Automatic spell-check is now available in object labels and text objects. This new feature is dead-simple to use. When left on, spell-check will highlight misspelled words with a red underline anytime focus is set to an editable text area. To replace a misspelled word with one from the dictionary, simply right-click the underlined word to access a drop-down list of recommended alternatives. Should you wish to edit text without the visual markers of automatic spell-check, togg

Save with Comments is a new feature in ZebraZapps allowing authors to annotate individual saves with useful notes. In many cases, it is nice to have a save history that points out major changes in an app’s design or function. Should an author wish to go back in history to a previous version, a well annotated list of saves would provide a pivotal key in choosing which version to open. Save with Comments [Shift + q] and Save As [Shift + s], both include this new annotation spac

Organizations and vendors of various types are rushing to adopt Tin Can because it enables many things they have wanted to do for a long time. Things like mobile delivery, offline delivery, serious games and hosting content outside the LMS were all difficult or impossible with SCORM. These are easy with Tin Can. What will you learn? You'll see how ZebraZapps can help you to start using Tin Can, as well as innovative ideas that will inspire your creativity and help you integra

Asset replacement in ZebraZapps has always been a powerful concept, allowing authors to quickly turn interactive sketches into production-ready, quality learning events. However, asset replacement (images, audio, video and gadgets) has been limited in scope to the current event that an author is working on. This month that changes. ZebraZapps authors now have a powerful new asset / project management goodie: project-wide asset replacement. Authors are now able to replace any

The Serious eLearning Manifesto is meant to be a constructive, actionable document for developing quality learning. While the manifesto itself is not meant to be “learned,” there are plenty of tips and tools that can help you practice the principles of the manifesto in your real-world designs and projects. For instance, to help facilitate its impact you could create flashcards to memorize its values and principles, print up a poster and hang it high in the office, or even cre

Our early September release is here, and with it comes a plethora of new features, updates, and enhancements to the ZebraZapps editor and player. We’ve squashed a bunch of bugs, made some great developments with LMS packaging for SCORM 2004 and AICC, as well as added new functionality to the editor, making it easier and faster than ever to create one-of-a-kind, exceptional e-learning experiences. Here’s a snapshot of the latest improvements in this release: Player Loading Spe

Serious Games and Simulations ZebraZapps provides designers and developers a platform to build great learning experiences such as serious games and simulations – projects that simply cannot be produced with rapid authoring tools or cost-effectively produced with programming language tools. At some point in life everyone plays a game. Some games are more fun and engaging than others. The best games are played for hours and hours, over and over again. What makes these games so

New PROPERTIES and OUT Ribbons: Now easier than ever to give feedback based on a student’s previous answer or any time a value changes in the app. ZebraZapps authors will really enjoy building interactions with newly added PROPERTIES and OUT ribbons in this release. We’ve focused on making it easier to: Give feedback based on a previous answer or a previous action that a student has made. Give feedback at the precise moment a value changes. Button Sets, Slider, Text Input, a

July’s early release brings to life a big, new design feature: The Font Manager. With the new font manager an author can upload any font file (.otc, .ttf & .ttc) to their account. Once the font file has processed (just a few seconds), the font can be added and used in any project. For authors who are working collaboratively with other ZebraZapps users, transferred projects with uploaded fonts will leave the fonts embedded in the project. However, for copyright purposes the fo

Keypads in your e-learning apps can help make a big difference with inputting numbers. A simple keypad in a gadget allows your users/learners to input a decimal point anywhere in their answer. By default, this keypad includes a US dollar sign and rounds to two decimal places. But of course, like all ZebraZapps Gadgets, the specifications are editable by authors. Our Keypad Only Gadget allows an author to import the logic of this keypad and employ it in their own project howev