Authoring Environment

Sapling Learning's elegant authoring environment that is unrivaled in terms of power and ease-of-use. It puts the creation and improvement of sophisticated online learning content directly in the hands of educators.

Easy-to-Use

Elegant Authoring – The Sapling Authoring Environment is "What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get" (WYSIWYG). Because the authoring environment looks and behaves similarly to the student environment, there is no need to switch between "author view" and "student view"

Familiar Interface – The Sapling Authoring Environment is a Rich Internet Application that provides the power and feel of a desktop application. With a similar flow and feel as presentation software such as Microsoft PowerPoint™ and Apple Keynote™, authoring is familiar to educators who produce many slides for their lectures.

Code-Free – Creating and editing sophisticated instructional content is easy within the Sapling Learning Environment. Even rich, robust content that involves drawing or algorythms can be authored without the need to be trained in code, markup, or scripting languages. Authors simply point, click, drag, and type.

Limitless Creativity – The Sapling Learning Environment is unique in that any type of content element can be placed anywhere. Rich elements such as 3D molecules, animations, vector diagrams, animations, video, etc. can be given to students in the question, within a hint, as answer feedback, or as a part of the solution. All of these elements can be added as easily as adding an image to a slide.

Create Engaging and Effective Instructional Content

Rich Content – The Sapling Authoring Environment features the SaplingScienceSuiteTM, a collection of the industry’s richest interactive tools for teaching science. This enables authors to create questions that assess the drawing of molecular structures and reaction mechanisms, atom selections within 3D molecules, filling orbital diagrams, writing chemical and mathematics equations, drawing vector diagrams, and more.

Powerful Instruction – The Sapling Authoring Environment allows authors to create incredibly sophisticated and effective content. Authors can create multi-part questions with many answer blanks. Instruction can include hints, specific answer feedback, and detailed algorithmic solutions. Even the most powerful of instructional methodologies, such as tutorial mentoring and guided solutions, are available to every instructor.