BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2003--Click2learn, Inc. (Nasdaq:CLKS), leader in enterprise productivity solutions, today announced the immediate availability of ToolBook 8.6, the newest version of its award-winning authoring solution for performance-based simulations and content.

Reinforcing Click2learn's continuing commitment to this popular product, this latest version of ToolBook includes powerful new features developed to meet evolving learning industry demands and to respond to feedback from many of ToolBook's 13,000-plus customers worldwide.

ToolBook helps organizations create the compelling content and simulations that are a critical success factor in an organizational learning initiative. Using its powerful features, companies can create professional, standards-based simulations, tutorials, courseware and other interactive learning content without in-depth programming skills. Based on AICC and SCORM standards, ToolBook also makes it easy to launch and track ToolBook content through a standards-compliant learning management system (LMS).

"In developing ToolBook 8.6, we tapped into the large, loyal global ToolBook community to learn what new features they needed to be able to continue meeting their organization's dynamic simulation and content demands," said Kevin Oakes, chairman and CEO of Click2learn. "We are proud of our long, collaborative history with many of these customers and delighted to know our technology has played an integral role in helping them meet their business goals thus far. In fact, in a recent survey, the vast majority of those responding rated their satisfaction with ToolBook as good to excellent. As we evolve the product further, we will continue to turn to our customers to ensure that ToolBook meets the broadest range of learning simulation and content needs."

To make ToolBook's simulation and content capabilities even more flexible and easier to use, Version 8.6 has incorporated significant feature enhancements and support for a number of useful third-party applications. Among these are:

-- Support for Sun's Java Virtual Machine (JVM) technology,
providing greater content delivery options

-- A broader range of deployment options, allowing LMS-launched
ToolBook content that can reside on another server or content
repository

-- Improved Windows Media Player Version 9 support

-- Enhanced interoperability with the Aspen Enterprise
Productivity Suite(TM), allowing for more seamless delivery
and tracking of simulations and content.

One of the industry's very first standards-compliant technologies, ToolBook now demonstrates even greater support for Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act, which requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology be accessible to people with disabilities. In addition to other Section 508 enabling functionalities, ToolBook 8.6 adds enhanced support for Freedom Scientific's JAWs screen reader for assisted learning, which provides speech technology to allow blind or low-vision users to access popular software applications and the Internet.

Automotive manufacturing giant, TRW Automotive, is expanding its use of ToolBook to reach more than 63,000 employees at 185 locations around the globe with a full range of courseware on topics including health, safety and environment, Six Sigma, legal and ethical, regulatory requirements, and new-hire and contractor orientation, which are custom-tailored to job function and location. "ToolBook gives us a degree of flexibility that we haven't seen in other e-learning authoring tools on the market and makes it easier for us to create and deliver effective, quality learning content in virtually any way we choose," said Mark Dumar, IS Project Manager at TRW Automotive. "We've had a great experience working with Click2learn. The company was able to meet a number of specific, out-of-the-ordinary needs and help us maximize our use of ToolBook to deliver critical information to our employees."

Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corporation, a Click2learn reselling partner in the U.S., chose to make ToolBook part of its software offering because of its powerful, in-depth functionalities and its flexibility and ease-of-use for both beginners and advanced users. "ToolBook is the best tool on the market for creating simulations. It gives users unlimited power to create complex, professional simulations and content without having to have advanced programming skills," said Chris Bell, Platte Canyon co-founder and COO. "As a reseller, we have found that our customers love ToolBook because creating training with it is so quick and it offers such a high return on investment. I love teaching ToolBook training classes to beginners because within the first few hours the students become charged with energy when they see the great things they can do with ToolBook."

Going forward, Click2learn will continue to add features to ToolBook to further enhance its performance-based simulation and interactive content functionalities, including more rapid creation capabilities, improved tracking and scoring, and 32-bit support, among others.
To access a free trial demo of ToolBook, visit our Web site at http://home.click2learn.com/en/toolbook/index.asp

About ToolBook

Click2learn's ToolBook has been named one of the best authoring software packages on the market today by learning analysts, training and human resource publications and thought leaders. Thousands of companies and organizations representing more than 120,000 licensed users rely upon ToolBook for their creation of SCORM- and AICC-compliant content. This long-term user base includes 13,000 major global corporations, hundreds of military and government organizations, and more than 500 colleges, universities and K-12 schools. ToolBook Instructor(TM) also acts as the Simulation Editor module in Click2learn's Aspen Enterprise Productivity Suite(TM).

About TRW Automotive

TRW Automotive is the leader in automotive safety, producing advanced active systems in braking, steering and suspension and sophisticated occupant safety systems for inflatable restraints, seat belts and steering wheels. With more than 63,000 employees working in 185 locations in every vehicle-producing region, TRW is using business initiatives such as Six Sigma to ensure the shipment of top quality components.

About Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corporation

Platte Canyon Multimedia Software Corporation is focused on "Improving the Lives of Training Developers"(TM). The company develops and sells leading training and add-on products to ToolBook(R) such as Learning & Mastering ToolBook Instructor, TBK Tracker(TM), Progress Tracker(TM), Plug-In Pro(TM), and Answer Key(TM). The company is also the leading Gold Value-Added Reseller of ToolBook(R) for Click2learn in the United States and Canada. For more information on Platte Canyon, call 888/TOOLBK-1 (888/866-5251) or 719/548-1110.

About Click2learn

Click2learn (Nasdaq:CLKS) is the recognized leader in enterprise productivity solutions for Global 2000 organizations and government agencies seeking to improve business performance and workforce productivity. Using Click2learn's Aspen Enterprise Productivity Suite(TM), many of the world's best-known corporations improve sales force readiness, achieve and demonstrate regulatory compliance, improve speed and quality of customer service, and educate customers and partners, while at the same time realizing significant cost savings. Click2learn's clients include such industry leaders as Accenture, American Airlines, AstraZeneca, Century 21, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Pfizer and Symantec. Based in Bellevue, Wash., with offices throughout the U.S., Click2learn (www.click2learn.com, 800/448-6543) also is represented in, Europe, Australia, Japan and India.

This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including information contained in this document where statements are preceded by, followed by or include the words "believes," "plans," "intends," "expects," "anticipates" or similar expressions. For such statements, The Company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from the results predicted, and reported results should not be considered as an indication of future performance. Factors that could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements include, market acceptance of Click2learn's e-learning solutions and competing e-learning offerings, the ability to successfully implement Click2learn's solutions and increase revenues, the ability to successfully address technological developments and standards and the risk factors set forth in filings the Company has made with the SEC. Click2learn, Aspen and ToolBook are trademarks of Click2learn. All other company and product names are the trademarks of their respective owners.