Draper, UT, April 4, 2000 - New features of the Pinnacle Learning Manager™ (PLM), were released today, broadening the scope of the industry's leading Learning Management System (LMS) product. PLM is developed and offered by Learnframe™, formerly Pinnacle Multimedia. Also today, April 4, 2000, Pinnacle Multimedia changed its name to Learnframe to better reflect its core competency of providing comprehensive e-Learning infrastructures to enterprises of all sizes. PLM is the backbone of this new infrastructure.

Beyond its capability to automatically connect to more CBT titles than any other LMS-11,000 titles from 60-plus vendors out-of-the-box, and it's robust abilities to launch, track, score TBT, PLM now offers new features in management, reporting, and Web functionality.

"This version of PLM is truly the customer's PLM," said Mike Memmott, Sr., Chairman and CEO of Learnframe. "We've closely monitored customers' needs and market trends, and have now added the features that fill the voids in current LMS systems. Most importantly, it provides learners in enterprises of all sizes a complete framework for building and managing their own learning systems." 

PLM 4.1, released to customers today, introduces a new management tool - PLM Online Manager. Online Manager, a Web-based management tool, provides managers\trainers with the ability to view and modify only data regarding students assigned to them within the system. Managers are thus more directly involved in helping their students meet career and certification goals. Additionally, this feature enhances system security as it does not automatically assign full system rights to every manager, giving them access to information beyond their direct business scope. 

PLM 4.1 Offers More Robust Features:
In addition, PLM 4.1 provides enhanced connectivity capabilities which make it easier for an enterprise to integrate all training modules into one management system, regardless of source or vendor. With PLM, data from CBT, WBT, instructor-led, self-study, text, video, and more can be integrated into one management tool. This offers unprecedented convenience and savings in time and money. Other LMS tools are not designed to integrate data from all training formats and multiple courseware vendors.

PLM 4.1 also allows administrators to manage larger sets of data, view reports via the Web, and offers enhanced searching and sorting capabilities.

PLM 4.1 is the only LMS to offer the exclusive SmartUpdate and Disconnected Courses features. SmartUpdate, upon launching a course, automatically checks to insure that the proper plug-in, media player, etc. are loaded for the course to execute properly. If the proper components are not loaded, SmartUpdate will automatically update them. Disconnected Courses provides students with the ability to download a course, take the course disconnected from the LAN or Internet, complete the course, and then upload the tracking information to PLM.

About Learnframe
Learnframe (www.learnframe.com) is the leading provider of e-Learning services and technologies for small to large enterprises, government agencies, learning providers and Internet businesses around the world. Enterprises in all industries rely on Learnframe's framework of e-Learning technologies and large library of programs to deliver and manage learning programs globally. Learnframe offerings include customized corporate universities on company intranets, complete hosting services for all learning needs, and one of the largest online learning libraries available today, covering CBT, text, video, and more. Learnframe is the only Learning Service Provider (LSP) that can seamlessly integrate CBT from 60 plus vendors, without any modification to the courseware. Customers such as Agilent, Honeywell, Abbott Labs, KLA Tencor, US AirForce, Novell, and Rockwell Collins use Learnframe to assess, plan, distribute, measure, and improve learning for customers, partners, employees, and suppliers.

For more information, contact Jeanette Thomas McMurtry or Kim Stilson at 1.800.738.9800, jthomas@learnframe.com or kstilson@learnframe.com. Visit our Web site at http://www.learnframe.com.