“…There are many works related to the development of academic software in different contexts [34,47]; however, few works such as [16,43,54] have carried out usability assessment of authoring tools, see Table 13. In many related works, usability assessment is done considering a laboratory study [5,28,42,43,54,55] where there is higher control on the experiments, frequently, a set of specific instructions are given to users with the purpose of having more strict interactions, that is, avoiding that users make actions freely. Due to the nature of this type of study, it is not possible to identify those possible defects that occur when the user interacts freely (without being subject to a series of tasks or steps to be strictly followed) with the software [21].…”