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Raptivity Visual Delivers the Power of Rapid Interactivity to Global Users

Redmond, WALearning NewsHarbinger Group

New Software by Harbinger Knowledge Products Optimizes Interactivity Building for International Languages

 

Harbinger Knowledge Products, the creator of award-winning Raptivity, today announced the release of Raptivity Visual.

Raptivity Visual includes a selection of instructionally-sound, primarily visual interaction models that are ideal for users who wish to create interactions in international languages.

Raptivity Visual provides users the ability to create visually appealing, instructionally sound and meaningful interactivity for eLearning, without any programming. Users can select interaction models that best meet their needs from a selection of interactions.

This release brings the same value and in addition also includes new exciting features:

• Ability to accept and render text for languages with
complex characters
• Right-to-Left text support
• WYSIWIG interface for accepting textual content in
several languages
• Support for appropriate fonts for the minimal text entry
that is required
• Ability to combine images with text
• Support for special characters and symbols

"With the release of Raptivity Visual, we have strengthened our commitment to support Raptivity users globally. Raptivity Visual pushes the envelope of Flash usage in foreign languages by overcoming some of its inherent limitations," said Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director, Harbinger Group.

Raptivity Visual includes a variety of visually appealing interactions such as learning games, interactive exercises, multimedia and presentation aids.

"In addition to all the great features, Raptivity Visual is also very economically priced, combining appeal with affordability. We are excited that users can now develop interactions in their native languages such as Arabic, Korean, Chinese etc. We are sure Raptivity Visual will accelerate the spread of rapid interactivity among our international patronage", added Seema Chaudhary, President, Harbinger Knowledge Products, Inc.

This new release comes only days after the news of Raptivity being shortlisted in Software Satisfaction Awards 2009, UK.

About Raptivity

With Raptivity, users can create interactivity rapidly and add it conveniently to their eLearning content. With interactive content, learning experiences become memorable and drop-out levels go down.

Raptivity provides a pre-built library of rapidly-customizable interaction models. These interaction models are based on best practices in instructional design. Users can customize them to create any number of variations. The content published by Raptivity is a single flash file so it fits right into hundreds of eLearning tools and can be used anywhere. With its patent-pending technology and open architecture, Raptivity is at the forefront of rapid interactivity technology.

In 2007, Raptivity was winner of the eLearning Guild Platinum Award for highest user satisfaction in Simulation tools category. Raptivity also won the Gold Award under Games tools category.

Raptivity was voted number one in two categories Time to proficiency and Complex practice and assessment interaction building, according to a global survey by eLearning Guild. Another Guild survey ranked Raptivity number one in ease of use and integration with e-Learning tools.

Raptivity also won the prestigious Technology & Learning's 2007 Award of Excellence, adjudged by a panel of eminent educators in San Francisco.

For more information on Raptivity, visit http://www.raptivity.com/index.html