New Lectora Certification Programs!
You can now become certified on Lectora and receive recognition for your knowledge and skills by participating in Trivantis' new Lectora Certification program. Trivantis is so excited to provide the Lectora user community with this new offering which was just launched this month. A few of the many benefits of Lectora Certification include:
Trivantis offers two levels of certification: Lectora Certified Author - A Lectora Certified Author demonstrates a strong understanding of Lectora capabilities and can successfully create, troubleshoot and publish Lectora titles. The author is capable of creating basic interactivity with the use of actions and variables. Lectora Certified Advanced Author - A Lectora Certified Advanced Author demonstrates extensive knowledge of Lectora and has the ability to develop complex interactivity within a title. The author has problem-solving skills and a basic understanding of web-based programming. To learn more or to purchase Lectora certification, please click here.
More Lectora 2008 Enhancements Coming Soon!
As promised, more new features and enhancements for Lectora 2008 will be released this summer! Current Lectora 2008 users will automatically receive more than 15 new features and enhancements in their Service Pack update next month. And for those who are still using Lectora 2007, you can upgrade to Lectora 2008 for 65% off the full retail price! Your upgrade will give you access to all the features released throughout this year in addition to those coming soon. Many of the new features and enhancements were based on the suggestions made by Lectora users at this year’s Lectora User Conference. Some of the new features will include:
In addition to the new features coming next month, if you still haven’t upgraded to Lectora 2008, you’ll also receive those features released earlier this year, such as audio conversion to Flash format, interactive video help agents, course completion certificates, and much more.
Visit Trivantis at Bb World 2008
Bb World 2008 conference will be held in Las Vegas on July 15-17. Stop by booth #502 to meet Trivantis academic sales representatives and to learn more about Lectora. The Bb World 2008 conference program will feature client innovation, collaboration and best practices from Blackboard users all over the world. To enjoy this year’s Bb World 2008 conference exhibits, workshops and speakers, register here. If you’d like to schedule a meeting to talk one-on-one with a Trivantis representative at Bb World, please contact Tom Elmer at 513.929.0188.
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Online Forum Explains Ways to Utilize Lectora with Design Tools
At a recent eLearning Guild Online Forum, members of Trivantis’ Custom Development Services team presented tips and tricks on using Lectora in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash. Tom Woeber, Director of Trivantis Custom Development Services, and Tim Kindberg, Lead Course Developer, discussed how Lectora and Flash combine well together by “communicating and listening to one another.” They also explained how to produce better images by utilizing Adobe Photoshop with Lectora. Tom oversees a team of graphic and instructional designers at Trivantis that have successfully produced eLearning projects for Fortune 500 corporations, government agencies, major universities and small companies. His expertise lies in increasing efficiency and quality at each step of custom eLearning development production. Tim specializes in a wide range of development tools, such as Lectora, Flash, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Microsoft PowerPoint, and various audio and video. By bringing together these tools and their talents, Tom and Tim are able to produce exciting, interactive, eLearning projects for Trivantis’ clients. During the Online Forum, attendees viewed exciting examples that could help any level of Lectora user create an innovative and interactive course or presentation. Now, eLearning Guild is making the recorded version of this forum available to all those who weren’t able to attend. To view this presentation, click here.
Media Library Organizer – The Media Library Organizer in Lectora 2008 enables you to find and share digital media files that are on your computer or shared among team members on a network folder. Utilize this feature by simply locating your Media Library Organizer under your Tools menu. Save time adding conditions - When you define multiple conditions for an action, you can select to copy and paste the conditions into another action's Condition tab. Capture multiple objects on your page – To capture multiple objects on a content page, you can simply use your mouse to draw a box around the objects and all of them will then be selected. View Object Properties - To quickly gain access to the properties of an object, highlight the object and press Enter. The properties window will open, allowing you to view and make changes.
Results for Lectora Habits & Practices Survey Trivantis is always trying to improve our products and our services. To do so, we constantly conduct third party research to learn more about our clients, their needs, and what they feel we can improve on. According to our recent independent Habits and Practices survey of Lectora users, overall satisfaction with Lectora products was high. Seventy eight percent of participants are completely or mostly satisfied with Lectora. One of the many reasons that Lectora users are satisfied is because they can create an array of programs using Lectora. Participants reported that their main uses of Lectora are for training, online courses, assessments and quizzes. Others indicated they also use Lectora for presentations, website simulations, and building websites. When getting ready to purchase Lectora, according to the survey, the most influential factors were ease of use and flexibility in design and publishing. Lectora’s use of a book metaphor makes it easy to follow and organize the user’s content. When designing a Lectora course, one has the simple option of using the Title Wizard and Background Wizard. To make sure all your courses resemble one another, you also have the option of saving your previous title as a template to be used in all future projects and courses. Another influential factor when purchasing Lectora, reported by participants, is the compatibility with standard industry software and tools. Lectora can be used with a wide variety of file types and software. According to the survey, the two most widely used tools in conjunction with Lectora are PowerPoint and Flash. When asked about LMS systems used with Lectora, participants named Saba, SumTotal, and CourseMill as their top three choices. All of this feedback is very important to Trivantis and will not be taken lightly. Thanks to all who participated in this survey and we look forward to better serving you in the future. |
