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1. Can only publish one way, so only download .mov or post to Youtube, not both

2. What I like about it...

2.1. New node

3. Drawing tools still need work

4. 2D Game Based learning

5. Mobile Disturbution

6. Version 5 is now available. It was rebuild from the ground up to support the Mac and AS3.

7. I control design and production

8. What I don't like about it...

9. What I like about it...

10. Not ideal for heavy video and sound (but what web pages really are?)

10.1. Takes a long time to self-teach. JavaScript headaches for newbies. Tears, sometimes, too.

10.2. Complex scenario based learning

11. Custom buttons & navigation

12. Does have the ability for does with Action script skills to build their own interactions if needed

13. courses work on PC's, tablets, and SmartPhones

14. Rapid development of soft skills learning

14.1. Can insert system simulations into main course

15. video/audio distribution is supported without the need for other client-side video plugin

16. Authoring, Admin, Publishing, and Reviewer roles

17. Rapid animation and interactions using behaviours

18. What I don't like about it...

18.1. Can't edit

19. What I don't like about it...

19.1. You have to be a programmer

19.2. ActionScript learning curve

19.3. What I like about it...

19.3.1. Single-step capture of screen actions that publish in multiple formats including playback movies, job aids, exercises, work instructions, cue cards, etc . . .

19.3.1.1. I explore, produce, iterate

19.3.2. Electronic workflow, review, and approval features with built-in e-mail notification

19.3.3. Good change control features for controlled/regulated/restricted content

19.3.4. Good support site

20. When I use it...

20.1. Software Demonstration

20.2. Help videos

20.3. New functionality announcements

20.4. Very fast development

21. Easy to produce stunning, challenging game-based content

22. What I like about it

22.1. I can create my own layout individual navigation can build a structure can use multiple master pages have a lot of test-options

23. Branching & Scenario based learning

24. Develop a help site and help documentation for end-users

25. What I don't like about it...

26. Rapid eLearning

27. Can be clumsy to do things a conventional package does easily

28. Rapid elearning projects

29. When I use it...

30. Time consuming (same as any animation)

31. I can incorporate content developed in other tools into it

32. Complex ISD development

33. Quick free way to get screen captures.

34. When I use it...

34.1. Any discovery-based learning

34.2. When the audience suits a 3D game approach

35. easy export to different formats (eg scorm, cd, web) with error testing as part of process - highlights what content doesn't work in that format

36. Ease of use, allows quick conversion of Word documents.

37. Project management features help with rapid authoring development

38. Range of elearning course

38.1. System training

38.2. Rapid

38.3. Bespoke

38.4. Assessments

39. Crazy expensive

40. Custom interactions

41. When I use it...

41.1. Animated characters

42. Output always looks like "captivate", unless you customize the buttons through the object styles feature

43. Trade show attract loop

44. What I like about it...

44.1. Flexibility

44.2. Unlimited possibilities

44.3. vector graphics reduce file size

44.4. custom fonts are bundled with .swf file

44.5. Supports Multiple Distribution

45. Good work flow system

46. New node

47. What I like about it...

47.1. Support from the company

47.2. Flexibility to do just about anything you need to do

47.3. Lots of templates for common activites

47.4. SmartBuilder

48. Much more accurate than Captivate for screen captures, recognizes names of buttons, icons, and functions while recording in SAP

49. What I like about it

49.1. Accessible

49.2. Easy to use

49.3. Saas tool, (web based and hosted)

49.4. Dont need programming skills

49.5. Give review access to people who don't have access to use the tool for building purposes

49.5.1. Page level commenting for reviewers

49.6. Collaborative

49.6.1. Share content with other users building content

49.6.2. Share project documents

49.7. Price model

49.8. Scalable

49.9. Different levels of author access

49.9.1. Author

49.9.2. text editor

49.9.3. Administrator

49.10. PENS compliant

49.11. SCORM 1.2, 2004 AICC compliant

50. What I don't like about it...

50.1. No H.264 export option

50.2. Limited choice of characters / backdrops / props

50.3. export format is only AVI

51. Lectora

51.1. What I don't like about it...

51.1.1. Buggy, some unclear documentation

51.2. Difficult to support constructivist learning

51.3. When I use it...

51.3.1. Rapid eLearning

51.3.2. New node

51.4. What I like about it...

51.4.1. Able to incorporate JavaScript

51.4.2. Book, Chapter, Page metaphor structure

51.4.3. Can get someone building content in just a few minutes - WYSIWYG

51.4.4. Parent / Child content and functionality

51.5. What I don't like about it...

51.5.1. So many fields to fill out!

51.5.2. HTML output

51.5.3. Huge learning curve - disagree with this viewpoint it's one of the easiest as the complex interactivity is done in the background - user can just add content

