LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT

eLearning Authoring Tool: 
Build interactive courses in minutes

Genially’s easy-to-use authoring tool enables your entire team to create interactive eLearning. Say goodbye to generic training slides and hello to custom-built learning experiences that are unique, fun, and memorable.

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Helping L&D teams develop the world’s most innovative training materials

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Engaging online training with real-world applications

Make learning useful and relevant by simulating the situations and challenges that employees face in the workplace. Build interactive role plays, virtual case studies, games, and branching scenarios, all perfectly tailored to your organization.

Enjoyable courses that resonate with learners.

Dynamic click-to-explore format. 

Address real learning needs and knowledge gaps.

100% customizable.

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Story-based, personalized learning

A compelling narrative helps convert passive readers into active participants. Create media-rich, immersive stories that engage learners and give them more control over their experience.

Surprise and delight learners with a fresh approach to training.

Boost cognitive engagement and knowledge retention.

Multimodal: Provide differentiated content for all learning styles, with audio, video, text-based, and hands-on activities.

Incorporate challenge, curiosity, control, and fantasy: the 4 key aspects of learner motivation.

EASY AUTHORING + POWERFUL DESIGN

The most creative course creator 
on the market

A full suite of eLearning development tools helps you design interactive never-seen-before courses. Build fun and original materials that are on-brand and perfectly tailored to your training needs.

Hotspots & pop-ups

Deliver training content in a user-friendly and digestible interactive format.

Quiz Builder

Assess and engage learners with knowledge checks, tests, and multiple question types.

Video & Audio

Enhance learning with video, sound effects, music, and voiceover.

Drag-and-drop

Make elements draggable to create classification games and matching exercises.

Click-to-reveal and animations

Make information visual and easier to understand with timed and click-trigger animations.

Branching

Build learning scenarios and Choose Your Own Adventure games using jump-to links and custom navigation.

Design & Branding tools

Customize every detail of your course: from the font, layout, and color scheme down to the url handle.

AI features

Generate voiceovers and quiz questions, edit images, and translate courses into over 100 languages with the help of AI.

Widgets & Effects

Stopwatch, Image Slider, Flip Card, Confetti: Add engaging micro-interactions to your courses without external tools or scripts.

Resource library

Build courses fast with thousands of pre-built graphic components, icons, hotspot markers and stock images. 

Templates

Create interactive eLearning courses quickly with pre-built professional templates.

WYSIWYG Editor

See exactly how your course will look, and use Preview mode to test out the user experience.

Mobile adaptable

Create microlearning and scrollable, bite-size content that’s tailored to mobile devices.

Accessibility

Create content compatible with assistive technologies and add ALT text, link descriptions, and text hierarchy in one click.

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Give your old PowerPoint presentations and Google Slides a new lease of life as an interactive course.

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The interactivity, components, and features offered by Genially have been of immense help in preparing content, including manuals and instructional materials, many of them focused on highly technical processes. Thanks to Genially, we’ve been able to make the complex simple, directly impacting on improving the quality of learning and reducing the learning curve

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GAMIFICATION

Corporate training that doesn’t feel like corporate training

No-code interactions, animations, game widgets, and design elements help you unlock the motivational power of gamification. 

Did you know that the human brain is hardwired to respond to game dynamics like competition and the pursuit of reward? A reported 83% of employees feel motivated when training is gamified.

Genially makes it easy to tap into these instincts and apply game dynamics to any course or subject matter.

Drive up learner engagement.

Hit your training targets.

Improve course completion rates.

Enhance retention and subject matter understanding.

Develop loyalty and stronger team relationships.

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Leaderboard

Use the live leaderboard to foster a team spirit and friendly competition in asynchronous and live training sessions.

Unlocks

Build levels, rewards, and progress markers into your courses. Lock pages with a password and program content to be revealed at a set time.

Time pressure

Dial up the energy and increase learner focus with countdowns, time limits for answering questions, animations, and sound effects.

Randomization

Keep learners alert by throwing them a curveball. Generate anticipation and prevent predictability by shuffling the order in which content appears.

Virtual worlds

Create immersive experiences with a gaming aesthetic. Use animated graphics, audio, and drag-and-drop to create quests with hidden objects, clues, and collectable items.

Feedback loops

Real-time responses like pop-up messages, prompts, visual indicators, and automatic question feedback give learners a sense of accomplishment and keep them moving forward.

IFRAME

Rich learning content you can share anywhere

Embed third-party content in Genially ⤵️

Enrich learning modules with externally-hosted content from other apps and websites. Insert video, docs, live data visualizations, and other online media that learners can explore without navigating away from the course.

