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Udutu

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I don't know how to pronounce it, but udutu is a great online authoring tool. And best of all, for some reason, it's free. I've found it suits my needs extremely well and I can have complex learning objects ready in a short amount of time.

Their rationale is to get people using the software and then they may (or may not) pay for extra services. Since I already have access to an online VLE, I have no need to pay for their services, which makes me feel extremely guilty at using their software for free. Because it's great.

The forums are good too. Even if I have had a simple question, it has been answered promptly and politely by their admin team.

I really see no weakness. I have a couple of gripes about not being able to embed HTML in assessment pages (though embedding HTML is not a problem on normal pages) and there is no way to create gap fills. However, these are small issues and in the big picture, Udutu works much better than many expensive and more well-known tools.

I could not recommend this highly enough.