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Develop exciting interactive eLearning courses
Lectora Pro Suite includes tools to capture, record and edit video or audio and create rich multimedia presentations.
Get powerful authoring to create what you imagine
Lectora Pro Suite gives you the power to develop professional coursework using multimedia, assessments, variable content, and branching navigation.
Take advantage of features for rapid authoring
Lectora Pro Suites offers built-in resources for rapid development such as wizards, pre-built themes and templates, and animated Flash components.
Easily publish courses to a variety of platforms
Lectora Pro Suite creates it automatically. Options include: SCORM and AICC-compliant Learning Management Systems, HTML, CD, and a variety of mobile devices.
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Advanced Multimedia Editing Power
There’s no need to juggle multiple programs or leave the program, Lectora Pro Suite includes five applications to create and edit multimedia: Image Editor, Audio Editor, Video Editor, Screen Camera and Screen Capture.
Easy Import of Multimedia
If you already have multimedia-editing software, Lectora Pro Suite plays nicely with all of the popular options on the market.
Powerful Authoring to Create What You Imagine
Wizards and templates are available to help, or you can simply open up a page and begin typing, importing and specifying what you want to happen in your course. Easily add assessments, variable content, branching navigation and multimedia.
Rapid Authoring
Lectora Pro Suite includes a familiar Windows environment and built-in resources for rapid development such as wizards, pre-built themes and templates, and animated Flash components.
Easy and Flexible Publishing
Simply choose and click the type of file you wish to publish, including: SCORM and AICC-compliant Learning Management Systems, HTML, CD and a variety of mobile devices.
Share Media, Templates and Library Objects
Collaborate and save time in development by sharing media, templates and library objects online.
Multi-Language Support
Lectora is available in English, French, German, Spanish, Swedish and Chinese and supports course content translation and publishing in multiple languages.
Empowered eLearning Just Got More Powerful
Welcome to the world of empowered elearning. Lectora X represents exciting new ways to meet your most ambitious goals for developing elearning.
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New Flash Characters
Use the twenty six new Flash characters, including industry-related characters such as soldiers and doctors, synchronized with audio, text and borders.
Share Media, Templates and Library Objects Online
Store media, templates and library objects online and share them with any and all Lectora users – even those outside your own organization! Collaborating is simple and eliminates the need to email, FTP, or store media, templates and other library objects on a network.
Enhanced 508 Compliance
Make your courses more compliant with 508 standards with these new features:
Improved Screen Reader Functionality - Buttons work seamlessly with popular screen readers, such as JAWS.
508 Documentation - Use the 508 documentation, which references courses and templates for developing 508 content, to create your own.
New Flash Games
Make tests more interactive by using the three new Flash games:
Hangman - Just like everyone's favorite road trip game--the game draws parts of a stickman as you try to beat it and get to the correct word answer.
Image Reveal - Answer questions to reveal pieces of an image, until the entire image is revealed.
Word Scramble - Unscramble letters to identify the correct word.
Expanded Clip Art Library
We’ve added over 250 high-quality, professional images to the existing library of 6,000.
Dockable Properties Window
Choose where and how to view an object’s properties. Move the window around, hide it, or keep it in a desired location.
Customizable Toolbars
Pick and choose which toolbars and toolbar icons you want displayed within Lectora and move them to a desired location.
New and Improved Interface
The new and improved Lectora interface features a modern look and allows you to customize your toolbars, dock or float the Title Explorer (left-hand pane), and create a workspace according to your preferences.
Multi-Language Publishing
After translating your title into multiple languages, you can easily publish courses to all your desired languages at the same time, saving time and effort.
Some of the many other new features include:
Dynamic Titles – Instantly update the text within published titles by editing an associated published XML file. Makes updating published titles fast and easy.
Tip of the Day – To enhance your Lectora skills, each time you open Lectora you can read a helpful tip or trick.
