Adobe Presenter vs. Colossyan

Adobe Presenter interface and its complete integration with Powerpoint eliminates the need for additional training or knowledge of Flash programming.While this saves time for the more sophisticated presenter it is less useful for day to day status presentations. There is no substitute for knowing your audience

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Colossyan is a great tool if you work frequently in PowerPoint since you can import slide decks. It also is great if you are looking to have video narration of your own voice, but don't have the time to record and narrate an entire video script and not having professional equipment to record. Colossyan will record a quick snippet of your voice and apply that to all scripts which saves a lot of time. Colossyan is less appropriate for scenarios where you want a lot of detail in your videos. Colossyan is pretty basic in what it can do such as animations. For example, if you have an arrow enter in a scene and then want it to exit, it has to be that exact animation again

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• It is very easy for faculty to use. Even those who have limited experience in creating online courses feel comfortable using Presenter.
• It allows our faculty to have students working in different areas at the same time so we are able to individualize our instruction to meet student needs.
• The quiz feature is fantastic to be able to quickly assess student learning to determine if they are ready to move forward.

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• I feel it is a bit overpriced. That may be because of the Adobe name.
• Our team has experienced a few technical issues over time which sometimes limit our use of the software.
• Limited features available for our macOS users.

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• lack of realistic AI (vs what Synthesia offers). NEO 2 is the answer BUT limited
• lack of mods (like animations for the texts / images)
• Better voice mods too, too many robotic voices especially in different language than English. Need more adjustment we can do.

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My company is pretty invested in the Adobe ecosystem and is unlikely to change that in the foreseeable future. Also, Adobe Presenter is a very valuable tool and, with the new subscription model and the pricing we have, a relatively modest expense now. It's also fairly easy to learn and use, so it is starting to spread beyond the sphere of the various Learning & Development departments.

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For all of the reasons I mentioned earlier. Overall, it's quite easy to create basic presentations with and to publish output with, either to an Adobe server, an LMS, or, I think, as stand-alone module. But there are some areas for improvement and better in-product help and explanations would be helpful, as well.

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All the features in Colossyan are optimized for all levels of expertise in instructional design. The only reason I have reduced 2 rating points is that the quality of the final product varies a lot according to the skill level of the designer and their own aesthetic sense.

It is easy to access since it is an added tool to the Powerpoint program. We have not had complaints from faculty members regarding not having it available when they need it.

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Due to the aforementioned issues with Flash, it can be discouraging to get to the publishing stage and begin receiving error messages. Once we are able to move past that issue, we have great success with the performance of Adobe Presenter.

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I think I pretty much answered this earlier....premium support is extremely expensive and online support can be difficult to navigate. Although, to be fair, when it comes to Presenter (compared to, say, Captivate), there isn't too frequent a need for support, since Presenter is a rather simple tool to use

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To recap, it falls short in the quality of the deliverables compared to some others. That said, it is well within acceptable range for many learning environments and audiences. It also is significantly more flexible and affordable than anything else. If I had only one e-learning solution to pick, this would be the one. It is, in fact, my "Go to" solution most of the time..

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Compared to these products, its hard to pitch Colossyan against them in a certain way as they were used differently. The only competitor would be Synthesia. Synthesia has everything you want. All above Colossyan ; more tools, better ai, smoother etc. But it comes at a cost. The hard cap time limitation of 30 minutes of video a month is really a big deal breaker. If Colossyan would up their game closer to Synthesia, there will be no contest. Colossyan all the way.

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The program still seems to rely heavily on Adobe Flash even though the online community is moving away from it. When publishing, users will experience error messages regarding Flash, which can make it difficult to complete your work.

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• Been central system for learning about the Products within the Organization.
• Assessments can be taken multiple times and the questions remains the same, no changes on the pattern as well making it easy to copy from other attempts.
• Single platform for all the learning so didn't have to go around multiple places looking for answers.

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