Asymetrix Toolbook

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File Format
Name Asymetrix Toolbook
Ontology
Extension(s) .tbk, .sbk, .tbkx
MIME Type(s) application/toolbook
PRONOM fmt/470, fmt/1795
Wikidata ID Q58335687
Released 1990

ToolBook was authoring software for creating learning systems.[1] Developed by Asymetrix, was later merged to form SumTotal Systems.[2] Discontinued on December 31, 2021[3]

Contents

History

ToolBook 1.0 was released in 1990 and the last version 11.5 was released in 2012. [4]

File Information

  • TBK are ToolBook Books. Earlier versions begin with hex values 034A424F, but later versions use the Portable Executable format to store their data.
  • SBK are System Books containing scripts. Same format as TBK files.
  • TBKX are ToolBook files save in an ZIP container in XML format.[5]

Software

Sample files

Links

References

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ToolBook
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SumTotal_Systems
  3. https://www.sumtotalsystems.com/toolbook
  4. https://tb.sumtotalsystems.com/KBFiles/kb/ToolBook%20Knowledge%20Base.html?History.html
  5. http://tb.sumtotalsystems.com/documents/TB11-5_user_guide.pdf#page=270
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