Introduction
Need to teach users or customers how to use a software application? Want to enable users to try your application in a completely safe, controlled environment? Luminosity Lightshow is a versatile tool for creating hands-on, interactive simulations, for training users to perform particular tasks and activities within software applications. Screen-capture based simulations are a proven technique for reducing the amount of time that users take to become productive with a new software package. The interactive features of Lightshow make it a powerful, yet easy-to-use authoring environment for all your software training requirements. Lightshow produces HTML5 simulations that can be viewed in any modern web browser, and on multiple device types, including desktops, mobile phones, and tablets.
Demonstration
Click Hotspots
Click hotspots are the clickable areas you use to link frames together and provide paths through your simulation. Click hotspots can be activated on left, right or double mouse clicks.
Hover Hotspots
Hover hotspots enable you to add some important but subtle effects to your simulations to provide a user experience as close as possible to the real thing. Hover hotspots define regions that users can hover their mouse over to advance the simulation.
Notes and Callouts
Add notes and call outs to add instructions and commentary and to highlight specific screen elements while users work through simulations.
Timers
Use timers to enable frames to automatically advance after a specified delay. Use these to simulate application splash screens or long running operations.
Text Input
Simulate text and password input. Set the password property to simulate password entry fields (where character are shown as dots). Configure multi-line text input boxes, add multiple text boxes to a frame to simulate form-based input and control text box tab sequence.
Optimised Output
Lightshow simulations are optimised for web delivery. Unlike many screen capture based simulations and presentations, a Lightshow simulation only sends over the network the parts of a screen image that have changed. This dramatically reduces the amount of data transmitted and improves performance as a result.
Integrate with Studio
Integrate Lightshow simulations with Luminosity Studio eLearning courses, or use the Lightshow SCORM output option to load simulations directly onto your Learning Management System (LMS).
Run anywhere
HTML5 output ensures that your simulations run on all modern browsers and devices including tablets and mobiles. You can run your simulations locally, from your web sites or on SCORM compliant Learning Management Systems (LMS).
Branching
For more sophisticated (non-linear) simulations, use branching to enable users to take different paths through a simulation.
Scale Output
Lightshow simulation output is scalable. Due to the wide range of possible screen sizes your audience might have this is important because it enables users to adjust the simulation to fit their particular monitor, regardless of whether or not the source screen captures were created on a larger monitor.
View a sample
Click here to view a sample simulation created by using Lightshow. You can also create great simulations of this high standard. Download a free trial today.
Datasheet
Click here to download the Luminosity Lightshow datasheet in PDF format to find out more.