"Have you considered converting the Powerpoint presentations to HTML and bundling it with HTML Help in its own section? (""Presentation"" for example). There are various tools out there that can do this in batch, even free.
Our main problem with integrating everything into one system is that the PowerPoint part, where you put up a slide of keywords on a projector, and then move from slide to slide, becomes problematic unless the integrated system has some kind of ""projector mode"" with easy navigation, something that pure html pages doesn't, unless they're coded with that in mind.
With CHMs you can place the same navigation on each page pretty painlessly as shown here in the navigate buttons:
When doing the presentations in class, use the PPT files for fullscreen. When the students need to reference it, everything is in one simple CHM file for them. No additional downloads or installs, CHM viewer should be available for them in their Windows environment. If you want to reference a part in the presentation, it's easy to hyperlink to other pages in the CHM. Students can use the back button in the CHM viewer to go back to where they were prior to clicking the hyperlink."
"Sorry if I have not got the gist of exactly what you want, but I think I may have-
Personally, I have two products that I sell that require enormous documentation. I do what Microsoft does with distribution of help files.
One CD that contains it all -
an auto run file that launches a web page on the cd, it has a nice layout and good directory structure.
You could have /lectures, /documents, /help e.t.c. or /topic1/lectures/ e.t.c.
you can have shared resources (e.g. images) in /resources/pictures
... You can then easily hand out a disk to everyone at the end of training, and include it with your product. Giving new versions is easy... and at any point, you can just copy the root of the disk to a website and then the whole disk is available online! (just use relative paths instead of direct ones).
I have used so many content management systems over the years, but I honestly think that just doing it yourself, and using the above method is best.
I have refined it slightly by using things such as FlashPaper as well as providing a link to the document.
Anyway, hope you like and feel free to ask questions."
