Authoring tools

We use

• Articulate 360
• Camtasia
• Photoshop
• Adobe Audition
• occasionally we use PowerPoint

We are mostly developing software simulation-based training on my team.

I’m curious to see what tools other folks are using!

We use Articulate Storyline for our more formal learning and Articulate Rise for our microlearning. Our Rise courses are usually less than 10 minutes in length and are super informal. We help teachers teach Social Emotional Skills to kids but the trick is we also sometimes have to help adults learn the skills too! So our courses are super casual and chatty. Rise has helped us create that vibe I think more effectively than the more formal course development route. I use Storyline also to create more interactive content like scenarios and then embed those in the Rise courses. That works really well. Here’s a link to a couple of our Rise courses if you’re interested: 
https://rise.articulate.com/share/_lRMBcwRUzpdbNQ8uVx73oNB-nPSsoUv. 

https://rise.articulate.com/share/trZ0H0fJbUW899mgT-T1Jz5lyJNPFwma

Our images come from our own library or ELearning Brothers. I use Powerpoint and Visme for other design elements. We are a one-person development shop (me) so we don’t have a lot of tools. Most of our videos are professionally produced so I haven’t done anything yet with more informal video. But I would like to one of these days so it’s helpful to see what others are using.

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We use Articulate 360 and Camtasia. For the majority of our product-related content we use Rise because it is faster and easier to update than Storyline or videos. We also have to have multiple versions of the content--branded differently and in different languages--so Rise gets the win. For foundational content that doesn’t change often, we use Storyline if we need the flexibility and more custom interactions it offers. We do a lot of short how-to/reference videos with Camtasia. Some are stand-alone and some we embed in Rise or Storyline.

We use PowerPoint in some regions for faster translations. We know PPT isn’t always as effective but it cuts the number of steps and time spent in translation down. Instead of additional work with the partner (they do the translations) directing us where to add the localized product screenshots, they can dump them into the PPT along with the translated text. 

My team are currently using -

• Rise 360
• Storyline 360
• Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Dreamweaver, XD & InDesign
• Keynote

We create a range of courses across compliance, soft skills, management development etc. and choose the tool dependant on topic.

Interesting to see so many of you using Camtasia, we have never tried it - I may check it out.

Thanks

I have in the past, in fact I used it in a job interview years ago and got me the job :-D

Watch out with prezi!  Last I looked into it, they had some pretty serious accessibility issues and were unwilling to address them.