Authoring Tools
Articulate Engage '09
Articulate is a tool used to develop flash based courses. Articulate Engage '09 is a quick and easy
access tool which has the ability to produce user friendly interactions. Engage '09 allows the user
to choose from a wide range of interaction types, including process, timeline, pyramid diagram,
labelled graphic, interactive FAQ, and more. It supports the most important feature of publishing
interactions to LMS.
This course focuses on exploring the relationship between timeline events through text, images
and sound.
Course Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course you will:
• learn about Engage and its features
• Understand different Engage options
• Manipulate the Quick Access Toolbar
• Work with different types of Interactions
• Publish the interactions
Pre-requisites:
• These Authoring tools do not require technical/programming skills and easy to learn. You
can publish the course to SCORM/AICC without writing any coding.
No.30, II Floor, Sarvasukhi Colony, West Marredpally, Secunderabad – 500 026 INDIA
Telephone: 0091–40–27803080 & Fax: 0091–40–27716308
URL: http://www.commlabindia.com Email: info@commlabindia.com

Authoring Tools
Captivate 3
Captivate 3 is a Flash-based tool that is used to develop simulation-based courses. This software
enables users to rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, scenario-based training and
assessments without programming or multimedia skills.
This course mainly describes the method of creating an Adobe Captivate movie. It projects the
new features of Editing, Quizzing and Publishing. It also explains the method of adding images,
animation, text boxes, buttons, captions, audio and video. Further, it emphasizes different
Recording Types to record any software.
Course Duration: Approximately 90 minutes.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
• Develop Watch/Try/Do type of projects
• Record screenshots of any software application
• Develop interactive courses
• Extract images and develop customized courses in Flash using Adobe Flash
Pre-requisites:
• These authoring tools do not require technical/programming skills and are easy to learn.
You can publish your course to SCORM/AICC without writing a coding program.
No.30, II Floor, Sarvasukhi Colony, West Marredpally, Secunderabad – 500 026 INDIA
Telephone: 0091–40–27803080 & Fax: 0091–40–27716308
URL: http://www.commlabindia.com Email: info@commlabindia.com

Authoring Tools
Lectora 2008
Lectora is a software package which supports a wide variety of common media types
including text, images, audio, video, animation and internet technologies such as Shockwave,
Flash, HTML, Java, Javascript, ASP.NET and ColdFusion. It enables the user to import three-state
rollover animated .gif buttons without programming knowledge.
This course explains the use of Lectora '08 and demonstrates how to use images, actions,
animations, table of contents and pop-up windows to create courses. Through this course, you
will be able to use Lectora to create online courses that are AICC- and SCORM-compliant.
Course Duration: Approximately 90 minutes.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this course, you will be able to:
• Explain about Lectora
• Create a new title in Lectora
• Add images, animations, table of contents and format text
• Add Actions and create pop-up windows
• Create tests and check, publish and edit errors
• Explain and work with AICC and SCORM variables
Pre-requisites:
• These authoring tools do not require any technical or programming skills and are easy to
learn. You can publish this course to SCORM/AICC without writing any coding program.
No.30, II Floor, Sarvasukhi Colony, West Marredpally, Secunderabad – 500 026 INDIA
Telephone: 0091–40–27803080 & Fax: 0091–40–27716308
URL: http://www.commlabindia.com Email: info@commlabindia.com