via SCORM.
System Requirements:
Web Server
- Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 or later
- Windows® Server 2003 or later
- .NET Framework 4.5 (runtime)
Database
- Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 or later
Browser
- Internet Explorer 7 or later
- Newer versions of Firefox, Safari, and Chrome. Not tested with other browsers but we encourage you to try them yourself.
Client (Only for those users running the Tracker Reporter™, Tracker Scheduler™,
Tracker Student Importer, and Tracker Configuration applications)
- Windows Vista SP2 or later
- .NET 4.5 Runtime (added if needed by the installation)
Price
Despite its great capabilities, Tracker.Net continues
to be one of the lowest prices of any major LMS. Newer data is not
regularly published, but check out Brandon Hall Research's 2005 LMS prices at http://www.vbtrain.net/documents/jan5-05.htm. You'll notice that the
low prices in the Brandon Hall report include both the Tracker.Net licensing and the additional technical support costs!
These prices have gone up only $2,000 since this report.
Tracker.Net
Description |
Price
|
Up to 500 Users (single web site) |
$6,995 |
Up to 2000 Users (single web site) |
$8,995 |
Unlimited Users (single web site) |
$10,995 |
Note that you can move between levels at any time by paying
the difference in licensing costs.
Supporting Applications
Description |
Price
|
Tracker Reporter Application (per user) |
$495 |
Tracker Scheduler Application (per user) |
$495 |
Tracker Store e-Commerce Site (per web site) |
$995 |
Remote Tracker for hosting remote lessons (per web site) |
$995 |
Tracker.Net source code for internal use |
$4,995 |
Tracker Store source code for internal use |
$795 |
Technical Support
Description |
Price
|
One year email-only technical support |
$795 |
Try It Out
Run Tracker.Net
Feel free to add yourself as a new student. You will then see all the courses configured as "Open Enrollment." If you would like to see some existing data, you can use:
user name: demo
password: a
Please send any comments, questions, problems, or feature requests to:
tracker@plattecanyon.com
Click
to see a January 2006 article in Aerospace International magazine to
shows how Platte Canyon reseller IDC Training Solutions has used Tracker.Net to
manage their aviation content for British Airways, CityJet, and other airlines
Tracker Reporter Video
Tracker Scheduler Video
Comments
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We are a small non-profit organization and for three years we have been using Tracker.Net by Platte Canyon Software http://www.trackernet.net. We researched dozens of vendors and Tracker.Net gives us the “biggest bang for the buck” by far. This is software you purchase and run off a server, but it wasn't hard to install and the support has always been friendly and fast. It has more flexible features than you could ever use. This was the least expensive program that we reviewed. Yes, its initial cost is probably more than for a hosted solution, but once you calculate the actual costs over a period of time we found that Tracker.Net paid for itself the first year. They have a free live webinar demonstration every week, and/or you can request an individual demonstration and/or download a free trial version.
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After much discussion we have concluded that Tracker.Net is a great fit for our company.
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Check with Jeff Rhodes at Platte Canyon. They have a nifty LMS that is fairly robust and is priced very competitively.
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I found this LMS very easy to set up, both on a localhost machine as well as then moving the files to a Web Server. Once I got IIS up and running on a Windows 2000 machine, and installed a Developer's version of Microsoft SQL 2000, it was just a matter of hours to download, install, and configure Tracker.Net. After learning how to set up Organizations, Classes, Courses, and Students, I was a few hours away from developing some ToolBook content to test locally.
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We've been using Tracker.Net for about 6 months now to administer training to about 300 flight crew in an airline in Ireland. We've installed the LMS on their local server and we service our SCOs remotely from the UK. The system works extremely well.
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The simple-to-use interface means students can concentrate on the learning material rather than having to worry about how to navigate the LMS and how to launch the course.