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For who?⚓

Opale is meant for:

  • Teachers, trainers, educational engineers and all actors in charge of producing rich educational content,

  • Universities and schools, training centers, corporate universities,...

For what?⚓

  • Design expository training modules, made of learning and assessment activities

  • Produce from the same content the various documents needed for the training course:

    • Online course material (web),

    • Printable booklet for the learner (PDF),

    • Presentation slideshow (Html),

    • Trainer's document (PDF).

  • Enrich the educational content with multimedia resources: videos, sounds, pictures, detailed diagram, mathematical formulae (LaTeX, OpenDocument),...

  • Create quizzes: Unique-choice question, Multiple-choice question, Matching exercises, Numerical-answer questions,...

  • Produce training materials accessible in web format (HTML),

  • Obtain modules compatible with the SCORM 1.2 and 2004 standard in order to distribute them via a training platform LMS or MOOC.

What interests?⚓

  • Use a writing guide making it easier to express the didactic purpose of each part.

  • Easily design complex resources such as quizzes.

  • Publish documents in several formats  (PDF, web,...), via various channels (website, learning platform, Virtual Learning Environment, print,...), from a unique source of content, without re-writing nor copy-pasting.

  • Homogenize the publications with the automated layout of documents.

  • Recombine course units and exercises to create different versions of the course.

  • Optimize the management and updating of information by creating shared educational units, without duplication.

  • Manage several versions of a unique module thanks to filters.

  • Create durable contents (XML structure) usable whatever the technological development of the web browsers and learning platforms: it is the software that manages the publication formats.

  • Organize the work of a team: writing, reviewing, validating (in a client/server environment ).

Examples⚓

Browse in these documents created with Opale.

Web Opale moduleSlideshowPDF print publicationWeb tutorialWeb exerciser - “self-evaluation” modeExerciser - evaluation PDFWeb exerciser - “self-learning” modeQuestion bank

Example contents⚓

The sources of these contents are available on the download site and accessible from your application.

Import them in your workspace; they will allow you to discover the key features of Opale.

How does it work?⚓

Thanks to a specific writing guide, Opale enables one to write structured educational contents composed of three types of activities:

  • Learning activities organized in:

    • Content elements : to display and structure the information,

    • Writing exercises: practical activities with "contextualization - question - solution"

  • Self-assessment activities composed of exercises: MCQ, UCQ, Numerical-answer question, Matching, Fill-in-the-gaps exercise, Graphical multiple-choice question,...

  • Rich media activities: to split into sections a video or an audio sequence and enrich each segment, with text, definitions, pictures and additional multimedia resources...

The activities created can be gathered in Divisions to be aggregated in Modules containers.

Then the Modules are generated, with a simple click, in different formats adapted to the chosen distribution channel: paper, web,...

RemarqueTutorial and Exerciser: to extend Opale's functionalities⚓

Opale includes a Tutorial extension which enables one to create tutorials (web but also paper and slideshow), especially suitable to design linear case study and allows learners to acquire good analysis practices.

Opale also integrates an extension for the production of Exercisers, sequences of exercises, for tests in the context of evaluation or self-learning or with a question bank approach.

Truc & astuceTo train yourself...⚓

Which software to choose?⚓

You have the choice between 3 implementation modes:

  • the wsppack Opale or OpaleStarter to install on a SCENARIchain environment,

  • the desktop application Opale,

  • the desktop application and service MyScenari.

Truc & astuce

To choose, refer to the comparative table.

ComplémentChoose Opale or OpaleStarter?⚓

OpaleStarter is a simplified version of Opale. Meant for beginners, it helps understand the document model more easily, then switch to Opale (without losing contents).

Feature

OpaleStarter

Opale

Writing environment: module, division, course, part, pedagogical tag

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Learning activity, self-assessment activity

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Exercise (Tutorial type)

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Bibliographic references, definitions

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Content fragmentation for reuse

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"Short / long version" filters

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Multimedia resources

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Latex equations

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Libre Office equations

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Pictures gallery, remote web module

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UCQ, MCQ

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Quiz (fill-in-the-gaps, drag and drop,...)

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Web medium

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Print output

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Slideshow

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SCORM web medium

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Truc & astuceNeed team work?⚓

Opale can be installed in client-server mode in your infrastructure or hosted and administered by a service provider.

For more informations: Scenari servers solutions

Localization⚓

Opale is available in six languages: French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Arabic.