When you build your eLearning project with Adobe Captivate you have several options for customizing the way the elements or components of your project work. You can control almost every aspect of your project with Advanced Actions, Shared Actions, or JavaScript but how do you know which approach is right for your project? When I first started working with Adobe Captivate I used Advanced Actions almost exclusively. Part of this was because they worked and part of it was because […]
Have you ever needed to add page numbers to an eLearning project? That’s easy with Adobe Captivate and in this short video I show you how.
If you encounter a problem building an eLearning Project in Captivate and you ask more than one developer how to solve that problem, you may get a different answer from each developer. For example, a colleague and I attended the Adobe eLearning Summit in Las Vegas in October and we asked two developers if they had any idea how to implement a feature we were working on, and while they both had excellent ideas, their approaches were vastly different but […]
Name the objects in your project to speed building, troubleshooting, and maintaining for you and your team.
Have you ever worked on an eLearning project that required two languages? When you encounter this issue you have a few options, you can always build two eLearning Courses, one in each language, or you can try to include both languages in a single project. I typically choose the later approach, but depending on the course requirements I may approach the secondary/alternate language implementation in different ways. This is my second video on the subject and this is the approach […]
Have you ever worked on an eLearning project that required two languages? When you encounter this issue you have a few options, you can always build two eLearning Courses, one in each language, or you can try to include both languages in a single project. I typically choose the later approach, but depending on the course requirements I may approach the secondary/alternate language implementation in different ways. In this video I’m going to demonstrate how I build an eLearning course […]
There is only so much space on a Captivate slide and eventually you’re going to encounter a passage that won’t fit on a slide. When this happens you only have a few options; use smaller text, bring the passage up over two or more slides, or use a scroll box. In Adobe Captivate, a scroll box is easy to implement and I show you how to implement them in a non-responsive project or a responsive project with breakpoints.
Adobe Captivate projects can quickly grow complex with duplicate actions being applied across the project. Instead of building multiple Advanced Actions to perform the same functions on different slides, buttons, and objects you can use Shared Actions to reduce simplify your project and save time building the project. In this video, I demonstrate a simple Shared Action to take the place of the Advanced Actions controlling the toggles in my sample project.
Toggles are one of the most versatile tools you can use when building your Captivate project. They’re easy to build and add a lot of functionality to your project. In this video, I demonstrate a simple toggle, show you how to build one and explain how the toggle I built works.
Responsive design is a hot topic in the world of web-design, and with good reason no one wants to open a website on their smartphone and scroll horizontally back and forth and vertically to read page’s content or to find the navigation buttons to go to the next page, and the responsive design trend is taking off in the world of eLearning Design as well. The new responsive design tools and work flows are exciting for elearning authors and many […]
There are two types of people in the world. Planners and non-planners. When handed an ELearning project planners tend to sit down and plan things out to some extent while the non-planners dive right in, open Captivate and start to build their course. For this second group of people it isn’t unusual to realize half-way through development or, even worse, when the project is complete that the course you built doesn’t meet the requirements you were given, things don’t work […]
This past Tuesday a colleague and I were fortunate enough to attend the Adobe Learning Summit in Las Vegas, NV. I went in with high hopes and I wasn’t disappointed. The amount of information presented is almost overwhelming, there was simply so much to learn and so many practical tips. The presenters not only demonstrated mini-projects they had built for the conference but demonstrated HOW they accomplished what they had done. They paused to answer questions while they were […]