Why You Should Have User Centric Tutorials for Software Products

When you create tutorials  for a software product, it is very natural to capture the following:

Description about the product features
All tasks that one can do with each of the product features
Steps to complete each of the tasks

Most software product tutorials are product feature centric.
Here is an example  of a product feature centric tutorial for Camtasia. The very title [...]

October 13th, 2009 | Category: Camtasia, Help Manuals, Instructional Design, Online Tutorials, Product Tutorial Design, Scenario Based E-learning, Task Based Approach, elearning | 5 comments

How to Achieve Smooth Visual Effects in Videos Created Using Camtasia?

My post on how to increase call out lengths in Camtasia helped Tina Williams solve her problem. This feedback on my post prompted me to write this post with yet another useful tip
When I was working on my tutorial videos using Camtasia, I noticed that after I produced the video in a shareable [...]

September 23rd, 2009 | Category: Camtasia, Camtasia Tips, Learning, Rapid E-learning, elearning | 4 comments

Camtasia Tips: How to Increase Call-Out Length

I have been using Camtasia for sometime now and I thought I must list down some practical tips on using this tool that might be useful to many others who are new to Camtasia like me. I would like to especially focus on the issues I faced and how I managed to solve it.
One big [...]

August 6th, 2009 | Category: Camtasia, Camtasia Tips, Rapid E-learning | 8 comments

How I Learnt to Work With Camtasia

 I do not think learning how to use a tool is a big challenge. But I guess you need to know how to work with a tool efficiently. Otherwise it might happen that you keep struggling to use the tool.
When you are in an organization, you may not have a choice with respect to using [...]

July 3rd, 2009 | Category: Camtasia, Instructional Design, elearning | Leave a comment