Symbol Library – Save time by easily adding symbols such as copyright and trademark symbols into text.
Mute/Unmute FLV Media – Globally mute and unmute audio across a title for all FLV media.
Save Custom Buttons and Checkboxes – Save custom form elements for titles to ensure consistency when multiple people collaborate on course development or when titles are saved and reused later.
Hide Title, Chapter, and Section Objects - For a more organized and easier to read Title Explorer (left-hand pane), collapse objects such as actions at the title, chapter, or section level.
“This Object” Action Target – For easier copying and pasting of actions to objects, use the new target “This Object,” which eliminates the need to list a specific object name as your target.
Some of the many other new features include: (cont.)
Translate Object Names – Translate alt tags in published HTML with the ability for the translation tool to optionally translate object names.
Change Contents for Questions - Questions can now be the target for a change contents action, enabling questions to update on the page with the new answer. This is especially helpful when creating interactive, custom questions that include media.
Enhanced Shape Tool - Shapes created by the shape tool feature a smoother, crisper edge.
Error Reporting Functionality - If a Lectora program failure occurs, instantly report error information to Trivantis to review for possible Service Pack releases.
Instant Opening of HTML Folder - Easily access your published folder with all your HTML files by simply clicking the Preview in Browser button.
Live Demos
Lectora Desktop Video Demonstration
Lectora Desktop Video Tutorials
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*Lectora X New Features
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| *Internal Content Organization & User Friendly Interface | Lectora’s layout and user-friendly interface enables you to maintain efficient content organization for faster development and file access. Customize your toolbars, dock or float the Title Explorer, and create a work space that maximizes efficiency. |
| *Tip of the Day | Enhance your Lectora skills by reading a helpful tip each time you open Lectora. |
| *Customizable Toolbars | Pick and choose which toolbars and toolbar icons you want displayed within Lectora and move them to your desired location. |
| Help Agents | Quickly learn Lectora with the new interactive video help guides that provide animated tutorials on the key features in Lectora to help you begin creating content immediately with virtually no learning curve. |
| Title Wizards | Choose from an array of professionally created Title Wizards to quickly create the look and framework of your title, thus saving time and providing you with a starting point for content creation. Each wizard serves as a content creation guide and will walk you through the steps needed to complete your course. |
| Template Gallery | Access more than 250 templates directly within Lectora, which are conveniently categorized and include helpful descriptions of each template. Makes creating a title easier than ever before! |
| External Content Organization | Lectora copies, organizes, and stores all necessary files into one easy-to-access directory, saving time in locating folders and files. |
| Help Guide | Provides instructional and user friendly information on Lectora and links out to the Lectora User Guide and Lectora Community Forum so you can find answers and advice on Lectora. |
Helpful Wizards and Tools
| *Flash & Games Library | Keep learners engaged by easily adding interactive flash animations and games to your courses. Choose from a library of customizable flash games and animations such as flash cards, jigsaw puzzles, million dollar question game, reveal game, hangman, word scramble, tic tac toe, text animations, male and female characters, industry-specific characters, digital and analog clocks, and more. |
| *Clip Art Gallery | Adding high-quality, professional images to your course is a breeze with over 250 new clip art images added to the existing library of 6,000. |
| *Symbol Library | Save time by easily importing symbols such as copyright and trademark symbols directly into text. |
| *Shapes & Lines Designer |
Choose from an array of shapes and lines, such as arrows, circles, squares, triangles, trapezoids, parallelograms, and more to enhance visual appeal. |
| Background Wizards | Choose from a gallery of 38 pre-designed backgrounds which are conveniently categorized by type or create your own custom background to enhance visual appeal. |
| Animation Wizards | Easily create more engaging courses by using the animation wizards which guide you through configuring and customizing Flash animations from the Media Library. |
