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What should be the inevitable qualities of an elearning authoring tool?

Creativ Technologies

The authoring tool should be able to retain all the PPT features such as slide transitions, animations, etc. Some authoring tools also support coding in javascript so that special animation effects can be created, so the coding ability should be part of an authoring tool.

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20+ eLearning Tools and Resources

DigitalChalk eLearning

Screencast-O-Matic is free for Windows or Mac users. Camtasia costs more at $299, but is one of the best screen capturing tools for Windows or Mac. With Keynote, easily create captivating presentations using powerful tools and impressive effects. Camtasia creates a simple process to capture and edit what you record.

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Articulate 360 – Animation and Interaction Abilities of Storyline 360

CommLab India

Studio 360 – A tool to rapidly convert PPT files into online courses. Peek – A screen-casting tool for Mac and PC. Let us now look at the features of Storyline 360 to develop effective learning interactions. Slide Layers Can Be Used Effectively. Interactions Based on Cause and Effect Relationships Can Be Built.

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How to Add Captions to Video for Accessibility

TechSmith Camtasia

I’ll show the steps for adding captions in Camtasia for Mac. However, the easiest way is to select Audio Effects and then drag the captions effect to the audio track on the timeline. With Camtasia, you can directly import the PPT slides and add them to the timeline just like any other kind of media.

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Skills for the Future

eLearning 24-7

Effective writing too. If they are a Mac User they may not be using Office 365, so uh, get ready to buy – for them (if they are not). They can’t see you, thus tone becomes critical. It is easy to misinterpret something because you are thinking in one tone when they could be writing in another.

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Text To Speech Synthesizers

The eLearning Coach

TTS can also be effective as the voice of an avatar or guide, like the Ben character from MediaSemantics above. NextUp sells the synthesizer TextAloud 2 for the PC and Ghostreader for the Mac. SpokenText is an online speech to text synthesizer that converts text files, documents (pdf, doc, ppt) and web pages to audio files.

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Help! What software tool should I use to record audio?

360 Training

Many devices and industry-standard elearning tools offer simple and effective software for recording audio. To go with my PPT slides. Audacity One of the most popular free tools is Audacity, which is available for download for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, in a variety of languages. Use whatever works best for you.

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