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Best Course Authoring Software

Compare the Top Course Authoring Software as of October 2025

What is Course Authoring Software?

Course authoring software is a tool designed to help educators, trainers, and organizations create engaging and interactive online courses. It typically includes a user-friendly interface for designing lessons, quizzes, and multimedia elements like videos, images, and audio. The software often offers templates and customizable features to streamline the course creation process. Some platforms also provide tracking and analytics tools to monitor learner progress and performance. Additionally, many course authoring tools integrate with learning management systems (LMS) for seamless delivery and management of courses. Compare and read user reviews of the best Course Authoring software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Skillcast

    Skillcast

    Skillcast

    Skillcast delivers compliance training and RegTech through a unified Compliance Portal that brings e-learning, Policy Hub (versioning & attestations), staff declarations, compliance registers, CPD/Training 360 and Events Management in one place. Use Skillcast as your LMS or deliver content into your LMS via Remote SCORM/xAPI. Aida, the built-in AI assistant, answers policy-aware questions. Integrates with HR/LXP platforms and supports SCIM. Security: Azure hosting; ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials/Plus and SOC 2. Standards: SCORM 1.2/2004, xAPI. Library: 400+ courses spanning anti-money laundering, financial crime, GDPR/data protection, health & safety, cybersecurity, anti-bribery, sanctions and equality. Prebuilt registers cover Gifts & Hospitality, Whistleblowing, Data Breach and RIDDOR, with configurable workflows and approvals. Industries: financial services, manufacturing, hospitality and retail. Free trial available. Multilingual, accessible delivery.
    Starting Price: £349/year
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    Bridge

    Bridge

    Bridge

    Bridge is a unified Learning & Employee Development platform that combines LMS, career pathing, skills, and performance management in one easy solution. Deliver engaging training with personalized journeys, two authoring tools, advanced media, analytics, and 150+ included, skills-tagged courses. Bridge goes beyond learning with career pathing, skill management, and AI-powered overviews that spot gaps and build personalized development plans. Tools like manager 1:1s and performance conversations connect growth to everyday work. Trusted by 1,000+ organizations, Bridge helps companies streamline systems, save time, and develop their people.
    Starting Price: $12,500/year
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    Tovuti LMS
    Designed as a people-centric LMS, Tovuti makes learning fun and management simple – boosting productivity for users and admins alike. Generate courses in seconds with AI. Increase learner engagement with interactive videos, memory games, and 40+ other gamification options. Create bespoke experiences with customizable learning paths. Effortlessly integrate with your current ecosystem. Make data-driven decisions with robust and easy-to-read data reporting. Choose from hundreds of pre-built courses on everything from OSHA to DE&I, sales, leadership training, and more. And reduce manual efforts with robust automation. All on one secure, turnkey platform! It’s no wonder why 1-800 Flowers, Club Med, Hyundai, Toyota, Johns Hopkins University, United Way, Keller Williams, and many other top brands choose Tovuti.
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    Coassemble

    Coassemble

    Coassemble

    We are your first training platform for growing businesses. We're also much more than an online training platform - we turn people into the workplace hero by empowering you to deliver genuinely engaging training experiences your employees deserve, from beginning to end. Our exceptional customer service team is led by some of the industry's best US-based training experts! We'll show you how every area of our platform has been built to mold around your employees, allowing you to design a structured, visually stunning training experience that captures your employees' attention. With over 20+ course templates choose from, our incredible instructional designers have built a genuinely brilliant platform so you can create an excellent training course effortlessly. Drop your content into our onboarding template, marketing plan template, or sales playbook template, for example, and get started straight away – it is that simple!
    Starting Price: $49/month
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    Paradiso LMS

    Paradiso LMS

    Paradiso Solutions Corporation

    Paradiso LMS is a top-rated eLearning software trusted by corporations, training companies, and educational institutions worldwide. An end-to-end learning management solution. Paradiso LMS lets organizations manage their eLearning effectively through mobile, social, and video technologies. Our LMS offers many features such as gamification for motivating and engaging learners, social learning for collaboration, blended learning, e-commerce, advanced reporting, and more. The platform also seamlessly integrates with more than 100 leading business tools. Solutions we provide: - User-friendly LMS - Custom course creations - Course catalog - Virtual classroom platform - Mobile learning - eLearning commerce - Customer training - Partner training - Customized eLearning solutions - Game based learning - Blended learning solutions
    Starting Price: $6 per user per month
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    360Learning

    360Learning

    360Learning

    360Learning is the AI-powered learning platform that combines LMS and LXP capabilities to drive onboarding, employee development, and customer training at scale. L&D teams—from solo practitioners to global enterprises—use 360Learning to turn internal expertise into collaborative, skills-based learning for employees, customers, and partners. 360Learning’s collaborative learning approach, combined with deep integrations with systems like SAP and Workday, empowers organizations to upskill at scale through expert-led communities of practice around key topics, roles, and more. Over 2,500 companies including Safran, Cognizant, Bally’s Corporation, Duolingo, and Smile Brands, trust 360Learning to power learning at work. Since 2013, the company has raised $240 million and built a global team across North America and Europe. 360Learning pioneered collaborative learning, launched the first AI certification for L&D, and founded the L&D Collective to connect learning leaders worldwide.
    Starting Price: $8.00/month/user
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    TalentLMS

