e-Learning Authoring Tools:
Determining what is best for your application

e-learning authoring tools are becoming an essential aspect of learning management systems. Their varied capabilities are expanding phenomenally so that training professionals of all skill levels can integrate a wide variety of media and create engaging content.

Selecting the best authoring tools for your application involves some of these considerations. One question to ask is “What features and functionality are most important in creating content?” Putting together a good list of “must haves” is important in selecting a tool that delivers maximum benefit. Page through our Template Product Pages and utilize our Training Template Feature Chart to get a feel for where in our solar system you feel most comfortable starting.

Two other somewhat conflicting considerations to look at are ease-of-use and creative freedom. Basic templates for simple, easy-to-develop content may be the best answer for a tight budget with rapid development needs. Other training needs may require more complex, engaging and interactive content. The creative freedom and dynamic functionality required to build these types of courses may require giving up a little in the ease-of-use area. In the end, you’ll need to balance ease-of-use, functionality, cost, user skill levels and development time to arrive at the best choice of authoring tool.

Template-based tools with few multimedia enhancements can provide rapid development options for your organization. Any of our templates can be utilized with or without an e-tutor. However, MPeT ™ specializes in blending traditional instructor led and e-learning techniques to create a more personalized, interactive course. By employing many of the current methodologies and skill approach of higher learning techniques we can capture several levels of users’ learning abilities. Multimedia simulations can also be created and added to the content, as well as sophisticated interactions, graphics and audio. The challenge is weighing and balancing all the considerations to arrive at the best tool for your situation and needs.