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

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

ZebraZapps Mobile will be taking mLearnCon by storm from June 24th through June 26th in San Diego, CA. With our new, fully integrated native app publishing feature, anything you can imagine, design, and build in ZebraZapps can become a mobile app distributed on any iOS or Android device—no programming required. These apps can be games, simulations, interactive learning activities, assessments, quizzes, presentations or any other app you might need, like calendars, scheduler

ZebraZapps Now Gives Authors the Ability to Publish Serious Games and Simulations for Mobile Devices! The new ZebraZapps mobile feature gives authors the ability to publish real mobile apps for learners, any time or place they want without relying on a mobile Internet browser. The goal of “author once and play anywhere” has moved a step closer to reality with ZebraZapps. Authors can create their sophisticated e-learning courses once and then publish them as real apps for each

New this month in ZebraZapps! Create captions and labels with the most powerful and easy to use visual editor ever. With this latest release, ZebraZapps authors now have the ability to add a text label to nearly every object on the stage. By just pressing T on the keyboard, selected objects are given flexible labels that can be used for so many purposes. Captions, citations, directions, notes, comments, part numbers, button names, and much more. The label editor provides fast

Join Steve Lee, co-founder of Allen Interactions, in a one-hour webinar – Discover ZebraZapps - Power and Productivity: Breaking the Storyline/Captivate/Lectora "Wall". Thursday, April 3rd, 1:30pm - 2:30pm (US-CT). Tools like Storyline, Captivate and Lectora are great for building many e-learning solutions. However, if you have tried to create truly dynamic games, simulations, and assessments, you have probably hit “The Wall”— the point where these tools can’t handle the comp

User gestures are user movements recognized by ZebraZapps objects. ZebraZapps objects can react directly and/or send messages to other objects so they can react. For example, a button might respond to the mouse pointer being over it, change when the mouse button is clicked, and also make something happen when the button is clicked. ZebraZapps is very powerful in gesture recognition and object manipulation, so it's easy to create simulations and complex interactions. Check out

All ZebraZapps objects recognize when the pointer is over them, when they've been clicked, dragged, and so on. But sometimes we need to react to individual parts of an object, such as areas of a photo. In such cases, we can just outline areas with the sketch tool and then "cloak" the sketches so they aren't seen, effectively creating an interactive rollover. Check out this app to see an example of how to use rollovers in ZebraZapps. #bestauthoringtool #elearningsoftware #elea