What’s New in Lectora 16
The Mobile Learning Game Changer
Lectora 16 with Responsive Course Design
What's New in Lectora 16 Webinar
Need your training courses to display well across all devices and platforms? Join Daryl Fleary as he takes you through the new features of Lectora 16, including your key to designing multi-device content—Responsive Course Design (RCD).
- Status Action Condition Relationships
- Inline Variable Replacement
- Enhanced Progress Bar Actions
- Renewed Compatibility with Lectora Online
- Updated Tools and Learning Resources
Watch video: What's New in Lectora 16.1
What's New in Lectora 16
Responsive Course Design
With Responsive Course Design (RCD) you can develop titles for your primary desktop audience as well as for display on all tablets and smartphones. You can even convert existing titles to be responsive—if you’d like.
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Responsive Course Design in Lectora
View/Download: RCD Quick Start Guide
RCD Overrides: Customizing Views
Lectora’s Responsive Course Design inheritance automatically positions and sizes objects on the page in mobile views. However you still have all of the power of Lectora to customize each view and design the WYSIWYG title you desire.
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Inline Variable Replacement
Using variables in your title is easier than ever! Use the Variable drop-down list to select a variable and insert it directly into your text. Display the student’s name, test scores, or any other information.
Watch video: Inline Variable Replacement
Status Condition Relationships
Lectora includes the ability to automatically track the progress of learners throughout the title. You can use this information to control actions through the use of Status condition relationship. With Lectora you can make actions conditional based upon whether the chapter, section, or page Is Not Started, Is In Progress, or Is Completed. With Lectora 16 and Lectora Online 3 you can also check for the opposite of those: Is Started, Is Not In Progress, or Is Not Completed.
Watch video: Status as Action Condition
Device Rotation and Current View
With Lectora’s Responsive Course Design you can control what information is provided to you learners depending on the type of device—desktop, tablet or smartphone—and orientation they are using.
Watch video: Device Rotation and Current View
Cross-device Moving and Resizing
When working with a Responsive Course Design (RCD) title, this feature will allow you to change the position or size of an object across all devices at the same time.
Watch video: Cross Device Moving and Resizing
Custom Progress Bar Actions
Custom progress bars may be used for many things including showing progress in a non-linear title or as a visual reference for any number of things. You can associate a variable with a custom progress bar and use the Step Progress Bar Position action to determine what direction the bar will move.
Watch video: Custom Progress Bar Actions
Using Page Layouts
Page Layouts determine where default objects such as text blocks, images, and other media are placed on a page. Using them makes it easy to apply a consistent structure for your course development team, and a consistent experience for your learners.
Read article: Using Page Layouts in Lectora and Lectora Online
Customizing Test Results
Lectora and Lectora Online allow you to determine the behavior of quizzes/tests including whether test results will be shown to the student. With the Results Designer, how results are displayed is completely customizable. You can choose what data to show, the order in which the data is presented, how the text is styled, and even embed images within the results.
Watch Video: Customizing Test Results
Improved bullets and numbered lists
Lectora 16.1 supports modern browser rendering of bullets and numbered lists including right-alignment of numbers and Roman numerals.
Additional status indicator objects
Select from 50 additional status indicator sets, such as the three-cut pie, bullseye, hourglass, and progress meters.
Media play optimized
The playing of media has been optimized with a new HTML5 player, eliminating the Flash requirement and providing for sharper rendering on mobile devices.
Enhanced Likert questions
Likert table questions have been reformatted into a single object, improving creation, editing, moving and sharing. Additionally you can now specify instruction text as part of the question, and customize the scale choices.
Content Development
Rotate and Flip
New object adorners allow for the rotation and flipping of shapes, images and text buttons.
Alternatively, use the controls in the new Rotation and Mirroring group of the Position and Size ribbon to flip and rotate objects.
Image Cropping
Easily crop images directly on the page to improve the framing or to better highlight the subject matter.
Place Objects Outside the Page
Place objects completely outside of the page boundaries of the publisher. Objects off the page can’t be viewed by your learners—use a Move action to animate the objects onto the page.
Buttons, Shapes, Text and Images
Customizable Button States
Configure the Normal, Over, Down and Disabled states of buttons. For each state, you change the shape style, or modify the text style. Use the new Set State action to set the state of a button to either enabled or disabled.
Create Buttons in Any Shape
Text buttons, transparent buttons (hot spots) and image buttons can be formatted in any shape. You can now create a text button shaped like an arrow or build a rollover with a polygon-shaped transparent button. Once you’ve set your style and properties, you can easily update the shape type directly from the Style ribbon.
Shape & Button Text
Add text directly inside of a shape or button. You can also select and change the text formatting on the object’s Style ribbon.
Star and Callout Shapes
Add star and callout shapes to draw attention to a part of an image or to attract attention to instructions and information.
Watch video: New and Updated Shapes
Gradient, Texture and Picture Fill
Change the fill style of buttons and shapes to use gradients, textures or images. Select from a built-in gallery of textures, choose from 26 default gradient styles, customize your own gradient or select an image from the Media Library to design a distinctive button or shape.
Shadow and Reflection Effects
You can specify the shadow and reflection settings of shapes, images, buttons and text blocks. You can customize the shadow color along with the transparency, blur, angle and distance settings to create a shadow or blur effect. This also applies to text character shadowing.
Watch video: New and Updated Shapes
Number and Bulleted lists
Select from new types of bullets and numbering schemes—choose from circles, squares, checks, diamonds and more. When you indent lines of a numbered list, the scheme will automatically update to reflect the new list level.
Watch video: Numbered and Bulleted Lists
Border Styles
You can add and modify the border style of shapes, images, buttons and text blocks. Determine border color, weight and line style from the object’s Style ribbon.
Watch video: New and Updated Shapes
Opacity Setting
You can adjust the opacity settings of shapes, images, buttons and text blocks. Use this option when layering text over images so that your text is easy to read, or try blending images together by changing their opacity.
Watch video: New and Updated Shapes
Preview and Publish
Web-based Run & Preview Mode
Run mode and Preview mode now provide web-based previews of your content. For instance, you can run JavaScript and preview Web Windows directly from Run mode. Additionally, you can test CSS and HTML extensions and preview text that renders more closely to your browser.
Accessibility
Numbered and bulleted lists are formatted using the current HTML standards. This allows screen reader applications such as JAWS to recognize the text as lists when your title is published to the Web (HTML). Along with lists, status indicators, questions and the table of contents have all been improved for accessibility.
Publish for Offline Use
Publish titles for offline use to distribute on external media such as CD-ROMs and flash drives. Alternatively, place the directory on a shared network drive to collaborate with team members.
Easy Editing
Hover Text Menu
Quickly format text with the Hover Text Menu. The menu will automatically appear when you select letters or words or when you right-click on text in a text block.
Improved Guide Handling
Use the Add Guide and Clear Guide options on the View ribbon to quickly add and remove guides. Use the handles on the ruler to easily move a guide horizontally or vertically on the page.
Web Window Properties
Set a number of properties for Web Window objects including borders, margins, scrollbar and transparency settings.
Lectora Inspire Tools
Snagit 12
Snagit 12 introduced a completely redesigned editor, an enhanced capture experience and video trimming.
Camtasia 8.4
With the latest version of Camtasia, you can accomplish cross-platform screen recording, integrate with Google Drive and record mobile video with TechSmith Fuse, a free mobile app.
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