Specialized authoring
Create purpose-built editors for content or data that needs more guidance than a standard field can provide.
Impression Connect
Make Scribe part of the workflow around it.
Bring project-specific web and desktop applications into the authoring environment, with access to the project, lesson, and Storyboard the author is already working with.
SImpression ScribeACTIVE AUTHORING CONTEXT
01Custom authoring
02Validation
03Workflow
04External systems
Extend the authoring environment
Give specialized work a natural place inside Scribe.
Some courseware programs need tools that would never belong in a generic authoring product. Impression Connect lets those tools launch from Scribe and communicate with the content already open in the editor.
An extension can be a browser-based application or a Windows application. Instead of asking the author to locate a project, reopen a lesson, or identify the current Storyboard in another system, Scribe can provide that working context when the application starts.
The result is a focused tool that feels like part of the production environment while remaining free to use the interface, logic, data sources, and technology its purpose requires.
Project-specific capabilities
Build around the work that makes the program different.
Connect extensions are not limited to a prescribed set of add-ons. They can address the content, review, data, and production requirements of a particular organization or project.
Validation and quality checks
Inspect lesson information against project rules and take authors directly to the content that needs attention.
Media workflows
Associate requests, specifications, notes, status, or production information with the relevant lesson or Storyboard.
Review and discrepancies
Capture issues and supporting data in the context of the courseware without forcing that workflow into the instructional content itself.
Lookup and reference tools
Bring terminology, approved language, source data, catalogs, or other external information into the authoring process.
System integration
Exchange data with project databases, production systems, reporting tools, or other applications the program depends on.
These are examples, not a fixed extension catalog. Connect provides the integration layer for applications designed around other requirements as well.
Context-aware applications
Stay connected to what the author is doing.
A Connect application can begin with information about the current environment, content database, selected lesson, active lesson, and running extension instance.
It can work with course and project information, read lesson and Storyboard content, and respond as the author’s context changes. When an application is designed to update courseware, Connect provides the session and locking behavior needed to coordinate those changes with Scribe.
Know the environment
Work with project configuration, users, course structure, and the active content database.
Understand the source
Read the current lesson structure and its complete XML content model.
Focus the task
Use the selected learning unit and its properties as the context for a specialized operation.
Connect APIs
A practical interface to Scribe and its content.
Connect uses a local HTTP-based API, allowing web technologies and desktop applications to exchange XML, JSON, and supporting data with Scribe.
Work with courseware
Access project information, course structure, lessons, Storyboards, active authoring context, and supported content operations.
Store workflow data
Associate application-defined posts—such as requests, discrepancies, or production notes—with a project, lesson, or Storyboard.
Support the application
Retrieve environment and application information, available users, timestamps, unique identifiers, and connection status.
Develop and deploy
Create the extension that fits the requirement.
Organizations can build their own Connect extensions, engage Logicdriven, or incorporate an extension supplied for a particular program. Each project controls which applications are available, how they are ordered, and whether access is restricted.
The Impression Connect SDK documents the Content, Talk, and Utilities APIs and provides the technical reference needed to build against the connection layer.
What should Scribe connect to?
Tell us about the authoring task, production workflow, or external system that needs to become part of the courseware process.