| Button Wizards | Utilize the seven types of pre-designed and pre-defined buttons or four custom buttons. Edit button text, size,and colors or add animated GIF buttons or your own navigation quickly and easily. |
| Chart Creator | Save time by quickly creating a variety of charts, such as bar, pie, and line charts based upon standard spreadsheet formatted data. Charts will appear as editable images that can easily be recreated. |
Rapid Development
| *Dynamic Titles | Instantly update the text within published titles by editing an associated published XML file. Makes updating published titles fast and easy. |
| *Convenient Title Explorer Options | Save time by quickly opening chapters and sections in the Title Explorer all at once or easily collapsing them with one click of a button. Also collapse non-plate child objects such as actions at the title level and set your desired width of the Title Explorer to be saved and restored each time Lectora is launched. |
| *“This Object” Action Target | For easy copying and pasting of actions to objects, utilize the target “This Object,” which eliminates the need to list a specific object name as your target. |
| *Mute & Unmute FLV Media | Globally mute and unmute audio across a title for all FLV media. |
| *Instant Opening of HTML Folder | Easily access your published folder with all your HTML files by simply clicking on Preview in Browser button . |
| *Easily Accessible Properties Dialog | View an object’s properties quickly and easily. When selecting an object, that object’s properties will instantly display anywhere you choose. Move the window around, hide it, or keep it in your desired location. |
| Alignment Tools | Align and space multiple objects easily to ensure consistency. |
| Keyboard & Configurable Shortcuts | Create your own custom shortcuts, add new hotkeys to the standard set of tools within Lectora, or utilize preexisting keyboard shortcuts, which saves time and increases efficiency. |
| Time-Saving Page Layouts | Ensure consistency of the look of pages by utilizing any of the 25 predefined page layouts or create your own custom layout to save time and share with colleagues. |
| Easy Moving of Individual Objects Within a Group | Save time by quickly moving individual objects within a group by simply holding down the ALT key while moving the object. |
| Reestablish Object Order | When selecting an object during editing, the object is brought to the top level so users can easily see and manipulate it. After editing, the object automatically goes back to the level it was originally placed. |
| Display HTML Page Names | Conveniently view the HTML page names within your title at the top of each page properties box. |
| Paragraph & Text Formatting | Format text and paragraphs similar to popular word processing programs by adding bulleted and numbered lists which can start at any number you choose, indent text, check spelling, highlight text, and much more. Save time by utilizing the font drop-down list that shows a visual representation of the font type and places the most recently used fonts at the top of the list. |
| Wrap Around Text Blocks | Text automatically moves and wraps around images, making the layouts of text boxes with images easy to design. |
| Edit Mode Navigation | Navigate between pages easily while in edit mode by utilizing the page up and down keys that enable you to quickly switch between pages. |
| Border & Margin Creator | Make text stand out by creating completely customizable text blocks with margins and borders that include graphic options such as 3D cutout and 3D ridge border. |
| Time-Saving Page Layouts | Ensure consistency of the look of pages by utilizing any of the 25 predefined page layouts or create your own custom layout to save time and share with colleagues. |
| Equation Editor | Create and edit mathematical formulas and equations. |
| Table of Contents | Generate an optional customizable table of contents instantly for easy user navigation. |
| Media Open Dialog | Conveniently play and preview all audio and video before adding it to your title. |
| Grids & Snap to Grids | Organize content on a page and easily space and align objects to the pixel, which saves time in creating the layout of pages. |
| Zoom | Easily edit content by zooming in or out. |
| “Paste As” Functionality | Paste in rich text, plain text, and different formats of images and conveniently keep your desired text format options when pasting from your clipboard, which saves time and effort. |
| Automated Menu Builder | Build customizable menus quickly and easily with optional borders, colors, and backgrounds. Align menu items and multi-line items to enhance the look of your menu. |
| Object Drop Visibility | While moving pages, chapters, or objects in the left hand pane, use the lines between objects to ensure accuracy. |
| Display Cursor Position/Color | Know exactly where your cursor is within a title with the ability to display the X and Y coordinates of the cursor. Also ensure graphic consistency by displaying the RGB value of the color where the cursor lies. |
