SAN DIEGO — Aug. 4, 2021 — Technical communications and instructional design teams play central roles in enabling knowledge transfer across employees, customers and partners. But, too often, their efforts are siloed by the need to rely on different software tools. MadCap Software, Inc., the leader in multi-channel content authoring, breaks down these barriers with today’s announcement of the MadCap Flare 2021 r2 release, featuring major new capabilities for authoring modern, interactive eLearning courses and learning and development programs.
Worldwide, MadCap Flare is the software of choice among technical writers and documentation professionals for delivering professionally designed modern documentation websites, print brochures, online Help, knowledge bases, support sites, training and development content, and more. The 2021 r2 release significantly extends MadCap Flare to support instructional design and courseware development, enabling the delivery of course content as a responsive HTML5 website for interactive course materials and PDFs for printed student and teacher guides — all from a single source.
Key new features in the 2021 r2 release of MadCap Flare include the ability to:
- Publish SCORM 2004, SCORM 1.2, and xAPI-compliant content to a learning management system (LMS) or learning record store (LRS).
- Create eLearning content, and customize the look.
- Quickly turn existing content into a quiz or knowledge check.
- Insert any web-based or multimedia content into eLearning deliverables using an Inline Frame (IFrame) element.
- Easily automate the publishing of content with passing credentials.
With the latest MadCap Flare release, technical authors can add greater value to the content they create by incorporating interactive, eLearning features. Meanwhile, instructional designers can take advantage of popular MadCap Flare capabilities, including content reuse of text, images, videos and audio from one source location; multi-channel publishing; and advanced conditioning of content for different audiences. Notably, reusable content with MadCap Flare means instructional designers, technical writers, and subject matter experts (SMEs) all can take cross-department collaboration to a new level in creating, reviewing, and publishing informational and educational content.
“The roles of technical communicators and instructional designers in educating customers, partners, employees, and others have long been intertwined. However, the need to use different software tools to deliver best-in-class documentation and courses have created hurdles to collaboration and led to unnecessary duplications of efforts and content, often while trying to reach the same audiences,” said Anthony Olivier, MadCap Software founder and CEO. “With our 2021 r2 release of MadCap Flare, technical authors and instructional designers have state-of-the art capabilities for delivering all documentation and eLearning content from a single product. In doing so, we’re empowering these users with a new level of ease in collaborating and reusing content to deliver a consistent, modern, interactive experience.”
About MadCap Software
MadCap Software is a trusted resource for more than 20,000 companies around the globe for single-source, multi-channel authoring and publishing solutions designed to streamline the process of developing and delivering training content, learning and development programs, technical documentation, online Help, knowledge bases, and more. From authoring, publishing and translation, to cloud-based project and content management, to contribution and review in the cloud, you can streamline content delivery and manage the entire content development lifecycle with MadCap Software. MadCap Software’s services include product training, consulting services, translation and localization, and an advanced developer certification program. Headquartered in San Diego, California, with offices in Austin, TX, MadCap Software is home to some of the most experienced software architects and product experts in the content development industry.
