Opus Pro

Opus Pro, developed by Opus Software Ltd., is a software solution designed to expedite the visual development of applications, elearning, and multimedia. According to the vendor, this versatile tool is intended for use by small to large companies across various industries and professions, including eLearning professionals, developers, health and safety trainers, secondary schools, and universities.

Key Features

Freestyle Design and Layout: Opus Pro offers a user-friendly Windows interface and a WYSiWYG editor that allows users to easily combine multimedia resources by dragging and dropping them onto the page. Users can apply various properties, effects, blends, textures, and transparency settings to their multimedia resources.

Interactivity without Programming: According to the vendor, Opus Pro provides a simple select-and-apply interface for users to set properties, effects, and actions, allowing them to create interactive publications without any programming skills. Users can respond to user clicks, play sounds and videos, animate objects, and run sequences of events effortlessly.

Responsive Web Design Made Easy: Opus Pro enables users to resize their output for responsive web pages, making it convenient to design fully responsive animations, banners, and interactive content to embed in responsive grids.

Publish and Distribute Freely: Users can create stand-alone publications in various formats, including Windows EXE, Flash, HTML5 for web design, Android, and iPad. According to the vendor, Opus Pro allows users to distribute their publications freely for profit or pleasure, education or entertainment.

Power and Flexibility Can be Easy Too: Opus Pro combines the ease of use and features of Opus Creator with added power and flexibility. It includes database support, enhanced SCORM elearning, scripting capabilities, and an Android Packager for easier distribution to Android devices.

Database Support: Opus Pro allows users to connect to databases, both locally and online, to design graphical interactive databases more easily. It supports Windows ODBC, Access, and MySQL, and extends SCORM or Moodle recording.

Scripting Power: Opus Pro includes a fully-featured programming language called Opus Script, allowing users to extend the software's features if needed. HTML5 publications also support JavaScript and easy embedding of HTML5 widgets.

Auto-Scoring Question Objects: According to the vendor, Opus Pro offers flexible test solutions with its question object, allowing users to create quizzes quickly and easily, even with custom free-form questions. The software automatically calculates scoring metrics, providing freedom in quiz design.

Extended Elearning: Opus Pro's sophisticated elearning features can be easily published to SCORM-conformant courses for major Learning Management Systems (LMS), including Moodle. Users can create unique and engaging elearning content without preset templates or interactions.

Web Font Manager: According to the vendor, Opus Pro includes a Web Font Manager that simplifies organizing and using web fonts, allowing users to render more ornamental headings in HTML5 web designs. Users have control over static or dynamic text settings for any text object.