iSpring has launched iSpring Suite AI, an exciting new evolution of their elearning authoring software that integrates artificial intelligence directly into the workflow.
This comprehensive suite combines the powerful iSpring Suite authoring environment, the innovative iSpring Cloud AI platform for intelligent content sharing and collaboration, and an extensive, ever-growing library of digital assets.
All together as iSpring Suite AI, this is a compelling content creation and collaboration environment that really delivers on many different levels.
Here at Learning Light, we have long been fans of iSpring’s learning technology. We wrote an iSpring LMS review a while back saying how well integrated it was with the iSpring Suite, and how the iSpring Suite allows elearning course creators to start producing content quickly and easily.
We also noted that iSpring Suite is actually a very powerful tool as well that “sophisticated elearning afficionados” could use. Well, iSpring Suite AI makes the whole experience even better with some nice updates and new AI-driven features, and the arrival of iSpring Cloud AI, which is very good as it allows for online collaborative and project-based elearning development.
The suite now includes standout AI-powered additions: an AI assistant for content generation and ideation, AI text and image generation tools, and AI-powered translation capabilities. There’s a lot to unpack in iSpring Suite AI.
It also has some very nice neat additions, including an API and microlearning development capability with the online article editor. There is a lot to iSpring Suite AI.
Let’s dive in with iSpring Suite to begin with…
At its simplest iSpring Suite is a PowerPoint add-in that converts your PowerPoint presentations to HTML5 and allows you to export them to an LMS in SCORM 1.2 OR 2004, xAPI format, AICC or CMi5. If you wish you can stick to HTML5 and publish your courses for uploading to a website or as a slide show in MP4 format to YouTube.
Just so you know iSpring Suite comes with compatibility assurances for over 150 LMS. You know it’s going to work.
With iSpring Cloud AI, you can store courses, share them with colleagues for collaborative development, manage updates, and much more. The platform also includes tools for creating microlearning with the Scrollable Course Builder, an iSpring AI assistant for content creation, translation support, writing enhancement, question generation, image generation, and real-time collaboration.
I promise we will come back to iSpring Cloud AI presently, but before that lets explore iSpring Suite a little more as it is a really powerful piece of kit and to call it “just a PowerPoint Plug-In” is very unfair indeed.
Let’s take a trip – left to right across iSpring and the “blocks” it is divided up into, beginning with Record Audio. Yes, you can create audio in PowerPoint pretty well, but in my view iSpring Suite has a real edge to doing this as it makes it quite easy and gives you the tools to synch the recording quickly and easily slide by slide with the manage narration feature.
If you want to publish your slides to HTML5 and be confident it works use iSpring Suite is my very best advice. If you wish to appear with your slides speaking via recorded video, again iSpring Suite does this very well. Again, using the editing tools, you can polish and perfect your performance and the overall production values to a much higher level than just using PowerPoint.
Audio files can be exported as MP3 files as podcasts and iSpring Suite allows for interview Podcasts to be created as well which I am rather taken with as a learning modality at present.
Interactivity at the next level
Let’s take a look at block 2, but I want to stick with the interactivity elements first, before we get to the supersonic quiz features. It is very quick and easy to take a screen recording and embed YouTube videos into your courses without too much effort.
With the Role Play simulation, instructional designers can truly express themselves and focus on the learning experience while iSpring handles the production details. The tool provides character images and backgrounds, but the real power lies in its intuitive graphical workflow for managing branching settings, allowing you to visually map each learner’s choice as the conversation unfolds.
iSpring Suite provides access to a library of over 130,000 high-quality assets, including diverse characters, backgrounds, and images from many real-world settings, such as retail and office environments. These visuals take out the stress of searching for stock images for designers and help build realistic dialogue simulations where learners can choose responses to customers or colleagues and practice communication in lifelike scenarios.
This is very easy to do with the provided digital assets and the overall presentation is sharp, allowing the learning designer to focus on the dialogue and options offered.
Yes, sure may be a bespoke video is better, but that takes time and costs, iSpring Suite can build equally engaging in context learning content very quickly, you can use your own backgrounds if desired. Remember, this is rapid elearning made easy and cost effective.
Still with Block 2 the web object option allows for web-based resources to be placed in your course either as a slide or as a resource that opens as a separate tab. Interactions are interesting and allow iSpring Suite to up the game of any PowerPoint presentation with a library of interactions that are available directly as HTML5.
Step-by-step interactions can be created quickly and easily, with images added to enhance visual appeal. iSpring Suite includes 14 ready-to-use interaction templates that let you build a variety of interactive elements, helping learners explore content in engaging ways and moving development beyond simple slides to richer learning experiences.
Powerful quiz maker – supersonic actually
iSpring Suite still has the very powerful quiz maker with its standalone development capability and this means powerful quizzes can be developed in iSpring Suite and uploaded to your LMS with ease. There is an LMS reported option and a simpler survey option that is not tracked by an LMS.
