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LectoraThe best way to create responsive eLearning content that is compatible with your LMS system. Lectora 17 comes with a slew of new features, including anchoring objects on screen, BrachTrack intergration, importing and exporting questions as CSV, and the ability to publish for seamless play.
eLearning Brothers - Asset LibraryUse stock assets, cutout characters, games, interactions, scenarios, navigation players and course starters all built in Lectora. Access the Lectora file directly from your Media Library and start building awesome courses today.
SnagIt - Screen CaptureIn just a few clicks, you can capture great-looking images and videos for your eLearning course. It’s easy to customise your screen captures with effects or markup tools.
Camtasia - Video Capture & EditingEasily create and edit professional-quality videos with this video recorder. Plus, record mobile video with TechSmith Fuse, a free mobile app.
BranchTrack - Branching ScenariosIn just minutes, you can create, edit, and directly insert a BranchTrack scenario into Lectora. Scenarios are helpful for decision-based employee training and more.
What’s in the Lectora Inspire Suite?
Create a New TitleOpen Lectora® Inspire from the Windows Start menu or by double-clicking the Lectora Inspire icon on your desktop. From the Getting Started screen, choose how you want to begin building your new title. Select New Blank Title to start your project from scratch, select New Responsive Title to create a blank title for desktop and mobile devices, select Design Wizard for a guide to creating the design and structure of your title or select My Templates to use one of your templates or any of the templates available online. You can also choose Import PowerPoint® to use an existing PowerPoint presentation to create your course.
Design Your TitleIf you used the Design Wizard or a template, most of your design is likely complete! Use the Design ribbon within Lectora to make global changes to the overall design of your title. Designate your title as a SCORM or AICC-compliant course via the Title Options, choose a Page Size appropriate for the intended viewing device and apply a Theme to apply an overall design and interface to your content.
Build the Structure of Your TitleClick the Chapter, Section and Page icons on the Home ribbon or from the left-hand pane to build your title structure. Your title is structured like a book. Use chapters and sections to organize the pages your viewers will see. The left-hand pane of the Lectora Inspire interface provides a Thumbnail View for you to see the individual pages in your title, as well as a Title Explorer so you can view the structure of your content and the objects it contains.
Add TextAdd text to your title by clicking the Text Block icon on the Insert ribbon. An empty text block is added to your page. Additional smart-text objects such as Page Title and Breadcrumb enable you to easily add dynamic text elements to your title. Double-click within any text block to insert or edit existing text. You can also copy text directly from an existing document and paste it in your title. Format text using the text formatting icons on the Home ribbon just as youwould with a standard word processor.
Insert Media, Navigation and MoreDrag-and-drop any of the supported media types for images, audio, video, animations and documents from your desktop or file system into your Lectora Inspire title. Find additional objects on the Insert ribbon and click the icon to insert into your course. You can also create your own media using the integrated Lectora Inspire tools: Create sophisticated screen recordings with Camtasia, illustrative screen captures with Snagit, access a stock library with thousdands of buttons, icons, stock characters and more with eLearning Brothers, and develop branching scenarios using BranchTrack.
Building Your Course
Add InteractivityCreate interactive components such as rollovers and hotspots using the Action object. Use actions to navigate within your title, show, hide, move and resize objects on a page, submit test or form information and more. These actions enable your users to interact with your published title. Select an object, such as an image, to which you want to apply an action. Then, click the Action icon on the Insert ribbon and use the contextual Action Properties ribbon to specify the action’s trigger, result and target as necessary.
Add Tests and QuestionsUse the Test & Survey ribbon to add a Test to your title and place Questions on the pages inside of your test. A test is a special chapter that tells Lectora to grade the questions inside the test and include the results in a final test score. Add questions such as True/False, Matching, Multiple Choice and Fill in the Blank to test your viewers’ knowledge. When you add a question to your title, the Question Creator provides options for defining the Question, Feedback and Attempts.
Preview and Test your TitleLectora has three basic modes: Edit, Run and Preview. These modes enable you to edit your title (add images, reposition objects and access object properties, for example) and immediately preview its functionality. Your title is in Edit Mode by default. To test functionality and interactivity in your title, click the Run Mode or Preview Mode icons on the View ribbon or on the ever-present status bar at the bottom of the application. Run Mode enables you to preview your content while still keeping the Lectora interface and your left-hand pane in view, while Preview Mode enables you to preview your content outside the Lectora application. To exit Preview Mode, hit your ESC key.
