Hi Matt
You were excited upon discovering guided tours? So was I!
This post is the best comparison of walkme tools/alternatives I can find.
http://blog.kera.io/post/42951938895/top-walkme-alternatives-compared-and-visualised
If you are new to Product Tour products, this graph is worth a thousand words. It is, in my mind,
a most excellent and succint overview of product tour software available (as of October 2013):
Can you imagine what an Open Source tool like that would do for Moodle end-user support? If the screen walkthrough or tours are organised well, and are easy to setup, why, that would almost act as a no-brainer/autopilot system for the end user. Everything is shown on screen live. Videos are still useful and hands-on training very effective, but there is nothing like having a virtual tutor 'sitting right next to you' to guide your through step 4 of 11 to complete a complicated procedure. Remember Sandra Bullock's character in Gravity? She pulled out the Green Manual (it was in Russian!) and had to flip this switch and that to get the space module working. Pretty complicated maneuvers. Even astronauts in space could do with a helping hand from a product tour, me thinks!
Yes, like you, I did also wonder if there were such a tool for Moodle. And there is! It is the Page Hints module invented by the Isreali Moodle boffin, Nadav Kavalerchik. He blogged about it on his blog Moodlemagic which I can't access now@!?? http://moodlemagic.com/moodle. I've tried it out on my Moodle 2.5 site. In my humblest of opinions, it's a good effort, but it should be designed to be easy to use by non-IT moodle users. What I mean to say is setting up a tour (e.g., where to place the popup windows with coordinates and such) with Nadav's tool can be done but it is tedious even for power IT-users. However, it's FREE compared to the (especially) WalkMe and other alternatives! Since I couldn't access his Github site for Page Hints, I've attached the Page Hints module zip file here with this post. Install the files and subfolders inside http://www.yourMoodlesite/moodle/local/page_hints.
Enjoy. Maybe the Moodle community, together with Nadav's genius mind, my indomitable Tigger-like enthusiasm, your intrepid serendipity, and Moodle users' $$$, can create a user-friendly and viable alternative to the commercial versions of this Walkme/Walkabout/Screen tour/ tool. Watch this space.
Regards
Frankie Kam
http://moodurian.blogspot.com
I Wouldn't Have Nothing If I Didn't Have Moodle with a cuppa cha and a slice of durian cake for me afternoon tea.
