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It avoids a lot of the headaches that come with desktopbased tools but has some
limitations in the amount of customization you can do.

Gomo comes with a range of themes you can tweak to quickly create e-learning
that looks modern and onbrand. It’s worth noting that fully customized themes require
specialist development, which can be costly if you have grand plans for your visuals.
There is a range of interactive templates available to bring your content to life. The
interactions all sit in a twocolumn structure, which limits your designs a little.

6. Lectora Inspire and Lectora Online

Lectora is an elder statesman in this arena. The Windows desktop authoring
tool has been around a long time, they have now released a cloudbased HTML5
version of the authoring tool called Lectora Online, which gives great flexibility. It can
be powerful when you know how to use it, but like others of this ilk, it comes with a
steeper learning curve than some of the other tools on the list.

There are a ton of prebuilt interaction templates available that can be used as
they come or tweaked. Some aspects can be changed via the development interface,
but for others, you may need to use a graphics package to replace existing images. You
can create greatlooking e-learning content with Lectora; however, you need to be a
relatively experienced instructional designer and confident with the tool to do so.
Lectora’s new “Responsive Course Design,” or RCD, the feature allows you to design
courses in the desktop view. The tool then automatically rescales objects to fit on
mobile devices.

7. Adapt

Adapt is an opensource authoring tool that creates responsive HTML5 content.
Developers anywhere can add new interactions to the community. The authoring tool
only makes the tried and tested components from the community available to users.
You can produce modern, slicklooking content with themes in Adapt, or by making
your own themes. However, Adapt works on a gridlike system with blocks of content,
so the finished products do all look “blocky” and similar. There’s a decent range of
interactions and assessment features, but they’re all quite standard – nothing really
creative or different from other tools.

8. DominKnow ONE

DominKnow ONE brings together their traditional authoring tool Claro with
DominKnow Flow for responsive authoring and screen capture and simulation
capabilities. It’s got a traditional Microsoft look and feels and strong capabilities;
however, reviews highlight the limited support and help offered. DominKnow allows
you to start out with a range of themes and templates, which can be customized. You
can also import your PowerPoint content to then edit within the tool. The responsive

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