Feel Free to Embed the Slideshare Presentation at your site or blog! 14 Free authoring tools & Bonus Gift! (Update 01/11/2013): 3 more tools were added at the list!) In this post I will present you a list of Free Authoring Tools that you can use in your eLearning design and development process. If anyone of you have used these authoring tools I will very much appreciate if he/she share with us a demo of the final output! If you know a free authoring tool that is not included in the list I will highly appreciate if you leave a comment with a link!

1. 15 Free Authoring Tools
& Bonus Gift!

2. You may also find the following lists of tools useful:
Authoring Tools
Free Authoring Tools for eLearning - 15 Authoring Tools
List of Authoring Tools: Part 1 - 50 Authoring Tools
List of Authoring Tools: Part 2 - 40 Authoring Tools
List of Authoring Tools: Part 3 - 37 Authoring Tools
Learning Management Systems
The Ultimate list of Open Source Learning Management Systems - 17 LMSs
List of Learning Management Systems: Part 1 - 70 LMSs
List of Learning Management Systems: Part 2 - 50 LMSs
List of Learning Management Systems: Part 3 - 30 LMSs

3. 1
authorPOINT
by authorGEN Technologies
• authorPOINT is an
authoring tool that
allows users to capture
presentations and add
pre-recorded
audio/video, all inside
of Microsoft
PowerPoint.
authorGEN also offers
authorPOINTLite, which
converts PowerPoint
presentations to
Flash.

4. 2
Dipity
by Dipity
• From what we can glean
from their website, Dipity
is an online timeline
creator. Users, known as
Dipsters, can create their
own content on subjects
that are meaningful to
them and share them with
other users. Dipsters can
also integrate social
media into their
timeline, utilizing real-
time updates.

5. 3
Document Suite 2008
by JetDraft Software
• Document Suite 2008
is an authoring tool
that helps transform
documents into
online help
modules.

6. 4
Izzui
by QuickLessons LLC
• Izzui is a hybrid social
learning application
that can be linked with
QuickLessons. Izzui
uses Facebook as an
LMS to track and
deliver courses. Izzui
also has an e-
Commerce capability
allowing users to
charge and pay for
courses that they have
created.

7. 5
Jackdaw
by e-Learning WMB
• Jackdaw produces
SCORM 1.2 compliant
content that is easily
integrated into any
LMS. Users can create
interactive content
either from scratch or
with the the help of
over 100 templates.
Jackdaw also lets users
create content that they
can then sell on the
Open Elms webstore.

8. 6
LessonWriter
by Lesson Writer
• From what we can
gather from their
website, LessonWriter
is a tool for teachers
that allows them to
create lessons from any
passage. These
courses allow teachers
to be creative with their
lesson plans and also
saves them a great
deal of time.

9. 7
MOS Solo
by MindOnSite
• MOS Solo offers a way
for users to create
content on the go
without having to rely
on a constant Internet
connection. Even
though they are using
an offline content
creation tool, they do
not lose any of the
functionality or power to
create their multimedia
content.

10. 8
myUdutu Course Authoring Tool
by Udutu Online Learning Solutions
• A free online authoring
tool with a suite of
WSIWYG tools, allowing
users to create courses in
an approachable
environment. Claims to
export SCORM 1.2/2004
conformant courses to be
used in a 3rd party LMS
or integrate into social
media sites, such as
Facebook.

11. 9
QuickLessons Authoring Tool
by QuickLessons LLC
• QuickLessons was built from the
ground up to be a completely
SaaS based content authoring
tool, requiring the user to only
have access to a web-browser.
QuickLessons comes equipped
with
quizzes, games, characters, out
-of-the-box animations and other
customizable content to allow
users to create truly unique and
interactive flash-based content to
meet their needs. Users can either
use QuickLessons for
free, publishing their content only
to Facebook, or they can buy an
individual, corporate or academic
account.

12. 10
Scratch
by MIT Media Lab
• From what we can
gather from their
website, Scratch is a
creative tool that helps
users create content
that is beyond the
barriers of traditional
page-turners. Scratch
users can create
interactive
stories, animation, mu
sic, and art, then share
their creations on the
web.

13. 11
xtimeline
by Famento Inc
• xtimeline is a tool that
allows users to create
timeline based
content for free.
Users can also share
their timelines with
other users, creating
a community.

14. 12
LCDS
by Microsoft
• The Microsoft Learning Content
Development System (LCDS) is a
free tool that enables the Microsoft
Learning community to create
high-quality, interactive, online
courses and Microsoft Silverlight
Learning Snacks. The LCDS
allows anyone in the Microsoft
Learning community to publish e-
learning courses and Learning
Snacks by completing the easy-to-
use LCDS forms that seamlessly
generate highly customized
content, interactive
activities, quizzes, games, assess
ments, animations, demos, and
other multimedia.

15. 13
SmartBuilder
by Suddenly Smart
• SmartBuilder is the
award-winning course
authoring tool that
enables you to create
rich Flash e-learning
with an easy-to-use
interface.

16. 14
The Multimedia Learning Object Authoring Tool
by Tim Wang, John Bratlien, Liang Shao
• The Multimedia Learning
Object Authoring Tool
enables content experts to
easily combine
video, audio, images and
texts into one synchronized
learning object. All assets
are configured to be played
back in a pre-configured
order. Users do not need to
perform any programming
tasks, but rather going
through a graphical user
interface to generate the
learning object.

17. 15
Easygenerator
• Easygenerator is an online free
authoring tool.
• Easygenerator is a Windows
application that stores all content
in the cloud, securely on our
webservers.
• Part of the free edition includes
hosting, updates, upgrades, and
maintenance. There are no
technical worries and no costs.
• With your free authoring
eLearning software you can have
as many as 10 eLearning courses
in your online workspace, and up
to 250 MB of data storage per
user. You can import PowerPoint
presentations (text and images)
and build real eLearning courses
from them.

18. Bonus Gift !!!
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