Mzinga Announces New Release of Firefly Collaborative Authoring Suite

Mzinga announced the immediate availability of its new Firefly Collaborative Authoring Suite, composed of the company's Firefly Simulation Developer and Firefly Publisher tools. Firefly 5.0, the latest version of the company's Firefly Simulation Developer tool, features enhancements to the product's three fundamental capabilities: depth and quality of the capture technology, overall instructional design and development flexibility, and an engaging end-user learning experience. Mzinga has enhanced Firefly's capture capabilities by extending support .Net, and newer coding models such as those involving doctypes. Firefly also fully supports the tabbed interface of Internet Explorer 7.0. Firefly Publisher 3.2 enables team-based authoring of interactive eLearning courses in a Web-based environment. All Firefly Publisher courses (regardless of version) now support Firefox and other Gecko-based browsers, such as Mozilla SeaMonkey, as well as the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems. Additionally, the Firefly Publisher user interface can now be localized to any language. A new Flash-based engine provides better development control of shapes and other design elements, and new configuration options allow learners to be redirected to specific locations within a course based on test results. SCORM course completion conditions can also be fully configured to address varied corporate learning standards. http://www.mzinga.com