Comparison Table
New in Composica 4.0| Features | Composica 4.0 | Web-based Competitor | Desktop Competitor |
| Collaborative Web-Based infrastructure | Limited | ||
| WYSIWYG authoring environment | |||
| Central repository for learning objects | |||
| Central repository for media | |||
| Content reusability | Limited | ||
| Inheritance of styles and layouts | |||
| Entirely programming-free | |||
| Familiar windows-like look and feel | |||
| Embedding of media and documents | Limited | ||
| Central installation and maintenance | |||
| No installation required for developers | |||
| Improved workflow management and tasks | Limited | ||
| Special Contributer role for SME | Limited | ||
| Universal Media Player | |||
| Smart Content Preloading | Limited | ||
| Cost | |||
| Social Authoring | |||
| Dashboards and Team Visibility | |||
| Development Blogs, comments, RSS | |||
| Built-in Chat | |||
| Resources Tagging | |||
| Social Learning | |||
| Course Blogs | |||
| Course Comments | |||
| Ratings | |||
| Embedded RSS Feeds | |||
| Authoring aids | |||
| Built-in Spell Checking | |||
| Alignment tools | |||
| Spacing/distribution tools | |||
| Size matching tools | |||
| Built-in vector graphics tools | |||
| Media explorer | |||
| Mashup Widgets | |||
| YouTube Movies | |||
| Google Charts | |||
| Multiple Search Engines | Navigation | ||
| Navigation is based on course structure | |||
| Various dynamic navigation elements | Limited | ||
| Links to external pages | |||
| Links to internal pages | |||
| Interactions | |||
| Multiple choice question | Limited | Limited | |
| Drag and Drop | Limited | ||
| Fill in the blank | Limited | ||
| Hot Spots | Limited | ||
| Visual effects | |||
| Assessments | |||
| Questions can be randomized | |||
| Questions answers can be randomized | |||
| Immediate or delayed feedback | |||
| Questions can be drawn from a pool of questions | |||
| Configurable score weights | |||
| Question can be any interaction | |||
| Control of partial answer handling | |||
| Narration | |||
| Built-in Narration Recording | Limited | ||
| Automatic Narration Sequencing | Limited | ||
| Closed Captioning for hearing disabled learners | |||
| Multi-lingual support | |||
| Multi-byte character support | |||
| Enhanced bi-directional support (right-to-left) | |||
| Publish | |||
| Publish online | |||
| Publish offline (CD, desktop) | |||
| Course content can be run without a plug-in | Limited | ||
| SCORM 1.2 compliant | |||
| SCORM 2004 compliant | Limited | ||
| AICC PENS compliant | |||
| Integration with third party LMS | |||