My name is Kim Price, and I started my long journey to e-learning development in the classroom as a part-time instructor in higher-ed. I was an early and very enthusiastic adopter of LMS’ (before they became ubiquitous in higher education) because I saw their potential for keeping me connected to my students, and providing them with opportunities to interact with me, each other, and most importantly, the learning materials, outside of class sessions. Back in 2009 when jobs became very scarce here in Las Vegas, I let go of my part-time contract because I had a secure full time job; the university was cutting part-time faculty and I didn’t want to be in the way of colleagues who relied on that income. A few years later I moved into a training position for a local municipality; as the ‘geek’ on the team, many of the ‘technical’ initiatives (LMS administration, e-learning development) fell to me – which I loved! But after six years in a govt. training, I longed to work on projects without all of the delays, bureaucratic red-tape, and lack-of-accountability (the idea of testing/assessment was verboten), so I began working as a freelance e-learning developer.

While I enjoy working with Captivate, my primary focus is on developing e-learning games/interactions using HTML/CSS/JavaScript (often embedding those as web objects in Captivate). I love to code! I also love that by learning to code, I am less constrained with the limited tools offered in most e-learning authoring tools.

I appreciate everyone who posts and shares knowledge on these forums (Paul Wilson, Lieve Weymeis, and Greg Stager are superstars!) and love to connect with other Captivate and e-Learning developers! (https://www.linkedin.com/in/essentialgeek/)

I am a professor and I love technology; thus, a natural path for me. My disertation was regarding knowledge aquisition and videoconference so I was already primed. I have fun programming. My main problem is the need for aesthetics and that is where I am terrible.

My Name is Haitham, from Bahrain , am retired from education 
I have much experience in classic or normal education, then I like to improve that experience By eLearning,

I improve my self by reading, testing, viewing more YouTube video.

I face many problems spatially when i use Arabic language , now I try to solve those problems by learn java script command.

Now My work is to convert and customize the CBT  Material  To  Arabic Language and Some Companies 

my recommend for any one like to improve him self by try to do :
More testing
More reading
More view samples

thanks for all

we are professional learners!

My name is Callista Dawson. I came to world of eLearning via Feature Film Animation & Graphic Design. I began working for Los Angeles Pacific University in the Marketing Department as a graphic designer, but the Director of eLearning knew that I had a background in animation and wanted to utilize those skills for our online course development. Since joining the eLearning team in 2016, I’ve learned to use Captivate to create all the different interactive learning experiences that I’ve dreamed up for our courses. My team has been awarded several OMNI awards now, and I’ve been blessed to win two of the showcases here with Adobe! Safe to say, I’m enjoying creating things in Captivate!

I’ve been able to find answers to most of my questions about Captivate through Pooja and Paul Wilson! (Thanks Paul for mentioning Anna, I’m loving her Youtube page!)

I’ve grown passionate about making things accessible through keyboard navigation…which is sometimes a REAL challenge when my games get super complex. But making things that are universally designed is a very rewarding task.

A challenge my team is currently facing is creating VR experiences that have accessible alternatives…the dream is to be able to build VR through universal design…but alas…the technology just isn’t there yet. I’d love to hear any solutions that are working for you guys if you have been struggling with this as well.

Along with that challenge, we are now creating all of our online courses “mobile-first”… and because we don’t use Captivate in the way it was traditionally designed to be used, this has become a bit of a challenge. I’m looking forward to seeing the next update as well. I’m hopeful that the experience for creating mobile-first content will be much improved!

Hello! My name is Theresa and I am a former educator. I am trying to enter the world of e-learning, learning design, training and delivery, etc… I want to gain experience with a variety of types of tools and thus I come to research Adobe Captivate. So far I have read a lot of great comments from Adobe users! Cara North has been very helpful so far as well as ATD. While I am an experienced facilitator I realize I have a lot to learn.

I have a degree in Education and looking to apply to an eLearning Specialist posting in my organization. Trying  to learn as much as I can to make this happen.

My name is Paul Wilson and I have been using Adobe Captivate since I was first hired as an eLearning designer, developer in 2005. I was the accidental L&D professional who was originally hired because I was a subject matter expert in the field I was designing and delivering training for. When I was in retail management I loved teaching my staff about the products and processes of running a retail store. I didn’t know that the teaching part could be my profession but when the opportunity came along I jumped at the chance to get out of the stores.

I’m a huge fan of anyone who can make eLearning engaging and weave those storytelling elements into it. I’m a huge fan of Cathy Moore who is a genius at creating choose your own adventure type learning. Also, love Anna Sabramowicz who teaches people like us to create non-boring eLearning.

When I decided about six or seven years ago that I no longer wanted to work for an employer but instead start my own consulting, teaching, and design and development business, I really knew just the basics of Adobe Captivate. I created a YouTube channel to advertise to potential clients that I was open for business. People started asking me how to do various things in Adobe Captivate. I treated these questions like challenges and forced myself to figure out what the solution to these challenges would be. I feel that after gaining 20,000 subscribers, over 2.5 million views and presently over 500 videos on YouTube I am now a master of this software. Check out my YouTube channel if you are looking for something new to do with Adobe Captivate.

I started out as a college teacher using Blackboard.  Then added Microsoft trainer, and HVAC Excellence certifications.  And I’ve signed up for a lot of newsletters from google searches.  What motivated me was money and the desire to teach people that knew less than I did.

The people that helped me with Captivate were Paul Wilson, Lilibiri for Captivate, and other excellent contributors on the Adobe forum.  And for online course training – Aaron Fletcher and Jeanine Blackwell.  All excellent and low cost.

The biggest challenges were finding something interactive and low-cost and quality and secure for delivery.  I researched and decided Captivate was the best for development.  I became certified in it and highly recommend this route for learning it. But then Captivate’s HTML output wasn’t up to my standards, and hosting was difficult, or expensive.  Captivate Prime was only for large companies, a real disappointment.  So I started looking at online solutions like Kajabi and Thinkific and Kartra (and all the others).  They aren’t interactive enough for me and don’t have incentives like gaming and don’t play well with hosting Captivate interactivity.  So I ended up with plain HTML, CSS, and Javascript; and I’m currently waiting (and waiting) for an update to Captivate to improve the HTML output and clean up their code, which didn’t meet HTML validation last time I checked.

There is a tremendous opportunity for some companies, like Adobe, to capture the many people who went into online course teaching instead of going back to work full-time in 2020.  And to improve course delivery so it is interactive and on an affordable platform.  I am hoping they take advantage of helping the many online teachers instead of looking to traditional brick and mortar places of learning, which in my opinion are a riskier and smaller market.

I came into the training department as a classroom trainer with the expectation that I would help the coordinator update existing elearning.  The first edit I made, I was hooked, and saw the potential in how much information I could get to all of our staff online.

In the beginning, I was influenced by the existing elearning courses and learned what not to do from those.  I appreciate, and have learned so much from, lilybiri, infosemantics, and Paul Wilson.

The challenges that have helped me grow in this field was learning HTML and Javascript.  Authoring tools come with a great amount of nice features and functions, but staff notices when you add a touch a pizazz.  They definitely do not know the secret, but they can tell the difference.