GIFT and Localisation

How to use GIFT import for localisation and Quiz Preferences, Default labels.

Captivate’s Struikelblokken

Interactive presentation (Dutch) illustrating the 3 important stumbling blocks for newbies: Timeline, Quiz and Theme.

Pausing Timeline and Audio clips

Offers an interactive movie, to explore how the different types of audio react to an absolute Pause and/or to a Pausing point. Short textual description of the 4 audio types.

Quiz Feedback Messages in Fluid Boxes

Editing individual Feedback messages on quiz slides in a Fluid Boxes responsive project.

Drag&Drop Tweaks

Intro Yesterday an interesting question appeared on the forum concerning Drag&Drop The second question is answered in that thread, was about setting up the Accept for the drop target as I have already explained in previous blog posts. The first question however is at the base of this short article. I quote: “Is it possible to show separate messages for cases such that the user not selecting the answer (Choose an answer msg) and selecting the wrong answer (Incorrect answer […]

Micro-Navigation with Shared Action (Step-By-Step)

Last post about using Micro-navigation to skip first seconds in a slide. Post describes how to create a shared action from an advanced action, how to decide which variables and literals should be defined as parameters.

Listen only once to the narration – micro-navigation

Use case for micro-navigation. Learner has to listen to a narration on first visit of a slide, but the audio will not play again on later visits.

Force View of Slide on First Visit

First use case for micro-navigation: learner has to view all the content on a slide before the Next button appears. But on a later visit the Next button has to be available immediately.

About Slides and Frames – Intro to Micro-navigation

Introduction to navigation within frames instead of slides: macro- versus micro-navigation. Includes a fun exercise to reinforce the learning, as preparation for advanced use cases.

How to cope with Autoplay turned off?

Autoplay is turned off for HTML projects. How to improve the workflow for having a better design for the static start screen?

Check if TEB is empty (Where is Null?)

Update to blog post ‘Where is Null’ which was ause case to test if the learner did fill in a field (Text Entry Box) or not, and offer them another chance if the field remained empty. Because the workflow to reactivate a TEB on a slide after having clicked Submit is broken for HTML output in CP2017 (and CP9) you’ll find a solution in this post. Two workarounds are proposed: using a dummy slide (first solution) and using micronavigation (second solution).

Tweak that Timeline: 4 easy workflows

Some of the simple tips offered during the presentation at Adobe eLearning Conference – Washington DC (25th of April 2018). No variables, no advanced actions, no shared actions are used in the post.