e-learning tools

"Adobe® Flash® CS3 Professional software is an authoring environment for creating rich, interactive content for digital, web, and mobile platforms."

"e-doceo elearning animgallery is a tool to create your own Flash animations."

"AntiPlagiarist quickly compares multiple documents searching for plagiarism - copied and pasted fragments of text. Suspicious findings are reported in the convenient format that shows just what you need to see. Plain text, HTML files, and numerous word-processing formats are supported, including Microsoft Word and Word Perfect."

"Un travail de rédaction doit amener son auteur à rechercher et acquérir des connaissances, se les approprier, et les restituer par écrit.Internet est une source de documentation privilégiée, mais facilite également l'utilisation "telle quelle" des documents trouvés. Il arrive par exemple que l'auteur ne précise pas la source où il a emprunté sa citation. Voire même, il tente de s'approprier la paternité de textes dont il n'est pas l'auteur.Une telle pratique constitue un acte de plagiat."

"Fed up wasting your time to check if a student cheated or not? With Ephorus, you detect immediately where and how the student cheated and you get a report detailing how much percentage of the document is pasted from the web."

"EVE2 is a very powerful tool that allows professors and teachers at all levels of the education system to determine if students have plagiarized material from the World Wide Web. EVE2 accepts essays in plain text, Microsoft Word, or Corel Word Perfect format and returns links to web pages from which a student may have plagiarized. EVE2 has been developed to be powerful enough to find plagiarized material while not overwhelming the professor with false links."

"Notre solution de lutte contre le plagiat."

"Plagiarism-Finder is a Windows application that runs on every PC with Internet access. You select the documents for checkup an start the examination with a mouse click. After minutes you receive the results as detailed report on your screen. The program generates a report highlighting concurrent passages and gives you a link to the source."

"Instantly identifies papers containing unoriginal material. "

"Articulate Quizmaker is a quiz creator for making highly customized Flash-based quizzes, assessments and surveys without the need for difficult programming."

"The Hot Potatoes suite includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web. Hot Potatoes is not freeware, but it is free of charge for those working for publicly-funded non-profit-making educational institutions, who make their pages available on the web. Other users must pay for a licence. Check out the Hot Potatoes licencing terms and pricing on the Half-Baked Software Website."

"Netquiz Pro makes it possible to create Web-based exercises or tests without programming or HTML language knowledge. The software offers many functions as well as various new features.The CCDMD offers Netquiz Pro software free of charge. However, users make a commitment not to modify the credits page, which lists the members of the software production"

"The Questionmark™ Perception™ assessment management system enables educators and trainers to author, schedule, deliver, and report on surveys, quizzes, tests and exams."

"ViewletQuiz allows you to have full control over the look and feel of your assessments. Your audiences will not only participate, they will have fun doing it! Whether you want to ask quiz type questions, survey type questions or both, query your audience with a variety of question types."

"With GarageBand, you can create your own virtual on-stage band and play along on your favourite instrument. You can record, edit and mix a song..."

"A free, open source software for recording and editing sounds in Linux, Mac OS X, and other operating systems."

"Adobe Authorware is the leading visual authoring tool for creating rich-media e-learning applications for delivery on corporate networks, CD/DVD, and the Web. Develop accessible applications that comply with learning management system (LMS) standards."

"The Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a tool that enables you to create high quality, interactive, online courses. Virtually anyone can publish e-learning courses by completing the easy-to-use LCDS forms that seamlessly generate highly customized content, interactivities, quizzes, games, and assessments—as well as Silverlight-based animations, demos, and other multimedia."

"e-doceo elearning maker: Authoring tool to create e-learning courses with flash technology."

"The eXe project is developing a freely available Open Source authoring application to assist teachers and academics in the publishing of web content without the need to become proficient in HTML or XML markup. eXe can export content as self-contained web pages or as SCORM 1.2 or IMS Content Packages."

"(e)pistema Epistudio® 2006 lets you create a full range of rich-media e-Learning applications: fully interactive courses, enterprise procedures, on- and offline training modules and more!"

"KnowledgePresenter: Create fully interactive SCORM compliant e-learning lessons, from software simulations, multiple choice quizzes, through to fully synchronized multimedia presentations, with no programming, and no plugins required."

MindOnSite Solo: "Create rapidly and easily training resources, assessment and inquiry contents."

Onlineformapro OnlineAuteur : Create Reusable Learning Objects (RLO) training resources, assessment and inquiry contents.

