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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. Ability to create accessible content : Apart from that, the tool must have a text-to-speech facility so that visually impaired learners can be accommodated.

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New E-Learning Rankings: Authoring Tools

eLearning 24-7

Vendors can move up, down or out of the rankings – after all it is on-going. I’m not a lead gen for the vendors listed – rather the goal is to provide you with vendors that meet numerous criteria including UI, features, support/service, mobile, feedback from current and past clients and future game plans.

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The Latest: Rapid Content Authoring Tool Market

eLearning 24-7

I am still surprised on how vendors who are offering assessment only tools are staying in the game. PowerPoint – Ability to integrate or use PPT in your courses. Some vendors push heavily on PPT, implying that a great WBT is really a PPT converted to Flash. Vendor adoption is slow. It isn’t.

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Ghost Edition – Top 10 Authoring Tools for 2013

eLearning 24-7

For each authoring ranking, a brief true ghost story, then the vendor and why it was selected. Uses a PowerPoint like layout, albeit it shows a hierarchy approach which many people will like – so if you think this is nothing more than PPT in appearance – trust me it is not. Text to Speech – awesome!

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Articulate, Captivate and Lectora – Do they deserve your praise?

eLearning 24-7

The two biggest negatives IMO, is that it just isn’t robust enough for e-learning developers and its whole focus on PPT into converting to a course doesn’t help. HTML5 output, publish to the iPad and text to speech functionality. Screen capture – more and more vendors are adding it. Yeah, people love it.

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Summer Course Authoring Tool Rankings – Top Ten

eLearning 24-7

Equation tool – I’ve seen more vendors add this thing – and unless you are in education I can’t see why you would use it. Text to speech – Very nice – everyone should offer this feature. HTML5 output including a PPT converter to HTML5. Scenario branching. Audio recording and editing.