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elearning maker
Authoring tool to create your e-learning programs

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A « 3 in 1 » software solution

elearning maker offers a "3 in 1" software solution for managing the three stages of e-learning production, and industrializing your project:

  • Pedagogical scenario-creation : thanks to its scenario writer mode, elearning maker is a unique solution for organizing pedagogical goalsand unfinished content.
  • Story-board : elearning maker allows you to create and edit story-boards.
  • Multi-media integration : In this last stage of production you add definitive multimedia elements page by page.

Easily create your e-learning content

  • Create exercises and lessons
  • Test immediately after creation
  • Automatic table of contents
  • Multimedia functions (hyperlinks, rollover, pop-up, …)
  • Insert documents and media (PDF, PowerPoint, texts, HTML pages, images, Flash animation, videos, sounds, etc.)
  • Export the content in Word format
  • Formatting tools
  • Story-board creation
  • Multilingual management

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Easily publish your interactive exercises and training courses

With one click you can distribute your e-learning courses via CD-ROM, the Internet, LMS platforms or smartphones!

elearning maker was designed to facilitate and accelerate the creation of your training materials, as well as updates to them. Once your materials have been created, you choose the delivery mode that you prefer and the software generates the files in Flash format.

10 good reasons to choose the elearning maker authoring software

  • Fast familiarisation: elearning maker can be used by all, regardless of your skill level in producing e-learning content.
  • Diversity of proposed activities: You choose more than 45 activities to achieve your training goals.
  • Teaching approach
  • Inclusion of many media: You enrich your e-training by incorporating attractive and relevant media (videos, sounds, images, photos, animations, etc.).
  • Integration of your resources: Your existing resources (Word, Excel, pdf, ppt, html, etc. ) integrate seamlessly into the authoring software to enhance your distance training.
  • Interoperability: The resources produced with elearning maker are interoperable with all LMS training platforms on the market thanks to compliance with SCORM and AICC standards.
  • Web technology : Your Flash resources can be read by all Web browsers.
  • More widespread use of serious games: The serious game features developed in elearning maker open the doors of serious games to all in distance training.
  • Integration into e-doceo learning suite
  • Access to the e-doceo media store portal

List of main functions

Interactive pedagogical contents creation

. 3 utilization modes:

    Simple mode for easy implementation
    Expert mode for exploiting all the power of the software
    Scenario writer mode for organizing pedagogical process

. Training pages and exercises creation
. More than 40 pre-defined activities (mcq, drag and drop, fill-in-the-gaps, etc.)
. Active discovering page
. Table of contents edition
. Exercise preview
. Feedback creation (advice and corrections)
. Multimedia elements integration: texts, videos, Flash animations, sounds, pictures
. Rich graphical resources integration (media full flash) created outside of the software
. All type of documents integration (PowerPoint, Word, PDF)
. Multilanguage interface
. Chapter creation
. Hyperlinks to another activity, web page or document creation
. Project management data integration
. Choice amongst 6 graphical interfaces
. Integration of new graphical interfaces
. Animated scenes in Flash format creation
. Software which separates style from content(XML)

Pedagogical scenarisation

Scenario
. Models of pedagogical scenarios
. Creation of pedagogical scenario models
. Organization of the page in the scenario by drag and drop
. Reuse activities in other contents
. Organize the scenario into chapters
. Put exercises in a random order
. Guide the students according to their score
. Personalized assessments
. Display the scenario in a sequential or hierarchical view
. Define mastery score of the learning unit
. Pre-requisites amongst learning units
. Scenario pages graphical display
. Choice of scenario type : free, compulsory, linear or conditional, according to the score obtained by the student

Activities
. Activity choice through a pedagogical entry (Bloom 's Taxonomy)
. Activity classification according to pedagogical objectives
. Detailed description of activities and pages (texts, sounds, pictures, schemes, layout, feed back, scoring)
. Dynamic and instantaneous preview
. Application of a score coefficient into the activity according to the number of attempts
. Obligation to redo the activity N times if students fail
. Establish a score validation
. Apply a coefficient to the activity
. Apply a countdown to the activity
. Limit the number of attempts
. Configuration of navigation buttons
. Interaction amongst the multimedia elements of a page
. Adding hyperlinks to an activity, to a web page, to an office automation document...
. Adding animated mascots with different behaviours and with sound (gallery of mascots from elearning animgallery)
. Adding custom-made mascots
. Presentation of the properties of an object on each page
. Synchronisation of sounds and animations

Technology

  • Flash and HTML 5 technology
  • Available in SaaS mode or as a purchase
  • Development kit for the creation of content and new interactive exercises
  • Mini programming language for integrating true serious games
  • Export of your e-learning content in web format
  • Separation of content and form (XML)
  • Content compatible with the SCORM 1.2 /2004 and AICC 3.5 standards

The expert's advice

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«" The e-learning authoring tools are ergonomic and easy-to-use for designing our training modules. »

Aurélie Almeida
EUROVIA