ClickLearn

I am a very regular user of this software. I have created many ClickLearn recordings and also the support the creation of recordings by many other users in our organization. My main role is to support the use of the software, ensure consistency between authors, to maintain the template and overall publishing of our material. I have been busing this software for almost 2 years now.

The software does as it advertises - it captures your keystrokes and helps to create an easy to use document (incl. videos) that are integral to the support of both new and existing employees in learning a given process or task. I believe it is truly the best software of its kind available on the market.

The template (for current version) allows a ton of customization (which I find great) but for a non-technical individual can come across as a bit of a daunting task. Fortunately, ClickLearn has a well-oiled support team and can typically provide answers fairly quickly. I have had some unique and very technical questions and even if they didn't have the answers right away they were able to escalate it and provide answers in a reasonable timeframe.

I think its important to understand that when recording keystrokes like this application does - there is no perfect software solution that makes it extremely easy out of the box. All applications of this nature is going to have nags at times - especially when you are capturing from older software applications.

I find quite a bit of time is still involved to edit my recordings after they are captured to streamline the look, feel, and consistency of all of our organizational recordings. This also includes times for renaming certain fields and phrases/content when the standard nomenclature is not to your liking.

The software is going to have nags at time - and the more edits you make - the more nags you may come across. In my experience, the one thing I'm trying to express is that you should plan to spend some time authoring/editing and reviewing after completing your recordings. Perhaps its just my experience - but for the most part all recordings will need some level of authoring and you should account for this time.

There are simply too many good tings to write them all here. Key though is the single production process that leads to multiple outputs that cater to a variety of learning styles and situations. Talk about time saving and efficient.
Then on top of that, the quality is outstanding with clearly marked up and cropped screenshots surfaced through easily accessible portals which you can populate with as much information as the user requires. The support team are amazing and friendly if you get stuck with anything, but the software is generally pretty easy to get on with.
Love the range of voices available, the translation function, the digital assistant and that it even allows you to create SCORM files to embed in n LMS.

There have been very few issues using ClickLearn, one small frustration (now fixed) was integrating SSO. In all issues, the support team are simply amazing, helpful and willing to go the extra mile to get things sorted for you.