An alternative to the Lectora authoring tool
Why Knowledgeworker Create is a good choice
Quick links
- Why switching from Lectora to Knowledgeworker Create could make sense
- What the Knowledgeworker Create authoring tool offers compared to Lectora
- Comparing online courses created with Lectora and Knowledgeworker Create
- Feature comparison: Lectora vs. Knowledgeworker Create
- Success stories and case studies
- How easy is it to switch to Knowledgeworker Create?
- The bottom line
Lectora has been a favored eLearning authoring tool for years and, with its ready-made templates and extensive customization options, it offers a solid solution for national, medium-sized companies. It has established itself as a reliable tool, especially for companies with manageable training requirements. But as soon as requirements increase —for example due to the need to create international and multilingual eLearning content that works perfectly on all devices—many users reach the limits of Lectora.
This is where Knowledgeworker Create comes in. This modern, cloud-based eLearning authoring tool offers the flexibility and scalability today’s organizations need to develop complex, dynamic and globally deployable eLearning courses. In this article, you’ll learn why Knowledgeworker Create is a powerful and future-proof alternative to Lectora, and how your company can benefit from switching.
Why switching from Lectora to Knowledgeworker Create could make sense
Lectora is undoubtedly a powerful eLearning authoring tool that provides valuable services for many organizations. However, depending on how your eLearning needs evolve, you may find that Lectora reaches its limits in certain areas. Here are some reasons why switching from Lectora to Knowledgeworker Create might make sense for your organization:
(1) Target group orientation
Lectora is particularly suitable for national medium-sized companies that only conduct a few training courses a year. However, as your business grows and requires more eLearning content—possibly in different languages—Lectora may no longer meet all your needs. Knowledgeworker Create, on the other hand, is specifically designed to support the needs of medium-sized and large companies that offer international and multilingual training programs.
(2) Flexibility and design
Lectora is based on a PowerPoint-like look with rigid slide structures. This may be sufficient for simple training courses, but it significantly limits flexibility when it comes to creating dynamic, engaging, and responsive eLearning content. Knowledgeworker Create gives you freedom from these rigid layouts, and allows you to create fully responsive courses that display perfectly on any device. Knowledgeworker Create is also based on templates. This means that design changes only have to be made once, with all existing courses being updated automatically, rather than you having to amend each course one-by-one.
(3) Efficiency in course creation
Both authoring tools—Lectora and Knowledgeworker Create—offer features that facilitate rapid course creation through templates and AI support. However, Knowledgeworker Create goes one step further and integrates AI to automatically generate not only content, but also translations in a lot of languages. This saves an enormous amount of time and resources, especially for large, internationally oriented projects. In addition, existing PDFs and PPTs can be run through the AI, which then generates an online course from them automatically.
(4) Accessibility and responsivity
While Lectora only creates partially accessible and responsive eLearning courses, Knowledgeworker Create offers fully accessible and automatically responsive courses out of the box. This is an unbeatable advantage if you want to ensure that your eLearning content is accessible to all users and can be used on any device.
(5) Collaboration and translation management
Lectora supports collaborative working, but lacks integrated functions for translation management and review processes. Knowledgeworker Create, on the other hand, offers comprehensive tools for collaboration, task management, and multilingual translation, making it ideal for international teams. Even better: Everything is integrated into the tool itself and no additional programs are required.
(6) Reusability and management of content
With Lectora, customizing designs and content can be complex and time-consuming. Each slide is created individually and then has to be edited manually if changes are needed. Knowledgeworker Create, on the other hand, offers a central database for media, course content, and questions, which makes reusing them a breeze. Once created, content is stored as sharable content objects and can be linked to an infinite number of online courses. If changes are needed, they are made centrally, and all courses automatically receive the updated content. This significantly increases the efficiency of creating and managing eLearning courses.
(7) Linked translations
If a finished online course is translated in Lectora, a completely new course is created. If changes need to be made, both versions have to be located and adapted. With six different languages, this can quickly become confusing and cost a lot of time. With Knowledgeworker Create, all translations are linked to their original parent course. The integrated translation management system links directly to the other language versions when changes are made to the original, and indicates the parallel text passages that now also need to be updated.
What the Knowledgeworker Create authoring tool offers as an alternative to Lectora
If you’re looking for an eLearning authoring tool that overcomes the limitations of Lectora and offers you advanced features and maximum flexibility, Knowledgeworker Create is the ideal solution. Below, we’ll show you the specific benefits Knowledgeworker Create offers compared to Lectora, and why it’s the better choice for modern organizations:
Dynamic and responsive design
Unlike Lectora, which uses a rigid PowerPoint-like structure, Knowledgeworker Create boasts a dynamic, responsive design that enables you to create your eLearning courses without limitations. You can freely design layouts and be sure that your content will be displayed perfectly on every device, from smartphones to desktops.
Comprehensive AI integration
Both authoring tools offer AI support, but Knowledgeworker Create goes one step further by using AI not only for structuring content and generating texts, but also for automated translation into many languages. This is particularly valuable for companies that require multilingual eLearning content to increase the efficiency and consistency of their training programs across the world. In addition, Knowledgeworker Create can covert PPT and PDF files into online courses, with the author having control over whether and to what extent the existing content is automatically enhanced or changed.
