Hi Clark,

thanks for your post - and yes, this is the right place for any questions, comments etc. Please keep them coming.

To answer your questions:

We are planning to build a collaborative, web-based authoring tool for use with small and large teams alike. Given that the collaborators are all involved in the commercial creation of e-learning courses, we are very aware of the issues of a large and potentially distributed team working together and also of giving clients early insights and the ability to review and comment. We see collaboration as one of the key requirements of the authoring tool.

We're also mindful of making the management (and replacement) of assets as simple and powerful as possible by building in a central asset management area, where the usage of assets can be seen and where assets can be replaced and changes applied to all courses that use the assets in question.

At the moment, we're still focused on getting out an initial release. Our v0.1 will be a 'skeleton tool' and will still require developer skills to work with. Once this is out, we'll then be on a trajectory to deliver version 1.0, which will be aimed at a non-technical audience.

At this point, we are aiming for the collaboration-type requirements for release 1.0, classed as 'should' under the 'Reviewer' type user. You can see a complete breakdown here.

Hope this answers your question - please feel free to feed in any thoughts and thanks for your encouragement!

Sven

PS: our somewhat raw authoring tool concept document may be another useful place to get an overview