| Eyedropper Color Selection | Change the color of text, shapes, or lines to ensure that they all have matching colors and maintain consistency. When using a custom color, save time by applying it to all color selections within your title. |
| Easy Object Moving | Easily move objects horizontally or vertically by holding the Shift key, thus saving time in designing or changing the layout of a page. |
| Automated Page Numbering | Number pages within a title, chapter, and/or section instantly to save time and effort. |
| Auto Update | Check for Service Packs automatically, keeping you up to date with the latest modifications. |
| Global Font Control | Change global font type, color, and/or size across an entire title to save time. |
| Specify Offsets for Objects | Inherit objects from all sides of the page, enabling you to quickly create headers, footers, and right or left side page navigation. |
| Search, Find & Replace Text | Search and find all text easily within a title, including question feedback, message display, menu text, action object URLs, and notes and easily replace the specified text if desired, saving time and effort. |
| Reference List | Generate a comprehensive reference list automatically at the end of a course, which can include author, title of work, web address, publisher, and date of publication to ensure attribution and copyright laws. |
| Group Objects | Create hide/show actions quickly and efficiently by grouping multiple objects together, thus saving time in creating interactivity. |
| Group Actions | Create an action group to trigger several actions at once, saving time and effort. |
| Object Search | Quickly find objects by utilizing the search function. |
| Fast Import and Filter | Easily import XML or run filters, such as the zip filter, without having to open a title first. |
| Defaulted Object & Action Name | Easily identify the objects you’ve used by defaulting to the name of the resource, saving time in locating objects. Also quickly locate actions by defaulting to the name of the “on” and “action” fields. |
| Resource Manager | Quickly locate any resource throughout your title for fast deletion, revision, or editing. |
| Easy Object Editing | X and Y coordinates show the width and height of selected objects so you can quickly and precisely edit the size and position of selected objects. Simply click once inside the coordinates and values will be automatically highlighted for fast modification. |
| Time-Saving Tab Key Navigation | Save time by quickly switching focus between objects in your workspace with the simple stroke of the tab key. |
| Optional Text Formatting Marks | For easy editing, display text formatting marks such as paragraph returns, spaces, page breaks, and more. |
| Object Icons | Locate objects in a list quickly by viewing icons for objects in your title. |
| Reset Objects to Original Size | When editing an image, animation, or button, easily reset the object to its original size in order to eliminate stretching and keep the initial quality of the object. |
| Adjustable Spacing and Line Height | Adjust line height within a text block and choose your own paragraph spacing. |
| Inheritance | Eliminate repetitive inserting of the same objects for high speed content development by easily inheriting specific objects throughout your entire title or specified chapters. |
Sharing and Reviewing Content
| *Share & Store Media, Templates & Library Objects Online | Easily share media, templates, and library objects with any and all Lectora users – even those outside your own organization! This makes collaborating on courses fast and simple and eliminates the need to email, FTP, or store files on a network. |
| Course Notes | Enhance a collaborative authoring environment by adding notes to a course, which tracks the name of the author who created the note and the time it was created. |
| Notes Report | Print a report of all the notes in your title for a helpful quick reference. |
| Export to Word | Easily repurpose and share course content in a Word document by exporting the text from your title to Microsoft Word (.doc). |
| Save Title as Template | Save your Lectora title as a template to increase consistency and efficiency. Enables authors to share designs across an organization. |
| Contextual Printing | Conveniently print specific content within desired chapters, sections, or pages to easily review or share content. |
| Import/Export to Zip | Zip/Unzip a title to a single file to exchange files quickly and efficiently. |
| Media Library | Save time and stay organized by having one central location for all your media files which can include keywords and metadata to easily search through all media in your library. Enhance collaboration by making your media library accessible to multiple users. |
