The elearning authoring tools market is going through a burst of innovation, driven by a desire for ever-greater speed and ease of use.
This as been accelerated further by the adoption of AI among the leading elearning companies, and here we present some of the best digital learning creation software, with an emphasis on innovation.
Super rapid, super slick
imc Express builds on decades of experience creating some of the best training solutions, and here we are talking super rapid content development that can be used by pretty much anyone to build out digital content quickly and easily. With just 10 minutes, you can be flying using this excellent elearning authoring software from Scheer IMC.
We’ve already signposted imc Express as one of the best examples of leveraging AI for elearning content creation and maximising productivity for L&D teams or subject matter experts. However, the Scheer IMC team has now taken this to another level, creating one of the top elearning authoring tools on the market.
imc Express now integrates ChatGPT technology and makes it extremely easy for anyone – without any previous learning design or techie experience – to create elearning modules in minutes…
The training is very good, including a tutorial mode with contextual help to ensure you build out good learning and help pages.
If you have a lot of material to create or convert and not a lot of time, Express is a great option. This tool is 3 to 4 times quicker to create learning content than the market leaders, and perfect for making dry documents into learning resources rapidly.
Favourite features:
- Super rapid content development
- Good learning design principles (Didactics – designed in)
- 60 languages supported out of the box with voice and text translation done automatically
- AI can generate translated subtitles for videos
- Easy drag and drop of learning assets into a course that are automatically added to your content library and tagged (very neat)
- Collaborative development
- Outputs to SCORM 1.2 and 2004, as e-book, MS word or as a link
Learn more about content creation with imc Express.
Course delivery, learner engagement, and monetization
LearnWorlds is a cloud-based learning management system (LMS) that combines robust elearning authoring tools with powerful course delivery, learner engagement, and monetization features. Unlike standalone authoring software products that require additional LMS infrastructure, LearnWorlds enables users to design, publish, and sell courses all from one unified platform – from interactive lessons to full academy websites.
Its course builder supports a broad range of content types including video, PDFs, presentations, quizzes, SCORM-compliant modules, and more, making it a versatile choice for both instructional designers and non-technical creators.
The platform also includes intuitive drag-and-drop interfaces and customizable templates that allow even beginners to create professional-looking content without coding skills, while still delivering depth for more experienced designers.
Learn more about this complete elearning solution from LearnWorlds over on their website.
A Complete Suite
iSpring Suite
If PowerPoint is your chosen medium to build from, then iSpring Suite is the way to go. This elearning development software has always been easy to use and has an awful lot of flexibility and capability.
However, iSpring Suite AI now offers a lot more capability. It offers browser-based development capabilities and manages the learning assets to enable sharing and re-use. It allows for the development of microlearning, which is now exceptionally well managed.
Favourite features:
- Collaborative development
- Microlearning development capability
- Article editor feature (very cool)
- Create video-based learning with powerful editing and polishing tools
- Super quiz development capabilities, probably the best on the market
Learn more about iSpring Suite.
Create Compelling Courses – No Specialist Skills Required
Absorb Create – for engaging, interactive elearning
Creating compelling training courses doesn’t require specialised skills in elearning content development. With Absorb Create, any subject-matter expert can swiftly and effortlessly construct engaging and interactive elearning courses.
The platform allows for the design of courses featuring branching scenarios, animated slides, assessments, and quizzes. Even existing PowerPoint decks (PPTs) can be quickly transformed into editable courses.
The intuitive nature of Absorb Create ensures that high-quality elearning content is accessible and easily produced, regardless of technical expertise.
Visit their Absorb AI Creator page to learn more.
Elegant, easy and effective
Nimble Author keeps things simple and it does it superbly well. With sound instructional design principles designed into Nimble Author it is easy to build out e-learning quickly and easily. Nimble handles interactions well and really does make life easy to build content.
Nimble allows you to build learning through the eyes of the learner. The material design approach meaning a familiar and intuitive interface for learner and creator.
Favourite features:
- The learner view is very good and easy to switch through to
- Templates are provided to build the learning in
- The rule of digestibility – Nimble Author2 will tell you if you have too much content on the page
- In situ screen editing meaning no need to storyboard (this is my favourite feature)
- The Nimble support promise……get stuck and the guys from Nimble will lend a hand… no problem.
Learn more about Nimble Author.
