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Rapid Interactive Course Authoring in Minutes: New Elicitus 6.5 Release Combines Productivity, Interactivity and Flexibility

PuneLearning NewsHarbinger Group

Harbinger Knowledge Products today announced the release 6.5 of Elicitus, its award-winning rapid authoring tool for e-learning. This new release offers several new benefits such as improved productivity, enhanced interactivity and additional flexibility for course developers and learners.

 

Harbinger Knowledge Products today announced the release 6.5 of Elicitus, its award-winning rapid authoring tool for e-learning. This new release offers several new benefits such as improved productivity, enhanced interactivity and additional flexibility for course developers and learners.

Elicitus 6.5 productivity features include export of course data to XML files and bulk import of glossary in addition to questions and PowerPoint presentations.

This new release extends the interactive course creation flexibility by allowing the authors to include Raptivity learning interactions even on course outline and score pages. The assessment engine of Elicitus has become even more powerful with addition of a new question type and the ability to time-limit assessments.

Content presentation gets a major boost with additional flexibility in the positioning of customizable navigation bars, as well as finer control over text margins, facilitating more attractive layouts of course pages.

"We listened to our customers", said Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director of Harbinger Group, "and realized that even more productivity, interactivity and flexibility was what they were looking for. We went to work with these goals and came up with Elicitus 6.5".

Added Seema Chaudhary, Director: "I am sure users will continue to experience enhanced value in Elicitus without compromising simplicity and cost. Users have the additional benefit of viewing Elicitus course content right inside the LMS screen environment, without pop-ups."

About Elicitus Interactive eLearning Suite

Elicitus Interactive eLearning Suite provides a complete eLearning solution all the way from PowerPoint® to interactive eLearning. Elicitus SlideConverter accurately converts PowerPoint® content. Raptivity for Elicitus allows users to add interactivity to their courses. The award-winning Elicitus Content Publisher helps rapid creation of SCORM 2004 and AICC standards-compliant eLearning courses.
Elicitus is a leading desktop authoring tool for trainers, educators, subject matter experts and other eLearning creators worldwide. Creating great courses with Elicitus requires no programming. Even users with no page design experience can create visually appealing courses with Elicitus.

Raptivity for Elicitus, which is part of Elicitus Suite, is powered by Raptivity. Raptivity is the industry's first and only rapid interactivity builder. Raptivity allows trainers and subject matter experts to create engaging interactive eLearning content in less time and reduced cost.

With interactive content, learning experiences become memorable and dropout levels go down. Content jazzed up with Raptivity becomes more absorbing and exudes a professional look.

Raptivity provides a pre-built library of rapidly-customizable interaction models. These interaction models are based on the best practices in instructional design. Users can customize them to create any number of variations, as per need. The content published by Raptivity is a single flash file so it fits right into hundreds of eLearning tools and can be used anywhere.

Elicitus Suite is adopted and used through several verticals and various segments of industries for creating eLearning.
Elicitus Suite is the unanimous choice of all types of companies from Fortune 500 companies in USA to medium and small scale enterprises. With customers spread over USA, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, UK, Ireland, Denmark, Switzerland, Germany, The Netherlands, Israel, UAE, Iran, South Africa, Australia, Singapore, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong and India, Elicitus is getting used in all sectors of industry for creating eLearning. Customers are using Elicitus for creating online training for the employees, customers and tracking their performance.