| Import from Existing Title | Share chapters, sections, or pages from existing Lectora titles, which promotes a collaborative authoring environment. |
Interactivity
| *Forms | Create electronic forms by adding pre-created or custom form elements such as text fields, radio buttons, check boxes, pick lists, and drop down menus. Configure forms to receive real-time, two-way data. Save custom form elements for titles to ensure consistency. Save time and effort by using the same variable within multiple forms, thus conveniently populating previously entered form data. |
| Extensive Media File Support | Insert an array of media files such as images, audio, video and Flash. Edit the size and position of your media and add actions to enhance interactivity. |
| Page and Object Transitions | Make pages and objects more animated with transitions such as wipes, splits, checkers, strips, fly actions dissolve, circles, and boxes. |
| Hyperlinks | Easily add hyperlinks to text, which links to another page, section, web address or e-mail address. Conveniently change the default hyperlink color to enhance the look of a course. |
| Launch Programs & Documents | Engage end users by adding programs or documents, such as PDFs, Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Simply drag and drop your desired files directly into Lectora and easily select any additional file from a dropdown list of previously added files, thus eliminating time spent inserting documents. |
| Flash Conversion | Automatically compress and convert all video and audio to Flash format prior to or upon publishing. Provides better compression for faster loading of content, high quality files, smaller file sizes to free up bandwidth space,complete browser compatibility, and the option to view videos in full screen. |
| Streaming Flash Videos | Eliminate the need for users to download videos within a course by streaming Flash videos from any location on the Web. |
| Streaming YouTube | Enable learners to conveniently play a YouTube video directly in a Lectora title. |
| Skinnable Flash Player | Easily change the color and style of your Flash Player by choosing from predefined Flash Player skins. |
| Replaceable Audio Graphic | Enhance the look of a course by replacing the speaker icon with any graphic of your choice. |
| Action Target | Quickly scroll to a specific object with the action target called current page, which is ideal for Section 508 compliant content because it enables viewers to skip over repetitive navigation. |
| Actions | Create interactive content without the need for Flash by utilizing an array of actions that can move, start, stop, show, hide, size and play objects or go to specific locations within your course. |
| Secondary Navigation | Enhance the user experience by enabling users to easily go back to the previous page they were viewing, just like a browser’s back button. |
| Pop-up Windows | Enhance interactivity and visual appeal by adding customizable pop-up windows to courses. Pop-up windows in HTML titles appear in a modern, browser-based window, eliminating all pop-up blocker and message error issues. |
| Media Pausing | Pause audio, video, or animation that can later be resumed so students can view and listen to media content at their own pace. |
| Move to/Size to Actions | When using move to or size to actions, your objects will automatically animate to the position or size you select and a slider will be added to enable users to adjust the speed of the animation, providing a better end user experience. |
| Embedded Objects in Text | Insert images, animations, or equations inside text blocks to add flair to content. |
| Vertical Text Block Scrollbar | Provide end users with the ability to easily view long text in a vertical scrolling text block that can be moved up and down for easy reading |
Content Accuracy and Protection
| Author Control | Prevent inadvertent revisions in collaborative authoring environments by password protecting portions of a Lectora title. |
| Auto Save | Save your work automatically every 5 minutes or the time interval you choose. Never worry about losing your work with the Auto Recovery option. |
| Multiple Saving Options | For added security, use the Save As option in the File menu to create a copy of your current title. After the title is copied, the newly created copy of the title will be opened, ensuring that any changes you make are saved to the latest version. In addition, you can also choose ‘Save A Copy’ to save a copy of your title to a location you specify and the existing copy will remain open for you to continue working on it. |
| Spell Check | Ensure spelling accuracy of all content in English, British, and Canadian English variants, including questions, by automatically checking all text within a title for errors. Choose to spell check automatically as you type or wait to check your course later. |
