VirtualBook® has been developed as an interface specifically for the education and training environment, and has numerous useful features that enhance its effectiveness as a medium for the delivery of course material, such as:

VirtualBook® is ideal for:

• User-friendly, familiar and intuitive (the Book paradigm): no need to be a technocrat
• Offers the reader/learner familiar aids, such as margin notes, highlighters, bookmarks
• Time management chart indicates to the student time spent on each chapter of the material and tracks the time taken on submittable tests
• User-friendly help at the click of a button
• Seamless query connection facilitating questions to the tutor at the click of a button. Information about student progress is automatically included, together with the paragraph onto which the student dragged the query icon
• Interacts seamlessly with the Internet, where support can be provided from a customised website with all facilities such as Newsgroups, ChatRooms, Updates, Searchable FAQs, Online Testing
• Seamless hot-linking to websites whose URLs are included in the text
• Facilitates interactive learning and self-testing (e.g. drag n' drop; MCQs; fill in words; free form writing and drawing)
• Immediate feedback on self-marking test facilities
• Includes a robust search engine that indicates all sources of the requested word/phrase with a hotlink to each occurrence of the word
• Provides a multimedia-rich environment - sound, video, animated drawings, but also makes the studying of text-rich material as comfortable and sustainable as possible
• Allows step-by-step instruction using an application or simulator, and provides seamless access to the application