Kseniya Ibraeva
Are you looking for a free authoring tool that will let you create eLearning courses? You’ve probably almost given up on finding a decent solution with no hidden costs or time limits. But here’s some good news! We’ve done some deep research and tested nine courseware that cost nothing. Watch the video or read on to learn which free eLearning authoring tools are available, and their strengths and weaknesses.
Source: https://www.ispringsolutions.com/blog/free-elearning-authoring-tools
iSpring Free is a userfriendly authoring tool for creating slide-based courses with quizzes. As the tool builds right in PowerPoint, you can turn your presentation into an interactive online course in a few clicks. When converting, it maintains all PPT animations, triggers, and transitions intact. It’s also easy to build courses from scratch: just populate slides with texts, images, YouTube videos, and web objects.
Udutu is a free web-based tool for building courses. It comes with a variety of WYSIWYG apps that let you create different kinds of activities, including assessments, interactive modules, and branching scenarios.
isEazy has a user-friendly interface. The free pricing plan, as well as the paid plans, allows you to build slide-based courses by using ready-made templates that you can populate with texts, images, videos, and audio. The tool also enables you to create interactive quizzes, timelines, catalogs, process interactions, and more.
CourseLab version 2.4 allows you to create the content in the WYSIWYG model, which means ‘what you see is what you get.’ However, the interface looks a bit outdated and is not very intuitive, so CourseLab can seem quite complicated to use for non-technical users and developers.
GLOMaker 3.0 is a free open-source tool that enables you to create structured interactive learning materials. It divides the process of authoring into two parts: planning and designing.
H5P is an open-source cloud-based tool that allows you to create HTML5 eLearning content and publish it on popular platforms like WordPress, Moodle, or Drupal. The content can also be added to any LMS that supports LTI integration.
AdaptiveU is a cloud-based tool with a course creation capability. But, in fact, it is more than authoring software, as it includes an LMS functionality, allowing you to invite learners and track their training statistics. It is also not absolutely free, but does enable you to create two courses free of charge.
Moovly is a cloud-based video editor that is a good fit for creating training videos. It allows you to create tutorials by using your own photos, screenshots, footage, or voice recordings, or by leveraging the built-in media libraries.
Adapt is an open-source tool. It stands distinctly apart from other content developing tools that have evolved from a ‘PowerPoint’ format design. Courses built with Adapt provide a webpage-like experience – they scroll vertically, not flipped like slides. The authoring tool doesn’t support branching scenarios and offers a very limited animation scope, so it is suited only to those who want to create long read courses with ‘linear navigation.’
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