A Learning Management System is one of the best ways for a corporate subject matter expert to deliver e-learning content to employees. But e-learning content does not automatically emerge in an attractivestyle. That’s where the technology of elearning authoring tools enters the picture within the growing Ed Tech Industry. Here we will discuss some of the more popular authoring tools, as  each can be custom-made to suit the needs of your training programs.

Adobe Captivate

Adobe Captivate is one of the most powerful elearning authoring tools available for both Windows and mac OS. It allows the user to update information on storyboards that contain elearning elements and publish to the cloud for presentation. Furthermore, you can also modify your courses to automatically adjust or respond to various devices and examine sizes with relatively well-designed layouts and geolocation support. You can also record and introduce multiple video formats and coordinate audio or visuals with slides and instance objects. It also allows you to import your PowerPoint presentations into elearning projects. Hence, it is best suitable for use in corporations and large businesses for creating training courses that look attractive and consistent.

Articulate Storyline

Storyline provides customizable workspaces with basic templates to make entirely eye-catching, immersive, and appealing courses. It is available in five languages and helps you import existing content from PowerPoint slides. You can publish the courses to HTML5 and Flash for use with iPad or Android applications. Users may also make, import and edit audio, images and videos to incorporate multimedia objects into their training courses. You may use layers and triggers for making objects respond to learners’ actions, in order to construct complex customer interactions.  Through Storyline, you may also examine learners’ understanding and progress by creating quizzes or import existing content to create a question bank.  However, your developers can create complex learning courses with a professional tool having complex functionality. Storyline also has relationships with elearning heroes, with a robust community site where they can get free templates, and specialised assistance, and users can post regarding ways to take the most advantage of the software.

Elucidat

Elucidat is one of the cloud-based and responsive elearning authoring tools that facilitate teamwork among group members in a training team. One of the features is a comment system like Google Docs so that users can discuss if they need any changes in the courses. It has  gamification elements like badges and points to enhance learners’ engagement in the training courses, and analytics to determine course efficiency. 

Moreover, it offers two extraordinary time-saving capabilities. Elucidat Rapid Release syncs Elucidat with your company website and Learning Management System so that you can merelymodernise content without the need for re-uploading files on those systems. Another helps you to identify the master elements and change them within the courses where they are needed. For instance, if you change your brand name and put a new logo, then your updated logo will automatically replace the old in all courses.

However, all authoring tools are best for specific tasks and depend on the kind of elearning courses you want to create. Your requirements like quality and level at which you want to create elearning will narrow down your selection among the above discussed authoring tools.