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So as I was researching companies to market our custom elearning development services to, every single page on LinkedIn displayed an advertisement for the new e-learning authoring tool by Lectora, Snap! Now the ad was a bit shocking because Trivantis is only selling this tool for only $99 bucks. Now, I am a fan of investing our funds wisely, simply because we are able to make the services we provide affordable to our clients. In the past we've used just about all of the industry tools on the market, including Adobe Captivate, TechSmith's Camtasia, iSpring 5, Articulate 9 and Lectora Inspire. However, I will keep my review short and sweet. I only want to compare Snap with iSpring 5 only because the interface and functionality is so similar and iSpring is or was the most affordable tool on the market.
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iSpring Presenter runs $399. It includes a quiz maker and all the Christmas trimmings any elearning developer could want for rapid development. What makes iSpring so special are the Presentation protection features which include:
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In addition, the detailed quiz results via email feature allows any training manager the ability to receive quiz results without the use of an LMS. You just can't do that with Captivate 5, Camtasia, Articulate nor Lectora. Snap doesn't have these features either.
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Snap is selling for $99. It also has a quiz maker with 7 question types, whereas iSpring has 10.
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iSpring Presenter
However, something iSpring does not have is Snap's survey maker. An elearning developer can make a survey from the quizmaker with iSpring, but they would need to not assign any weight to the selections and a selection would need to be marked correct.
The other feature Snap provides is the ability to insert an entire webpage on screen by just a click of the button.
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Wonderful! The only drawback I see to this is if the student was to review the course with no internet connection. Then, you're asking yourself, "now what?!?"
What I do like better is the player customization for Snap. The color palette is much like Powerpoint or Word. The colors are brighter. iSpring kinda have you guessing a bit more because the colors are dull.
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Snap by Lectora
I've been an ultimate fan of iSpring, but I guess my major complaint with iSpring is the technical support. The support department is located in Russia, so if you have an issue, you're not able to get a reply until the next few days. Then, they don't offer the remote desktop sharing support to see your issue unless you're paying for some package. This blows my mind, when the issue is never an end-user problem. It's always a system error. With Snap, at least you know you can get support same or next day and if you're already familiar with Articulate, then the learning curve is very shallow. So depending on your immediate needs, either product will do. I can't really say one is better than the other because they are so much alike. For me, dealing with Snap would probably be better only because of iSpring's Technical Support has literally had me irate, LOL! When you have a deadline, 2 weeks to get an issue resolved is unacceptable.
At the same time, I would just keep being the loyal customer that I am because those key features are golden. So I guess purchasing Snap will have to be my back up tool when I can't deal with iSpring. These two tools are both great on price and features AND they allow DreamQwest to offer elearning solutions to our nonprofit clientele. No matter what new and inexpensive tool hits the market, the user still has to be an instructional designer to make learning efficient. So just because the tool does all these amazing things, if you don't have the creativity, knowledge and application of a systematic instructional design model & adult learning principles to effectively design & develop, then the tool is useless.
DreamQwest Innovative Learning & Design, LLC makes e-learning engaging, simple and affordable. We do the investing in the logistics, resources and talent, saving you time and lots of money!!!
Visit us at www.dreamqwest.com
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So as I was researching companies to market our custom elearning development services to, every single page on LinkedIn displayed an advertisement for the new e-learning authoring tool by Lectora, Snap! Now the ad was a bit shocking because Trivantis is only selling this tool for only $99 bucks. Now, I am a fan of investing our funds wisely, simply because we are able to make the services we provide affordable to our clients. In the past we've used just about all of the industry tools on the market, including Adobe Captivate, TechSmith's Camtasia, iSpring 5, Articulate 9 and Lectora Inspire. However, I will keep my review short and sweet. I only want to compare Snap with iSpring 5 only because the interface and functionality is so similar and iSpring is or was the most affordable tool on the market.
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iSpring Presenter runs $399. It includes a quiz maker and all the Christmas trimmings any elearning developer could want for rapid development. What makes iSpring so special are the Presentation protection features which include:
- Watermarking,
- Password protection and
- Domain restriction.
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In addition, the detailed quiz results via email feature allows any training manager the ability to receive quiz results without the use of an LMS. You just can't do that with Captivate 5, Camtasia, Articulate nor Lectora. Snap doesn't have these features either.
Image may be NSFW.
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Image may be NSFW.
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Snap is selling for $99. It also has a quiz maker with 7 question types, whereas iSpring has 10.
Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.
Snap by Lectora
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iSpring Presenter
However, something iSpring does not have is Snap's survey maker. An elearning developer can make a survey from the quizmaker with iSpring, but they would need to not assign any weight to the selections and a selection would need to be marked correct.
The other feature Snap provides is the ability to insert an entire webpage on screen by just a click of the button.
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Clik here to view.
Wonderful! The only drawback I see to this is if the student was to review the course with no internet connection. Then, you're asking yourself, "now what?!?"
What I do like better is the player customization for Snap. The color palette is much like Powerpoint or Word. The colors are brighter. iSpring kinda have you guessing a bit more because the colors are dull.
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Clik here to view.
iSpring Presenter
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Snap by Lectora
I've been an ultimate fan of iSpring, but I guess my major complaint with iSpring is the technical support. The support department is located in Russia, so if you have an issue, you're not able to get a reply until the next few days. Then, they don't offer the remote desktop sharing support to see your issue unless you're paying for some package. This blows my mind, when the issue is never an end-user problem. It's always a system error. With Snap, at least you know you can get support same or next day and if you're already familiar with Articulate, then the learning curve is very shallow. So depending on your immediate needs, either product will do. I can't really say one is better than the other because they are so much alike. For me, dealing with Snap would probably be better only because of iSpring's Technical Support has literally had me irate, LOL! When you have a deadline, 2 weeks to get an issue resolved is unacceptable.
At the same time, I would just keep being the loyal customer that I am because those key features are golden. So I guess purchasing Snap will have to be my back up tool when I can't deal with iSpring. These two tools are both great on price and features AND they allow DreamQwest to offer elearning solutions to our nonprofit clientele. No matter what new and inexpensive tool hits the market, the user still has to be an instructional designer to make learning efficient. So just because the tool does all these amazing things, if you don't have the creativity, knowledge and application of a systematic instructional design model & adult learning principles to effectively design & develop, then the tool is useless.
DreamQwest Innovative Learning & Design, LLC makes e-learning engaging, simple and affordable. We do the investing in the logistics, resources and talent, saving you time and lots of money!!!
Visit us at www.dreamqwest.com
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