We talked about some of these tools in two of our previous blog posts, 5 Rapid Authoring Tools To Publish Courses For Your iPads and Converting ELearning To Tablet Learning: Cost-effective Solutions , but I have now put together a wider list of authoring tools that can both help you convert your legacy content and which can also be used to develop new, mEnabled content for delivery to iPads and tablets. One of the best tools, if you are already using Articulate, to convert your existing (Articulate based) courses to run on iPads, other tablets and mobile devices. It’s free! Claro. MORE >>

When it comes to Windows of course, there's quite a wide array of tools in Articulate , Raptivity , Mohive , Captivate and what have you. run this off my virtual machine and it usually doesn't take much time to create templates like this , or an elearning course structure as you see below. There are a couple of reasons for this: Presenter 09 gives you a lot of flexibility with branching, the ability to reference the same screen multiple times and of course, editing and creating graphic scenes is much easier. More about this in a future post, perhaps.) MORE >>

Are you looking for a way to easily create games and interactions to make your courses more engaging? This tool is browser-based and has tons of different template interactions and games to choose from. Are you an Articulate user? You’re in luck…I’d like to introduce eLearningInteractions.com. You don’t need to know flash or programming! Now you can quickly create eLearning interactions and games for Articulate. Steps to create interactions: 1. Choose an interaction from the library. Input your text, images, and audio. Download a single flash file (.swf). MORE >>

For our Inquisiq LMS, and likely for many others, what you enter in the Course and SCO ‘Title’ fields will be reflected within the LMS as the Course and Lesson titles themselves. Depending on your LMS, the Course Description field may carry over to the course listing on importing the SCO so users can see the description within the LMS itself. Inquisiq R3 does not yet support this metadata from Captivate (though it does import Course Descriptions from Articulate). First, be sure to update Captivate 5 to ver. MORE >>

While some try doing freeform authoring through a template-based authoring tool. Should be easy to control and manage graphic styles across course to enforce style guidelines and branding. Should be able to import external Flash SWF as well as audio and video in variety of popular formats. Should be able to publish course in various formats. Functionality of some kind for offline tracking if courses are not being delivered from any LMS. She tries to find answers to three simple questions regarding each tools mentioned in the mind map –. When do I use it? MORE >>