The fast track to e-learning content: LECTURNITY, the award-winning Rapid Authoring Tool.
The high-speed, low-cost way to get your point across. To any audience you choose. LECTURNITY not only helps you deliver your lecture, it also turns it into multimedia e-learning content. Together with your PowerPoint slides, your handwriting, your personality. And why not add test questions, and interactivity? Once you’ve finished planning, disseminate your ideas efficiently — our rapid authoring tool gives you easy access to the latest media technology.
The number one choice of professors and professionals: Without it, a modern university would be unthinkable. And now, more and more companies are also discovering the advantages of LECTURNITY. Hardly surprising, when you think about it: this authoring tool not only helps you record lectures or presentations in no time at all, it also gets your interactive training courses up and running with maximum efficiency.
Don't programme, present!
The LECTURNITY Assistant
Everything begins with the Assistant. It is used both to present your slides and to record. You can start this module direct from PowerPoint. Once you have clicked on the start button, you can concentrate fully on your lecture. You will soon become familiar with the clear user interface. The Assistant provides you
with useful tools during the lecture and you can edit the slides. Innovative input tools, such as SMART Boards, are also fully supported.
In the background, the Assistant records and synchronises all media, including the text index, fully automatically. And screen activities, comments and sketches that you make during the presentation, are also recorded, so you can create your learning application in no time at all.
From the Assistant, you can publish your recording direct with the Publisher, but you can also view it beforehand in the Player or edit it in the Editor.
Preparing the recording
- Start the LECTURNITY Assistant direct from PowerPoint with a single click
- Import PowerPoint slides into the Assistant
- Object-based use of any PowerPoint slides in LECTURNITY
- High-quality illustration and free, no-loss scaling of PowerPoint slides in LECTURNITY
- Import common image formats: BMP, GIF, JPG, etc.
- Project-guided production process: creation of defaults in projects for quick reuse
- Free editing of PowerPoint slides and objects before and duringrecording
- Configurable document structure: organisation, sequence and labellingof slides and chapters
- Support of PowerPoint 97, 2000, 2002, XP, 2003
Recording with the Assistant
- Easy operation of the recording with four buttons (Start/Pause, Stop, Forwards, Back)
- Toolbar with over 20 graphical annotations (pointer, text marker, draw, etc.), freely configurable
- Control screen for sound and video recording in the presentation bar for quality assurance
- Embedding of any desktop activities or any software application (SAP, MS Outlook, Internet applications, etc.) at the click of a mouse (screengrabbing)
- Size and position of the area to be recorded can be freely selected by right-clicking with the mouse
- Integrated synchronous recording of all media used: Audio, slides, graphical annotations, screengrabbing and video recording
- PowerPoint animations of the type "Appear" can be used for step by step text/image display
- Annotations made possible at the click of a mouse during recording and breaks in the PowerPoint slides and in all screengrabbings (WYSIWYG)
- Insertion of configurable texts (comments, speech bubbles, etc.) also in applications
- Change of view in the screen presentation (full screen mode) using keyboard shortcuts and mouse-click, as in PowerPoint
- Automatic indexing of all recorded media and creation of a table of contents
- Efficient, no-loss codec for screengrabbing recordings for high-quality illustration of even detailed applications
- Complete support of all common digital and analogue video cameras: DV, Mini-DV, WDM and VfW