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AUTHORING TOOLS, How to select an authoring tool? - Coggle Diagram

- - - - allows you to record software, demonstrations, simulations and create presentations, quizzes, and screen casts.
      - Captivate comes with a suite of characters and pre-programmed interactions that can
        be easily customized to meet the needs of each individual course
      - Captivate introduced the Smart Positioning Feature for increased responsiveness of online learning modules
      - Captivate allows you to create various simulation modes labeled as C for demonstrations.
      - Features include geolocation, multilingual support, LMS preview, and diverse distribution possibilities
      - Captivate enables you to create Step-By-Step tutorials and animated help file enhancements
    - - Responsive Course Design
      - Comes with image, audio, and video editing tools
      - Higher learning curve than with other rapid eLearning tools
      - This software allows you to create true false, multiple choice, matching, hotspot, drag and drop, essay, and short answer assessments
    - - Cloud-based tool, does not require IT configurations, special set-ups, or licenses
      - Allow collaboration with colleagues, and can be accessed anywhere
      - Templates and pre-set building blocks
      - Built-in analytics
      - Allows you to embed videos from YouTube and Vimeo
      - Quizzes for more interactivity
      - Section 508 compliant
    - - Camtasia is a video based screen capturing software program.
      - screen captures are directly recorded in a digital video format with high quality audio
      - It can be customized to capture the entire screen, a specific window or a user defined region.
      - Screen capture videos can be recorded with or without voice, narration and annotated
      - you can create demonstrations, website tours, narrated PowerPoint presentations and explanations of lecture notes
      - Camtasia also allows the production of podcasts and broadcasts
    - - Snagit is a screen capturing tool
      - allows instructional designers to create highly engaging images, presentation videos, tutorials and training documents
      - Snag it is especially useful for developing technical training
    - - Raptivity is a tool that lets e-learning designers create a wide range of learning interactions that they can publish as S.W. F files
      - These interactions can be used as standalone learning objects, or you can insert them into learning programs
        such as articulate 360, Lectora, or Captivate.
      - Raptivity provides a pre-built library of more than 225 rapidly customizable interaction models
      - These interactions are based on the best practices and instructional design
      - The tool allows instructional designers to select the learning theory they want to use to create their training,
        such as Bloom's Taxonomy, Gagne's nine events or Kellers ARC's model.
      - Raptivity created learning materials are scorned compliant
- - - - What is the level of interactivity in your course?
        
        Do you need a specific output file format?
        
        How much money can you spend on the authoring tool?