| Auto Error Check | Make any necessary corrections on the fly with Lectora’s automatic error checking feature and conveniently print content located in your error check dialog box. |
| Published Content Protection | Protect published content and make it nearly impossible for students to copy and paste from course pages. |
| Lock/Unlock All | Make your content safe and secure by locking and unlocking the size and position of multiple items at once. |
| Warning Message Preferences |
Create your own custom warning messages. This enables you to eliminate certain warnings, such as warnings for resource sizes, Macintosh content, and/or unused resources/variables. |
| Metadata Security Levels | Define course security levels within the metadata field which can be used by your LMS to ensure security clearance for specific content. |
| Version Editor | Switch to editing copies of titles that are saved in different directories, enabling changes to be easily made to files saved in different locations without affecting your original copy. |
Tests and Surveys
| *Change Contents for Questions | Questions can now be the target for a change contents action, enabling questions to update on the page with the new answer. This is especially helpful when creating interactive, custom questions which include media. |
| Reset Questions | Automatically reset individual questions on a page so they automatically return to their original states, which is ideal for repeating a question until it is answered correctly. |
| Assignable Unit Prerequisites | Create custom learning paths quickly and easily by specifying requirements for moving to a specific part of a course. |
| Grading and Results Tracking | Submit assessment scores and results instantly via e-mail to multiple addresses, CGI, XML, AICC, or SCORM. Provides seamless integration with any standards-based learning management system. |
| Customizable Questions and Tests |
Control the color and layout of tests and assessments by including a wide array of multimedia and interactivity. Also, create weighted questions for enhanced flexibility and specify whether you would like to round up or down in order to round the scores of tests, combined tests, and surveys involving numbers. |
| Bulk Question Importer | Import already existing questions and files stored in access databases, excel spreadsheets, or flat files, saving time and effort in creating questions. |
| Certificate Tool | Reward users for a job well done by quickly creating certificates for test or course completions. Simply use certificate templates that you can easily customize with desired colors and fonts as well as specified names and dates. |
| Immediate Question Feedback |
Engage students by instantly displaying question feedback after each question is answered, but before the answer is submitted. |
| Progress Bar | Learners easily see how much time they have left to take a test or survey or view how far they are through a course, providing them with the added convenience of being able to pace themselves. |
| Customizable Multiple Choice Questions |
Display multiple choice answers in a drop down list or in a list box, providing greater customization and a more diverse look. |
| Separate Grading | Include more than one correct answer for multiple choice and hot spot questions and have each answer graded as a separate question. |
| Custom Likert Responses | Create custom responses for Likert questions by specifying your own desired number of choices and using your desired text. |
| Print Test Results | Print test results when published to HTML or CD-ROM, providing you with a hard copy of the results to file for future use and/or distribution. |
| Likert Tables | Save time by creating multiple Likert questions in one table format rather than having to create each Likert question one by one. |
Publishing
| *Multi-Language Publishing | After translating your title into mulitple languages you can easily publish courses to all your desired languages at the same time, saving time and effort. |
| Single-Click Publishing | Publish to the Internet, CD-ROM, Single File Executable, AICC, SCORM, CourseMill, or any standards-based LMS with the simple click of a button. Enhances ease of use and serves as an added time saver. |
| Publish to iPhone | Stay on top of cutting edge technology and provide learners with multiple ways to access courses by choosing from ten templates and two wizards to conveniently publish Lectora titles to iPhone and iPod Touch. |
| Preview/Test in Browsers | Ensure course compatibility with multiple browsers by conveniently previewing and testing each page on multiple browsers. Use the pull-down on the Preview button to choose the browser in which you want to preview your published title. |
| Render Text as Image for HTML |