51.5.4. Friendly interface for beginners, but once you start using advanced features, the user interface is limiting.

51.5.5. Output looks, well, sort of 1992ish

51.5.6. It has a problem with font aliasing: fonts on transparent captions look either ulgy or not aliased.

51.5.7. Only alerts to content problem (eg not scorm compliant) at publishing stage

51.5.8. Need Lectora to re-edit published content - locks into using the software

52. When I want to create HTML content with some animation and interactivity.

53. Screen Jelly

53.1. When I use it

53.1.1. When I need a quick video recording of my screen

53.1.2. Presentations

53.1.3. Demonstrations

53.2. What I don't like about it

53.2.1. difficult to edit or add features (text, zoom)

54. What I like about it

54.1. Easy of use

54.2. Free

54.3. Download .mov or publish to Youtube

55. Rapid 3D development with Google Sketch-up

56. To build complex assets to integrate into other authoring tools that support rapid development

57. Custom feedback

58. When I use it

59. "Poor man's Flash" - easy way to create some basic animations

60. create 'how to' demo of software and site navigation

61. sound / video quality fine for web

62. When I use it...

62.1. when I need to create drag & drop activities and keep a solid style (easily) throughout several screens

62.2. Scenario-based learning with branching questions and feedback

62.3. For scenario video integration

62.4. For assessments or quizzes needs

62.5. When database integration is needed

63. When I use it...

63.1. Software simulations

63.2. Performance-based assessment

63.3. Rapid eLearning

63.4. Software and applications demonstrations

63.5. Complex learning scenarios that require multiple branching pathways and multiple ways to navigate between pages

64. What I don't like about it...

64.1. per user costs are hard on a tight budget, but there are very nice discounts for education

64.2. Not a lot of options for extending it's capabilities since it doesn't export to Flash. Also you don't get the source file and are always required to update the course within the tool.

65. Faculty can narrate existing PPTs and save to publish to .zip file which I then upload to Blackboard or Connect Pro

66. Seperates design from content

67. Easy for faculty to acclimate to it because it is familiar, a PPT plug-in.

68. Screen Capture

68.1. Screenr

68.1.1. When I use it...

68.1.1.1. Simple/short screen capture with audio

68.1.2. What I like about it

68.1.2.1. Simple to use

68.1.2.2. focused only on one thing

68.1.2.3. Can focus on all or part of the screen

68.1.2.3.1. video has easy pause facility during capture

68.2. ScreenToaster

68.2.1. What I like about it

68.2.1.1. Quick free way to get screen captures.

68.2.1.2. Simple to use

68.2.1.3. focused only on one thing

68.2.2. Screen capture with audio

68.3. Snagit (v9)

68.3.1. When I use it

68.3.1.1. still image capture

68.3.2. What I like about it

68.3.2.1. cheap

68.3.2.2. easy to use

68.3.3. What I don't like about it...

68.4. ScreenFlow

68.4.1. What I like about it

68.4.2. What I don't like about it

68.5. Snapz

68.5.1. What I like about it

68.5.2. What I don't like about it

68.6. When I use it

68.7. Camtasia

68.7.1. What I don't like about it...

68.7.1.1. Preset callout boxes look hokey - agree!

68.7.1.2. A few minor head-scratchers in the Editor

68.7.1.3. can't overlay graphics very easily

68.7.1.4. hard to make click-throughs

68.8. STT Trainer

68.8.1. When I use it

68.8.1.1. New system launches

68.8.1.2. Major releases of existing systems

68.8.2. What I don't like about it

68.8.3. What I like about it

68.8.3.1. Very accurate system captures, saving editing time

68.8.3.2. Can re-use the same capture in different formats to suit different learning situations

69. branching capability allows multiple right answers

69.1. ReadyGo WCB

69.1.1. when I use it

69.1.1.1. for compliance training

69.1.1.2. to create rapid e-Learning

69.1.1.3. to produce assessments - (lots of testing capabilities)

69.1.1.4. when I want to integrate text, movies, tests into one course

69.1.2. what I like about it

69.1.2.1. quick and easy to use

69.1.2.2. produces real web content (small fast pages that don't bog down my network)

69.1.2.3. Is not flash based

69.1.2.4. I can create flash, movies, pictures, audio in other tools and bring them into the course

69.1.2.5. great customer support, lots of good information on their web site

69.1.2.6. I decide if the course needs audio or video, then add it in (the tool doesn't require flash, audio or other media for courses to work well)

69.1.2.7. Great SCORM support - sends all the info to an LMS that the LMS can take (other tools I have worked with only send the minimum amount of info)

