The latest update for Lectora X.2 was just released. Get Lectora X.2 via auto update if you have auto update activated within your Lectora preferences. You can also download the Lectora X.2 update at:

http://www.trivantis.com/support/service-pack-downloads
 
Lectora X.2 includes support for Chinese, Swedish, German, French, and Spanish languages, Lectora X updates, and improvements to Lectora Integrator.

Haven't upgraded to Lectora X and want to know more about it? Click here.

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An all new Trivantis Community Forum! That will be music to the ears for many of our current forum users. Thank you to everyone who has been diligently working with us, giving us suggestions and feedback on how to enhance the forum. The new Trivantis Community Forum launches today with many new features and the enhancements. The completely updated interface has:

• A modern, clean look
• Easy navigation
• Improved search with an advanced options
• More control for editing posts
• Group or peer-to-peer chat with contacts
• Private messaging with message storage and handling
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Lectora Online Launches New Features –
Streaming Video, Custom Player Skins, Enhanced Flash Support and More

For those of you collaborating away on Lectora Online you probably already noticed the new features last week. We’re pleased to announce more enhancements for Lectora Online that will make adding and using media faster and easier. Several other features are related to improving the look and function of learning content or helping you manage your courses and development processes.

Here’s a rundown on what’s new in Lectora Online.

We now offer the option of embedding streaming video—Flash (.flv) and YouTube - directly within your courses. And you have more options for how they look! Customize the look of your Flash (.flv) or audio players with new player skin choices. If you are using the Flash animations available in Lecto ... [Read More]

Today’s release of Lectora X includes major enhancements including a new, refined look and many new features that will improve the training development time and overall effectiveness of elearning coursework developed using Lectora.

Lectora’s new, flexible interface enables you to simplify everyday tasks. The Title Explorer, formerly known as the left-hand pane, is now a window that you can either dock within the application or float on top of it. The properties window, typically accessed by double-clicking an object within your title, is also able to be docked. Dock it above or below the Title Explorer, or dock it opposite the Title Explorer. Imagine never having to double-click an object again. When you select an object within your title, the docked properties window immediately updates to reflect the properties of the selected object. Additional interface changes enable you to choose which toolbars you want to display a ... [Read More]

Each year, Lectora users from all around the world and Trivantis personnel come together to learn from one another, network and share best practices. The 2010 Lectora User Conference will deliver this and more from April 27 through 29 in the hometown of Trivantis headquarters, Cincinnati, Ohio. By attending, you will be immersed into two full days of information-packed sessions, one-on-one time with Lectora developers, and you will also have the option to participate in Lectora training.

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I have to admit, I have gotten a little caught up in the 2012 hype. While I’m uncertain that 2012 will bring the end of the world or the beginning of an age of enlightenment, I am certain it will bring some sort of change. And that change will most certainly encompass the technologies we’re using today.

I recently took a look at a new application Google is developing – Google Wave. Heard of it? If not, check it out here: wave.google.com. While the concept isn’t out-of-this-world, I have yet to see anything like it. Imagine your emails as giant chat threads, where you can actually see real-time when and how someone is responding to one of your notes (waves). You can even connect a wave to a blog, so that whatever you write and post in your wave is automatically updated within your blog. Now, imagine that capability within an eLearning development tool… W ... [Read More]

In upcoming ID blogs I will explore the best ID practices and principles, adult learning pedagogies and identifying the ‘true’ meaning of eLearning, but before we explore those concepts, I believe it is critical to make sure all individuals who work and play in the ‘elearning’ field have a common basic working definition of the terms roles and those responsibilities within that vertical, especially for client and vendor relationships.

I believe that the ability to develop highly effective asynchronous eLearning begins with understanding the roles that fall into the realm of the eLearning instructional design process. Those roles include the instructional designer (ID), the subject matter expert (SME), the graphic designer and the project manager (PM). So, let’s explore those…

Instructional Designer: The instructional designer brings expertise to the learning process by having a knowledge b ... [Read More]

Android? Windows Mobile? Web OS? iPhone? Symbian? RIM?

I must say that they are all better than the first attempts. Back in the early Palm days, my team created a publishing tool that helped create content for the Palm device. We called it Lectora Publisher for Palm. We were all very excited, especially when the then President of Palm used our tool to create some pretty cool multimedia content for his announcement of one their new handhelds. We were all waiting for the sale numbers to overwhelm us. It took us only a little while to figure out that consumers would not purchase a $595 software product to publish to their $299 device. We still thought it was cool. No commercial success here. It did, however, enable us to make the claim that we created the first authoring software for mobile devices. Remember, though, that these were devices tha ... [Read More]

I had such an amazing time at the 2009 Lectora User Conference. It was my first time to speak in front of an audience, but it felt very natural, because I knew that I was sharing information that I felt good about and that I understood. There were probably 50 or so people who attended my session and I met several of them afterward. Everyone at the conference was very cool and fun to talk with. The handouts from my session can be downloaded below.

If you didn't attend my session I went over several topics and I am going to post my files into the files section for your benefit:
- I first talked about taking a user interface and extending it's branding throughout the entire browser space. First we modularized the interface so that it had rounded corners and looked like it "popped" off the screen. We did this with Photoshop layer styles, mainly a ... [Read More]