Software
Overview
New software programs make life much easier for developers and facilitators of online learning! Interactive exercises, testing, collaboration, and content development are greatly simplified. What used to take days/weeks can now often be done in much less time - with little or no coding/programming skills needed.
The resources listed on this page are some of the most common (and useful) tools used for elearning development and implementation. Most are free, or offer a trial version.
| General | Screen Capture | Authoring | Test/Quizzes | Communication | Collaboration | Teaching Tools | Web |
MindManager
Extremely useful software for organizing and brainstorming ideas.
Quick
Topic
"For any one-topic group discussion, use the Quick Topic free web
forum instead of just email! Your messages will be in a private central
place, and each of your friends can opt to participate by email or just
use the web forum. That's because Quick Topic is a super-easy single-topic
web bulletin board that's also fully email-enabled: you can get and post
messages via email. Use it on your web site too. Thousands served."
3D
Browser
"Sunergia Group is the distributor, for the Education Field, of the
Browse3D Web-browser."
Ultimate
Utility Guide - PC Mag
"We bring you 94 ways to make your computer work better!"
OpenOffice.org
"To create, as a community, the leading international office suite
that will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality
and data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format."
WebSite-Watcher
Interesting - not sure if in a good or bad way...
eHelp
Help authoring software.
Knowledge
Storm
Great resource for researching and accessing a large variety of software.
SOT
"SOT Office 2002 is a free productivity suite for Windows and Linux."
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Lotus
Screen Cam
"ScreenCam is Lotus Development's popular PC screen recording application.
Use ScreenCam to demonstrate your product, teach people how to use it
and help them get the most from their applications."
AMT
Learning Solutions
"AMT Learning Solutions provides tools and services for creating
realistic online tutorials to teach ANY software application."
Camtasia
"If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a moving picture is
invaluable for explaining the complicated content on today’s computers.
Camtasia captures the action and sound from any part of the Windows desktop
and saves it to a standard AVI movie file or streaming video. Share your
Camtasia screen recordings on a Web site, distribute them via e-mail,
an Intranet or CD."
SnagIt
"Capture and Share Anything on Your Screen"
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Macromedia's
Coursebuilder
"The free Macromedia CourseBuilder Extension for Dreamweaver 4 and
UltraDev 4 enables you to create interactive Web pages with engaging Web-based
learning content and deliver them across multiple platforms and browsers."
SNAP!
Studio
"...an easy-to-use, full-featured course authoring tool that dramatically
reduces development time for courses, without the assistance of third-party
suppliers or information technology resources."
ObjectJ
"We provide the total solutions and tools needed for existing training
and/or education contents to be delivered to your audience over the Internet
ObjectJ consists of a group of 25 professional and experienced software
developers specialized in Java based eLearning technologies."
XStream
Software
Build multimedia tutorials, interactive activities, tests, etc.
Swish
"Do you want to get into Flash™ but can't afford the steep
price and even steeper learning curve? then SWiSH is the tool for you!"
AMT
Learning Solutions
"Create realistic software training lessons that guide your users
through a realistic INTERACTIVE simulation of your software application.
Users are guided step by step with PopUp messages as they PERFORM each
operation, with automatic help for mistakes. Running a tutorial is so
simple that users can't get stuck or lost."
For more information,
see elearnspace's authoring tools.
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Test/Quizzes/Interactive Activities
Markin
"Markin is the latest in marking and annotation software for on-line
and electronic teaching environments. It can import text material from
the clipboard, or from an RTF or text file, and provides all the tools
you need to mark and annotate this text. When you have finished, you can
export the marked text as an RTF file for loading into a word-processor,
or as a web page so that your students can view the marked text in a web
browser - and you can email this file directly back to the student, all
without leaving the Markin program."
Half-Baked
Software
Variety of quiz/test software programs. Simple to use...very valuable.
CreateSurvey
Simple, survey creation tool.
Zoomerang
"Zoomerang allows businesses and individuals to easily conduct professional-grade
surveys and gather and analyze the critical feedback necessary to make
important decisions."
