Lectora Basics

Buttons allow users to execute actions, like navigating within a title, launching Web pages, showing hidden objects, launching programs or documents, and displaying messages. There are four types of buttons available in Lectora and Lectora Online: Text Button, Stock Button, Transparent, and Image Button. The process of using buttons in a title entails five steps…

So you just got approval to purchase Lectora® or Lectora Online, and you can’t wait to dive in and get started. We can’t wait either—that’s why we’ve created some helpful resources to kick-start your Lectora development! Live Demos Watch a Trivantis® expert explain Lectora or Lectora Online like you’ve never seen it before.  You’ll learn:…

Updated August 2018 One of the first things I remember Googling after my first encounter with eLearning was SCORM. It was this foreign word that had no meaning to me at the time. How quickly that has changed! This article will take a look at what SCORM is and how it applies to eLearning created…

Last week, Joe Ganci—or eLearningJoe as you may know him—joined us for a great Inspiration Wednesday webinar. He shared how making eLearning for every device can be easy using Lectora® with Responsive Course Design™. Just design once, and publish to all device sizes and types. Here’s one Responsive Course Design how-to that Joe shared in the…

Today’s blog post is an excerpt from the free Trivantis® eBook, An Articulate® Storyline® User’s Guide to Lectora®: While developing an eLearning course, you may find that wrapping Storyline 2 in Lectora can help bring together the functionalities of both tools. One example is if you’ve built a course but need to include advanced variables.…

In the last blog, we covered the Variable Manager in Lectora®. Now we will talk about the other important management tool, the Resource Manager. This is also found in the Manage group of the Tools ribbon right next to the Variable Manager. The Resource Manager As the name implies, the Resource Manager is used to manage…

On the Manage group of the Tools ribbon, you will find two very useful tools for managing aspects of your Lectora® titles, the Variable Manager and the Resource Manager. In this post, we will talk about the Variable Manager. We’ll cover the Resource Manager in a future post.  The Variable Manager      The Variable…

My brother got all of the musical talent of our parents while I can barely carry a tune in a paper sack. He also got the beautiful, bouncy, curly hair while I got the lank, straight hair that won’t hold a curl longer than 5 minutes. Not fair! Wouldn’t it be nice if we could…

Quite often, we get questions from our Lectora® users wondering how they can provide some kind of customized behavior based on a learner’s response to a question, such as showing a checkmark or an X next to each option of a drag and drop or matching question. And most often, the answer involves querying the…

In my last blog, I described what a variable is. It’s just a named container in which you can store a value. But why would you ever want to create your own user-defined variables? The simple answer is when you need to store a value for later use and there is currently nowhere else to…