StepCert

Records the steps you take in a web app and turns them into illustrated how-to guides and training courses with certificates.

StepCert turns one run-through of a task in your web browser into a clear, illustrated how-to guide, and into a training course where people show they can do the task themselves. StepCert needs a yearly subscription for one person, with no limit on guides, courses or learners. The price, in your currency, is on stepcert.com. Buy it at stepcert.com, then sign in with your email address and licence key. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee, and stepcert.com has a demo you can try before you buy. Schools, colleges and companies can ask for a free trial and team pricing on stepcert.com. How it works Press the red REC button and use the web app as you normally would. Each click or entry becomes a step with a screenshot, a box around what you clicked, and a sentence written for you, such as "Click the Save button". Passwords and card numbers are never recorded. When you stop, open the editor to reorder steps, change the wording and add notes. Merge several clicks into one numbered picture, zoom in on small controls, write on the pictures in your own words, and hide anything private with a blur, pixelation or a solid block. As it records, StepCert replaces personal details, such as names, email addresses, phone and card numbers, and national ID and social security numbers from across Europe, the UK and the US, with example data, in the step text and in the pictures, and guides show them as examples so readers know to enter the real ones. Your guides and courses never carry real people's details, and before anything is exported StepCert checks for any it couldn't recognise. Then export the guide as a document, a slide deck, a web page or a short video, with your own logo and colours. Web pages have a list of steps down the side so readers can jump to the part they need, and the video can come as a page of its own with every step listed beside it: click a step and the video goes straight there. There is also a click-through demo: a web page where people click, type and choose on each screen themselves, or press Play to watch the whole task. Training that proves ability, not attendance StepCert can package the same walkthrough as a course for your learning management system. Learners first watch the walkthrough, then repeat it from memory at three levels of difficulty, typing in the details themselves. Where a personal detail was replaced, any made-up entry of the right kind counts, and learners are never asked for a real password. Passing a level earns a certificate with the learner's name, and your learning system records the result and how each step went. It works well for inductions, compliance training and new system rollouts. With the Course builder (Chrome and Edge), you can also put several walkthroughs together with videos, audio, pictures, PDFs, documents, YouTube and Vimeo videos, links, note slides and quizzes in one course, and bring in SCORM packages you already have. Learners get a course menu that shows their progress, your learning system records each part as they finish it, and the course ends with one certificate. Easy to hand over Save a walkthrough as a single file and send it to a colleague. They can open it in their own copy of StepCert, correct or finish it, and update the course, without recording everything again. Your logo, colours and settings can be saved as a template file too, so everyone in your team starts with the same look. Private by design Your recordings and screenshots stay in your browser on your computer. Nothing is uploaded to us or to anyone else, and there is no AI service involved. The only information StepCert sends is what it needs to check your licence: your email address and licence key when you sign in, then a sign-in token about once a day. When you add a YouTube, Vimeo or SoundCloud link to a course, StepCert asks that site for the video's title and picture, without sending anything about you. There are no ads, analytics or tracking. Also included • Undo and redo that work in both the side panel and the editor, and find and replace • Capture any window or screen, such as a desktop program, and add it to a guide • Works across tabs and windows, with keyboard shortcuts • Use it on up to three browsers, and offline for up to seven days • Guides and courses you have made keep working if you cancel What's new in 1.17.0 (Edge "What's new", Firefox "Release notes") -------------------- Click-through demo: a new export on the Files tab makes one web page where people practise the task on the real screens. They click the highlighted box and the next screen appears, type into boxes that check the entry (any email address, number or date, or what was recorded, set for the whole demo or each field), and pick from dropdowns that open their own list with the right option highlighted. Passwords are never typed. It has a list of steps, Previous and Next, and Play and Stop with a choice of speed, and needs no LMS. Course builder: a finished course now closes its attempt in the LMS, so LMSs that only record completion when the attempt ends (Access Learning among them) mark it complete. Course builder: imported SCORM packages that look for the SCORM 2004 connection first (many do, whatever their manifest says) now have their completion, pass and score recorded, so they count as done. While a package isn't done yet, the course shows what it has reported so far. A package set to "Pass it" that only reports completed is judged by its score against the course pass mark. Help: the Quick start now covers the Course builder tab, with what to check before you build a course. Course builder (Chrome and Edge): add multiple-choice quizzes to a course, and bring in SCORM 1.2 and 2004 packages you already have; they play inside the course and keep their progress and results. Videos and recordings play with larger controls, 10-second skip buttons and the arrow keys, and can carry a transcript. Save a portable copy of a course with all its files inside to move it to another computer. Quiz and completion settings now only show what fits the course, with two new templates: Read and confirm, and Watch it all.