Hi Wendy,

We use Articulate 360 for teams https://articulate.com/360/teams in our company.

It includes multiple products:

• We create interactive courses with Storyline. Previously I have used Captivate and find it very clunky compared to Storyline.
• For simpler visually stunning presentations we use Rise. 
  
• You could use Studio to easily transform PowerPoint to e-learning.
  
• We find Review indispensable - rather than circulate PowerPoint files for annual review of our compliance training, we simply publish Storyline or Rise projects to review where business units can provide comments.
  
• The built in content library of pics and videos is really good - helps you create visually stunning presentations in no time. 
  
• It includes Peek and Replay to create videos - i heard from my colleagues that they work fine. I use Camtasia Studio since I already have a license.

Thanks,

Vijay

Hi Wendy,

I've used both Adapt Builder and Articulate products - both are great tools!

In addition, I can recommend also these tools:

• H5P.org - probably best open source authoring tool. There's a Moodle activity plugin available and it works in Totara as well. 
• There's also a commercial SaaS option as well: h5p.com - it can be integrated with Totara via LTI.
  
• Easygenerator is also a good option, supporting both SCORM and LTI.

Cheers,

Jani

This is a great thread. Does anyone have any recommendations around Captivate and Totara? Or any engaging Totara plugins in general?

we also use articulate 360 for creating course content. Using RISE a lot currently, love its clean simple look and our learners seem to prefer modules created in this style rather than storyline 360. Also find that RISE is easier to work with making development a lot quicker and simpler. 

Good Luck in your hunt :)

Lyn 

In the Totara Academy we use a few different tools to create our training courses:

Techsmith Camtasia: Camtasia is a really good tool for creating screen recordings and syncing them in time with voice over. 

Articulate Storyline: Storyline is a really flexible tool that has an interface that is very similar to PowerPoint, so it is really easy to learn the basics. In the academy we use Storyline for our software simulations, I recently ran a webinar showing how we had built the simulations that you can access here. 

Adapt Authoring Tool: Adapt is a free and open source authoring tool that is responsive and works great on mobile. The setup is a little tricky but once it is set up is is fairly straightforward to use. Here is an example of what the finished output can look like.

Thanks

Jordan

These are all great answers. Thanks. I'm an intermediate Captivate and Totara user. I am looking for plugins to gamify courses for learner engagement. Or any other plugins really where people, for example, can collect points and unlock levels. I found this Moodle plugin:

https://moodle.org/plugins/block_xp

I'm not sure if it works out of the box with Totara 11.

Does anyone know similar/different/better tools?