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Increase e-Learning Interactivity with New Lectora Online 1.6.2 Features
If you haven’t already heard, the newest version of Lectora® Online e-Learning collaboration software is here! Lectora Online Version 1.6.2 includes brand new features for simple, seamless online e-Learning development – anywhere, anytime.
Today’s blog includes fun ways to use the new Lectora Online Live Model Gallery: a collection of 5,500 unique, high resolution and transparent photographs including 33 models from a variety of backgrounds and professions. These new models are just one way to add an extra special touch to your next e-Learning course.
To access the Live Model Gallery, simply open the Media Library Organizer and click on the Live Model Gallery Folder.
3 Ways to Use the Live Model Gallery:
1. Tell a story...
e-Learning Lesson in Lectora: Make Media More Interactive
One of the benefits of e-Learning versus traditional classroom training is the ability to add exciting, interactive elements to courses. Today’s e-Learning Lesson in Lectora® shows you yet another great way to wow learners as they navigate through your training: adding synchronized events to media files. In this session, expert Lectora Trainer Jamie Hale instructs step-by-step how to take ordinary audio and video to the next level by incorporating questions, text blocks, animations and more into recordings. Adding events to media files using Lectora e-Learning software is not only fun - it increases interactivity for learners and holds their attention throughout your entire course.
Before you get started, here are a couple tips to consider when adding synchronized events to audio and video:
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Add Professional Title Graphics to Camtasia
When creating and editing videos using Camtasia® screen recording software, there are plenty of easy ways to add pizzazz and visual appeal to your projects: using zoom and pan, inserting transitions, adding images, etc. To make your Camtasia videos within Lectora® Inspire e-Learning software stand out even more, you can also add introductions to projects by inserting title graphics at the beginning of videos.
In this podcast by Diane Elkins of Artisan E-Learning and E-Learning Uncovered, you’ll learn step-by-step how to add professional, aesthetically pleasing title graphics to your Camtasia projects. Using the Camtasia Library tab, Elkins instructs how to combine the following elements to tailor the perfect video introduction:
- Audio, such...
Free e-Learning Webinar: Working with Tests in Lectora
If you’re on a quest to find fun, new ways to customize tests in Lectora e-Learning, then this week’s free Inspiration Wednesdays webinar is for you! The upcoming session “Working with Tests” on January 25 will instruct how to add a variety of question types to your pre-tests, randomized tests and final assessments. Then, when you’re finished creating your assessment with Lectora e-Learning software, you’ll learn how to easily track all scores and data within a learning management system.
This week’s webinar will teach you how to do the following in Lectora:
- Build Randomized Tests
- Author Pre-tests that will count towards completion of a course
- Combine multiple assessment scores to submit one overall score to a learning management system
- Create stand-alone questions...
Lectora Inspire Provides Perfect Bundle for Engaging e-Learning
As an instructional designer, your mission is to design courses and training that grab learners’ attention and encourage interactivity. When learners are fully engaged in your e-Learning, they’re absorbing the information presented to them – ensuring that your courses are a success.
Arm yourself with tools for truly interactive content with Lectora® Inspire e-Learning Authoring Software. Lectora Inspire is the only e-Learning tool on the market that combines everything you need all in one, easy-to-use bundle. Unleash your creative genius and build interactive components for courses using Camtasia® for Lectora, Snagit® for Lectora and Flypaper™ for Lectora. The combination of Lectora along with these three tools gives you everything you need to add awesome, exciting interactive enhancements to your training. Get...
Free Webinar: Working with CSV Question Files
Mark your calendar for January 18 – the weekly Inspiration Wednesdays webinar series offered by Lectora® e-Learning returns with brand new content. This week’s webinar will feature how to work with CSV Question Files, and promises to be full of relevant tips and tricks:
January 18 – Working with CSV Question Files
If you create a lot of questions in Lectora, you won’t want to miss this Inspiration Wednesdays webinar. Learn how you can save time and automatically insert questions into your online computer-based training by creating a Comma-Separated Value (CSV) file containing your questions. Once you learn how to create a CSV file, you’ll learn how to import all of the questions into your Lectora title in just a few simple steps. This method will save you time and energy, so you won’t have to...
Creating Value in e-Learning Part 5: The Symptom
This is a guest blog post from Peter Sorenson, President of QUIZZICLE. Please see below for full bio.
When we visit a doctor because we are not feeling well, he or she begins by questioning us about our symptoms. Why? Because a sniffle, a headache or a sore throat are merely indicators that something is wrong - not the root cause of the illness itself.
As an...
Register for Free e-Learning Webinar: What’s New in Lectora X.6
If you were unable to attend last month’s Lectora X.6 Inspiration Wednesdays webinar, you’re in luck! Back by popular demand, this week’s upcoming session “What’s New in Lectora X.6?” instructs step-by-step how to use the newest Lectora features to make e-Learning authoring, editing and reviewing a piece of cake. You won’t want to miss this webinar covering the following new features:
ReviewLink™ Beta
ReviewLink™ Beta is an online review tool that allows e-Learning developers to publish Lectora courses straight to the web for instant feedback and review. Learn more about ReviewLink features and how to use it during the session!
Section 508 Options
New Section 508 Options in X.6 make it easier than ever to ensure that e-Learning courses and training are Section 508 compliant. Find out more during the live webinar!...
Meet the Demand for Mobile Learning
If you’ve read recent e-Learning and training blogs providing 2012 predictions, one up-and-coming trend seems to be present in almost all of them: mobile learning. Thanks to devices such as the iPad, iPhone and various Android tablets, it has become increasingly easy to share and view e-Learning content on-the-go – whether you’re at the office, on the bus or at home.
Although mLearning on tablets has already become quite common, this super-hot trend isn’t going anywhere. The Chief Learning Officer article Tablets as a Social Learning Delivery Tool by Tammara Combs offers these interesting mLearning stats from Future Workplace and the IESE...
Jam-Packed Presentation Schedule for 2012 LUC Released
The wait is over – the presentation schedule for the 2012 Lectora® User Conference is here! Fully-loaded with more exciting, innovative and creative e-Learning sessions than ever before, the 2012 LUC will truly be an e-Learning experience you won’t want to miss.
The upcoming Conference includes dozens of breakout sessions taught by real e-Learning developers and industry experts, providing attendees with exclusive content to pump-up e-Learning courses and training. These informative presentations offer valuable tips and tricks, mobile learning lessons, social learning ideas, e-Learning best-practices and more – all providing you with everything you need to get the most out of the Lectora line of e-...