Accessibility and data protection
Knowledgeworker Create ensures that eLearning courses are completely accessible, which is only possible to a limited extent with Lectora. In addition, Knowledgeworker Create meets the EU’s strict data protection standards, making it a safe choice for companies that attach great importance to data protection.
Integrated collaboration and translation functions
Knowledgeworker Create not only supports collaborative working in course creation, but also offers integrated translation management and review process functions. This makes it particularly attractive for international teams who need to work closely together to create high-quality, multilingual eLearning courses.
Central content management and reusability
Knowledgeworker Create allows you to store and manage all your media, course content, and questions in a central database. This makes it easy to reuse content, and saves time when creating new courses. In contrast, customizing and managing content in Lectora can be much more involved.
Global design customization and change log
Another advantage of Knowledgeworker Create is the separation of content and design, which enables you to update the design of all your existing courses in one fell swoop. An integrated change log also ensures that all adjustments are traceable—a function Lectora lacks.
Mandatory questions and learning progress indicator
While Lectora does not offer a built-in feature for mandatory questions or automatic learning progress indicators, Knowledgeworker Create allows you to configure these features to ensure your learners complete the necessary content.
What it looks like
Lectora and Knowledgeworker Create courses compared
Created with Lectora
Topic: Chinese Tea Culture
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Topic: Social Engineering
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Brief overview
Use case and target group
Lectora is particularly suitable for national medium-sized companies that only produce a few training courses per year, and that are very happy with the available templates.
Knowledgeworker Create is aimed at medium-sized and large companies that frequently implement extensive eLearning projects and operate internationally. This tool comes with all the collaboration features they could need.
Data protection and compliance
Lectora is hosted in the US, which could be problematic for companies subject to strict EU data protection requirements, especially with regard to the GDPR.
Knowledgeworker Create is hosted within the EU, and is fully compliant with its data protection regulation (GDPR), which is a key advantage for European companies.
Course editor
Lectora has a WYSIWYG editor, but this is limited by its PowerPoint-like structure. Basic programming skills are helpful, especially for advanced customizations and interactions.
Knowledgeworker Create has a flexible WYSIWYG editor that lets you preview and customize content directly. No programming knowledge is required; the platform is completely user-friendly and suitable for even non-technical staff.
Flexibility and design customization
Lectora is based on a rigid PowerPoint-like design. This means there is a limited slide size with fixed positions for the various elements. You can’t select a different layout for the mobile version, and the slide design has to remain the same. If you work with the predefined templates, you can create an online course very quickly. However, as soon as design changes are required, it rapidly becomes complicated and time-consuming.
Knowledgeworker Create offers a dynamic and fully responsive design environment without a rigid slide structure. You can use your own corporate design to create a template (or several templates), and then only have to create them that once. If changes are necessary, they are quickly implemented everywhere the element appears. In addition, your online courses are displayed perfectly on all devices and adapt flexibly.
Cooperation and teamwork
Lectora offers limited collaborative working features for course creation. It’s possible, but is less comprehensively organized than with Knowledgeworker Create.
Knowledgeworker Create supports collaborative working in all its facets: Course creation, task and review management, translation.
Role and rights management
Lectora offers external role and rights management, but flexibility in terms of managing and customizing roles and rights is limited. This can therefore restrict collaboration in complex projects.
In Knowledgeworker Create, roles and rights can be managed centrally and customized individually, which makes teamwork on large projects easier. These functions are specially tailored to the requirements of international teams.
Technological integration and future-proofing
Lectora offers basic integrations, but less flexibility and customizability, which can limit the integration of new technologies.
Knowledgeworker Create offers extensive integration options and supports future development through continuous updates and enhancements.
Additional functions and added value
Lectora offers additional templates from its own template library for the author to choose from. However, it offers fewer functions in the areas of collaboration, internationalization, simple course creation, and simple design adjustments, which reduces the range of functions in comparison. Lectora is less comprehensive, which makes it less attractive for companies with complex requirements.
Knowledgeworker Create includes many adaptive learning features, makes mobile learning very easy and, in addition to the functions already mentioned, also includes a change log, mandatory questions and, for example, an automatic learning progress indicator. These additional features make Knowledgeworker Create a versatile, future-proof eLearning authoring tool for modern companies.
Value for money
Lectora is very appealing at first glance as the annual license price is cheaper. It is also a solid choice for smaller companies with few training courses per year. However, for international organizations and companies with many training sessions per year, there is more work involved in adapting, managing and translating content, and in the review process, which greatly impairs long-term efficiency.
As an authoring tool, Knowledgeworker Create has a higher annual license cost than Lectora, but offers better value for money for companies looking for a comprehensive, flexible solution they can use internationally. It also includes everything that is done externally (and therefore at further cost) during course creation with Lectora.
User support and resources
Lectora provides access to an extensive online community, forums, and training resources, but support for more complex issues can be time-consuming.
Knowledgeworker Create offers personalized support as well as comprehensive, tailored training and direct assistance from the team to ensure your installation runs smoothly.