"Flashform is the new name for "Flash Companion eLearning Studio".Novice and Non-developers Quickly and easily create media-rich Flash-based courses, complete with integrated interactions, quizzes, and tests. Create dynamic database-driven content with Flashform, or convert your PowerPoint for a quick solution."

scenari is an Open Source software of conception of numeric editorial chains allowing the creation of professional multimedia documents.

"SumTotal - Toolbook: authoring application in the publishing of web content "

"Quickly Build Interactive eLearning Content with Lectora... Lectora provides users with a comprehensive authoring environment for creating and delivering custom interactive multimedia content."

"You have Word documents but you can't easily put them online. Now you can.Quickly and easily convert your Microsoft Word documents into content for your ANGEL, Blackboard, Moodle, and WebCT courses. From one Word document you can generate a set of webpages that include navigation and interactive features which can quickly be uploaded to your course [...] Create Accessible Content : Course Genie will enable authoring of content compliant with SENDA, W3C WAI and Section 508...Support Multiple Learning Formats: IMS package; SCORM 1.2 package; IMS QTI Lite (assessment questions) [...]".

"Well designed online training programs can be powerful tools for career-long education or learning new skills and techniques.E-learning programs can be delivered to each person at their worksite, at the same time.E-learning programs often lack a personal touch. Virtual characters are responsive to a number of challenges caused by distance. They recreate the interactive, pedagogical bond that traditionally exists between educators and their students."

"Tool of creation Interactive flash and characters (avatars) with engine of word TTS in natural language."

"Doodle is a web-based tool to find suitable dates for appointments with other people. No authentication or registration is necessary. This makes Doodle particularly useful for people who do not use one common calendar or groupware system. Doodle can be used to find dates for meetings, dinners, cinema, events, and so on."

"Organize your schedule and share events with friends. Wouldn't it be great to be able to keep track of all the events in your life, coordinate schedules with friends and family, and find new things to do all with one online calendar? We thought so, too."

"Adobe® Acrobat® Connect™ Professional software, formerly Macromedia Breeze Meeting, is a scalable, highly customizable, extensible web conferencing solution. It brings real-world functionality to online meetings that enables business professionals to communicate and collaborate instantly with up to 2,500 participants through easy-to-use and easy-to-access online personal meeting rooms."

"dimdim is the world´s first free web meeting service based on the open source platform. dimdim is a browser-based web 2.0 service that allows anybody to share their desktop, show slides, as well as talk, listen, chat, and broadcast via webcam. dimdim´s hosted service is available for free and can be easily used for small gatherings, to seminars with hundreds of attendees. With absolutely no software to download for attendees, dimdim gives everyone the opportunity to hold Web meetings and to customize and brand these meetings."

"e-doceo elearning live is a virtual classroom tool that is compatible with all the LMS platforms on the market."

Elluminate"is a real-time virtual classroom environment designed for distance education and collaboration in academic institutions" or entreprise.

"FlashMeeting is an application based on the Adobe Flash 'plug in' and Flash Media Server. Running in a standard web browser window, it allows a dispersed group of people to meet from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Typically a meeting is pre-booked by a registered user and a url, containing a unique password for the meeting, is returned by the FlashMeeting server. The 'booker' passes this on to the people they wish to participate, who simply click on the link to enter into the meeting at the arranged time."

"This FlashMeeting server is hosted by E2BN."

"MeBeam is a free video chat site. Instant live video conferencing with up to 16 people at once."

Onlineformapro OnlineWebconf : Interactive web conferencing.

"Teach and meet live online."

"Yakkle: Instant Messaging, Voice and Desktop Sharing."

"meebo.com is a website for instant messaging from absolutely anywhere. Whether you’re at home, on campus, at work, or traveling foreign lands, hop over to meebo.com on any computer to access all of your buddies (on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber) and chat with them, no downloads or installs required, for free!"

"Skype is a little piece of software that lets you make free calls to anyone else on Skype, anywhere in the world."

"Call Graph is a [...] plugin for Skype as far as recording calls is concerned."

"PowerGramo skype recorder is a complete solution for Skype recording. You can record any kinds of Skype calls easily."It's free.If you want to record skype conference calls with more than two participants you must choose the commercial version.

"Tokbox is a free service that lets you talk with your friends over live video - it takes just a couple of seconds and always works.Here's how it works: you sign up and we give you a link. When you want to talk with anyone, it takes seconds: just give them the link - they click and you chat.You can also put TokBox on your social network profile, blog or personal webpage. Anyone who is browsing will see a "Push to Talk" option. As soon as they click, they connect to you over live video."

"Yahoo! Messenger: free voice calls, webcam video, file transfers, photo sharing and more."

"Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website."