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L-Soft
"Founded in 1994, L-Soft is the premier provider of e-mail list and
e-mail delivery solutions used on the Internet and intranets."
iVisit
"iVisit is Eyematic Interface's solution for multi-party video, voice
and text chat over intranets and the Internet. iVisit supports color video,
multiple simultaneous connections, call screening, flexible quality settings
for video, easy no-risk installation and setup, and a built-in directory
service that helps you find other users."
PalTalk
"PalTalk is the total internet communications solution that combines
the best of instant messaging and internet telephony. PalTalk offers a
wide range of features that allow users to communicate with each other
anywhere in the world at any time - all for FREE."
See also: elearnspace's Instant Messaging
Knovada
"Our mission is to provide companies with the necessary tools to
facilitate interactive communications with their customers and employees."
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Free
Collaboration Software
Basic listing of free resources for collaborating
CoCreate
"CoCreate’s OneSpace Solution Suite is an integrated component
of an organizations Collaborative Product Commerce (CPC) infrastructure
that complements existing data and process technologies."
eProject
"eProject Enterprise 4.0, the latest in project management and collaboration
software, is designed to make your projects more successful."
Forum
One
"Forum One Communications helps people and organizations use the
Internet to make a difference. We will work with you through the entire
Internet life cycle - from strategic planning through design, development
and ongoing management of dynamic websites."
MimerDesk
"MimerDesk is a web-based groupware environment designed for a wide
variety of uses such as personal management, computer-supported collaborative
learning, carrying out projects, and setting up communities. Its main
strengths include a very customizable group system which allows many groups
to work simultaneously on a shared database with tools like Calendar,
Tasks, Forums, Links, Chat, Reviews, Voting, Files, Instant Messages,
Profiles, and many more."
CommunityZero
"CommunityZero™ is an interactive website that allows a group
of people to communicate and exchange information over the Internet in
their own private and secure area. Within each area, called an online
community, participants are provided access to a suite of powerful tools
that enable a group to effectively get organized, share knowledge and
communicate"
Groove
"Groove Networks, Inc. provides desktop collaboration software that
accelerates business activity both within and across company boundaries
by providing a 10X improvement over email alone for getting work done."
Elluminate
"We provide online, interactive, live instructional products and
services that empower live learning, training, coaching, meeting and mentoring.
Whether you want to teach a course online, conduct an online meeting with
your colleagues or offer online tutoring to your students, Elluminate
products and services will meet your needs."
Mimio
"Our goal is to increase your productivity and creativity through
innovative collaboration technology, improving and streamlining the way
you already work."
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NetOp
School
"NetOp School for Windows offers teachers and corporate trainers
a powerful combination of essential tools for networked classroom instruction.
With NetOp School you can show your screen to the class, see student screens
as they work, remote control PCs, chat with students, launch applications,
call your class to attention, send files and more."
EPrints
"Welcome to eprints.org, dedicated to the freeing of the refereed
research literature online through author/institution self-archiving."
Groupboard
"Interactive website tools for education, business and fun. Add chat,
whiteboards, games and message boards to your site by simply copying a
few lines of HTML code - no downloads or plugins needed!"
I-NETwerks
"I-NETwerks provides tools and application development services that
enable non-developers to easily create integrated multimedia presentations
and events on the web."
Tegrity
"The preferred choice of online education and training providers…
Tegrity® WebLearner is the only platform that automatically converts
classroom instruction into engaging and effective web content for on-demand
and live delivery."
Wanadu
"Wanadu helps convert PowerPoint® into a powerful tool like it
has never been before. Transform your favorite presentation authoring
application into an eLearning authoring environment, a powerful sales
and marketing tool or a CRM platform. Our PowerPoint to Flash conversion
helps you retain all the features of PowerPoint while allowing you add
unprecedented interactivity and functionality."
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Atomz
Publishing, content management, searching software.
DigitalWebBook
"Most popular uses for the Digital Web Book are for digital brochures,
catalogues, newsletters, manuals, product guides, corporate profiles and
annual reports, as well as direct marketing and viral marketing campaigns."
XML
Spy
"XML Spy now offers a comprehensive and easy-to-use product family
to facilitate all aspects of Advanced XML Application Development.
Also, see elearnspace's Web
Services.
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