Defining Snap! by Lectora & Snap! Empower for Rapid e-Learning

With the recent release of Snap! EmpowerTM Flash interactions builder, you may be asking “What is Snap! Empower?,” “What is Snap! by Lectora,?” or “What is the difference between Snap! by Lectora and Snap! Empower?.” To answer some of these questions, let’s take a very basic look inside both Snap! by Lectora® and Snap! Empower including what each tool is, what each tool does and how they can work together for you as an e-Learning developer, your rapid e-Learning content and your learners.

Snap! by Lectora and Snap! Empower are two different tools for rapid e-Learning that work independently, but are very compatible with one another to produce very powerful results. Both Snap! by Lectora and Snap! Empower cost $99 each. You do not have to purchase one product to use the other and each delivers valuable capabilities for e-Learning including interactive e-Learning course development and Flash creation.

Snap! by Lectora

What is Snap! by Lectora?

Snap! by Lectora is a $99 PowerPoint plug-in used to create rapid e-Learning courses quickly and easily. You must have PowerPoint installed before you download Snap! by Lectora. Once you download, you will then have an additional Snap! by Lectora ribbon added to the existing PowerPoint toolbar to gain access to all of the PowerPoint to Flash enhancements like quizzes, YouTube videos, audio and video narration and more.

What does Snap! by Lectora do?

Snap! by Lectora provides you with the tools to turn a basic course in PowerPoint into a very highly interactive and engaging rapid e-Learning course. Because Snap! by Lectora is rapid e-Learning software, it provides options to publish content to an LMS (learning management system), CD, to the Web, Snap! Live and Lectora® e-Learning authoring software. Once published, learners can view and interact with the content created in Snap! by Lectora and track results if uploaded to an LMS.

Take a look at some of the ways that you can create a well rounded, interactive and effective e-Learning course in Snap! by Lectora:

• The red box includes the intuitive icons you can use to add audio and video narration, insert quizzes and surveys, embed YouTube videos and Web windows and add Snap! Empower Flash content and other Flash files with the click of a button.
• The green box indicates the places where you can create branching scenarios to create non-linear courses and customize navigation, controls and views to create a comprehensive and customized learning experience for your learners.
• The blue box indicates the Preview and Publish tools used to preview and set publishing options when your Snap! by Lectora course is complete.

Snap! Empower

What is Snap! Empower?

Snap! Empower is a $99 standalone Flash interactions builder that makes it easy to create highly sophisticated and interactive Flash content. Snap! Empower does not require the use of any other program to function and does not require Flash programming knowledge.

What does Snap! Empower do?

Snap! Empower users can either make Flash animations entirely from scratch or quickly customize from one of hundreds of existing templates. Snap! Empower provides very robust capabilities for highly professional and customized Flash content for advanced Flash creators yet also includes many templates and tools to make the creation of Flash animations easy for beginners or for those who need to do so quickly. Create games, assessments, photo cubes, dynamic maps and virtually any interactive element you can dream up. Design from scratch or use one of the many templates – the choice is yours!

Use the Snap! Empower library as your one stop shop to access all of your digital needs and resources for creating fantastic Flash content:

• Find a collection of dozens of pre-built Flash animations and hundreds of templates that you can quickly customize for your e-Learning content.
• The library also hosts all of your existing images, videos, audio, Flash files and Projects as well as the dozens of Components pre-loaded in Snap! Empower

You can also instantly publish your Snap! Empower Flash animations to social media to share your Flash creations with the world in one click.

What do Snap! by Lectora and Snap! Empower do Together?

Snap! by Lectora and Snap! Empower provide equally powerful capabilities for e-Learning and Flash content creation separately, but deliver extraordinary interactive rapid e-Learning content together.

Full Roundtripping with Snap! by Lectora and Snap! Empower

Snap! by Lectora allows you to quickly insert Flash content with the click of a button from the Snap! by Lectora ribbon, but, why not add your own Flash content? Once you create your custom Flash games, animated charts and graphs or any other number of interactive content you design in Snap! Empower, you can instantly drop it into your Snap! by Lectora course.

With Snap! by Lectora and Snap! Empower together, you experience full roundtripping capabilities, enabling you to open and create Snap! Empower Flash animations with the click of a button in Snap! by Lectora and instantly insert them into your Snap! by Lectora courses.

*In addition to putting Snap! Empower content into a Snap! by Lectora course, you can also easily insert it in your Lectora® course as well.

Top 5 Takeaways:

1. Snap! by Lectora works within PowerPoint, while Snap! Empower is a standalone tool.
2. Snap! Empower creates highly interactive Flash content while Snap! by Lectora creates an entire interactive self-paced rapid e-Learning course.
3. You can choose to use Snap! by Lectora and Snap! Empower independently or put your Snap! Empower content into your Snap! by Lectora course for a powerfully interactive experience.
4. Snap! by Lectora is $99.
5. Snap! Empower is $99.

Since there is MUCH more to both Snap! by Lectora and Snap! Empower than just the basics included here, please visit these helpful resources for more information:

Snap! by Lectora:

Snap! by Lectora Rapid e-Learning Software

Snap! by Lectora overview videos

Compare Snap! by Lectora

The “Help” tab from the Snap! by Lectora toolbar

Snap! Empower:

Snap! Empower Flash interactions builder

Snap! Empower overview videos

Snap! Empower compare page

The “Help” drop-down menu from within Snap! Empower

Tips, Tricks & Questions:

Rapid e-Learning Round-up Blog

Snap! by Lectora e-Learning Forum

Download your free 30-day trial of both Snap! by Lectora and Snap! Empower today to experience the power of truly powerful rapid e-Learning Flash content creation at its best.

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