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You can now talk to Cora instead of typing.
Say what you need in the Cora chat and your words become your message. A brief for a video often comes out faster and fuller when you say it out loud, and now Cora can take it that way.
How it works
- Start dictating in the Cora chat.Speak your request the way you would explain it to a colleague.
- Your words become text.What you say is written into the chat as your message to Cora.
Explain it once, out loud, and let Cora get to work on the draft.
Thanks for choosing Colossyan, and happy creating!
Best,
The Colossyan Team
Your video library can now be sorted alphabetically.
Alongside sorting by last updated, you can order your videos by name, A to Z or Z to A. It was one of the changes customers asked for most.
What's changed
- Two new sort options.Open the sort menu in your library and choose Name A–Z or Name Z–A.
- Works across the whole list.Video plans, drafts and generated videos all follow the order you pick.
When you know what a video is called, it's now easy to find without scrolling back through everything you've made recently.
Thanks for choosing Colossyan, and happy creating!
Best,
The Colossyan Team
Find any piece of text in your video and change it in one go.
Press Ctrl+F to search the text in your scenes, or Ctrl+H to replace it. Both are also in the editor menu.
How it works
- Search the whole video.Matches come up across every scene, starting with the scene you are on.
- Replace one match or all of them.Fix a single instance, or update every match at once.
- Works on language variants.Update text in a translated version without detaching it from the translation first.
When a product name or a policy term changes, you update it once instead of hunting through every scene.
Thanks for choosing Colossyan, and happy creating!
Best,
The Colossyan Team
The free AI tools now live in the app.
Open Toolkit from the left navigation and you'll find them next to your library, templates and assets. You're already signed in, so there's no email to enter before a tool runs.
What's included
- Course design tools.The Learning Objectives, Assessment, Course Outline and SOP generators, for the groundwork before you build.
- SCORM tools.Translate a SCORM package, turn a PowerPoint deck or an HTML file into a SCORM package, and preview a package in your browser before it goes to your LMS.
- A straight route into the build.Open a course outline in Colossyan and start building from it.
The groundwork and the build now happen in the same place.
Thanks for choosing Colossyan, and happy creating!
Best,
The Colossyan Team
Translate what your video says and keep what it shows.
When you create a language variant, you can now choose to translate only the script. The voice speaks the new language, while on-screen text, buttons and quizzes stay in the original. It suits software walkthroughs and any video where the screen has to match a product your viewers use in one language.
How it works
- Choose script only when you translate.Pick the option as you create a language variant, and only the script is translated.
- On-screen text keeps its original wording.Scene text, buttons and quizzes stay exactly as they are in the original version.
- Edits to the original carry over.Change on-screen text in the original and your script-only variants show the change, with no re-translation needed.
Your viewers hear the training in their own language, and the screen still matches the software in front of them.
Thanks for choosing Colossyan, and happy creating!
Best,
The Colossyan Team
Describe the presenter you want, and Avatar Studio builds them. An original person, invented for your video, standing exactly where you asked them to stand.
Uploading your own image works the way it always has.
How it works
- Open avatar creation and choose Generate with AI.
- Describe the person. Describe the space they are standing in. Preset scenarios are there if you want somewhere to start.
- Four options come back. Keep the one you like, or change the description and go again.
- The one you pick carries on through the usual steps: consent, name, voice and framing.
- Your avatar arrives already in its setting, because the space you described stays with it.
What this means for you
The presenter your training calls for is now a sentence away. A warehouse supervisor beside a loading bay. A pharmacist behind a counter. A site engineer in hi-vis on a wet morning. Describe it, get four, keep the one that fits. Every call stays yours, from what gets generated to what changes when none of the four are right.
Go and invent somebody.
Best,
The Colossyan team
Colossyan Screen Capture is a browser extension for Chrome and Edge that turns a narrated click-through of any website or web app into an interactive training video. Every click becomes a step, your narration becomes the script, and the finished video waits for the viewer to click the right spot before it moves on.
