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Course Authoring Software

For teams that need to build, publish and update online courses in-house without relying on developers, comparing tools for creating training, compliance and product-learning content.

20 businesses

AuthorPoint

Mohali, Punjab, India

Authorgen evolved from being an it services company specializing in the e-learning space to become an internet venture with the…

5.0 2 reviews

BranchTrack

Riga, Latvia

Is your e-learning too theoretical? Add practical, realistic sims to your training - in class and online. Radically improve the…

5.0 1 reviews Freemium

ClickClass

Royal Leamington Spa, England, United Kingdom

Clickclass™ has been designed to help individuals or teams rapidly author, distribute and manage high quality, collaborative…

5.0 1 reviews

5.0 1 reviews

eNetAuthor

United Kingdom

Elearning authoring software for elearning teams, allowing seamless content creation for elearning teams.

5.0 1 reviews

Flowclass

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Flowclass is a powerful web app that allows educators to market their courses and recruit students. We are for: - small-to-medium…

5.0 1 reviews

SmartBuilder

Carlsbad, California, United States

Much has changed in elearning since we started in 1999, but two constants that haven’t are: 1. Meaningful interactivity is an…

5.0 15 reviews

ViewletBuilder

San Jose, California, United States

Qarbon.com, inc. Develops, licenses, and supports software and services to help companies and organizations create and publish…

5.0 1 reviews

CourseArc

Fulton, Maryland, United States

Coursearc™ is a course authoring and management system (cams) that facilitates the collaborative creation of engaging and…

4.8 5 reviews

Gomo Learning

Brighton, United Kingdom

Gomo is an elearning authoring tool that is simple to use, yet still offers the advanced features loved by your learning…

4.8 2 reviews

KREDO Learning Platform

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Kredo is the new generation learning platform that provides learning courses that best suits the learners’ needs right for the…

4.8 4 reviews

Easygenerator

Rotterdam, Netherlands

We believe everyone should be able to turn their knowledge into training-easily, quickly, and at scale. Why? Because your…

4.7 58 reviews

SimTutor Author

Dalton, Georgia, United States

At shaw specialty markets we believe that anything beneath your feet should have a positive impact on how you live, learn, work…

4.7

Zenler

New York, New York, United States

Zenler is an e-learning company based out of 117 e 57th st, New York, New York, United States.

4.7 6 reviews

Articulate Storyline 3

New York, New York, United States

Articulate develops e-learning software, content, and resources that change the way the world learns. More than 120,000…

4.6 247 reviews

Elucidat

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Elucidat, a learning pool company, is a multi-award-winning elearning authoring platform used by the world’s leading companies to…

4.6 94 reviews

DemoBuilder

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Create video demonstrations for customer support, employee training and product presentations.

4.5 3 reviews

Create your e-book today! Creating e-books with EbooksWriter is really a snap! Not just a compiler but a professional all-in-one…

4.5 1 reviews

QuoDeck

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Quodeck is a B2B SaaS digital learning and engagement platform that enables organizations to use interactivity and games to…

4.5 1 reviews

These vendors build the software people use to actually construct a course: dragging together slides, branching scenarios, quizzes, video and interactions, then packaging the result so it plays correctly on a laptop, a phone, or inside whatever LMS the company already runs. Buying one of these tools changes who can build training. Instead of briefing a developer or an agency and waiting weeks for a build, an instructional designer, a subject matter expert, or an HR generalist can put a course together themselves, publish it, and update it the next time a policy or a product changes.

People end up here because the way they've been creating training has stopped working. Maybe compliance content is stuck in outdated PowerPoint decks nobody can maintain, or product training can't keep pace with release cycles because every course needs a developer to touch the code. Maybe a company has grown past ad hoc onboarding and needs something repeatable, or an existing LMS has no content behind it because there was never a proper way to build anything for it. The common thread is a mismatch between how often training content needs to change and how slow or expensive it currently is to change it.

The tools solve this by giving non-developers a way to build interactive content without writing code, but they differ sharply in how far that goes. Some are built around a slide-and-timeline metaphor close to PowerPoint, which is fast to learn but limits how complex the interactions can get. Others are more like structured content systems, treating a course as blocks of reusable content that can be assembled, translated and republished across formats, which suits organisations managing hundreds of courses rather than a handful. Cloud-based tools let teams co-author and publish instantly; desktop tools give more control over the finished file but slow down collaboration. Output format matters too — SCORM and xAPI compatibility with your specific LMS, true responsive behaviour on mobile rather than a shrunk desktop view, and how well the tool handles localisation if you're translating content into multiple languages. When comparing options, look closely at the learning curve for non-technical authors, how content is reused and updated at scale, and what happens to your existing course library if you ever need to move to a different tool.

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