Comcourse LMS Learning Bridge™ First to Support New Mac OS X Tiger and Firefox

(PRWEB) June 14, 2005

Comcourse Corporation announced today that it has expanded the functionality of their LMS program, The Learning Bridge™, to fully support the new Mac OS X Tiger. All functions, including the WYSIWYG editor, work inside a Firefox browser.

The Learning Bridge™ is one of the first learning management systems in the industry to support the Mac OS X Tiger. The Learning Bridge™ has rapidly been gaining popularity in the Higher Education market as a less expensive and better alternative to other programs. This breakthrough will solidify its technological lead.

James Chellis, CEO, said “Macs are well-loved by many in education yet were ignored by many LMS vendors. Many instructors prefer to design course content inside an LMS using the Mac platform.” He added,” With full support for the LMS editor, we are now able to offer functionality which other leading learning management systems cannot deliver.”

Matthew Sheltz, Comcourse CTO added, “The Comcourse Learning Bridge™ is a next generation program which offers a major upgrade for most schools. We provide a fully hosted solution in two of the best datacenters in the world, with incredibly fast no-cost customization, 24x7x365 coverage and support, and 99.99% uptime. Plus we migrate courses hosted by other vendors for free.” Mr. Sheltz added “We also offer really useful built-in features that no one else has, and if we see something new, or one of our customers makes a request, we can usually add the function within days or weeks, again for no cost. This represents a tremendous benefit, and savings in time and money to the schools.”

A teacher at one of the schools that works with Comcourse said “I was unable to design courses on our previous LMS because I'm a Mac addict and didn’t want to hand code HTML.” He added “This new editor from Comcourse allows me to build courses, as well as use all the cool online tools they provide. It’s a huge step forward for Mac users.”

The Comcourse Learning Bridge™ is available today for both Windows and Mac clients. For schools which currently use an old LMS, Comcourse will migrate and setup the courses at no charge. For a demonstration of the program, please contact Fiachra O’Sullivan at Fiachra@comcourse.com or David Grebow at david@comcourse.com.

About Comcourse

Comcourse, Inc. was founded in 1994. Thousands of students have completed Comcourse classroom trainings, videos and used their related simulations and more than 6,000,000 copies of their study guides are in print. Today, Comcourse partners with colleges to offer better and less expensive LMS programs and turnkey online degree programs that are fully-hosted and branded for the schools. These degree programs include Allied Health, Information Technology, and Business. They provide The Comcourse Synergy Experience™ that includes the most successful methods and technology in blended online courses and course management.

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