President, TIS Publishing, New York
iSpring Presenter
Get a complete e-learning package
When it comes to e-learning, iSpring Presenter is one of the smartest elearning authoring tools you will find. It transforms your regular PowerPoint presentation into a SCORM/AICC compliant Flash elearning course, ready for publishing to a Learning Management Systems (LMS). iSpring elearning software also provides you with a quiz authoring tool to further enhance your PowerPoint presentation or course with engaging, interactive quizzes. Besides the ability to create a winning course, you can also enrich it with video narrations. The iSpring generated Flash movies provide ActionScript API, allowing you to have total programmatic control over the navigation and playback of your presentation.
Make PowerPoint even smarter
Develop involving e-learning courses
|
Take advantage of the latest rich media technologies. Make your elearning courses more vivid and engaging by bringing a bit of fun into the learning process.
|
|
Invent engaging quizzes
Control presentations with iSpring API
External control of Flash presentation playback
iSpring Presenter generated Flash movies allow programmatic access from external Flash applications. This feature allows easy integration of Flash content within HTML or Flash based environments.
Events handling during presentation playback
iSpring Presenter generated presentations provide your system with notifications about all of the events occurring during presentation playback such as slide switching, playback mode changing, etc.
Getting information about a presentation
This functionality allows the lookup and display of information on the number of slides, slide outlines, notes, thumbnails, slide duration, presenter and company info, etc.
Custom skin development facilities
Detailed and complete information on iSpring player architecture allows any Flash developer to customize predifined player skins them with various UI capabilities and the ability to create your own unique ones.
What's new in iSpring Presenter 4.3
iSpring Presenter 4.3 gives you a new publishing destination - iSpring Online, a new professional slide sharing facility. Quiz creators get two more question types to choose from, plus they can illustrate a question with a video clip. Also the good news is that SmartArt objects and Random animation effects are now supported by iSpring as well as the AICC course format.
Version 4.3
Publishing to iSpring Online portal
Here comes a new publishing destination - iSpring Online. Not only it's a web-portal for professional presentation sharing, it's a new generation LCMS (learning content management system) that allows tracking your content activities.
AICC compliant Flash content creation
More eLearning professionals can now use iSpring Presenter as AICC format is supported as well as SCORM 1.2 and 2004. So if AICC compatibility of your course is important, just select a corresponding Course type in before publishing to Flash.
New quiz question types: Fill-in the Blank and Multiple Choice Text
iSpring-made quizzes can now be richer and more diversified with two new question types. Fill-in the Blank and Multiple Choice Text questions are the novelties for this edition.
Video-enhanced questions in quizzes
Make your quiz even more captivating and fun. Have new QuizMaker video embed option illustrate your questions with a video for you. Your movie will play in the upper-right corner of your quiz so that a quiz-taker can think over a question while watching a clip.
Keyboard customization
Not always shortcuts make long delays. iSpring customized shortcut keys will serve you right. You can control your output Flash presentation playback with your keyboard keys, customize them the way you want, save shortcut combination into a file for future projects. Each action can be set to be controlled by up to 3 different keyboard keys
Custom company logo in Lite player
Handy Lite player is ready to look more professional and fancy with your company logo on it. You'll like a nice combination of functionality and "brandability".
Random Effects animation support
Amaze your viewers with animated objects applied random effects to so that they'll be different every time played. iSpring now easily handles the conversion of such animations.
Advanced processing of SmartArt objects
SmartArt graphics now get processed by iSpring as easily as never before. So design your presentation with this expressive mean of PowerPoint all you want and iSpring will take care of its decent look in Flash output.
Standard PowerPoint audio objects sound volume control
Standard PowerPoint sound control will play at the same level as this PowerPoint setting is now supported by iSpring. So set it for high, medium, low or mute in your original presentation and enjoy it in the Flash output.
Version 4.2
YouTube Video Insert
Impress your audience with YouTube videos inserted into your presentation. Now that you possess this feature, the tricky part is to find the right clip to showcase.
Publish Presets
When creating many similar presentations, why bother going though the same options again and again? You can take advantage of iSpring's convenient built-in presets or create one of your own.
Watermark protection of your slides
Your copyrights can now be secured by a watermark on your slides. Its image, transparency and position are fully customizable. Plus, you can set a web page to be opened in the same or separate browser window when a watermark is clicked.
