Archive for the ‘Development’ Category

Along with many other SCORM-compatible Learning Management Systems, BlackBoard is now supported by iSpring Presenter and iSpring QuizMaker. This means that all the settings advantages inherent in BlackBoard can now be applied to iSpring-created quizzes and courses.

iSpring 5.5 release has been announced, which means that the most recent innovations in Flash and eLearning authoring in PowerPoint are now at your service. Let me briefly describe what exactly has been included into the newest version of iSpring products:

• Resuming presentation playback from the last slide viewed
• Rearranging the order of references and attachments
• Improved publishing to FTP
• Smoother playback of 3D transition effect in trigger animations

The ultimate eLearning package iSpring Presenter 5.5 also features:

• Transition to a Full screen mode by a keyboard combination
• Full support of BlackBoard LMS

iSpring QuizMaker 5.5 got the following updates:

• Publishing to iSpring Online CMS
• Full support of SCORM and AICC formats
• Adjustable compression levels, file destination, and other properties in the Publish window
• Quick Start window with resources like recently opened quiz, online help or tech support
• Improved player look and feel

Learn more about latest implementations for each product at What’s New sections of product pages iSpring Pro 5.5, iSpring Presenter 5.5, iSpring QuizMaker 5.5 and iSpring SDK 5.5 accordingly.

As always, registered iSpring license holders are eligible for great discounts. Check out your upgrade options in the iSpring Upgrade Center. Users of the version 5.0 get a free upgrade to the version 5.5.

iSpring releases a new seriously upgraded product line. iSpring 5.0 includes beautifully redesigned and enhanced iSpring Pro and iSpring Presenter, the products that already very popular, and introduces iSpring QuizMaker, a new tool for creating engaging quizzes.  Here are just a few points that make iSpring 5.0 even more powerful and effective.

A long-awaited full version of iSpring Online, a new service for sharing any type of eLearning content like presentations, courses and quizzes online has become available starting this December. Now the set of iSpring eLearning tools is completed with a convenient Learning Management System.

We receive a lot of questions from our customers on how to make a list of clickable presentations and have them opened  in a new, current  or a popup browser window on a mouse click. In this post I am going to give you some idea on how to make those links work your way.

This September, a new 4.3  release by iSpring Solutions appeared, featuring a new service – iSpring Online, a professional eLearning content management solution. It gives you a web-space for hosting and sharing your presentations, as well as providing a new generation LCMS (learning content management system) that allows full reporting and tracking of all activities on your content in every way. You will have access to all kinds of reports, like who views your presentations, what your quiz-takers’ scores are, who is the most active viewer of your content, etc.

Subscribing to an iSpring Online account, allows you a private virtual portal with a unique name, logo and URL-address. You can manage also your audience: create new users, group them and assign the rights to access your content. Check out more details about our new iSpring Online* at:  http://www.ispringsolutions.com/product/ispring_online.html

In this post I’d like to tell you about a new product by iSpring Solutions, SWiX, www.swixkit.com. It is an XML-based Flash editor for advanced users, Flash programmers and designers.

Imagine a common situation: you are all in all happy with your website design, but there is just little something you want changed like some outdated text or image on your webpage. There is no more need to go back and use the sophisticated tools the website was initially created with, just as you don’t need to rebuild the entire house to cover up a small scratch on its wall. Check out easy-to-use SWiX XML-based editor for SWF that allows any Flash file editing without dealing with its source .fla.

Sometimes nothing can illustrate the subject you are talking about in a presentation better than a video clip. Starting from the 4.2 release of iSpring even the free version of this PowerPoint to Flash software supports YouTube video insertion just as well as embedding videos from your local computer.

And you don’t have to be a computer wizard to do this. Just click YouTube icon on iSpring panel in your PowerPoint and paste a selected YouTube video URL into the appropriate field. To make sure you’re doing it correctly you can watch a tutorial available right in your iSpring YouTube Insert window:

Sometimes we get emails from our clients who worry if iSpring products are able to keep animations and transitions in their rich-animated presentations.

You don’t have to worry about animation conversion quality of iSpring. In this post I will show you something that you might have never seen before.

Our developers got quite inspired by nice and sunny spring this year. Check out what they’ve done to iSpring. It’s full of new neat features and options. Welcome new iSpring 4.2!

Now your presentation can easily become:

• YouTube video enlivened – just pick out the right YouTube clip to broadcast at any slide of your presentation
• Individually Preset – make your own custom preset or select from the offered ones not to bother with options settings every time you convert a new alike project