"Joomla! is an award-winning Content Management System (CMS) that will help you build websites and other powerful online applications. Best of all, Joomla! is an open source solution that is freely available to everybody."

"SPIP is publishing system developed by the minirézo to manage the site uZine. We provide it to anyone as free software under GPL license. Therefore, you can use it freely for your own site, be it personal, co-operative, institutional or commercial."

"Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, you can create professional looking games within very little time. You can make games with backgrounds, animated graphics, music and sound effects, and even 3D games! And when you've become more experienced, there is a built-in programming language, which gives you the full flexibility of creating games with Game Maker. What is best, is the fact that Game Maker can be used free of charge."

Photoshop CS3 Extended: "Ideal for creative professionals in multimedia and video as well as professionals in manufacturing, medicine, architecture, engineering, and scientific research, Adobe® Photoshop® CS3 Extended software delivers everything in Photoshop CS3 and more. Render and incorporate 3D images into your 2D composites. Stop time with easy editing of motion graphics on video layers. And probe your images with accurate measurement, analysis, and visualization tools."

"Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo combines automatic photo fixes, precision editing controls and a built-in photo organizer, making it the easiest way to get professional-looking photos, fast!"

"GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages."

"Paint.NET is free image editing and photo manipulation software for computers that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for layers, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins."

"PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustmentsto an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy learning curve. The toolbar, giving you access to the standard filters with just a few clicks, gives PhotoFiltre a robust look."

"Aviary is a suite of rich internet applications geared for artists of all genres."

"Flickr: Photo Sharing"

"Picnik: Photo editing made fun."

FREEWARE (NOT OPEN BUT FOR FREE)"Find, organise and share your photos."

"rsizr is a Flash application that lets you resize JPG, PNG, and GIF images on your computer. With rsizr, in addition to normal image rescaling and cropping, you can also resize images using a new image resizing algorithm called seam carving (a method of image retargeting) that tries to keep intact areas in your image that are richer in detail."

"Basecamp is a web-based tool that lets you manage and track projects (or simply ideas) and quickly create client/project extranets."

"eGroupWare is a free enterprise ready groupware software for your network. It enables you to manage contacts, appointments and many more for your whole business."

Onlineformapro OnlineAgora : GroupWare

"Vyew is a web-based conferencing and always-on collaboration platform that provides instant visual ..."

Angel Learning: Learning Content Management System (LCMS)

Blackboard & WebCT: Learning Content Management System (LCMS)

"Claroline is an Open Source eLearning and eWorking platform allowing organizations to build effective online courses and to manage learning and collaborative activities on the web."

Dokeos is a learning management system.

"e-doceo elearning manager is a training platform."

"Ganesha is a Learning Management System (LMS) software made with PHP/MySQL. It manages the learning process for the trainees and the teachers and handles course administration."

"KnowledgePresenter-Manager: A Learning Management System, used to administer and track user e-learning progress over the web or locally."

"Moodle is a course management system (CMS) - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators create effective online learning communities."

MindOnSite Chorus: "Create, manage and deliver training, assessment and inquiry contents."

Onlineformapro OnlineManager : Learning Content Management System (LCMS).

"Plateau Learning Management System (LMS) enables you to manage training across the extended enterprise. You can identify training requirements, deploy learning across your extended enterprise and track its completion."

"Sakai is an online Collaboration and Learning Environment. Sakai is a free and open source product that is built and maintained by the Sakai community."

"Syfadis LMS, the software for e-learning Syfadis LMS enable a company, a school or a training center : - to set up innovating devices of training - to develop the training in autonomy - to propose spaces for animate, communicate and exchange - facilitate the training in resources center - to supplement the training room activities by a remote work"

"SumTotal - TotalLMS: Learning Management System (LMS)"

"Manage Your Online Learning Program with CourseMill LMS Software... CourseMill Learning Management System makes the delivery, management, and tracking of online learning across your."

"VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License."

"FreeMind is free mind-mapping software written in Java."

"Mindomo is a versatile online mind-mapping application. You can use it to capture ideas, organize notes, present information, manage projects and many more."

Online office suite.

Online office suite.

Glide OS 2.0: Online office suite

"Create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online... Share and collaborate in real time"

"Microsoft Office: Office suite"

"OpenOffice.org is a multiplatform and multilingual office suite and an open-source project. Compatible with all other major office suites, the product is free to download, use, and distribute. To help build the community, join us."

Online office suite.

Online office suite... and more and more...

"The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) is a community of individuals and organizations collaborating on the development of the leading non-proprietary, open source electronic portfolio software available."

"GanttProject is a tool for creating a project schedule by means of Gantt chart and resource load chart."

