Tools these days come in three flavors. Authoring Tools for developers. The biggest problem facing the industry in the past few years are the lack of course authoring tools for e-learning developers and instructional designers. Sure, you can use the extensive list of tools on the market, but for those who want real power and complexity ala from the days of Authorware, pickings are slim. Professional Presenter X – comes with  sim tool, assessment, capture tool, documents to flash tool, etc. Ability to use PowerPoint. MORE >>

Have you ever used PowerPoint's Animation Painter? it's one of those useful tools that often goes overlooked. About the author: AJ George is IconLogic's lead Technical Communicator and author of both " PowerPoint 2007: The Essentials " and " PowerPoint 2008 for the Macintosh: The Essentials." " PowerPointby AJ George. If not, you aren't alone. Say you want to add three animation effects to one object on your slide. Heck, maybe you want to add the sequence to every object on every slide. MORE >>

The RCAT (rapid content authoring tool) market continues to be healthy with nothing to slow it down – uh, except maybe one thing (more on that later). Yeah, I know we have just jumped into January, but in a review of the past several months, authoring tools continue to follow a similar path amongst themselves with certain feature sets. am still surprised on how vendors who are offering assessment only tools are staying in the game. Perhaps their audience is unaware of LMSs who offer assessment tools. There is a reason Dragon software is hot. MORE >>

PowerPoint's SmartArt allows you to visually communicate information. With the graphic selected, right-click on any of the individual elements and select Group > Ungroup (or select Drawing Tools > Format > Group > Ungroup from the ribbon). About the author: AJ George is IconLogic's lead Technical Communicator and author of both " PowerPoint 2007: The Essentials " and " PowerPoint 2008 for the Macintosh: The Essentials." "   PowerPointby AJ George. Adding SmartArt is simple. MORE >>

Select the Audio Tools Playback tab.    Select Audio Tools Playback > Play across slides. If you are using a PC with PowerPoint, there is a good chance your system came pre-loaded with the WMM software. Then just insert the audio into the PowerPoint presentation as one file.    About the author: AJ George is IconLogic's lead Technical Writer and author of both " PowerPoint 2007: The Essentials " and " PowerPoint 2008 for the Macintosh: The Essentials." " PowerPoint MORE >>