Redmond, WA -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/21/2011 -- Harbinger Knowledge Products today announced the release of a new version of its flagship interactivity building software, Raptivity. The new version 6.5 includes a string of features that enable more flexibility and extensibility for E-Learning course creators to design interactive courses.

The new release sports several exciting features. While some of the incorporated features are ideas derived from customer feedback, others are designed to offer greater flexibility to the interactivity templates. The two core packs, Essential and Zest now come with a new media toolbox, which allows users to add additional media such as videos, images, textbox and buttons to the interactions. eLearning course creators can now incorporate additional media objects within the Raptivity interactions for an enhanced professional look. After releasing mobile publishing in its core Essential Pack last year, this release now extends the feature to five more packs out of the total fourteen packs.

“Flexibility and extensibility have always been vital to E-Learning course creation, right from the early days of CBT [Computer-based Training],” said Vikas Joshi, Chairman and Managing Director of the Harbinger Group. “The emergence of new rich media, faster connections, near-ubiquity of laptops, devices and Internet connections has added a new meaning to interactivity in online learning. The new release sets the bar even higher when it comes to flexibility as course creators have novel and easy means to build media rich rapid interactions.”

The new customizability in the six product packs is christened ‘FlexiRaptivity’ in keeping with the theme of flexibility afforded by the new design. Seema Chaudhary, President of Harbinger Knowledge Products, commented, “What is required of a rapid development tool is constantly evolving among the course designer community. Over the last year, we have spoken to numerous customers and evaluated their feedback and request for new features. We are very pleased to announce that many of the new feature additions in this release are a result of these valuable customer suggestions.”

Features that are a direct result of customer feedback include the video support, blank template option, right to left language support, hyperlinking capability and the much awaited ability to support greater text length.

About Raptivity
With Raptivity, users can create interactivity rapidly and add it conveniently to their e-Learning content. With interactive content, learning experiences become memorable and drop-out levels go down.

Raptivity provides a pre-built library of rapidly-customizable interaction models. These interaction models are based on best practices in instructional design. Users can customize them to create any number of variations. The content published by Raptivity is a single flash file so it fits right into hundreds of e-Learning tools and can be used anywhere. With its patented technology and open architecture, Raptivity is at the forefront of rapid interactivity technology.

Raptivity has won numerous awards in various categories, including the e-Learning Guild Platinum Award for highest user satisfaction in the simulation tools category and LearnX Award for best rapid e-Learning tool. It has also been voted number one by users in various categories usage and usability categories.

For more information on Raptivity, visit http://www.raptivity.com

About Harbinger Knowledge Products
Harbinger Knowledge Products is recognized as a global leader in interactivity solutions for knowledge-sharing applications including learning, presentation and web development.

For two consecutive years, Deloitte has named Harbinger Knowledge Products among the fastest growing technology companies in its Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific and Technology Fast 50 India programs. Red Herring named Harbinger amongst world's top 100 private technology companies.

Harbinger Knowledge Products is a part of Harbinger Group, which serves customers in over 57 countries through its offices in Pune (India), Redmond (WA, USA), San Jose (CA, USA), Pleasanton (CA, USA), London (UK) and through its partner network worldwide.

Harbinger's patented technology and sound thought leadership have resulted in groundbreaking products, including market-leading Raptivity, innovative YawnBuster and cutting-edge TeemingPod.

For more information, visit http://www.harbingerknowledge.com.