New functions in UPK 11

In the old days, you would create e-learning content (simulations and web pages) in UPK, and publish it to Knowledge Pathways Designer. Then you would add questions and assessments to the content, and publish the combined content to Knowledge Pathways Manager, where it would become visible in the Knowledge Pathways user interface portal, where users could use the content.

UPK 11 is here!

In less than a year after Oracle OpenWorld in September 2010, Oracle released User Productivity Kit 11 as promised in July 2011. UPK 11 is the next generation of UPK, building on the previous successes of UPK 3.5 and 3.6.

Why UPK 11, instead of UPK 4? Well, Oracle needed to bring the UPK version numbering more into line with Oracle's other products, like E-Business Suite 12, PeopleSoft 8.9, and Agile 9.3. So they chose UPK 11, instead of UPK 4. (Apocryphally, UPK 11 = UPK 4 plus Knowledge Pathways 7.)

Prioritizing and Targeting Training Content

When you’re planning your training curriculum for an Enterprise system, you need to analyze:

Working with Oracle User Productivity Kit Professional

Oracle's User Productivity Kit Professional is now on version 6.2! But what IS "UPK Professional"? Basically, it's Oracle User Productivity Kit 3.5.1, and Oracle Knowledge Pathways 5.5, sold together.

Problems with images displaying in my UPK Player file

Q: Images or files are not displaying properly in my UPK Player.

A: Occasionally the images or documents you've included in your UPK Player may not display properly. This could be due to "over-organizing" your files on the server with a folder structure that is too deep. We are often tempted to build a folder structure on our UPK web server for storing files that, while it makes sense to us, makes it difficult for the Player to function properly.

Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) as a repository for training materials

One of the challenges of providing training support for your organization is keeping track of all of the training resources available to your end users. Often there are multiple places where training materials may be found, and in many different formats. End users often end up frustrated with trying to find the written or on-line resources, and they call your help desk for answers instead.

Oracle User Productivity Kit

User Productivity Kit is a simulation production and publishing tool from Oracle, which recently purchased the company that developed UPK, Global Knowledge. After you record a transaction in your target software application, you can generate four different playback modes (non-interactive See It! mode, interactive Try It! mode, interactive-with-scoring Know It? mode, and interactive context-sensitive-help Do It! mode). A fifth mode, Print It!, lets you decide whether to include a link to a printed version of the simulation.