Password protection of your presentation
Unauthorized viewing is no longer an issue. Protect your presentation by setting a password for it. Users will be prompted for the password whenever your slideshos is opened, even when uploaded to SlideBoom.
More feedback from your quiz takers
You can now track all your quiz takers' detailed results including all answer options for each question, actual and passing scores, questions completed, etc. All that data can be emailed to you or sent directly to your Learning Management System or server.
System Fonts Display
More opportunities for speakers of oriental languages, which now get easily displayed within Advanced Glossy, Advanced Matte and Crystal player skins.
Animations and Slide Transition Disabling
Important to reduce the size of the output Flash? Easy, with a new option featured by iSpring Presenter 4.2. Just uncheck "Preserve shape animations effects" and "Preserve slide transitions" and your published newly produced file will be much lighter.
Version 4.1
Advanced Glossy Player
Apply a perfect combo of style and functionality featured within a new skin of already popular Advanced player. Easy to use and customize as always.
Expressive Slide Notes
Express yourself in presentation slide notes by applying text styles as bold, italic, underline, color, size, bullets to them.
Multiple Presenters' Companies Logos
Add a custom company logo per each single presenter, not just for the whole presentation. This is definitely important when company identification is crucial for multiple presenters.
More Animation Effects
Make your slideshow even more dramatic with "Auto-reverse" and "Rewind when done playing" options for animation effects as they now get easily converted as well. Please, view sample animation in a Flash demo above.
Custom Slide Show Support
Take advantage of Custom Slide Show PowerPoint feature. Divide your slides into groups and connect them to each other with hyperlinks. This way you can set a header slide as a hyperlink to access sub slides. Your presentation will certainly become more interactive.
Animated GIFs color effects
Shake up your audience with animated GIFs that can be applied different color effects to.
Stop Transition Sound Support
Turn off transition sound when advancing from slide to slide. Why bother with noise it's easy to preserve the effect of Stop transition sound PowerPoint feature.
Presentation info via ActionScript API
Receive all the necessary info about your presentation through ActionScript API even if the skin you've applied doesn't require that. The only drawback that comes out is that it adds up to the size of the presentation. However, the advantage you get is irrefutable.
JavaScript interaction
Implement your output Flash with a JavaScript Connector. This module takes care of your presentation playback control right from the HTML code.
ActionScript 3 Connector
Supply your output Flash with an ActionScript 3 Connector. It means that the presentation will contain an ActionScript 3 bridge. This module manages your presentation playback control from your Flash file written in ActionScript 3.
iSpring QuizMaker
iSpring e-learning authoring software features a powerful built-in tool for interactive Flash quizzes creation. iSpring QuizMaker makes it that easy to create, customize and deliver quizzes that complete your e-learning course. QuizMaker allows you to track how users go through your learning materials with a Learning Management System as the iSpring-created output is SCORM and AICC compliant.
Interact with your audience
Add questions of various types
|
iSpring QuizMaker supports all basic types of questions to create effective testing and training materials easily. The current version includes questions of the following types: |
|
|
|
Deliver your quiz easily
Your iSpring-made Flash quizzes are highly portable and let you easily deliver solid experience to all your students independently of their computer platforms and software. New iSpring Online service makes it easy to share and access your learning content anywhere.
Right from your PowerPoint you can:
- Integrate your quiz with your presentation and publish to a single Flash course
- Publish training materials at iSpring Online service and track users' learning activity
- Upload your quiz to any SCORM/AICC compatible Learning Management System
- Embed you course into your web site, blog or other web resource
iSpring Presenter features
Whatever you create in PowerPoint, iSpring Presenter can make your PowerPoint brainchild easily distributable, viewable and accessible everywhere by transforming it into Flash format.
PowerPoint Features Support
PowerPoint content
|
Multimedia support
|
Flash Movie Tuning Features
Appearance & Playback
|
Flash based Player
|
Advanced Features
Audio & video narrations
Presentation enhancement
|
Flash presentation protection
Flash movie programmatic control
|
Publishing and Delivery Features
Possible destinations
Output formats
|
Quality and Compression control
|
View iSpring Presenter Demos
Check out sample Flash presentations and quizzes below as they could tell more than words of what iSpring Presenter does. Please, click the images to view demos.
Sample Quiz created with iSpring Presenter
Sample Presentation created with iSpring Presenter
Sophisticated graphics and animations, background audio... The presentation below was kindly provided for demo purposes by Eyeful Presentations, UK.