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Embed Genially anywhere ⤴️

Display Genially courses and interactive content on any website or online platform using the iFrame code. Create site-within-a -site experiences that are easy to update and maintain, with optional domain restriction.

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CROSS-PLATFORM COMPATIBILITY

Seamless LMS integration

No matter where or how you deliver training, Genially is easy to integrate into your learning ecosystem.

Genially is a SCORM authoring tool that allows you to track progress, scores, access, and questions directly in your LMS. Activate the Dynamic SCORM setting to sync changes automatically, without downloading new packages when you update the course.

Integrate Genially resources into your LMS with the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard. A secure information exchange allows you to easily sync content updates and track learner scores and progress in your LMS.

If you don’t use an LMS, Genially works as a standalone learning platform. Just share the course link, embed or post online, and monitor engagement with Genially’s built-in analytics tools.

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BUILT-IN ANALYTICS

Real-time engagement insights

Measure the impact of your training directly in the Genially dashboard. Get live data on views, clicks, interactions, question responses, and completion rates.

Global metrics

Learner tracking

Easy reporting: Download in CSV to connect to your Analytics platforms.

EASY-TO-USE PLATFORM

Zero learning curve

Get everyone on your team building interactive training content. Not just designers.

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Because it’s easier to use than traditional course authoring software, Genially is ideal for those with no experience of instructional design tools. Bring SMEs and other team members onboard and speed up the course development process.

Intuitive drag-and-drop interface.

No-code interactions and animations.

Employee-generated learning: Create courses without technical know-how.

Avoid design bottlenecks.

Smooth collaboration

Live co-editing

Collaborate on materials in real-time, with input from multiple course authors.

Guest Editors

Invite Subject Matter Experts and external stakeholders to review and edit content as a Guest.

Team management

Organize your team’s projects with personal and shared spaces, folders, and version control.

Reusable content

Save time and ensure consistency with pre-branded team templates.

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Secure and simple to manage

Cloud based: No software downloads or updates.

Permissions controls.

Activity and Version history.

Single Sign On.

Domain restriction: Control where embedded content is displayed.

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Genially has become an essential component in our instructional design toolkit.

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Learning Design Innovation Manager, Florida International University

PRICING

Produce better learning content for less money

Genially is one of the only free authoring tools in the world, allowing you to try all interactions and animations without commitment. Unlock more advanced features with our scalable plans, adding team members as you grow.

An authoring tool is a platform or software application that enables you to create eLearning courses without coding. Also known as instructional design software, e-learning authoring tools help you build digital learning and online employee training materials with multimedia and interactive elements.

Although the term authoring tool is associated with eLearning, content authoring can sometimes refer more generally to the creation of digital content for websites, apps, and social media. Genially is an e learning authoring tool and a content creation platform, allowing anyone to build interactive and gamified content for training, teaching, digital publishing, marketing, without coding.

The best eLearning authoring tools have an easy-to-use editor and features for adding interactive content, questions, games and multimedia to your courses. 

Yes! Genially is compatible with all Learning Management Systems (LMSs) and compliant with SCORM: the industry standard for eLearning. Genially offers multiple ways to publish content and track students’ learning in your LMS:

-Export in SCORM format: Packages for Progress, Access, Scores, and Questions.

-Activate Dynamic SCORM to sync changes to your LMS. No need to upload new packages when you update course content!

-LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) connection: Sync content and learner progress to your LMS. Works with many popular learning platforms including Moodle, Canvas, Sakai and Blackboard.

-Iframe. You can embed Genially content as an iframe on any LMS, website, or online platform.

Genially is an authoring tool with built-in engagement and learner tracking tools. In the analytics dashboard you can track views, interactions, date of access, student progress, scores, and question responses. 

For many teams, Genially offers a more cost effective solution than advanced authoring tools such as iSpring Suite, Articulate Storyline 360 and Adobe Captivate. The free version of Genially allows anyone to try out key features. Whereas many authoring tools have a steep learning curve, Genially is also easier for beginners and non instructional designers to get the hang of. Because it’s cloud-based, there’s no software to download or update. Unlike other authoring tools which specialize solely in eLearning, Genially is a bit more versatile with other features including a live audience engagement platform and education tools.

An authoring tool is for creating eLearning content, whereas an LMS (Learning Management System) is for managing and distributing that content to learners. These days, there’s a lot of crossover. Some authoring tools like Genially enable you to publish content with or without an LMS, and some LMSs enable you to build basic content.