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by RBr 5769 days ago
I have composed learning materials using almost every Learning Management System available.

Your interface is clean and easy to understand. The simple content section on the left along with easy to understand CMS controls are exceptionally well done.

This feels like part of a larger product. Learning materials take hundreds of hours to prepare and I wouldn't trust my time with your new product. Not that it isn't well created, just that I don't have any control over the hosting or storage and I don't see an easy way for me to backup or duplicate content on more trustworthy platforms such as Google Docs or even good old Word.

Your application may be a good add-on for a small publisher. A publisher could offer your product (branded as their own) to extend their texts online and keep them up-to-date.

I could see the advantage to this for either a business (in sort of a Wiki setup) or a school, however without a real direction, it's a bit difficult for me and your potential customers to see.

Overall, I really like this. I wish that it was integrated into a full LMS and that I could quickly and easily spin my content into texts.

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Thanks for the feedback RBr!

Actually you're the second user today to tell me the lack of export formats is a problem. I plan to offer export options, but it is not simple. There are some features like audio, associations or exercises that cannot be easily reproduced in other formats. An XML file would be a good start though.

Connecting with existing LMS: you're right I need to look more into that.

>Connecting with existing LMS: you're right I need to look more into that.

Please get in touch with me. My profile will tell you why and my contact details.

one tool you may find worth playing with is Pandoc see http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ it might be very helpful because once you get it working for one format that pandoc supports, you pretty much get support for all the others for free!