"Microsoft Office Project Standard 2007 gives you robust project management tools with the right blend of usability, power, and flexibility, so you can manage projects more efficiently and effectively. You can stay informed and control project work, schedules, and finances, keep project teams aligned, and be more productive through integration with familiar Microsoft Office system programs, powerful reporting, guided planning, and flexible tools."

"Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Already the scheduling standard for more than 100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative to Microsoft Project."

"Adobe® Captivate™ 2 software enables anyone to rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations, software demonstrations, and scenario-based training without programming knowledge or multimedia skills."

ALLCapture "Record screen activities in real-time to quickly and easily create Videos, Demos, Software simulations, Screencasts and Tutorials without any programming language necessary!"

"Instant screencasts for Twitter and more !"

"CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)."

"KnowledgePresenter-Capture: Capture screen images for documentation or software simulations. Capture full screen, selected windows, or regions. Optionally include and edit mouse cursors, and edit at a later stage. Set mouseover and mousedown images for perfect software simulations."

ScreenFlow is an application for creating amazing screen recordings on your Mac.

"Camtasia Studio Screen RecorderCamtasia Studio is the complete solution for recording and editing high-quality training videos, presentations – including Microsoft PowerPoint - and screencasts to share online, as Flash, on CD-ROM, and on portable media devices, including iPod."Free version: Camtasia Studio 3.1.2Download: http://download.techsmith.com/camtasiastudio/enu/312/camtasiaf.exeSoftware key: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/pcpls.asp

The concept of Jing is the always-ready program that instantly captures and shares images and video… from your computer to anywhere.

"SnagIt Screen CaptureWith this screen capture and editing tool, you can select and capture anything on your screen. Use the built-in image editor, then share with others to visually explain concepts, create clear documentation, and give your presentations a professional look."Free version: SnagIt 7.2Download: ftp://ftp.techsmith.com/pub/products/snagit/725/snagitfr.exeSoftware key: http://www.techsmith.com/snagit/ukdn.asp

"ViewletBuilder's Patented Screen Capture Process automatically reproduces the movement of your cursor, allowing you to create Flash tutorials or simulations that exactly mirror the way your product or web site works."

"ViewletCam is the fastest, easiest way to record PC applications, PowerPoint presentations, animations, and video directly from your PC screen and generate Flash movies for use in demos, troubleshooting, training classes, and presentations."

"This program, allows you to capture your your screen and record audio to produce a flash video (FLV)."

"Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users."

INWICAST est une solution complète d'enregistrement et de diffusion de contenus multimédias pour la formation, l'éducation et la communication. Avec inwicast, vous enregistrez facilement vos cours, présentations et formations pour les diffuser dans différents formats audios et vidéos: Flash/FLV, MP4, WMV, MP3...

"KnowledgePresenter-Simulator: Create Live Screen Movies. Capture at up to 25 frames a second from your computer screen, edit frames, add text boxes, arrows, audio, interaction, frame movement, high quality resampling, title frames, and change timing. Create low or high bandwidth Flash, Animated GIF or Windows Media movies. Perfect for e-learning and software simulations."

"Articulate Presenter lets non-technical users create e-learning courses by adding narration and interactivity to a standard PowerPoint® file. At the press of the button, your presentation is transformed into a compelling Flash-based course."

"Adobe Presenter, formerly Macromedia Breeze Presenter, is a rich media and e-learning authoring tool that enables anyone to create professional, high-quality on-demand presentations from within Microsoft® PowerPoint®. Presenter enables you to turn drab presentations into captivating multimedia experiences and e-learning courses through easy-to-add audio, video, and software simulations."

"The Didactinet system is a tool which enables you to add sound to your PowerPoint presentations and to put them on line."

"Dokeos Oogie® Convert your PowerPoint® and OpenOffice Impress® presentations into web based SCORM compliant courses."

"Impatica for PowerPoint makes it easy to add narrated business presentations to your web site or e-mail marketing programs."

"Use Microsoft Producer 2003 for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 to capture and synchronize audio, video, slides, and images, then preview and publish a rich media presentation virtually anywhere for viewing in a Web browser."

"Slidestories are picture slideshows with voice narration. Each picture in a slideshow has an accompanying voice narrated mp3 audio file, optional tags, and text caption."

"SlideShare is a free service for sharing presentations and slideshows. You can upload your PowerPoint, OpenOffice, Keynote or PDF presentations, tag them, embed them into your blog or website, browse others' presentations, and comment on individual slides."

Speechi: "Add voice to your PowerPoint presentations, with extensive authoring, audio and publishing functions. Includes Quiz and SCORM modules."