69.1.2.8. Copy/paste to bring PPT, Word, Excel docs into the tool maintaining formating

69.1.2.9. I bring SCORM objects I create with other tools into ReadyGo WCB to create a complete course

69.1.2.10. Instructional design is built in - helps me build effective courses

69.1.2.11. license is inexpensive ($500) no per student fees

69.1.3. what I don't like about it

69.1.3.1. User interface is not WYSIWYG - but it lets me build courses quickly

70. Captivate

70.1. The Master Slide for interface development

70.2. What I like about it...

70.2.1. Ease of use

70.2.2. lklj

70.2.3. Integration with other Adobe tools

70.2.4. Screen recording (software demos)

70.2.5. Easy to create interactive software sims

70.2.6. easy image edit for software simulations

70.2.7. publishes fairly quickly

70.2.8. Good for non-training professionals new to eLearning development

70.2.9. Record audio as your walk through demonstration and then go back and edit audio later. Easy on-the-fly demos that can be polished and re-purposed.

70.2.9.1. Speedy demos, sims, assessments

70.2.10. Allows users to upload custom buttons easily using the object styles feature

70.2.11. Publish to various size outputs

70.2.12. Roundtrip into Photoshop and Flash for advanced customization

71. Flash

71.1. Customized and complex assessment

72. Mohive

72.1. When I use it...

72.1.1. Rapid eLearning

72.1.2. New node

72.2. What I like about it...

72.2.1. A lot of very flexible templates are provided

72.2.2. Fully online authoring, giving access to shared resources

72.3. What I don't like about it...

73. CourseLab

73.1. When I use it...

73.2. What I like about it...

73.2.1. Free, powerful.

74. Seminar Author

74.1. When I use it...

74.1.1. Students can easy understand e-learning

74.1.2. When I don't have time (or the need) to start from scratch and specify how a module should work

74.1.3. When I know the content will need to be kept up-to-date by someone else (a non-programmer)

74.2. What I like about it...

74.2.1. Ease of use

74.2.1.1. Easy to add questions and interactions

74.2.1.2. Built in design templates and themes mean I don't have to be a designer to produce professional-looking modules

74.2.2. Exports to web just like it's authored (WYSIWYG)

74.2.3. I can easily add Articulate Engage and Adobe Captivate content

74.2.3.1. Integrates with online review which speeds our review cycles (MySeminar Review)

74.2.3.1.1. New node

74.2.4. Speeds review process

74.2.5. Exports to SCORM 1.2, CD, web, script, etc

74.3. What I don't like about it...

75. mZinga Firefly

75.1. When I use it...

75.1.1. New node

75.2. What I don't like about it...

75.2.1. EXPENSIVE license

75.2.2. Sims are image based; meaning sim maintenance can be a pain when systems change.

75.2.3. Difficult/Impossible to pass interaction data out of sim to LMS for analytics.

75.2.4. New node

76. Thinking Worlds

76.1. What I like about it...

76.1.1. I explore, produce, iterate

76.1.2. I tend to use native Flash if I'm building modules with a lot of video and audio

76.2. What I don't like about it...

76.2.1. A bit version 1'ish (even though it's v3)

77. Sana EasyGenerator

77.1. When I use it...

77.1.1. Rapid e-learning

77.1.2. Product training

77.1.3. Create assessments, exams, surveys

77.1.4. When developing content with team

77.1.5. When content needs to be maintained by customers

77.2. What I like about it...

77.2.1. Easy integration of (Flash) plugins

77.2.2. Various methods of publications (SCORM, HTML, CD-ROM) directly available

77.2.3. Content is stored on server

77.2.4. Client application is fast

77.2.5. Easy integration of voice overs, video files, screencasts

77.2.6. True WYSIWYG editor even previews questions and interactions

77.3. What I don't like about it...

77.3.1. Only Windows client available

77.3.2. Requires (internet) connection to the server

78. ToolBook

79. RWD uPerform

79.1. When I use it...

79.1.1. When a training team needs to develop work instructions or interactive software simulations for ERP training

79.1.2. When I need to create end-user training exercises and job aids for SAP users

79.1.3. For managing a team of content developers or have SMEs review training materials

79.1.4. Developing assessments and converting PowerPoint to linear e-learning

79.1.5. When content management and change control is needed for hundreds of training documents

79.2. To get away from dire, conventional e-learning

79.3. What I don't like about it...

79.3.1. Expensive unless used to support a large number of end-users

79.3.2. Audio files must be imported, can't record audio directly into content

80. Authorware

81. Jing

81.1. When I use it

81.1.1. Create short screencast

81.2. What I like about it

81.2.1. It's free

81.2.2. It's simple

81.2.3. It does what it says on the tin.

81.2.4. Edit, delete, duplicate advanced actions and apply them to slides or interactive objects

81.3. What I don't like about it

81.3.1. Limited output format (esp video)

81.3.2. Sound quality not brilliant

82. Udutu

82.1. When I use it

82.1.1. Quick prototyping of flow

82.1.2. New node

82.2. What I like about it

82.2.1. Quick and Easy

82.2.2. Free

82.3. eXe

82.3.1. When I use it...

82.3.1.1. When I want to create a navigateable set of HTML pages that can include quiz questions and some other basic interactivity.