Publish to ReviewLinkReviewLink is a free hosting service that enables you to publish your content for testing and review purposes. Using ReviewLink, external reviewers and subject-matter experts can access your published title and provide their feedback by submitting comments and attachments for content revisions and modifications. Select ReviewLink from the Publish options on the Home ribbon in Lectora and follow the on-screen instructions to publish your title and make itaccessible to external reviewers via ReviewLink.
Finalise and Distribute Your TitlePublish your title to HTML, CD-ROM, a SCORM or AICC learning management system such as CourseMill, or even a Tin Can learning record store. Choose the appropriate publishing option from the Publish options on the Home ribbon. When the publishing process completes, preview youroutput. Published content is created within the same location as the .awt title file by default. To make your course available to your users, FTP the published content to a web server, upload it to your learning management system, place it on a network or burn it to a CD-ROM.
The Home RibbonThe Home ribbon contains common and popular commands for accessing clipboard functions, building your title’s structure, editing text, arranging objects and publishing.
The Design RibbonThe Design ribbon contains commands and options for configuring your title’s global setup and appearance.
The Insert RibbonThe Insert ribbon contains commands and options for adding a variety of different objects, media, navigation elements and more to your title.
The Test & Survey RibbonThe Test & Survey ribbon contains commands and options for adding questions, tests, surveys and forms to your title. Submit test and survey results to learning management systems, custom databases and even Google spreadsheets.
The Tools RibbonThe Tools ribbon contains commands and options for selecting tools that create new objects, manage resources and enhance the review process.
The View RibbonThe View ribbon contains commands and options for switching between modes, configuring grids and guides, adjusting the content display and viewing panes.
Lectora Ribbon Key
Function Shortcut DescriptionUndo Ctrl+Z Removes the most recent, unsaved change made to your title. You can undo
up to 20 changes.
Redo Ctrl+Y Reverses the previous Undo command. Use this if you unintentionally undo some changes.
Copy Ctrl+C Copies the selected object or text to your clipboard. Use this with the Paste shortcut to place the copiedobject or text elsewhere.
Cut Ctrl+X Removes the selected object or text from your content and places it on your clipboard. Use this with the Pasteshortcut to then place the cut object or text elsewhere.
Paste Ctrl+V Places copied or cut objects or text that exist on the clipboard to the select-ed location within your title.
Paste Unformated Ctrl+Shift+V Places copied or cut text into your title, removing any text formatting such as bold or italics.
Delete Del Removes the selected object or text from your title.
Find Ctrl+F Displays a window enabling you to search for a word or phrase within the title’s contents, notes andobject names.
Find Next F3 Searches for the next instance of the word or phrase for which you are searching.
Replace Ctrl+H Displays a window enabling you to search for a word or phrase and replace it.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Animations• GIF (.gif)• Flash files (.swf, .spl)
Audio• AIFF (.aiff, aif)• AU Format (.au)• M4A (.m3a)• MIDI (.mid, .midi, .mi)• MP3 (.mp3)• RealAudio (.ra, .ram, .rm, .rmm)• Wave (.wav)• Windows Media Audio (.wma)• Advanced Streaming Format (.asf)• Flash Video (.flv)
Images• Window BMP (.bmp)• Graphic Interchange Format (.gif)• JPEG (.jpeg, .jpg)• Portable Network Graphics (.png)• TIFF (.tif)• Window Media Format (.wmf)• Enhanced Media Format (.emf)
Video• Windows Video (.avi)• Quicktime Movie (.mov)• MPEG (.mpg, .mpeg, .mp4, .m4v)• Real Video (.ram, .rm)• Windows Media Video (.wmv)• Advanced Streaming Format (.asf)• Flash Video (.flv, .f4v)
Streaming Video and Audio• YouTube Video• Standard Streaming Video (.mp4, .m4v, .f4v, .flv)• Windows Media Services• Standard Streaming Audio (.mp3, .m4a, .flv)
Documents• Rich Text (.rtf)• Text (.txt)
HTML ExtensionsIn addition to the supported media types, Lectora enables you to extend the functionality of your title by adding HTML Extension objects. With the use of HTML Extensions, you can further add:• Meta Tags• Top of File Scripting
• PHP Scripts• Cascading Style Sheets• ColdFusion• ASP .NET (.aspx)• Java Applets• Header Scripting (JavaScript)• Shockwave Movies• Custom HTML• ASP Scripts• JSP Scripts
Supported Media Types