"Zentation provides a way to synchronize video uploaded to Google Video with your PowerPoint."

"An online service to create, customize, and share a social network."

"Celtx is the first comprehensive software package designed for people who work in the Pre-Production of Film, Video, Theatre, Animation and Machinima. Celtx helps creators bring their story ideas to life – combining intelligent writing and media planning tools, storyboarding and scheduling with internet-friendly technologies to create a new, open-standards platform for the pre-production of media. It provides all of the tools you need under one application. Available in 24 languages, Celtx is rapidly becoming the tool of choice for media producers around the world."

"SCENARI is an open source application suite for designing digital editing chains, used for creating professional standard multimedia documents. An editing chain is a technological and methodological process, a product of document engineering research. The editing chain approach is to create a document model, to make content creation easier and to automate formatting."

"OASIF (Outil d'Aide à la Scénarisation pour l'Ingénierie de Formation): Il vise à faciliter la conception des dispositifs de formation ouverte et à distance en alliant une représentation visuelle globale du dispositif de formation à une description locale détaillée (éléments descriptifs textuels)."

"Conceive, design, and author your projects using intuitive and collaborative storyboarding capabilities."

"When you design an e-learning product, you may want to sketch a plan, present it to your customers/SMEs for review and write it down in detail for your development team. Storyboarder Pro helps you do any and all of these tasks in a single application.You can draw branching flowcharts of what goes after what, outline each screen with a visual layout template (customizable), and elaborate each graphic, narrative and interactive element by filling in storyboard template tables (customizable).Storyboarder Pro integrates into Microsoft Word (2003 or later) and enables it do all the cool things, while the resulting storyboards remain regular Word documents that can be opened and edited on any computer."

Advanced Poll is a polling system with powerful administration tool. It features: multiple polls, templates, unlimited options, multi-language support, IP-Logging, IP-Locking, cookie support, comment feature, vote expire feature, random poll support and more. Supports textfile and mySQL database.

LimeSurvey basically contains everything you need for doing nearly every survey with grace.

PHP scripts to let non-technical users create surveys, administer surveys, gather results, view statistics. All managed online after database initialization.

"YAKiToMe! is multi-lingual (English, Spanish, French ...) and brings you the world's best text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis technologies."

Premiere Pro CS3 "Tell your story with maximum impact using Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 software, the start-to-finish solution for efficient video production that now includes Adobe OnLocation™ CS3* (Windows® only) and Adobe Encore® CS3 software. Save time from on-set capture using Adobe OnLocation through to output, expand your creative options via integration with Adobe After Effects® CS3 Professional and Photoshop® CS3 software, and deliver your content to DVD, Blu-ray Disc, the web, and mobile devices."

"Adobe's Premiere Express is a free Web-based video editing and "remixing" technology that the company introduced earlier this year with Photobucket, the photo sharing service. Now it's being used on the YouTube and MTV.com Web sites, as well."http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,133283-pg,1/article.html

"JAHSHAKA is the worlds first OpenSource Realtime Editing and Effects System. Jahshaka takes advantage of the power of OpenGL and OpenML to give its users exceptional levels of performance. We currently support Linux, OsX, Irix and Windows, and Solaris is on the way! Jahshaka is licenced to the public under the GNU GPL agreement."

"VideoSpin is a brand new tool that allows you to create your own movie clips in minutes using your own videos and pictures.With this fully functional video editing software you can: Mix videos, photos and music together Add titles and transitions NEW! Upload to the web in a snap! NEW! Direct upload to YouTube and Flash support* And it's FREE! ."

"With Windows Movie Maker 2.1, you can create, edit, and share your home movies right on your computer. Build your movie with a few simple drag-and-drops. Delete bad shots and include only the best scenes. Then share your movie via the Web, e-mail, or CD. Using third-party software you can even take movies you've made and turn them into DVDs. You can also save your movie back to the video tape in your camera to play back on a TV or on the camera itself."

"Dailymotion is about finding new ways to see and share the world."

"Share your video with the world."

" YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips."

"Create your own web pages, quickly and easily. Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes."

"WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it."

"MediaWiki is wiki software, released under the GPL, that is used by Wikimedia projects and others. It is an implementation of a wiki, a content pool that anyone can freely edit."

Tikiwiki is a full featured, multilingual, Free Software (GNU/LGPL) Wiki/CMS/Groupware written in PHP and maintained by an active and international community of benevolent contributors.

online whiteboard

"Simple and easy online whiteboard. Type text or draw , share files & upload pictures all in one common shared space."

"Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License."