In my workplace, two of us, who are experienced trainers and experienced developers of print media, have narrowed our list of authoring products to two -- Moodle, or Dreamweaver with Coursebuilder. (We have Dreamweaver MX, and a bit of Dreamweaver experience -- but aren't seeing a lot of current references to Coursebuilder, in our research). Anybody have opinions to share as to which of the two products would get their vote? Thanks!
P.S. This is our first attempt at developing WBT. We will be creating training to show people how to use customized computer software.

"This is our first attempt at developing WBT. We will be creating training to show people how to use customized computer software."

If you are creating software tutorials/simulations, Dreamweaver and Moodle or not the appropriate development tools. Try Adobe Flash or Adobe Captivate instead.

Hope this helps!

I would agree that for creating software sims Captivate or Flash or Camtasia works best...

Coursebuilder has not been made avaialbe to the best of my knowledge, and from all I can find on Adobe's site for Dreamweaver CS3 yet...however, I have been able to install and use Coursebuilder for DW8 with CS3 by extending and installing CB for DW8 onto my CS3 platofmr, and it appears to work OK...

Please contact me. I have very objective studies carried out by the E-learning Guild that can assist you. In short, Moodle for an LMS/CMS is rating much better. Coursebuilder isn't even registering on the study.

It also seems you have WBT development needs, and the Guild has studies on that. Depending on the basic description of your needs, it does seem Captivate (or many many cheaper alternatives that aren't quite as fully featured but just might do it) would be better suited than these tools noted.

Feel free to reach out for the study (just email me). Happy to share my personal opinion, but feel I should really know a little more before just shooting off recommendations. A lot of good tools available, but depending on factors (cost, learning curve, speed to implementation) some are better fits.

What I use is Wondershare PPT2Flash Professional and Moodle.

Sabrina
http://blogs.digitalmediaonlineinc.com/powerpointtoflash/