Run While Editing: Upgrades and Control In the latest edition of ZebraZapps, we’ve enhanced the ability for authors to immediately test projects as they’re being built and edited. As before, ZebraZapps provides the unique and invaluable ability to run projects while you’re editing them (and edit them while you’re running them). For example, you can conveniently trigger button actions and see if they perform as desired without having to switch to run mode. Now, with this relea

This week we spoke with Mike Kavanagh, the owner of a firm providing driver safety courses. MK: My name is Mike Kavanagh, and I have a small Driver Training Company (Driving Risk Down ltd) where we provide various types of driver safety training courses to companies in Ireland. Up until now, our driving courses tended to be in-vehicle or in a classroom. It’s only recently that we began to use virtual classes and to consider producing e-learning materials as additional traini

We have seen so many creative and impactful outcomes from users of ZebraZapps that we wanted to share some of these with our blog readers. This week we are sharing the challenges of Christophe Merville, a pharmacist and the Director of Education and Pharmacy Development at Boiron USA, the US subsidiary of the International, family-owned Boiron company, based in France, the largest manufacturer of homeopathic medicines in the world. ​ Christophe has been a ZebraZapps subscrib

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

New this month to ZebraZapps is an enhanced edit bar for cut, copy and paste functions in object labels and text objects. The edit bar is conveniently activated when the selection cursor is placed inside the text entry field on the stage. For editing text in a browser the edit bar makes refining and editing typed or copied text from other applications easy without learning new key commands. In addition the edit bar visually lets authors know what commands are available by cha

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

Join Us for a Creation Station at ATD TechKnowledge in Las Vegas, NV. Real Learning, Real Apps, Real, Serious Mobile Learning Games With ZebraZapps Fri, Jan 16 | 8:00 AM - 9:15 AM | Neopolitan IV Don't just create text and next for mobile. Go beyond Scantron with a facelift. Be sure what you build is a "real" native app that can live on iTunes or Google Play. Have your real apps load, feel, and play like any other downloaded mobile app, including usage without Internet. Do it

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