As the evolution of e-learning continues, the rapid content authoring tools (RCAT) market follows suit. Rapid Intake. PENS was created in 2005 by AICC as a new interoperability standard. Same issue if your product outputs to only AICC, and my LMS vendor does not accept the AICC interoperability standard. This is a growing market with new vendors showing up, but at the same time, others disappearing. MORE

SCORM/AICC/PENS/IMS. Q: I use Articulate, Rapid Intake and other 3rd party authoring tools, will they work in any LMS? Those that don’t are due to: Your tool works only with SCORM 2004 3rd edition, and your LMS only accepts AICC. How many of you have posted questions regarding LMSs on Quora, Linkedin or the various other social media sites available on the net? MORE

SCORM compliance and/or AICC – there are tools out there who support neither – but that is not the norm and there are a few tools out there who also support PENS. I love the ribbon style approach, the custom branding angle with your player, audio and video narration, SCORM/AICC – perfect for the masses. Tools these days come in three flavors. Geared toward e-learning developers and instructional designers. Geared towards the masses. A combination of both. MORE

and SCORM/AICC. Rapid Intake – Hasn’t really done anything in the last several months. Articulate authoring tools dominKnow e-learning e-learning vendors education HTML5 m-learning mobile learning rapid content authoring tool SCORM TinCan Courselab dominKnow Claro e-learning authoring tools e-learning tools Epic rapid content authoring toolsEveryone loves lists. Lists for the best books written in 1899 (right?), MORE

Among the current key rapid authoring tools are: Adobe Captivate – Not for the dilettante, being priced at some £1,750. 2004, AICC, Tin Can (Lectora 11 onwards) and XML. Rapid Intake and Easy Generator – A cloud-hosted tool, supporting both Flash and HTML5 outputs but, at present, with limited creativity and interaction functionality. eLearning Guest post Learning Tools rapid authoringInteractivity is a key component in the learning process. MORE

20 eLab - The user interface is intriguing and enables anyone to build a course, without having the typical “ooh that looks so lame” with some rapid content authoring tools. Easy to use interface and supports SCORM and AICC. #18 AICC, SCORM and PENS support. Supports AICC and SCORM. 14 Callidus Cloud – Rapid Intake. Initially I wasn’t going to post authoring tool rankings beyond the top ten, until July. MORE

Also SCORM 1.2 & AICC. Rapid Intake: Unison. Ask yourself who is the primary person who is going to be building the courses & then ask yourself, will they be able to create a course with this product easily and in rapid time? content authoring tool E-Learn Info e-learning e-learning vendors elearning rapid content authoring tool SAAS SCORM rapid content authoring tools rapid e-learning MORE

And, Quizmaker allows you to track your results with your standards based Learning Management System as Quizmaker output is SCORM and AICC compliant. Rapid Intake Flashform Rapid eLearning Studio creates interactive Flash-based AICC or SCORM-conformant e-learning courseware. Update June 2008 - added one free flash quiz tool based on a question I received. This tool is listed at the bottom. MORE