AD is the acronym for Active Document.  Pictures,  sounds, video plays,  texts, etc. are expositive elements, even with links (hypertext). Pictures,  sounds, video plays,  texts, etc. will be active if the reader can act upon them AND this action generates a circumstantial reaction  as a result, called message.  Action and circumstantial message are very important for the documents which are used for training and learning within schools, enterprises or for Distance/Online courses. Thus, the trainees find themselves as experimenters, that are actually guided by the expositive elements, the assignments (when using the active elements) and the results of the experience (by returned messages). Furthermore, at any moment trainee can consult or record any foregoing actions. The active documents have a part to play in every step of  the process of training.
 The screenshots found in Illustrations  1 ,  2  ,  3,   4,  5,  6,  M  and Puzzle on left side column tend to show the various applications of active documents and its characteristics. The page CD enumerates the files found on the CD and the pages TRY THIS describe, step by step, the creation of documents with ADWorks. 
 

ADWorks is a software that admits documents to be prepared with expositive elements, active elements, messages and  dispositions of appearing messages.
ADPlayer is a software that is used  only by the trainees. The user acts upon the active elements, receives the messages, records into activity files the various actions, can also consult the  actions taken and read the returned messages, can examine the score, can create notes and can consult indications, help or even look at the answers of  the assignments.

 ADWorks is to the trainer, as to ADPlayer for the trainee.

• Learning ADWorks does not require any script programming.
• ADWorks allows temporary jumps into ADPlayer to test the ongoing work of the document.
• No special computer knowledge is required.
• Find on the pages TRY THIS a detailed description of the use of ADWorks

The additional complementary program, ADAnalyze , is used to analyze the actions on the active elements and the statistical elements. Statistical elements are elements that do not send messages. ADAnalyze is an important tool for the Trainer. More about ADAnalyze.

Trainer uses ADWorks to create source documents, which extension is *.Adsrc. 
Trainees uses ADPlayer to act upon the active units of a compiled document, which extension is *.ADcomp.
Trainees can save the actions into activity files, which extension is *.Adact.
Trainer examines the activity files by using the software ADAnalyze. More about ADAnalyze.

 

ADWorks allows to create model (templates) that also contain model messages. Modals in German, French and English are available and can be downloaded (cf. Templates on page CD). These models are easy to create in other languages as well, look hereunder, Multilingual aspect.
 

ADWorks has a translation dialog. This dialog allows translating into any language all the texts within the dialog boxes and  menus of ADPlayer.
The translations are included in the Models, therefore, it becomes a part of the compiled document.

ADPlayer is multilingual and independant from the language of ADWorks because of this feature..

For example: The illustration illustation M comments and shows the menu of ADPlayer in German, but there is no german release of ADWorks. The model to create a document in German can be found on the CD, see Template on the CD page. 
 

Find on the page  license the price of the CD that can be ordred and the prices for the different kind of licences. The page CD gives an enumeration of the files of the CD.