Creating professional, engaging content requires the right tools. In this lesson, you’ll learn about top tools for authoring digital lessons, designing visuals, and enhancing your course with interactive media. You’ll discover how to:
Use authoring tools to build lessons:
Articulate Rise & Storyline: for responsive, SCORM-compliant interactive courses
Adobe Captivate: for simulations, branching scenarios
iSpring Suite: converts PowerPoints into interactive lessons
Create visual assets:
Canva and Figma for designing slides, infographics, thumbnails, and UI components
Stock asset resources for icons, videos, and illustrations
Record and edit videos:
Tools like Loom, OBS Studio, Camtasia, and ScreenFlow
Tips for setting up your space, lighting, sound, and editing workflow
Integrate interactive content:
Tools like H5P, Typeform, and Quizlet for embedded quizzes, polls, and games
Adding real-time collaboration tools like Padlet or Miro
Multimedia accessibility:
Captioning tools (e.g., Descript, Kapwing)
Screen reader compatibility and design for diverse learners
Best practices for media use:
Keep videos under 6–8 minutes for attention
Alternate formats: transcripts, PDFs, audio versions
Compress files for faster load times without losing quality
By the end of this lesson, you’ll have a toolkit of content creation and editing tools that will help you build a high-quality, multimedia-rich online course.