Convert text to graphics to ensure that all end users see your content as you intended upon publishing. Also prevents your proprietary information from easily being copied. |
| HTML Text Tags | Easily save the headers of text blocks as pure HTML, which enables the header to be read by search engines. This is ideal for websites that you would like to be found by Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines. |
| HTML Preloading | Enhance speed by providing quick HTML page loading. |
| Form Element Labels | Screen readers recognize form elements by automatically associating text objects with particular form elements, thus providing it with a label and linking the object and the text. This is ideal for Section 508 Compliant content. |
| Convenient Printing Options | Print specified pages, actions, or objects in a course or print storyboards and title outlines to present ideas when a computer isn’t available, to edit hard copies, or keep a physical record of a title. |
| Total Error and Warning Display |
Warnings and errors displayed during publishing are totaled so you can quickly view the number of warnings and errors, making it easy for you to know how many items need to be fixed in your title before publishing. |
| Customized Icons | Add custom icons to create association with your brand or for easy recognition when publishing as executable files. |
| Adjustable Image Compression |
Decide how much or how little you’d like to compress images in a course when they are converted during publishing. |
| Internet-Ready Images | Convert supported image types to Internet-ready formats, enabling anyone to view the images via the Internet. |
| Automatic ALT Tags | Use the first 128 characters in a text block as the Alternative Tag (ALT Tag) when the text is published as an image, eliminating the need for you to type in a description by hand. |
eLearning Standards & 508 Compliance
| *508 Documentation | Learn to create your own 508 compliant content by utilizing the 508 documentation which also references courses and templates for developing 508 content. |
| *FLV Closed Captioning | Easily make your FLV videos 508 compliant by adding closed captioning. Simply supply the text and Lectora does the rest. |
| *Screen Reader Functionality | Buttons work seamlessly with popular screen readers, such as JAWS. |
| 508 Checker | Use the 508 Compliance Checker to conveniently check your title for consistency with Section 508 accessibility guidelines and receive helpful feedback on how to resolve any issues in your title that do not meet these guidelines. |
| SCORM Compliance | Lectora has been tested and conforms to the latest SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 specifications. |
| AICC Compliance | Lectora is an AICC certified Authoring System which has been tested by AICC independent test labs to comply with AICC guidelines and recommendations. |
Specialized Features
| *Error Reporting Functionality | If a Lectora program failure occurs, instantly report error information to Trivantis to review for possible Service Pack releases. |
| Cross-Domain Redirector | Eliminate the need for the signed applet, thereby enhancing AICC communication. |
| Comprehensive Metadata Support |
Create and manage metadata by enabling search engines and learning, content, and knowledge management systems to identify, track, and source content. IMS metadata is turned on by default. |
| Import External HTML Objects |
Increase the dynamics of your course by easily importing scripts, applets, meta tags, ASP and JSP scripts, and additional HTML code created outside of Lectora. Also provides added support for ColdFusion and ASPX. |
| Integration Packs | Add additional “Publish To” options that provide advanced compatibility. Enables Lectora to seamlessly publish directly to systems such as Blackboard, SumTotal Systems, and more. |
| Variables | Build advanced dynamic functionality and tracking such as elapsed timing, logical branching, advanced results tracking, browser checks, and more. When modifying variables, save time with the Subtract from Variable modification type which enables you to remove all instances of a character string from a variable’s value. |
| Conditions | Set your own rules and prerequisites for running actions within Lectora, enabling you to only run certain actions based on your specifications. |
| Empty Relationship Variable | Check to see if your variables do not contain content by using relationships for conditions which determine when a variable is empty. |
| Random Value Variable | Set random value variables to enable a response to happen from a pool of options. |
| Configurable Runtime Verbiage |
Customize the test results window that appears after a test is completed, enabling you to quickly reword or translate result messages into another language. |
| Variable Manager | Quickly and easily sort through variables within your title by viewing the names of variables used and where they are located. Saves time and provides greater organization. |
