1 tweets   tweet   The question here boils down to this: how much time, energy, know-how and various other resources are you able/willing to invest in building and maintaining an LMS yourself, and how much would you rather entrust to the care of a professional LMS provider? From a purely economic point of view, there’s no avoiding the fact that administering an LMS from top to bottom requires an investment in resources, no matter how those resources are deployed. Even the open-source model requires you to pay for hosting (or handle it yourself). You will also have to pay an IT department (or have IT skills yourself) in order to get everything properly set up and integrated. Even the customer service follows the same pattern: with an open-source model, you have a large, vibrant community of gear-heads, all with opinions and advice (most of which are quite valuable, actually), but in the end, it is you who is left wearing the coveralls, wrench in hand. Each upgrade, each plugin, each modification to the system requires a decision on your part: should I implement it or not? Followed, of course, by flayed knuckles and grease everywhere. Enlisting the services of a paid LMS, on the other hand, is like going through a dealership from the start. You’ve shopped around, you’ve done some research on the various manufacturers, and you’ve made a decision: I’ll go with iSpring Learn. From that moment, everything but the driving is left to us. Upgrades are seamlessly implemented; service is reliably distributed to all your end-users—in fact, you have to remind yourself that there actually is a temperature-controlled server farm purring away somewhere out there. So, to recap: why choose iSpring LMS? You don’t need to have coveralls, because we have it all covered! You are welcome to start your iSpring Learn Free Trial → Test it out by yourself and share your experience with us. We are looking forward to your feedback!

1 tweets   tweet   With thousands people all over the world who prefer e-Lerning to traditional education, it is vital to make tools for distance learning as convenient as possible. And that is exactly what iSpring does when presenting new impressive features of its hosted LMS. With the new features released, the e-Learning process went easy both for tutors and for learners. Check it out! Folders updates: assign folders for studying and share them with users copy access permissions to a content item or folder subfolders inherit parent folder permissions Take a few minutes to read a short how-to → User Portal updates: divide materials into "To Do", "Optional" and "Completed" see the course duration use the search field to find the content item needed (either by tag or by file name) make public content available via direct links Multiple update of users’ information Would you like to test these improvements by yourself? You’re welcome to start iSpring hosted LMS Free Trial → Enjoy versatility of new iSpring features!

1 tweets   tweet   We’re wearing green. Are you? We here at iSpring would like to wish everyone around the world a happy and lucky St. Patrick’s Day. You may have noticed these lucky green button sprinkled liberally around our site, which means that we’re safe from the tradition of pinching folks who aren’t wearing green today. Another nifty thing about these buttons is that whether you’re pinching pennies or simply trying to save a little green, they are your lucky green gateway to trying every single feature of our products with a 100% -free trial. Leaves of three, four — and five? We’re all familiar with the iconic symbol associated with this day, the four-leaf clover. Recognized for its rarity, a clover of four leaves is considered a lucky find, especially if you’re not searching for one at the time. So, if a four-leaf clover is lucky, what about a five-leaf clover? Our lucky five-leaf clover It just so happens that during this merry month of March, as Spring emerges from its snowy slumber, iSpring is presenting everyone with a super-rare, super-lucky five-leaf license — that is, 5-seat license — for our hottest new authoring tool, iSpring Presenter 7, at a ridiculous discount. Grab your lucky five! Want to give it a try first? You’re welcome to download iSpring Presenter Free Trial -> Share your authoring experience with us. We are looking forward to hearing from you!

1 tweets   tweet   Got the PowerPoint blahs? Of course PowerPoint is a great help for e-Learning. However turning all the content into PPT is not enough. Your premade content can become a good point to start once you choose the right technology to make it work. We will be glad to help you find the right one! Find out how to power up your e-Learning with our FREE webinar especially designed for educators! Our seasoned director of sales, Clay Moore, and e-Learning expert, Mark Simon, will be glad to share a number of treasured tips: How to create interactive courses right in PowerPoint, How to implement mLearning quickly and easily, How to protect your content…and much more! Choose between two convenient webinar times: Wednesday, March 26th, at 11 AM CST: Join the webinar ->  Thursday, March 27th, at 11 AM CST: Join the webinar -> Sign up TODAY as space is limited! We would love you to join us at this event! Hope to see you soon! If you have any questions feel free to contact Clay Moore, iSpring Director of Sales, US & Canada: clay.moore@ispringsolutions.com or Direct: 877-463-0065

