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Articulate Storyline
Storyline from
Articulate provides an easy to use interface that allows you to build
most any type of eLearning activity. You can quickly create highly
interactive modules as well as screen recordings, simulations
(demonstrations, practice, scored), and assessments. You can publish the
traditional Flash products to be deployed to Browsers that support Flash as
well as an HTML5 product that can be viewed in Browsers that don't support
Flash including mobile devices such as the iPAD.
Articulate Storyline also provides an Articulate Mobile Player for the iPAD that allows you to deliver the full power of a
Storyline product to that mobile device. Full SCORM support is provided.
Articulate Storyline Samples
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Articulate Studio
Articulate Studio includes a suite of three easy to use authoring
products that includes Engage, Presenter, and QuizMaker. The Engage
tool provides you the ability to build over 10 different interactions.
Presenter is a PowerPoint add-on that allows you to add interactivity
and publish a SCORM product for Learning Management System deployment.
QuizMaker allows you to build scored or non-scored quizzes that include
a variety of different question types. You can publish the traditional Flash
products to be deployed to Browsers that support Flash. Full SCORM support
is provided for all three products.
Articulate Studio Samples
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Adobe Captivate 8
Captivate
8
from
Adobe
is a robust authoring tool that allows you to build most any type of
eLearning module. Captivate's strengths lie in its
ability to easily record software simulations to be played back as either
Demonstrations, Practices, or Assessments. Interactions include several
different drag-and-drop components while you also have a library of
interactions that are similar to what you find with Articulate Engage. You
can build either scored or non-scored quiz questions that include
multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, matching, hotspot, and
sequence. You can publish the traditional Flash products to be deployed to
Browsers that support Flash as well as an HTML5 product that can be viewed
in Browsers that don't support Flash including mobile devices such as the iPAD. Full SCORM support is provided.
Captivate Samples
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ToolBook
ToolBook from
Sumtotal
is now up to version 11.5 and has been a robust authoring tool for anyone
wishing to develop eLearning for many years. A highly sophisticated Actions
Editor allows developers to create highly interactive content while a
Simulation Editor allows developers to create software simulations in either
Demonstration, Practice, or Assessment mode. ToolBook provides the ability
to publish products that can be delivered to most all the common Browsers
available today as well as mobile devices such as the iPhone and iPAD.
ToolBook Samples
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RoboHelp 9
Robohelp 9
from
Adobe
is a good addition to any eLearning developer's toolkit. It produces a
product that is less interactive than the more common tools shown above, but
is a good tool to have if your eLearning courses have a need for Online
Help.
RoboHelp 9 Samples
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Camtasia Studio
Camtasia Studio
from
TechSmith, provides the ability to capture, edit,
and share (distribute) videos of interactions with software applications
(both Desktop and web-based). Use Camtasia to
record on-screen activity, customize and edit content, add interactive
elements, and share your videos with anyone, on nearly any device.
Camtasia Samples
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Adobe Presenter
Adobe
Presenter is a PowerPoint add-on that allows you to
create multimedia rich and highly interactive lessons from PowerPoint
presentations and allows you to deliver the lessons with SCORM tracking to
any LMS. This is similar to Articulate Studio's Presenter component.
Adobe Presenter Samples
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Snagit
Snagit from
TechSmith is one of the most commonly used programs
for doing screen captures and then making edits to them. The two components
are the Capture Utility and Snagit
Editor.
A Close Look at Snagit
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Audacity
Audacity from
SourceForge is a great simple-to-use audio recording and editing
software tool and best of all, it's free. In just a matter of an hour or
less, you will be recording and doing some really fancy editing (if needed).
A Close Look at Audacity
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TextAloud
TextAloud from
NextUp.com is one of the world's most popular text to speech tools.
TextAloud comes with several really good human-like voices.
A Close Look at TextAloud
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PowerPoint
For many years,
PowerPoint
from Microsoft has been a great presentation tool, with most presentations
being linear. However, with features added in recent versions, you can
now build a presentation with branching and even simulate showing and hiding
of information, thus a simple easy solution for some eLearning needs. Then
it would be very easy to publish what you build with either Adobe Presenter
or Articulate Presenter to create a SCORM package that can be deployed to
the various LMSs in use today.
Using PowerPoint to Create Interactivity
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