RULESMASTER PRO
Ross Learning Media

This is a comprehensive, highly interactive CD-ROM learning guide to the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, the US Navigation Rules and Canadian modifications to the Rules. If you are studying for a commercial mariner's qualification, Captain¹s License, or Yachtmaster or Coastal Skipper, RulesMaster Pro is the easy way to learn or practice. It's ideal for exam preparation, and is used by leading trainers worldwide. RulesMaster Pro will engage you with friendly, easy to use tools that make learning easy and enjoyable.

Lessons: a complete self-paced learning program. Five lessons cover every Rule, with a quiz following each session. Progress sequentially, or go directly to a specific subject for review. Lessons are fully narrated, and include many custom graphics and animations. For instance, to learn the lights identifying a vessel engaged in trawling, you will hear the Rules summarized as you read the explanation. Then, to confirm your understanding, you can drag-and-drop light disks to their correct positions on a three-dimensional illustration of the trawler, as shown here. RulesMaster's cyberfleet includes models of each type of vessel. Models rotate through 360 degrees, realistically simulating the vessel¹s appearance from any perspective, so you will know what to look for and be able to make the right decisions.

Practice To improve understanding and memory recall, learn by doing. FlashCards and QuickQuiz have powerful "Look it up" features to guide you to the correct answer whenever you're not sure. Just click the "Look it up" button to see SummaryCards for the relevant Rule, or the RuleBook itself. QuickQuiz challenges you with a library of hundreds of short-answer questions carefully adapted from the US Coast Guard Merchant Marine Deck Exams. FlashCards contains almost 200 FlashCards, covering the International Rules and IALA Buoyage. You first begin with only the lights visible, and you have to select the "Type of Vessel" appropriate to those lights. You are then presented with more questions relating to the particular scenario, just as in real life. After you have answered all the questions you will see the answer. The vessel fades into view, a text explanation is given, and your responses marked correct or otherwise, and your score updated.