4 tweets   tweet   What would you want your authoring softaware to look like? Should it be powerful and easy to use? Comprehensive and intuitive? iSpring turned out to be the perfect combination of these features for RELATE. Being a leading professional media services company, that works with Adobe, GE, Cisco and BMW, RELATE was looking for a powerful solution that could live up their great expectations. Take a look at this success story that started from finding the perfect solution for content authoring - iSpring Presenter 7. "Challenge: Finding a Bug-Free, PowerPoint-Based e-Learning Content Authoring Tool RELATE creates e-Learning content using a variety of technologies, including Microsoft PowerPoint. There are e-Learning authoring tools on the market that are supposed to make converting PowerPoint-based content to an e-Learning platform simple, but Zanotti found that developing e-Learning content using complex PowerPoint presentations often required his team to develop workarounds for PowerPoint’s more advanced features. On the recommendation of a customer, Zanotti and the RELATE development team tried iSpring Presenter, an advanced e-Learning development tool. After putting iSpring Presenter through its paces, Zanotti quickly concluded it was the best engineered product on the market. "iSpring actually takes advantage of every single feature PowerPoint offers, no matter how complex the presentation is," he said. "No one else does that. iSpring Presenter is amazingly bug-free - it’s by far the most competently engineered product on the market." Solution: A PowerPoint-Based eLearning Authoring Tool That Really Works  As he became more familiar with iSpring Presenter’s capabilities, Zanotti was impressed by the product’s ability to handle all types of interactive media. With iSpring Presenter, course developers can easily include narration, add rich media elements and embed quizzes to gauge learner progress. Zanotti was also impressed by the support he received from the iSpring team, which continuously reviews emerging technology and incorporates new functions. "We realized immediately that iSpring Presenter is an excellent tool, and once we got to know the iSpring team, we understood why they were able to produce such a solid product," Zanotti recalls. "iSpring has an incredibly sharp engineering team, and they are very responsive, working closely with us to ensure we can take advantage of all of the product’s features." iSpring Presenter is SCORM compliant, meaning it’s technically compatible with other e-Learning programs, a key advantage in the training and development industry. The latest version of the product - iSpring Presenter 7 - allows users like RELATE and its customers to easily publish content that works across all devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktops. iSpring Presenter 7 enables learning anytime, anywhere. The Result: Happy Developers, Happy Customers "One of the great things about iSpring Presenter is that you don’t have to be a web developer to create engaging, professional e-Learning courses to deliver online or via mobile devices," Zanotti notes. "Many of our clients prefer to leverage all of PowerPoint’s capabilities, and with iSpring, we can use 100% of PowerPoint’s features without having to create workarounds to make up for product shortfalls. iSpring really stands out for its excellence in engineering." For the RELATE team, the advantages of using iSpring Presenter are clear: happy developers and happy customers. Superior engineering that facilitates the full use of PowerPoint features helps RELATE ensure customers have the training resources they need to build a better workforce." How did you discover the benefits of iSpring? Share your iSpring experience with us! We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

2 tweets   tweet   On our way to Learning Solutions Conference & Expo we were filled with the desire to share the exciting news - recent release of iSpring Learn. Neither excellent weather outside nor countless amusemnets in Orlando, where the event took place this year, couldn’t distract us form this highly important mission. iSpring Learn is the newly released impressive e-Learning solution designed by iSpring. It is a powerful combo of cloud-based LMS and robust authoring toolkit. Both our prospects and customers were glad to know that with the release of iSpring Learn fast and easy e-Learning deployment is possible with just one tool. iSpring Learn versatility covers every step of the e-Learning process from authoring to delivery and tracking. Without spending hours establishing cooperation between the authoring tool and a 3d party LMS you get advanced reporting capabilities that go far beyond SCORM. We were happy to hear from our customers. It’s always great to communicate with them in person - it feels like you meet a fellow of yours. And of course we made new friends! In the welcoming atmosphere, we had numerous interesting conversations both with iSpring clients and many new customers. We really enjoyed being a part of Learning Solutions Conference & Expo, meeting old friends and making new acquaintances. Hope to see you all again! And what are your impressions? Please share with us in the comments below!

2 tweets   tweet   Looking for new ideas for your e-Learning? Need a fresh perspective? Then care to attend Saba Global Summit in Orlando, FL! Learn the latest industry trends, network, share experience and keep up-to-date. And… Meet us there! The iSpring team will be attending the summit that’ll take place next week (April 7th - 10th). This event is an exciting opportunity for talent management and learning professionals to learn the latest trends in collaboration and workforce transformation. Stop by iSpring booth! Our team headed by Clay Moore, iSpring Director of Sales, is looking forward to tell you about iSpring Presenter - a must-have tool for e-Learning authoring. Don’t pass by! Will YOU be there? See you in Orlando!

