Author Benefits

Using Word (or PowerPoint) and YAWC to maintain standard or elearning-specific content makes life easy for authors, since that is the application they are most familiar with.

• Ease-of-use: Word is the de facto editor familiar to most people, so no training or familiarisation is required. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can maintain web pages with YAWC Online.
• Speed: Because all content is maintained in Microsoft Word, anyone can easily edit pages or create new content. The YAWC conversion process ensures pages are automatically presented using the correct HTML template, avoiding any need for assistance by a skilled webmaster, and thus removing all delays to publication.
• High quality output: With YAWC, your web pages are guaranteed to comply with WAI Accessibility Guidelines and SCORM packaging format. So you can publish packages to your LMS quickly and easily, and all your students can access the material.
• Simple configuration: No software installation is required, as Word is already available. A single Word templates is required to assist authors in applying the correct formatting to documents, by offering menus and keyboard shortcuts, and some extra macros.
• Future-proof: YAWC converts documents into XML before converting into HTML. If you want to migrate to a fully-fledged XML-based CMS in the future, all your existing content can be easily imported into the new system. Even if you only want to change the website design, it is easy to re-publish all content from XML, with a new HTML template, without reconverting from Word.