The iSpring Quizmaker is very powerful indeed benefiting from a series of pre-developed templates. Branching is possible from the Quiz function as well which is nice and naturally the quiz can be deeply integrated into the actual elearning courses as well.
So far, we have looked at iSpring Suite AI through the prism of PowerPoint, and yes, it is very true that many elearning courses start their lives as trainers PowerPoint presentations or when learning designers start storyboarding their projects in PowerPoint.
As we have seen, iSpring makes it easy to build high quality elearning from PowerPoint. However, iSpring Suite AI now brings in browser-based eLearning development, which is ideal for microlearning and quite a lot more as we shall see.
iSpring Cloud AI
iSpring Suite and iSpring Cloud AI work together to support both desktop and browser-based course development. iSpring Cloud AI provides online authoring tools, allowing users to create eLearning content quickly and efficiently through a simple web editor.
iSpring Cloud AI allows for colleagues to be added easily to the project team for collaborative development projects. Storage is in the cloud and iSpring Cloud AI allows for all the developed in iSpring Suite to be held in this cloud repository which is very useful.
iSpring Suite AI brings everything together in a single solution. It includes iSpring Suite with its rich Content Library, along with iSpring Cloud AI for browser-based authoring and real-time collaboration. On top of this, Suite AI adds new AI-powered capabilities such as Text-to-Speech, writing assistance, and content generation, making course creation faster, smarter, and more flexible.
iSpring Suite and the learner experience
Let’s jump back to the iSpring Suite interface and look at how iSpring ensures the learning User Experience (UX). iSpring Suite really dives deep to ensure that any learning presentation developed has the highest possible production values applied. The preview option is powerful in that it allows for immediate access to the learning materials for improvements or amendments to be made.
Great attention to slide templates and slide transitions is allowed with edits and timings. The audio performance is likewise managed to perfection to ensure nothing distracts or annoys the learner. A nice touch is the use of the large arrow icon to start the course to overcome the tendency of modern browsers to block auto plays. I find this granular attention to the learner UI and UX exemplary.
The overall iSpring Suite experience is further enhanced by the ability to customise text used on the player and that there are several different player options available, my favourite is the video lecture option which is very well thought through. Another plus for iSpring Suite from a learner perspective the iSpring player gives excellent control to the learner with an effective and intuitive interface.
Resources such as PDFs can be incorporated into the player for download. iSpring Suite brings an open API option so a client user can develop their own course player design.
The API also allows for detailed reporting of the learner engagement with the learning materials so any issues can be spotted and dealt with quickly. This goes to reinforce iSpring’s commitment to delivering an exemplary learning experience.
iSpring Suite makes creating online learning feel simple, yet the results are highly polished and professional. iSpring Suite is very solid and builds on the success enjoyed to date by iSpring users, usually in-company development teams producing quality in context elearning quickly and iSpring’s commitment to listening to their users.
Stepping beyond PowerPoint
iSpring Suite AI will help these teams work more efficiently, and iSpring Cloud AI brings a highly useful tool that creates scrollable courses – we touched on this earlier around microlearning. iSpring Cloud AI also allows for materials to be copied and pasted into chapters and pages incredibly easily.
These pages can be grouped as chapters. Each page can be given properties with in-page design and in-page navigation. Naturally, fonts and colours are all provided for at a high standard.
Two things impress in this approach, one the ease in which “flat text” can be chopped up and edited into meaningful engaging material that is easy to navigate and include presentations and quizzes and secondly, they can be packaged up as SCORM or xAPI files for use in an LMS.
Do not underestimate the capability of iSpring Content Library either as iSpring is adding digital assets to its library at a rapid rate.
This gives you the ability to take and enhance a dry and dull document and bring it alive with images and dialogue simulations using a nice simple editor to pull it all together.
Who is iSpring Suite AI for?
So, if you are a training provider looking to digitise your face to face course provision from PowerPoint or other formats, iSpring Suite is one of the best elearning authoring tools to consider. If you are an organisational training team and looking for an authoring tool that is easy to get going with but allows for increasing levels of sophistication and collaboration, iSpring Suite AI is a worthy solution.
If you are a manager and you want to share a procedure with your team, but the documents are dry and dull, iSpring Suite AI could well help you bring them to life by adding some interaction and engagement surprisingly easily. In all cases iSpring produces quality content quickly and easily.
In summary
iSpring Suite was always slick and simple to use, but it has been adding sophistication for some while now with its production values capabilities.
Now with iSpring Cloud AI and its API, together with a growing range of AI features, it has become very smart indeed as iSpring Suite AI.
The AI capabilities significantly speed up the whole elearning development process, helping you create professional-quality courses without the extra cost of designers or developers. You can generate text, questions, images, and voiceovers in minutes, and automatically translate courses into more than 70 languages to support global delivery. This makes it much easier to scale training rapidly while keeping quality consistently high.