82.3.2. What I like about it...

82.3.2.1. Free, simple to use,

82.3.2.2. Open source

82.3.2.3. can export to a range of formats (SCORM, HTML)

82.3.3. What I don't like about it...

82.3.3.1. Doesn't add flash based content, no way (that I know of) to import content from elsewhere.

82.3.3.2. problematic to inlcude larger screenshots

82.4. Don't like

82.4.1. Sometimes restrictive

82.4.2. SCORM/Flash only

83. Assima

84. Director

84.1. When I use it...

84.1.1. Complex e-learning

84.1.2. Custom interactions

84.1.3. Simulations

84.1.3.1. Rapidly develop SCORM compliant courseware

84.1.4. 3D models required in training/learning

84.1.5. Online collaboration within virtual world

84.1.6. Game Based Learning

84.1.6.1. Learning and motivational animations

84.2. What I like like about it...

84.2.1. Rapid prototyping

84.2.2. 3 min limit

84.2.3. Debugging tools

84.2.4. Multi Distribution formats

84.2.5. Multi Scripting language support (lingo or javascript)

84.3. What I don't like about it...

84.3.1. Programming Skills require for complex/custom interactions

84.3.2. High learning curve

84.3.3. plugin (shockwave) required to view through browser

84.3.4. file sizes can be large compared to the swf format

85. hnerynretntr

85.1. When I use it...

85.1.1. To engage learners with 3d animation

85.1.2. storyboarding (eg a film)

85.2. What I like about it ...

85.2.1. Free

85.2.2. Fairly intuitive to use

85.2.3. easy to customise characters (like wii me but more options)

86. NexLearn's SimWriter

86.1. What I don't like about it...

86.1.1. Sophisticated tool - Training is required to become a proficient user of the tool

87. EasyProf

87.1. When I use it

87.1.1. create courses for Web, CD and LMS (SCORM)

87.1.2. New node

87.1.3. When I need a lot of interactivity

87.2. What I don`t like about it

88. Demo-Builder

88.1. What I like about it...

88.1.1. Low ramp up

88.1.2. Easy to use

88.1.3. Multiple layers of automatic annotation

89. ILT Systems

89.1. Dreamweaver

89.1.1. When I use it

89.1.1.1. Need to deliver final product in HTML

89.1.1.2. For iPad

89.1.2. What I like about it

89.1.2.1. Complete flexability

89.1.2.2. Stable

89.1.2.3. SCORM output

89.1.3. What I don't like about it

89.1.3.1. Requires Programming

89.2. What I like about it...

89.2.1. Easily changeable branching tree

89.2.2. Ability to storyboard, write content, design, play and test all in one tool

89.2.3. Export Review feature to export all text content into a Track Changes enabled Word document.

89.2.4. Ability to easily import the changes in Export Review word document into the tool.

89.2.5. Easy integration with any LMS (SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2 & AICC

89.2.5.1. So easy to manage changes to a simulation

90. Jackdaw CMS

90.1. When I use it

90.1.1. For producing professional e-learning

90.1.2. Flash based/ iphone version out soon

90.2. What I like about it

90.2.1. 3D

90.2.2. SCORM output

90.2.3. Video Presenters

90.3. What I don't like about it

90.3.1. Requires Flash to design own new templates

91. CourseBuilder

91.1. What I use it for

91.1.1. to produce quick, effective courses

92. OH GOD TURN OFF THE EDITS !

92.1. Atlantic Link

92.1.1. What I like about it...

92.1.1.1. A good choice of features, to add variety to courses

92.1.2. What I don't like about it...

92.1.2.1. Only works on PCs for authoring.

92.1.3. When I use it...

92.1.3.1. Demonstrate ideas

92.1.4. Wimba Create

92.1.4.1. When I use it...

92.1.4.1.1. When I need to convert an existing Word document into a set of HTML pages and add some interactivity like quizzes etc.

92.1.4.2. To create cross-platform course content

92.1.4.3. What I like about it...

92.1.4.3.1. Exports to HTML IMS CP without clunky flash or custom UIs!

92.1.4.3.2. Doesn't add flash based content.

92.1.4.3.3. Accessibility checking for 508 compliance

92.1.4.4. What I don't like about it...

92.1.4.4.1. Feels outdated and unsupported by Wimba

92.2. Difficult to learn, has scripting language, documentation is in Russian, and really is a dog of a thing to learn for a newbie.

93. ToonDoo