Pastiche Implementation Guide

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Pastiche Implementation Guide

August 2011

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Pastiche Platform Overview

Authoring and Publishing Tools Pastiche Store Pastiche App

Xyleme provides your with tools to import and enrich your existing learning content and to author new content. The content can then be published to create Pastiche products.

The Pastiche Store is the content distribution platform where you upload your Pastiche products to make them available to your learners. You get your own instance of the Pastiche Store, hosted by Xyleme, that will only contain your learning product catalog. The Pastiche Store allows you to monetize your content.

Xyleme provides you with an end to end solution to bring your training content to your learners’ iPad

Finally, your learners get access to your products through the Pastiche iPad app that they can download from Apple’s App Store the same way they download other apps. They can access the Pastiche Storefront through the app to browse your product catalog and decide which ones they want to download and install on their devices.


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 to see how your branded app looks on the iPad.If it is an update, we will just take the first

Send the app package to the App Store

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

XYLEME, INC.

APPLE, INC.

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


New Users

How your users get your App

Download from the App Store

App Update Notification

Your users will download your branded app straight from Apple’s App Store, the same way they download any app into their iPads.To help your users find your app you can provide them with a link to the app on your website or you can tell them to search the App Store for the name of your app.

Whenever a new version of your app is uploaded to the App Store all your users will receive a notification on their iPads from the iOS native notification system and will be asked to download the new version of the app.

Existing Users

The following instructions explain how your learners install your branded app (the player) into their iPads. How your learners get the content (the learning products you create) is described later.


How to publish a Pastiche product

1. Import or Create

3. Publish

2. Real Time QA

4. Upload to Pastiche Store

You can import your existing Word, Excel, PDF and PowerPoint documents, enrich them and create new content with Studio, Xyleme’s authoring tool. You can very easily drag and drop existing content (learning objects) to build new products. All the content is stored in very granular, platform-agnostic XML for rapid reuse.

Publish your Pastiche product with a single click to create a deployment package.You can load it into your iPad through iTunes desktop and check your product in the real device before making it available to your users.

As you work on your content you can use the built-in preview to QA your product in real time within a browser. You can see how your content will look in the iPad without the need to deploy to the real device, saving you lots of time and hassle.

Make your new learning product available to all your users. As part of Pastiche, Xyleme provides you with your own Store Front. Through the Store Front web administration interface you can manage your product catalog and upload your new or updated products.For each product you can decide whether it is available to all users, to specific users or to users within a specific group.


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 Pastiche branded app is integrated with your instance of the Pastiche Store to provide your users seamless access to your learning product catalog.Users authenticate and access the Store Front from within the app. They are presented with the list of products they have access to.

Whenever you updated a product in the Pastiche Store, learners that have downloaded the content will receive a notification on their iPads prompting them to download the updated package.

Your learners select which products to install from the Store Front. Products are downloaded and installed locally on the device so they are available even when the device is offline.

The learner can easily see which of the products he has installed on its iPad can be updated to a more recent version and can decide which ones to update.

New Products

Product Updates


How to monetize your content

1. Product License purchase

1. eCommerce Transaction through the App

This is a transaction that happens outside of the Pastiche platform and intended for B2B transactions, that is, you selling your product to other companies.In this model, the client company buys a license from you to access one or a set of products. Through the Pastiche Store administration interface you will generate a new license key and associate a number of products to it as well as define a user limit. This way the client company distributes the license key and gives access to the licensed products to a limited number of users. Users will enter the license key through the app to get access to the associated products. A user can add as many license keys as he is provided with.When the user limit is reached, you can offer the client company the possibility buy another license or an extension of the existing license to provide the content to more users. License extensions are also managed through the Pastiche Store administration interface.

This transaction happens within the Pastiche Platform and is intended for end-user transactions, that is, a learner buying one product from your catalog.When you upload your product to the Pastiche Store you can define a selling price. When the learner is browsing your product catalog through the inApp Store, she can see the price of the different products. If a selling price is defined for a product, the learner will be asked to purchase it before the download happens.Apple’s policy forces any inApp payment to go through their payment gateway and they charge a 30% comission out of the product selling price for the service.

Licensing model

InApp Purchase

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