    TalentLMS

    Epignosis

    TalentLMS is the LMS built for training success. Designed to get a “yes” from everyone, it’s where great teams, and companies, go to grow. With an experience that’s fully customizable and easy to manage, teams embrace training while feeling right at home. TalentLMS makes it easy to provide the right training to any team and every use, while giving expert guidance and support every step of the way. Backed by Epignosis, a global leader in learning technologies, TalentLMS is on a mission to democratize training, serving over 70, 000 teams worldwide.
    Starting Price: $69.00/month
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    Gnowbe

    Gnowbe

    Gnowbe

    Gnowbe is an award-winning, multimedia mobile-first and desktop-friendly communications, training and engagement platform with rapid authoring, all in a microlearning format. A curated course library and marketplace are also available along with a selection of templates to enable turnkey course and content creation. The app/platform features community boards for shared learning and engagement, scheduled session deployment, rapid curation accessing multimedia options, gamification, offline access and push notifications. Use cases include corporate training and communications (including sales enablement, product training, employee engagement, upskilling/reskilling, compliance, safety, and wellness training), education and training (asynchronous and synchronous, blended learning) and NGO enablement. With a seamless desktop/mobile experience and support for over 100 languages, Gnowbe is able to support your organization any time, anywhere.
    Starting Price: $5/month/user
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    WorkRamp

    WorkRamp

    WorkRamp

    WorkRamp is a modern training platform that enables companies to effectively onboard, train, and track their employees. Through self-guided activities, personalized testing, and interactive certification exercises, WorkRamp allows companies to build custom training that meets the needs of each team and department. WorkRamp is ideal for companies of with 50-500 employees who seek to reimagine employee training. Click on the free trial link above to join the ranks of Square, Intercom and Paypal. Bridge the gap between strategy and execution with WorkRamp. WorkRamp is an enterprise training and enablement software that helps companies perform at their highest levels. With WorkRamp, employees can become more productive through structured activities, shadowing, and interactive certification exercises. It offers deep integrations with existing tools like Zendesk, HRIS, Slack, and SFDC.
    Starting Price: $20.00/month
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    Intellek LMS
    A mobile optimized and easily customized interface ensures LMS administrators are able to give each end-user a tailored learning journey, making it simple to find resources that are relevant to them. Assignments, in-progress learning and a personal record are all available with just one click. Our LMS library displays courses that are currently available and relevant to your learners. User-friendly category cards can be set up to easily show the user which courses are best suited to their needs. Content can be launched, shared and reviewed straight from the courseware library. The LMS calendar function makes virtual and physical events easy to manage. Enrolling, wait-listing and viewing events has never been so simple. Outlook integration makes it easy for both the LMS admins and your end-users to manage their calendar, either on the go or at their desk. Built-in reports allow admins to publish real-time and impactful data, to share with the rest of your business.
    Starting Price: $0/month
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    CourseGenius

    CourseGenius

    CourseGenius

    If you're looking for an easy-to-use and feature-rich elearning platform, turn to CourseGenius. CourseGenius is Australia's most user-friendly online learning solution that helps businesses easily create engaging online courses, share and sell courses with learners, and track learner progress. The platform features a drag-and-drop course builder, quizzes and assessments, digital marketing tools, eLearning portal, reporting tools, and more.
    Starting Price: $49.00/month
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    Astute eLearning Platform

    Astute eLearning Platform

    DeltaNet International

    Identify and prioritize each learners' needs and continued career development. User-friendly design and intelligent recommendations make it easy to learn as you go. Automatically collect and interpret data about your learners to help promote future learning opportunities. Track learning with xAPI and address gaps in knowledge that hold your organization back or put it at risk. Identify, mitigate, and manage risks using Astute's risk assessment library. It's also easy to customize assessments, create your own from scratch, and attach an existing risk assessment to individual eLearning courses for users to fill in upon completion. Filter by course publisher to quickly find and allocate appropriate courses to the right learners. Programs make it easy to set up dependency-based rules to manage when learners have access to certain learning content. Built for smart and flexible working, our innovative Astute Learning Experience Platform provides a full solution.
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    Grovo

    Grovo

    Cornerstone OnDemand

    We make it easy to find, create and deliver effective Microlearning experiences, allowing resource-constrained teams to grow quickly in a cost-effective way. Simply put, employees like Grovo. You can trust us to provide relevant, actionable, and digestible lessons resulting in higher adoption, engagement and lesson completion. With Grovo, you can expect faster onboarding, higher retention, better cross-functional collaboration, and improved team performance. Our Microlearning library is timeless and timely, constant and current, evergreen and— sorry, sometimes our library makes us wax poetic. We’re always creating new content on relevant topics, while also refreshing our existing stuff to stay ahead of the curve. We’ve got 2500+ Microlearning® lessons at the ready. You can take them as-is off-the-shelf, tailor them to your needs, or create new ones from scratch using our best practice lesson templates.
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    Learning Pool

    Learning Pool

    Learning Pool

    Our expert team creates the content and technology solutions that engage and empower modern learners around the world - all wrapped up with our award-winning support. Enjoy automatic upgrades to the latest available version and the lowest total cost of ownership. Elearning delivered at the moment of need, on any device, using the most appropriate learning approach. Award-winning, multi-tier and end-user customer support and a dedicated account manager. Transform user engagement with social and self-directed learning, natural language deep search and personalized recommendations. The most feature-rich open source LMS on the market, fully hosted and supported to deliver great learning, easy compliance and clear reporting. Our LRS helps organizations reconcile experience data from many systems. Powerful analysis and automation tools make your learning actionable.
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