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ToolBook Help Resources

To know about ToolBook:

• Do you not yet know ToolBook Instructor and Assistant? Start with SumTotal official site, the makers of ToolBook. Also consult the product datasheets: Instructor & Assistant, in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.
• Learn about the Differences between ToolBook Instructor and ToolBook Assistant.
• Request the free ToolBook Trial Download (Instructor/Assistant) from SumTotal site (warning: really large files, use of a download manager highly recommended!).
• For new features of each version, read these SumTotal technical articles and press releases:
  What's new in Assistant 2004 (Jun/2004), Instructor 2004 SP1 (Apr/2004), ToolBook 2004 [PDF] (Nov/2003), ToolBook 8.6 (May/2003), Assistant 8.5 (Aug/2003), Instructor 8.5 (Jul/2002), ToolBook 8.1 SP1 (Jul/2002), Instructor 8.1 (Jul/2001), Assistant 8.1 (Jun/2001), Instructor 8.0 (Jan/2001), Instructor 7.2 (Aug/2000), Instructor 7.1 (Oct/1999), Instructor 6.5? (Nov/1998).
• Search for ToolBook versions "Release Notes".
• See the ToolBook Guides and Tutorials.
• See the ToolBook Showcase of on-line examples.
• For a begginer overview, run the ToolBook On-Line Tutorial application.

If you have a question or doubt regarding ToolBook, I suggest you follow these steps:

1. Look for information into the ToolBook On-Line Help and the manuals
2. Search SumTotal Knowledge Base (over 5300 technical articles)
3. Search the Archives of the ToolBook Discussion List (since Jan/1995), or its corresponding newsgroup bit.listserv.toolb-l (since Jan/1993).
   If your question was not yet discussed, subscribe and ask into this International ToolBook List.
4. Look into this site :-) for tutorials, books and other information
5. Read the SumTotal ToolBook FAQ
6. Look at SumTotal Developer's Exchange for ToolBook
7. Search the old John Hall's FAQs ( HTML-based Toolb-l FAQ, 1997)
8. Look for other local ToolBook usergroups

SumTotal ToolBook

Company former names: Asymetrix Corporation; Asymetrix Learning Systems; Click2Learn (C2L). On March 19th, 2004, Click2learn and Docent merged to become SumTotal Systems. In August 3, 2005, SumTotal acquired Pathlore Software.

• ToolBook Web Site by SumTotal Systems.
• SumTotal Web Site
• SumTotal FTP Site
  Updates and patches, runtimes, samples, utilities, documentation, information. FTP Site Index (ftp.asymetrix.com).
• ToolBook Downloads
  This page has direct links to the latest release of the Neuron plugin and patches to the current shipping versions of ToolBook.
• ToolBook II Family
  • Instructor (ex Multimedia ToolBook CBT Edition)
  • Assistant
  • Publisher (ex Multimedia ToolBook) - Discontinued since version 6
• SumTotal Enterprise Suite
• SumTotal Technical Support
  ToolBook Support Services:
  
  • Online Knowledge Base: over 5280 technical articles
  • SumTotal Newsgroups (news.asymetrix.com) including:
    asymetrix.toolbook.scripting - ToolBook Scripting
  • ToolBook Downloads & Updates
  • SumTotal Developer's Exchange for ToolBook
• SumTotal Technical Documentation FTP
  The complete electronic versions (Adobe Acrobat PDF) of the Instructor, Assistant and Librarian product manuals.
• SumTotal Marketing FTP archive
  Product datasheets (PDF), interactive tours, demo screenshots and box shots.
  Marketing literature (PDF): E-learning Guides, Assistant Quick Start Companion, Courseware Catalog, and others.
• SumTotal Year 2000 Compliance (PDF 19k)
• Click2learn Quotes at Yahoo! Finance (Nasdaq: CLKS)