ICATT Builder and manager has three main working areas:
- Navigation panel: Click on the tree to select a resource item. The content of the selected resource item will be displayed in the viewer panel to the right.
- Viewer panel: You can click on the text parts in the viewer panel to activate the content.
- Editor panel: The active part of the content of a resource item is displayed in the editor panel. It can then be adjusted. If the editor panel remains empty, the resource might be read-only. The size of panels can be altered by moving the panel borders with the mouse.
The ICATT builder and manager is delivered with the generic IMCI materials: Generic IMCI chart booklet, a rich collection of references and audiovisual materials, a generic IMCI training course. All these components (chart booklet, library, and training set) are built using various resources. Each type is available as a subordinate resource depends on the type of the main resource item: chart booklet, library or training set. A user can insert new resources in ICATT resource tree.
Currently ICATT Builder and Manager is available in English. However it allows inserting various resources in practically any language. It also allows producing training materials in all existing languages. It is important to remember that the navigation in ICATT is language specific. This means that the selected language has an influence on the glossary, filter and search mechanisms.
The key document of IMCI strategy is a set of clinical guidelines, which are summarized in IMCI chart booklet. Using ICATT Builder and manager you can create its own chart booklet from scratch, if necessary. But it is much easier to start with the generic chart booklet and make changes, than to create everything on your own. The tool allows to produce management flowcharts for management of different diseases, create new drug tables, insert drawings, pictures and graphs.
The ICATT library comes with rich collection of key WHO reference documents and publications, as well as videos, flash animations and audio materials, to be used for training.
ICATT is delivered with a generic “Library” and an empty library called “My Library”, where you can add any local documents, publications and audiovisual materials which you decide to include later in your own training course.
Using generic components a custom-made training course can be created with the help of the ICATT builder and manager. The training set includes a generic IMCI training course. The generic IMCI training course has three components: introduction; care of young infant aged up to 2 months; and care of child aged 2 months to 5 years. Each component may include several parts, and each part consists of one or more training units. The key building block of the training course is the ICATT training unit.
ICATT Builder and Manager allows you to modify the content of existing training units, create new components, change the order of various parts and training units. It also allows producing new exercises and guidelines for clinical practice.
Once all the work of modifying or creating of a new training course is completed, you can easily deploy a new training player (closed interface) to be used to train health-care providers in IMCI.
This new IMCI training player will contain all the training materials which have been copied, modified or created during the adaptation work with the ICATT builder and manager. Once created, this new training player can be copied on CD or DVD (depending on the total size of the programme) and be used in several different ways, such as self learning, classroom teaching or distance learning.