pular slide hosting service, especially after its LinkedIn
acquisition. Users can upload PowerPoint, PDF, Keynote
or OpenDocument files, and share them as online
presentations either privately or publicly. Slide decks
uploaded on Slideshare can be viewed on the site itself,
on mobile devices or even embedded on other sites.
Cheaper and Free Alternatives
The OpenOffice Impress presentation app, part of the
Open Office suite of Open Source applications, is a
mature and very credible PowerPoint competitor that’s
available for free. Only slightly more expensive (but Mac
only) is Apple’s Keynote, which goes for the price of
about 3 cups of coffee. It’s the presentation app with
which Apple does its keynote presentations, so you
know it’s good.
8. INTERACTIVE COURSES
Articulate Engage
If you want to create interactive courses we strongly
recommend Articulate Engage. With its easy to use
interface, Articulate Engage makes SCORM a little less
intimidating: you should be able to create interactions
without typing a single line of code. You can also pu-
blish your courses in HTML5, which allows your users to
view their courses on their mobile/iPad web editions of
TalentLMS.
9. EXPLAINER VIDEOS
Moovly
Moovly is an easy-to-use animation creator with a library
of editable images & templates. The free version is quite
limited; paid plans give you many more options such as
uploading of video clips, copying scenes, custom fonts
etc. With the free version you can export onto Youtube
and then stream within your TalentLMS portal.
Rawshorts
Rawshorts is another great explainer video creation tool.
You can choose from a variety of premade, industry
specific templates and customize your project further
with a drag & drop builder.
Cheaper and Free Alternatives
Similar to Rawshorts, Biteable is a good option if you
know you are going to create a series of videos, since for
a flat fee of $99/year it allows you to create an unlimited
amount of non-watermarked, HD, downloadable videos.
own narration. The free version comes with limitations,
such as a maximum of 30” videos and no exporting of
video. However, you can embed the link of your video
directly within TalentLMS.
Cheaper and Free Alternatives
If your budget is constrained, you should give Synfig
Studios a shot. It is free 2D animation software, de-
signed as a powerful solution for creating film-quality
animation with vector and bitmap artwork. It does take
some effort to learn but you can achieve great results
using it.
6. SCREEN RECORDING
Camtasia
Screen recording is useful for teaching software and
computer related courses, your choices in this area
don’t get much better than Camtasia Studio. It allows
you to easily capture screen recordings, edit them and
add animations and effects, before exporting to Youtube,
Vimeo, MP4, and many more formats.
ScreenFlow
ScreenFlow is a tried and true Mac alternative for
screen recording. Just like Camtasia, it lets you record,
edit and share your computer sessions, and even offers
visual effects and advanced audio editing (for voice-
overs, soundtracks, etc).
Cheaper and Free Alternatives
Windows users can try Icecream Screen Recorder; or
Bandicam, a lightweight screen recorder. For screen
recording on the cheap, both Windows and OS X
offer some rudimentary screen recording function-
ality. While neither offers much in the way of editing
your screen recordings, you can always finish them off
in a regular video editor.
7. PRESENTATION
Prezi
Prezi is an online presentation tool that re-invents the
traditional Powerpoint-style slides. It’s a free, web based,
flash program which means that you wouldn’t be able to
access it offline. You can easily embed your Prezi within
a TalentLMS unit.
Slideshare
SlideShare needs no introduction, as it is the most po-
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