0 tweets   tweet   Not surprisingly that distance learning gradually catches on. With e-Learning you reach almost unlimited audience and win an opportunity to teach and train people. Different countries and time zones are now out of importance! The only thing needed to deploy e-Learning is tools that would be a perfect fit for your unique needs. An essential set boils down to 2 basic tools: an authoring tool for creation of courses and quizzes and a learning management system (LMS). Roughly speaking e-Learning loses its significance without LMS as it becomes impossible to track users’ activity and their learning results. iSpring suggests the full bundle of e-Learning tools. They allow to create rich media interactive e-Learning content and upload courses to any SCORM-, AICC or Tin Can-compliant LMS. To rescue you from extra efforts iSpring comes up with a complete solution - iSpring Learn. iSpring Learn is a powerful combo of cloud-based LMS and fully-integrated authoring toolkit that: provides system stability on higher loads (up to 1500 simultaneous users), allows to carry out quizzes and surveys, supports SCORM, AICC and Tin Can API - for courses developed in 3d-party tools, delivers e-Learning both to desktops and to mobile devices, including iPads, allows to take courses and quizzes on iPad even offline thanks to iSpring Learn Mobile App, supports rich media content: you can upload interactive courses and quizzes from iSpring authoring tools and add any audio, video, text files and presentations. iSpring constantly working on improving its products. With the recent update users of iSpring LMS got new impressive features: Content Management: assigning folders with several content items for studying. User Portal: learning content divided into "To Do", "Optional" and "Completed". Learn more→ Self-registration: after you share the link to the learning material in the Internet, anyone who’d like to view it but doesn’t have an account yet, can click the link, register and take the course. iSpring software is chosen by over 450 educational institutions all over the world. You are welcome to test out all the impressive capabilities of iSpring Learn. Start FREE 30-day trial of iSpring Learn→ We’re looking forward to your feedback on using iSpring. Share in the comments below!

3 tweets   tweet   The iSpring team is excited to be heading to the 2014 ASTD International Conference and Expo! ASTD 2014 is being held in Washington D.C. this year from May 4th through May 7th.  This conference brings together over 9,000 of your learning colleagues from around the globe to share best practices and insights.  Each aspect of the training and development industry is covered for every level of practitioner, from CEO to specialist, from dean to student, and this year iSpring is honored to be a part of a co-session at this event! In the co-session titled "Bleeding Edge No More! Time to Begin Training in HTML5" Principal Training Consultant for HiMark Solutions, Mark Simon and Michael Cerantola, Production Manager for A.D.A.M. will teach participants how to create mobile-compatible, interactive e-Learning programs with A.D.A.M. and iSpring Solutions. You will have the opportunity to build your own e-Learning training course complete with full-color animations, narration, and engaging content. Best practices and information documents about creating HTML5 learning programs will also be shared to optimize understanding and construction capabilities. We would love YOU to be a part of this exciting co-session at ASTD 2014!  Bleeding Edge No More! Time to Begin Training in HTML5 will be held from 3 - 4:15pm on Monday May 5th (Location: 150A).  Don’t forget to bring your laptop and creative ideas; this session should not be missed! The iSpring Team truly is honored to be working alongside A.D.A.M. whose On-Demand e-Learning courses consist of comprehensive, off-the-shelf medical education programs for the healthcare, academic, and pharmaceutical industries. Complete with audio narration and interactive quizzes shared through a story-board format, A.D.A.M.’s e-Learning courses provide an eased understanding of complex body systems, as well as medical and healthcare concepts and scenarios. iSpring Solutions’ technology enables the A.D.A.M. team to create e-Learning courses that can be delivered with ease as mobile-ready content through Microsoft PowerPoint. "The iSpring technology platform has dramatically enhanced the future of eLearning course development for A.D.A.M.," said Vice President of A.D.A.M., Thierry Semoff, "With the need for mobile-compatible programs growing greater by the day, we are excited to work with the iSpring technology to introduce our interactive learning courses in HTML5." Planning on, or wanting to attend ASTD 2014?  Have we got a great offer for you!  Receive a FREE Expo Only Pass by visiting this page bit.ly/1e7AfVH and entering invitation # 1167. Interested in attending the Full Conference at a reduced rate? Once you have entered your unique invitation number, you will also have the option to forgo the free expo only pass and get $100 off the Full Conference registration rate! More ASTD 2014 Co-Session Details here. The iSpring Team headed by iSpring Director of Sales, Clay Moore, will also be exhibiting at booth #422… stop by and say hello, we would love to meet you! Will You be at ASTD 2014? See you in Washington D.C.!

5 tweets   tweet   Earlier this month, the iSpring team thoroughly enjoyed three days in the beautiful Orlando, FL for the Saba Global Summit "At Work 2014."  Roughly 800 customer attendees and 30 partners from all over the world participated in stimulating sessions about the impact of SABA’s LMS. Sessions also discussed partner solutions on learning and training in the workforce. iSpring was a content gold sponsor at this event. We had a great time exhibiting our learning solutions authoring tools at our booth, which was headed by our very own Clay Moore, iSpring Director of Sales, as well as, iSpring’s Sale Manager, Elena Golovina. Meeting our current customers in person and getting to introduce new customers to iSpring’s offerings is always such a wonderful experience, and one we are truly grateful for. There was also a lot of fun to be had outside of the conference! Our team got a chance to take in the local sights and culture with excursions to Universal City Walk, filling our bellies at some delicious local restaurants, and a few adventurous water taxi rides! We enjoyed great conversation and created new relationships with many in the industry at the luau and street party as well. Overall, we would say that SABA Global Summit 2014 went off without a hitch. SABA, iSpring thanks you for this wonderful event. We had a blast and look forward to SABA Summit 2015! Were YOU at SABA Global Summit 2014?  We would love to hear about your experience!