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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.

24 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

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

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

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

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

FLOWsparks

Ghent, Vlaanderen, Belgium

Where do we begin? From crafting bespoke corporate training programs to building our own e-learning platform to effortlessly…

4.4 37 reviews

CourseGenius

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Coursegenius helps people who are new to online training create their own online courses and deliver them to learners on…

4.3 2 reviews

dominKnow

Kanata, Ontario, Canada

With more than 25 years in the business and our learner-centric approach to authoring software for content development, dominknow…

4.1 14 reviews

EasyProf

Paris, Île-De-France, France

Easyprof ® is an authoring tool that allows you create powerful interactive multimedia courses in a simple and intuitive way…

4.0 1 reviews

Certspring is a new kind of testing and certificate platform that lets anyone create a high quality online learning or…

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EdMill

Paris

Vous souhaitez concevoir vous-même votre contenu pédagogique numérique ? Bienvenue sur edmill, la première plateforme de création…

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JollyDeck

Ilford, United Kingdom

Jollydeck is a learning tech startup proud to partner with deutsche bahn, vodafone, kingfisher and over 200 other organisations…

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LEAi

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Stop wasting time and money. There’s a new and easier way to develop courses and grow your company. Developed by course creators…

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MyEcontentFactory

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Gutenberg technology (gt) transforms how companies create, re-use, and deliver content at scale to multiple and changing digital…

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REDengine

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Redengine is an award winning, elearning product that allows content developers to create interactive online learning, without…

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Skilitics is home to a passionate team solving the biggest challenges that training designers and stakeholders face when…

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SLEAVE

Gurugram, Haryana, India

Innovative learning solutions are evolved every moment based on learners’ profile and needs. However, learning content developers…

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Teachbase

Moscow, Russia

Teachbase is a SaaS platform providing web-based tools for corporate education. It is an all-in-one solution which handles…

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Virtual Training Suite

Suresnes, Île-De-France, France

Serious factory differentiates itself in the professional training market by offering educational solutions based on the idea of…

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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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