ActivePresenter is a low cost elearning software which is suitable for small and medium business, teachers, tutors and trainers. It is free to download and install on Windows, macOS X.
In elearning industry, it is really hard to find out an elearning software that can meet all of your requirements to create learning courses such as: meet your budget, professional features, compatible to your LMS and so on. There are dozen of free cloud-based and offline software out there such as Captivate 9, Articulate 360, efront, adapt, Easygenerator, iSpring Suite…and so on. Most of them are great, but they are too pricey that you can not afford to purchase.
How about free elearning software? – There are full of annoying limitations in freeware that make you mad such as: limited features, limited number of course you can create, register requirement, purchase plan.. and more. I can not tell you everything but in short, the words “there’s no free meal” is true in this situation.
In today post, I would like to suggest you check out ActivePresenter a professional, powerful and low cost elearning software you can use to create learning courses without any limitations. You can use all features from recording screen, editing video, adding interactivity, import and edit slides, create quizzes, export courses to HTML5, tracking report..etc.You don’t need to register or commit anything from the beginning, just download and use it for free. ActivePresenter can work on Windows and MacOS X.
ActivePresenter – Low cost elearning software for small business
Software overview
User Friendly Interface
Activepresenter has an intuitive interface which is grouped into Home – Slide – Annotation – Interaction – Export – Localize – View – Help. Each group contains the tools you need to develop your course quickly. You are able to customize this tool bar as easy as Microsoft Word you are using every day.
Key features
- Advanced recording features: Full Motion Recording, Smart Capture
- Video editing tools: Cut, Crop, Join, Change Volume, Speed Up, Slow Down, Blur
- Multiple Audio/Video Layers
- Rich annotations: Shapes, Image, Zoom-n-Pan, Closed Caption, Cursor Path, Audio/Video Overlays
- Automatic Smart Annotation
- Export project to: MP4, FLV, AVI, WMV, WebM, MKV, PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Adobe PDF, HTML, HTML5
- Support SCORM, xAPI (Tin Can)
- Interactivity & Branching: Advanced Event-Action System, Javascript
- Interactions: Button, Mouse Click, Text Input, Drag & Drop, Keystroke
- Quizzes: 9 Types of Questions
- Password protection.
- Report & Tracking in LMS (SCORM, xAPI)
You are supposed to take a look at full features of ActivePresenter in its product description page to read all necessary information, click here!
Why ActivePresenter?
- Pricing: If you look at the features, it has almost everything you need to create learning course rapidly at very low cost. While it is totally free to download and use all features of ActivePresenter with a watermark on the exported file, it paid version is $249 per license, lifetime is a great deal in elearning industry. If you look around some other elearning software like Captivate 9, Articulate 360 or even simple elearning software like iSpring Suite, none of them offer less than $600 per license.
- Free version: Regardless of the watermark in free version, you can use it to create your elearning content as long as you want. Whenever you finish all your project, feel happy and want to remove the watermark, then you can purchase a license.
- Cross platform: It can work on Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8x, 10 (32 and 64 bit) and macOS X 10.10, OS X 10.11, macOS 10.12 .
- Update frequency: ActivePresenter ‘s latest version is 6.1.3 and they continue to update the software to make it better and better. Further to its official news, the new version of ActivePresenter with tons of improvements will be released in a few months.
- Online Tutorial video and technical support ActivePresenter has a strong Q&A community and numerous tutorial video on YouTube that you can access easily. All you need to do is search the “keyword + ActivePresenter” for the features you want to ask.
Bottom Line
elearning is the future of education. Choosing correct elearning software can help you save your time and money. Starting with ActivePresenter is not a bad choice. Try it now and let us know your opinion. Remember to follow us to receive valuable post notifications in the future.
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Thanks very much for your suggestion. This is really nice review.