A tour of the app

The home page

The home page opens on My courses.

• Library: your courses, each with its first screen as a thumbnail and the date it was modified. A card can also say “2 issues to fix” (red checks) or “3 comments to handle” (remarks from your reviewers). A click opens the course; the card’s … menu offers Export… and Delete.
• Examples: example courses that come with Elabora. A click opens your own copy, which you can change without fear; Start again from the example, in its … menu, makes a fresh one.
• Top right: Import… (a course from elsewhere) and New course.
• In the left column: Home, the Trash and, at the very bottom, the You menu: Sign in to Elabora… (or Account… once signed in), Your preferred AI… and Settings….

Under the courses, a note reminds you that Elabora is in beta, and the Coming in the next updates box says what is on its way.

A course’s window

At the top, the course’s bar:

• the house goes back Home;
• the course title opens a menu: Course settings, Theme, Translation, Export… (and Import report for a course imported from Storyline or Rise);
• the check mark next to the title says “Saved on this computer”: Elabora saves as you go, there is no save button. Clicking it opens the Course history;
• in the middle, the five views;
• on the right, Preview, which plays the course in its own window.

View	What it is for
Course plan	The course plan, its versions and your client’s approval. See the course plan.
Storyboard	Every screen as a thumbnail, by chapter. Drag a thumbnail to move its screen; double-click to open it in Slide.
Slide	Where you see and retouch the screens. See screens and blocks.
Review	Your reviewers’ comments, and the contact sheet of narrated screens. See online reviews.
Publish	The SCORM package, the web version, the review link, and the Checks. See publishing.

Slide, from left to right

• The list of screens, by chapter. ⌘B hides or shows it. When the window is narrow, it folds away by itself: bring the pointer to the left edge to slide it back in.
• The canvas: the screen as learners will see it. Above it, the layer tabs when the screen has layers; below it, the narration drawer (Script and Timeline).
• The toolbar: Text, Image, Media, Question and Course blocks to add a block; undo and redo; the zoom percentage, whose menu offers Fit to window, Phone width and Reading order; the magnifier to search the course.
• The right panel: Properties (the selected block or screen), Agent (your AI and what it did) and, when you are signed in, Comments. ⌥⌘B hides or shows it.

When the window gets narrower, the tools keep only their icons; at half a screen (next to your AI, for instance), the right panel floats over the canvas and a strip of thumbnails appears below it.

Handy shortcuts

On Windows, use Ctrl for ⌘ and Alt for ⌥.

Shortcut	What it does
⌘Z / ⇧⌘Z	Undo / redo (everything the agent did in one batch counts as one step)
⌘F	Search the course (in Course plan: search the plan)
⌘B / ⌥⌘B	Hide or show the list / the right panel
Double-click, or Enter	Edit the selected text; Escape leaves without changing anything
⌘D, ⌫	Duplicate, delete the selected block
⌥↑, ⌥↓	Move the selected block up, down
⌘C, ⌘V	Copy the block, paste it after the selected block, on any screen
⌘,	Elabora settings

Every change, yours or the agent’s, is one step that ⌘Z undoes. To go further back, use the history.