| Debug Mode | Quickly debug courses that include multiple variables and actions before publishing. This mode can show a debug window that will display variable data, data sent to and from scripts, actions triggered, and other debug information. |
| Debug Publish Option | Debug courses during publishing and choose your own logging options so you can specify what information you want to see when debugging. |
| Cryptic Test File Names | Test files contain random, cryptic names to help prevent cheating. |
| Custom SCORM Manifest Identifier |
To differentiate between your course manifest name and the course name used within your LMS, the Manifest Identifier uses the Course ID rather than the MANIFEST1 when publishing to SCORM. |
Lectora Pro Suite Multimedia Features
| Screen Capture Tool | Save time in creating software tutorials, presentations, demonstrations, and more by easily capturing, cropping, editing, and importing screen shots in Lectora. |
| Screen Camera | Produce animated software simulations and application tutorials, which can be saved to Flash format. |
| Video Editor | Edit video files within Lectora and save to Flash format, saving time. |
| Audio Recorder and Editor | Record and edit audio files instantly using a built-in or external microphone, which can be saved to Flash format. |
| Image Editor | Edit photos and graphics effortlessly with the built-in image editor. |
| RealPlayer Media Native Support | Play RealPlayer media content natively within Lectora, enabling the audio editor, video editor, and screen camera to seamlessly work with the selected media. |
| QTI Question Import/Export | Import/export questions compliant with QTI standard and republish with full standard support, providing enhanced compatibility. |
| Screen Camera WMV File Support | Never worry again about how recorded audio and video will be handled on the Internet due to WMV/WMA format support for recordings, which is a highly compressed format suitable for the web. |
| Synchronized Actions with Audio and Video | Easily synchronize actions with events included in the audio and video used on a particular page for tighter sequences and interactions involving audio and video files. |
| Application Network | Link internal or external video, audio, images, text, and other editing applications to form a single authoring network as the central hub, saving time and effort. |
Lectora Pro Suite Specifications
Languages Supported
Lectora Pro Suite is available in the following languages:
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Chinese - Mandarin
Authoring System Requirements
Intel or 1.5 GHZ or equivalent
500MB RAM
350MB free hard drive space for application
Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
Help Agents require Flash Player 8.0 or higher
Viewing Systems Requirements
Internet-published content is cross-platform compatible with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 and higher, Firefox 1.0 and higher, Safari 1.2 and higher, and Google Chrome.
Supported Media
Images: TIF, GIF, JPG, BMP, PNG, WMF, EMF, IPIX
Audio: WMA, WAV, MID, RMI, AU, MP3, AIFF, FLV
ASF (streaming audio Microsoft) or RM (streaming Real Audio)
Video: WMV, FLV, AVI, MOV, MPG, MPEG, RM, RAM, ASF (streaming video by Microsoft) or RM (streaming Real Video)
Documents: RTF, TXT
Other: Shockwave, SWF, Java, Javascript, ASP, JSP, PHP, ColdFusion
Lectora supports Flash (SWF) content produced natively by Flash, or by other products such as Captivate, Camtasia, etc.
eLearning Standards
Trivantis is committed to universal standards compliance and is actively engaged in advancing existing and emerging standards through our partnerships and associations with standards organizations.
Lectora is compliant with the following standards:
- SCORM - The Sharable Content Object Reference Model
- AICC - The Aviation Industry CBT (Computer-Based Training) Committee
- LRN - The Learning Resource iNterchange
- Accessibility Standards
- Lectora XML specification for importing and exporting Lectora files
Lectora has been tested and conforms to the latest SCORM 1.2 and SCORM 2004 specifications
Lectora is an AICC certified Authoring System which has been tested by AICC independent test labs to comply with AICC guidelines and recommendations.
Lectora publishes to the LRN standard.
Content created with Lectora is 508 compliant. For more information about Lectora 508 compliance, download this PDF.
The Trivantis Lectora XML Specification describes the basic structure of a Lectora title represented in XML format. This document is intended to assist in both creating XML files to be imported into Lectora, as well as exporting Lectora-generated XML into other environments. This document assumes a working knowledge of Lectora and the elements of a Lectora title. Download the .doc.
