Elearning! Magazine: Building Smarter Companies via Learning & Workplace Technologies.
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Excellence Awards: Tools BEST RAPID DEVELOPMENT TOOL Articulate Studio Suite Te Studio Suite is a combination of three popular Articulate tools: Engage, Presenter and Quizmaker. Engage is a quick and easy tool through which learners can explore the relationship between timeline events through text, images, and sound, and drill down into key elements of a diagram to better understand the main points. Presenter makes it easy for anyone to add interactivity and narration to PowerPoint slides by turning them into a compelling Flash course. Quizmaker has two intuitive development modes: (1) Form-based editing, with which you can build a professional quiz in minutes, as easy as flling out a form; (2) Free-form editing can help create your own vision with the freedom (but none of the hassles) of developing in Flash. —More info: www.articulate.com ReadyGo WCB Te "WCB" stands for Web course builder. Its e-learning and m-learning sofware features an intuitive user interface, fast course generation, powerful template creation/usage and automatic generation of navigation elements including chapter and course indices. It also has a built in test engine, including 16 types of test questions, branching, feedback, SCORM, pooling, and progress control built in. Courses built with ReadyGo WCB work on computers, tablets and smartphones. No programming or technical skills are needed. —More info: www.readygo.com BEST E-LEARNING DEVELOPMENT TOOL Zenler Studio Pro Transform PowerPoint to powerful interactive e-Learning Courses Designer with Studio Pro. It is a powerful yet easy-to-use e-learning authoring system that ofers a programmingfree environment for creating high-quality interactive e-learning. Created courses are ready to be published to any Learning Management System (LMS), including Zenler Online LMS. You can also design or edit your Zenler courses, even when you are ofine and not connected to the internet. —More info: http://zenler.com Trivantis Lectora Te two models of Lectora are "Inspire" and "Online." With both, you can create captivating content with a complete package of e-learning tools. Inspire is bundled with Lectora authoring sofware, Flypaper Flash content creation sofware, Camtasia screen recording sofware and Snagit screen capture sofware. Meanwhile, with Lectora Online, you can remove geographic and time limitations by accessing course content from anywhere at anytime with an Internet connection through common browsers including IE, Safari and Mozilla Firefox — on Macintosh or Windows. —More info: http://lectora.com Adobe eLearning Suite Adobe eLearning Suite 6.1 sofware is an integrated toolbox for creating e-learning and HTML5-based m-learning content. Get the best tools for application simulation, product demos, digital imaging, rich animations, and audio production. Accelerate development with rapid prototyping, roundtripping workfows, and out-of-the-box assets like actors and smart interactions. Publish to SCORM- and AICC-compliant LMSs and easily track SWF, PDF, and HTML5 content. Te full suite includes Captivate, Flash Professional, Dreamweaver, Acrobat Pro, Presenter, Audition and Bridge. —More info: www.adobe.com/products/elearnngsuite.html BEST SIMULATION TOOL Adobe Captivate Adobe Captivate 6 sofware helps you rapidly author a wide range of interactive e-learning and HTML5-based m-learning content. Easily create product demos in HD, application simulations, and sof skills and compliance training. Import Microsof PowerPoint slides and enrich with multimedia, interactive elements and quizzes. Deliver content to virtually any device, including iPads. Afer creation, you can send scoring data to leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant LMSs and track learner progress. —More info: www.adobe.com/products/ captivate.html Articulate Storyline Easy authoring is yours with Storyline. It's intuitive and easy to use, so you can get started right away; there's no training required. If you've used PowerPoint, you'll feel right at home. Build your slides from scratch or start from a template. You can even use templates with interactivity common to e-learning courses already built in. Easily customize a template to make it completely yours. And it's easy to add up to 47,500 combinations of illustrated and photographic characters, expressions and poses that are included in the sofware. —More info: www.articulate.com/products/ storyline/overview.php BEST VIDEO CAPTURE, PRODUCTION, PUBLISHING SOLUTION Sonic Foundry Te Mediasite EX webcasting and video content management system automatically processes not only the video but its associated metadata through powerful search and analytics, thereby making the Government Elearning! December 2012 / January 2013 41