You will also learn Lectora in a weekend...and also hit it's limits at
the same time.

mark

Erik **AdobeCommunityExpert** wrote:
> Trivantis Lectora is generally considered a fair competitor to
> Authorware and is currently being maintained. I've played with it a
> little and, IMO, it simply pales in comparison...but it does allow
> decent interaction development and multimedia support.
>
> Outstart...Trainer? I see mentioned here and there. Outstart has an LMS
> and authoring tool...I'm not sure of their respective names. I don't
> have a good impression of the product but not sure why.
>
> Flash is where we are going with most of our development, but it's not
> an easy environment to learn. I believe there are products built on top
> of Flash to allow a more friendly authoring experience... RapidBuilder?
> I'm not sure of those names either, but a search for something like
> 'Flash-based media authoring' or somesuch may reveal.
>
> Articulate has some decent tools but mostly for creating super-fancy PPT
> files with SCORM tracking and quizzes at the end, as far as I've seen.
>
> When I started in this field, Authorware, Director, Toolbook, Quest, and
> TenCore were the primary tools. Kinda interesting how many of those are
> still at the top of the field (none).
> But there are surely a lot of options out there. May be best to just
> search for 'multimedia authoring tools' or something like then post back
> here, or any other forum, and see if anyone has experience with such tools.
>
> I'll still use Authorware where I can but, as Amy says, without support
> for latest OS, browsers, and Flash - it's becoming less and less likely.
> Erik
>
> dwknapp wrote:
>> Thanks for the excellent comments. So, given that I am new to this
>> genre of software, what other products should I be researching? The
>> purpose would be for doing in-house, in-department training developed
>> by a couple of subject-matter experts who are not computer
>> programmers. They have no web support, but do have experience in
>> non-computer training. The subject matter is very technical,
>> health-care related. Doubt that multi-media would play much of a
>> part, but perhaps narration would be involved.
>>
>

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