Breaking eternal While loop (Stopwatches)

Typical delay in a While loop is used to create a digital and an analog stopwatch with three buttons: Start (or restart after a Pause), Pause and Reset. It is a simple use case of a While loop.

Simple Stopwatch (While loop)

Stopwatch (analog and digital) created using a While loop (no JS). Start, Pause, Restart and Reset functionality are available.

Remediation feature: Break the loop!

Workaround to limit the number of attempts when using the Remediation feature in Captivate.

Concentration Game (2021)

Greetings card for 2021, offering a Memory game to disclose the greetings. Another example of the power of Shared actions.

Workflow to embed Software simulation slides. (Knockout master)

Step-by-step workflow to create and use a Knockout master slide to embed software simulation slides in bigger content slides.

Embedded Simulation slides (Shared action as template)

Embedded software tutorial, using a ‘Knockout’ master slide. Topic: Use Shared action to create variables and advanced actions.

Shared action as Template for Advanced actions

Captivate Training simulation, explaining how to use a shared action to recreate much used variables in a project. It also shows how a shared action can be used as template for a slightly different advanced actions or even for a new shared action.

Quiz Resources

Offer free pdf with links to 19 blog posts about Quizzing: default setup, tweaks and some special use cases.

Retake Tweaks (Quiz): Skip content slides, Possibility to retake full course

Workflow to combine two tweaks for the Retake status. After a failed attempt, learner has the choice to retake the full course or only the quiz. Question slides are in between content slides, but Retake only the Quiz will not show the content slides, only the quiz slides in sequence.

Captivate tutorial (Retake Quiz Tweaks)

Sample project about Themes, Timeline and Shared actions in Captivate. For the quiz slides distributed in between the content slides, the Retake functionality has been tweaked. Learner will not have to skip manually the content slides between the quiz slides, and also has the opportunity to retake the whole course after failure, instead of only the quiz slides.

Custom Feedback during Review Quiz

Sample project where Text feedback was added to the feedback during Review of a quiz.

Looping Slide Video

Step-by-step workflow, answer to a user question, to have a short video looping until the user clicks a button.