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Success stories and case studies
The decision to switch from an established eLearning authoring tool such as Lectora to a more modern alternative such as Knowledgeworker Create is often easier if you have concrete examples to look to. Companies that have already made the switch report significant improvements in the efficiency, quality, and user-friendliness of their eLearning content. Here are some success stories and case studies that show how Knowledgeworker Create can make a real difference.
Production of 900 eLearning courses for 90,000 employees in 15 countries
With 90,000 employees needing to be trained and taught in a range of languages, the Coop Group’s small team quickly reached its limits. The company’s existing authoring tool did not have the functionalities needed to distribute processes efficiently within the team or to allow team members to work together in an agile manner. Only by switching to Knowledgeworker Create was the Coop Group able to make full use of its internal synergies.
Digitalization of global compliance training in just 4 months
In order to implement the project in the shortest possible time, a new type of collaborative cooperation was necessary. Thanks to the newly established agile workflow, many work steps took place in parallel: Multiple authors, editors, translators, media experts, and education experts worked either simultaneously on the online courses, or as soon as their turn came. This reduced the workload for content creation by more than 60% compared to previous projects.
Digitalizing the onboarding process in 12 countries with online courses
Well-trained, satisfied employees are essential if you want impressed, happy customers. Fressnapf Tiernahrungs GmbH therefore launched an international onboarding project in 2021 in order to map the process digitally and efficiently. This enabled them to reduce onboarding times while increasing employee and customer satisfaction. Some 40 online courses were created in 9 languages.
How the pharmaceutical industry organizes its training and education programs
The pharmaceutical industry is a highly regulated sector in which companies often operate on a global scale. Knowledgeworker Create facilitated continuous collaboration right from the concept phase. Agile workflows in the production process—including review, translation, and approval processes—allowed decentralized teams to produce complex content incredibly quickly. Adaptive features made it possible to automatically adapt the content to the needs of the learners.
How easy is it to switch to Knowledgeworker Create?
Moving from a familiar eLearning authoring tool like Lectora to a new platform can be a challenge. But with Knowledgeworker Create, the transition is simple and smooth. Here are the most important aspects that will make the transition easier, and ensure that your company quickly benefits from the advantages of the new authoring tool:
Migration support and transfer of existing content
The team behind Knowledgeworker offers a comprehensive range of migration services to ensure that the transition from Lectora to Knowledgeworker Create is as easy as possible for you. Your existing eLearning courses are transferred to the new system by the experts. All of your important content, media, and structural elements are ported over and integrated into the more flexible and dynamic environment of Knowledgeworker Create. Of course, you can also transfer your eLearning courses yourself. Make or buy—it’s entirely up to you.
Faster induction
One of the major advantages of Knowledgeworker Create is its user-friendly interface. Teams that have previously worked with Lectora quickly find their way around Knowledgeworker Create. The tool’s intuitive design means that your employees can work productively without too much training. So you can reap the benefits of the new authoring tool right away.
Comprehensive training and support services
Training resources are available to further ease the transition to Knowledgeworker Create. The team behind the Knowledgeworker Create authoring tool, chemmedia AG, also offers training courses that are specifically tailored to your company’s needs. The technical support team is always ready to help with questions or problems, so you feel confident and supported.
Integration into existing systems and workflows
Knowledgeworker Create can be easily integrated into your existing systems and workflows. This means that not only do you enjoy the benefits of a modern eLearning authoring tool, but you can also continue your existing processes seamlessly. The ability to organize task and review management, translations, and role management directly within the tool ensures smooth collaboration and increases the efficiency of your team.
Continuous development and updates
After switching to Knowledgeworker Create, you’ll benefit from regular updates and constant development. The tool is continuously being improved to meet the requirements of modern eLearning projects and ensure you always have access to the best functions. Unlike Lectora, which offers limited customization options in certain areas, Knowledgeworker Create will always remain future-proof and flexible.
Extensive range of services
Another major benefit of switching to Knowledgeworker Create is that you have a large team of experts at your side. These include eLearning consultants, eLearning strategists, developers, content designers, LMS experts, and many more. This variety of skillsets means you have access to all the eLearning-related services you need and, if you wish, you can outsource the areas you cannot cover internally straight to the team.
- Learning strategy
- Software consulting
- Creating online courses, digital flashcards, digital coaching programs, graphics, videos, animations, sound, translation, etc.
- Content migration
- Maintenance of digital training catalogs, evaluation of defined KPIs, administration of your LMS, quality management, etc.
The bottom line.
Knowledgeworker Create is the clear alternative to Lectora for companies that need a flexible, scalable and modern eLearning solution. With its dynamic, responsive design, comprehensive AI-supported functions, and integrated collaboration and translation tools, Knowledgeworker Create clearly surpasses the capabilities of Lectora. It not only offers full accessibility and data protection compliance, but also enables you to reuse content efficiently and offers a centralized administration system. While Lectora may be suitable for smaller, national projects, Knowledgeworker Create is ideal for companies that operate internationally and are looking for a long-term, future-proof solution. Now is the time to take your eLearning strategy to the next level with Knowledgeworker Create.
