If you’ve been on the eLearning forums after the launch of Captivate 2017, you’ve already seen that you can convert an existing ‘blank,’ or standard, Cp project to Responsive bu choosing ‘Save as Responsive‘ in the File menu. Now we’ll take a look at creating a customized preview mode for a Responsive project. Once you have a responsive project open, if you look in the upper left corner of the project window there is a ‘Preview in’ dropdown menu and […]
PowerPoint to Captivate Process outline: Content Outline Rough Draft in PowerPoint Build 1st Draft from PowerPoint using ‘Print – Notes View’ Revise, improve, build ToC, Republish as 2nd Draft Add with note, generate Text to Speech audio Generate 3rd Draft / Print using PrintOutput for Live Narration Script Capture and Edit Audio Add audio to Captivate file Generate 4th draft with Recorded Audio Add Quizzing, revise ToC, set scoring options, add SCORM metadata then Publish to PILOT LMS Verify ToC, […]
Key steps from the Captivate 9 read me file: After the upgrade, before launching Adobe Captivate 9.0.2, do the following steps: Clear your preferences by double clicking on the following file: Windows: C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Captivate 9 x64utilsCleanPreferencesWin.bat Mac OS : /Applications/Adobe Captivate 9/utils/CleanPreferencesMac Ensure that you take a backup of interactions and sample projects folder and delete them. Sample projects folders are present at: Windows: C:UsersPublicPublic DocumentsAdobeeLearning AssetsSampleProjects Mac OS: /Users/<user account>/Documents/My Adobe Captivate Projects/SampleProjects Interactions folders are present at: Windows: C:UsersPublicPublic […]
After viewing a user’s post asking about creating Pie Charts in Adobe Captivate 8, I did some research and was able to find a technique for using HTML5 and or Flash (SWF) animated pie-charts when inserted as HTML5 Animations. This one I found at Web-Site-Scripts has three different components: A SWF File for the chart that you want to create. We want to create a 3D Pie Chart. An XML Data File. These components only accept data in a pre-defined XML […]
In general, I’ve found the Adobe Captivate application, the development and support teams, as well as the Captivate user community to be extremely helpful at sharing tips, techniques and processes. The establishment of the new eLearning Community represents a commitment of resources well beyond my expectations for a typical desktop application. I commend Adobe, their development and support teams, and the committed group of users you will find here for their efforts. Much, if not most, of […]
Audio Recording Process Outline: Pre-Planning Setup Recording Work Session Post Capture The Audio Recording Process Pre-Planning After the voice talent is ready for recording, a recording session is scheduled, preferably in a quiet room, when the surrounding area is quiet, with minimal traffic. Definitely not in an open area or at a cube / shared workspace, as your quiet recording space can suddenly turn into a group work session. Our recording process requires a laptop with power, microphone, USB […]
I’m seeing other postings on this, and I thought it might be a good place to elaborate how to create glossary entries from an Excel file, Upload to a Captivate Glossary Interaction and confirm the version number. Here is the example file as displayed by the Glossary Interaction (v17) from Captivate 8 We can build this XML structure within excel by strategically placing the XML Tags on rows with the Label and Definition fields sandwiched between opening and closing tags. […]
I have used the ‘Print’ functionality of Captivate, along with some customized word templates, to publish a Voice Narration script out of Captivate, this case study provides an overview of the process I’ve developed. Once production moves to Cp, I’ll bring the narration and slide text into Cp as Notes, use TTS to get draft audio, publish for review. In another review cycle, I’ll add notes text as Closed Captions, Print to word using a customized MS Word ‘PrintOutput’ template*, […]