How it works
- Add Colossyan Screen Capture to Chrome or Edge and sign in with your Colossyan account.
- Start a capture and click through the process the way your viewer would, explaining it as you go. Blur anything sensitive while you record. The capture pauses while you pick what to hide.
- Stop the capture to open the review screen. Every step shows its screenshot, the click, and a script filled in from your narration. Rewrite a line, reorder, duplicate or delete steps, paste in a better screenshot, zoom in, or drag a click to the right spot.
- Convert it to an interactive video, or export the same capture as a step-by-step PDF guide.
What this means for you
Software training no longer starts with a pile of screenshots. You show the process once, and people learn it by doing it rather than watching someone else do it. The result is a normal Colossyan draft, so you can add an avatar, add a knowledge check, translate it into 100+ languages, and share it as a link, an embed or a SCORM package with completion tracking. When the interface changes, recapture just the step that moved.
Coming soon:
you'll be able to turn a capture into a full course, with lessons and modules built from the same click-through, without rebuilding anything in another tool.Good to know
- Colossyan Screen Capture saves clicks, screenshots and narration. It doesn't record a video of your screen.
- It works on anything that opens at a web address in Chrome or Edge, including internal tools. It can't capture desktop applications or files opened straight from your computer.
- You'll find it in the Chrome Web Store and Microsoft Edge Add-ons under its new name, Colossyan Screen Capture.
Install Colossyan Screen Capture
Best,
The Colossyan team
You can now direct how a voice delivers each line of your script. Type a short cue in square brackets, like [warmly], [slowly] or [with an upbeat tone], and the voice performs the words that follow in that style. Audio tags run on our most expressive voices yet.
How it works
- Pick a voice with the Audio tags label in the voice selector. You can also filter for them under Filters, then Other.
- Type your cue in square brackets right before the words it should shape.
- The tag is highlighted in your script. It shapes the delivery and is never spoken.
- Generate as usual.
You can stack two tags for something more specific, like [thoughtfully][slowly], and use as many as your script needs.
What this means for you
Your script no longer has to sound the same from start to finish. Warm up a welcome, slow down the part people need to remember, and add emphasis where it counts. There's no list of tags to learn. Describe the delivery in plain English, the way you'd brief a presenter.
Good to know
- Audio tags work with voices that carry the Audio tags label. We're adding more over time.
- If a voice doesn't support tags, you'll see a warning and the tag will be read out loud. Switch voices or remove the tag.
- Subtle cues give the most natural result on camera. Avatars don't yet match very intense emotions like shouting or sobbing.
- Results can vary between generations. If a line isn't landing, preview it and try rewording the tag.
Best,
The Colossyan team
A course can now go out as a link.
Click Publish, copy the link, and send it to your learners. Courses previously reached people through a SCORM export and an LMS. That route still works, and it is no longer the only one.
What's included
- A link anyone can open.Learners do not need a Colossyan account, and the link works in an incognito window.
- Republishing keeps the same link.Change the course after you have sent the link out and the same URL opens the updated version.
- Progress is saved for every learner.Someone who is not signed in can refresh the page, close it, come back the next day, and carry on where they stopped.
Build the course, publish it, send the link.
Thanks for choosing Colossyan, and happy creating!
Best,
The Colossyan Team
Callouts, tabs, accordions, audio, hotspots and flipcards are all available in the course editor, and the blocks you use most come in different looks you can match to your brand.
- Six new block types.Callouts, tabs, accordions, audio, hotspots and flipcards, for building a lesson a learner works through rather than reads down.
- Variants for your blocks.Callouts, cards, flipcards, tabs and dividers each come in several styles, all brandable, with icons available.
The same material, arranged so a learner has something to do on the page. A policy becomes a set of callouts and a hotspot rather than four paragraphs, and it still looks like your company made it.
Open a lesson and swap a block of text for something your learners can click.
Thanks for choosing Colossyan, and happy creating!
Best,
The Colossyan Team
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