Pastiche Implementation Guide

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Pastiche tablet app:

A complete blended learning environment on a single tablet

Learners decide how they want to view, navigate and interact with your learning materials

Pastiche ecosystem:

Conversion, authoring and publishing tools that allow you to leverage existing training materials.

Hosted distribution service for controlled access and licensing of your content.

What is Pastiche®?

An end-to-end solution to bring your training content to your learner’s tablet


For the iPad and the Kindle Fire


Pastiche Ecosystem Overview

Authoring and Publishing Tools

Import your existing content and enrich it.Create new content.Publish Pastiche products.

Pastiche Store

Upload your Pastiche products.Make them publicly available or give access ton only specific users and groups.

Pastiche App

Upload your Pastiche products.

Learners download your iPad or Kindle Fire app from the App Store.

Within the app, they browse your product catalog.

Learners select which products to download.

They interact with your content on the tablet.


Branding

The Pastiche app and the content it plays can be branded to meet the needs of your organization


How to create/update a Branded Pastiche App

1. Design and create branding assets.

2. Send branding assets to Xyleme

3. Build and package branded Pastiche app

4. Submit app to Apple’s App Store

5. Review and Approve App

6. Make app available for download

YOUR COMPANYFollow the Pastiche branding guide to create the required images to personalize your Pastiche app with your own branding. If you are updating the app, then only the branding assets to be updated need to be provided.

Submit a zip file containing the branded assets. You can use email, ftp or a web form.

Integrate branded assets and build an app package. We will provide a preliminary app package that you can install on your iPad through iTunes Desktop or your Kindle Fire to see how your branded app looks on the tablet.

Send the app package to the App Store

End users can connect with their tablets to the App Store and download the branded app

XYLEME, INC.

APPLE, INC. / AMAZON, INC.

The Pastiche demo iPad app was approved 7 days after submission. 2 weeks is the average.Updates of the Pastiche demo app have been approved within 3 days.


How your users get your App

Download from the App Store

App Update Notification

• Your custom branded app is available in the App Store and can be downloaded as any other app.• Help your users find your app with a link on your website

• The App Store automatically notifies your users as soon as a new version of your app is available for download.

The following instructions explain how your learners install your branded Pastiche app (the player) into their tablets. How your learners get the actual content (the learning products you create) is described later in this document.

New Users

Existing Users


How to publish a Pastiche product

1. Import or Create

3. Publish

2. Real Time QA

4. Upload to Pastiche Store

• Import your existing Word, Excel, PDF and PowerPoint documents,• Enrich them and create new content with Studio, Xyleme’s authoring tool.• All content is stored in very granular, platform-agnostic XML for rapid reuse.• Drag and drop existing content (learning objects) to build new products.• Add supporting materials in a variety of formats like PDF, Excel, Word and PowerPoint.

• Publish your Pastiche product with a single click.• The Pastiche product can be loaded into the tablet directly before making it available on the

Store.

• Built-in preview to QA your product in real time within a browser. • See how your content will look in the tablet without the need to deploy to the real device• Save lots of time and hassle.

• Your own hosted Storefront.• Upload your products and make them immediately available to your learners.• Define who can download the products: make them public or only available to specific users and

groups.


How your users get your Pastiche products

1. Load the inApp Store

1. Product update notification

2. Select and install product

2. Select products to update

• Your branded app is seamlessly integrated with your Storefront.• Users authenticate and access the Store Front from within the app from where they can access your

product catalog.

• Your tablet app notifies learners when a new version of a learning product they have downloaded is available.

• Your learners select which products to install from your Storefront.• Products are downloaded and installed locally on the device and are available even offline.

• Learners get a list of the learning product updates available and select which ones to update.

Product Updates

New Products


How to monetize your content

Product License purchase

eCommerce Transaction through the App*

• B2B model.• The transaction happens outside of the Pastiche Ecosystem.• In the Pastiche Store create a license key and associate a number of learning products to it. Define the

maximum number of uses that license key allows.• Sell the license and get it distributed among learners.• Through the app, learners add the license key and get instant access to the associated learning

products.

• B2C model.• The transaction happens within the Pastiche Ecosystem.• In the Pastiche Store, you define a price for your products.• Learners access your product catalog using your tablet app and decide which content to

buy.• Learners pay for the product and are then authorized to download and install the product on

their devices.• Apple’s and Amazon’s policies force any inApp payment to go through their payment

gateway and they charge a 30% commission on the selling price.*Available April 2012

InApp Purchase

Licensing model

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