Posts by Laura Silver

Spring is in the air, and so are time-saving new enhancements to Lectora Inspire and Publisher. Lectora recently released version 18.1, and with it comes three new features designed to speed up your development and deliver even more engaging and accessible training. Style PainterUse the Style Painter to copy the style formatting of images, text blocks,…

While following accessibility guidelines and requirements may have you focusing on features and functionality that you need to avoid, there’s no reason that an accessible course can’t also be engaging and interactive. In this post, we’ll provide some creative ways to include Lectora® features that you may have thought were “off limits” in accessible eLearning. …

Creating accessible courses in Lectora® isn’t hard to do. In fact, with the many built-in features, options, and tools, it’s a straightforward process. The key is to keep accessibility in mind from the start as you design and develop your title. This will save you significant time in the end and prevent you from having…

Whether you develop eLearning for a corporation, academic institution, or government agency, you’ve likely encountered the challenge of developing accessible content. In this post, we’ll cover some basic best practices you can and should follow when developing eLearning that is accessible to learners with disabilities. In fact, following accessibility best practices will also help you…

If you’re just getting started with Lectora® or Lectora® Online, the most time-saving feature that you’ll want to use right away is a concept called inheritance. Inheritance allows you to place an object at the Title level, where it is inherited to all the Chapters, Sections, and Pages in your course. Take a look at…

The Trivantis team had a great time exhibiting and presenting at this year’s Learning Solutions Conference and Expo. Our developers, trainers, sales representatives and product managers all came to sunny Orlando to spend time talking about e-Learning, gamification, mobile development and more. If you weren’t lucky enough to attend, here’s what you missed. On Wednesday,…

Version Control in Lectora® Online cloud authoring tool allows multiple members of a team to work on the same title at the same time—all without overwriting each other’s changes. Versioning is made possible through the Check Out and Check In process. Checking Out When you’re working on a shared title, you’ll need to check out…

With Lectora® and Lectora® Online, you can create your own custom templates to reuse and share among colleagues and team members. Templates prevent you from having to start from scratch every time you create a new title. A template can contain as much or as little as you like. Typically, we see templates that include…

One of the best ways to speed up development with Lectora® and Lectora® Online authoring tools is by using keyboard shortcuts, or hotkeys, to perform many common tasks and functions. Rather than relying on your mouse, keyboard shortcuts will help you save precious time. You can use the default shortcuts (see below for a full…

When using Lectora® e-Learning software to create m-Learning, it’s important to consider the usability and navigation of your course. Whether you’re building content for delivery on a smartphone or tablet, remember to design for touch. This naturally applies to buttons, which you’ll want to make “finger friendly”—easy to tap with the pad of your fingertip.…