adobe captivate 5,adobe e-learning suite 2,rapid e-learning,captivate 5 forums Adobe Captivate 5 is giant leap in the rapid e-learning authoring paradigm. Adobe Captivate 5 is new and I intend all puns here…which means captivate 5 has been re-written from scratch. One of my favorites among numerous new things in Adobe Captivate 5 is the new recording UI and workflow. It is the most sleekier and intuitive recording workflow we have ever had in Adobe Captivate. And believe me I’m not […]
Adobe Captivate,printed version of E-learning course,publish to word,E-Learning Well yes!.. Printed versions of your e-learning courses prove to be instrumental in re-iterating the learning. They can turn out to be of huge help when you need a reference at future point of time when the e-learning course is no more accessible. Recently, I took an e-learning course on how to file income tax returns. Boy!! Believe me filing IT returns in India is pretty taxing. When I actually sat down […]
learning,e-learning,advanced actions,conditional statments,captivate,quiz You are creating a quiz in your e-learning project in Adobe Captivate. You intend to grant grades(such as A, B,C) to students based on the percentage scored by a student out of total score. This was the use-case I had thrown in my last post. In my last post you learnt how to create an advanced action and add assignment & standard action statments to an advanced action. If you are still wondering as in how to […]
e-Learning,Captivate,Advanced Actions,Variables,Learning You are creating a quiz in your e-learning project in Adobe Captivate. You intend to grant grades(such as A, B,C) to students based on the percentage scored by a student out of total score. How will you do it?? Well, Advanced Actions can help you. Adobe Captivate allows to execute actions i.e. “Execute advanced action” on various events that happen within a captivate movie while the movie is playing. These events include On slide enter/exit, On interactive object’s […]
Variables in Adobe Captivate act as placeholders for data. The relevant data is associated with the variable during user input or when the output SWF is played. Adobe Capativate supports two types of variables: System Variables: These are pre-defined variables, which carry a Captivate movie’s information. In Adobe Captivate, system variables are classified as follows: MovieControl: variables for events that control the movie like pause, resume, previous, next slide, and so on. MovieInformation: variables related to the movie such as […]
Time! Needless to say that it is one thing every one of us is short of…. Captivate 3 introduced multi-mode recording- wherein you could record an application once, and generate 3 different projects from this recording- a demo, a simulation (training) and an assessment. This was a big timesaver. Now I’ll show you a way how you can take this one step further. Many a time, you would end up going into your recorded projects and making further fine grained […]
You make a nice captivate movie with all jazz and background audio. And there pops up a hidden glitch – end users of your captivate movie are short on bandwidth. But you, Mr. genious knows it pretty well that you have pre-loaders in Captivate to your rescue. So you go ahead and set the pre-loader percentage to 10%. This would mean that the movie will start playing when 10% of the content has loaded, with the remaining content loading as […]
“I’m creating a demo on how to access a particular website. For distribution reasons I’m using a low res 800 X 600. This means that web pages need a lot of scrolling to navigate them. When playing back, the scrolling happens OK but then the image appears to jump back to the beginning of the scroll so that the mouse movements and text captions that follow are, although in the place they should be in relation to the viewing screen, […]
Adobe Captivate,context menu,elearning,content authoring In my last post, you saw what how to view content on mouse rollover and simultaneously have an action performed on mouse click, both on single object. After going through my last post I am sure you are still wondering as to “How do I get a context menu appear on mouse rollover over any object in Adobe Captivate?” Well your wait is over now. This post shows the simulation of context menu which appears on mouse […]
Adobe eLearning Suite,eLearning,Adobe Captivate,Rollover Slidelet Have you ever wondered while authoring your elearning content, “How do I get a context menu appear on mouse rollover over any object in Adobe Captivate?”. Have you ever questioned yourself, “In Adobe Captivate, how do I get to view content on mouse rollover and simultaneously have an action performed on mouse click, both on single object?” . Well, if you did have such “How do I….s” then you hit the right node by coming […]
Adobe Captivate,Rapid e-learning authoring,Captivate Preferences,eLearning Have you ever found yourself manually changing the ‘Timing’ and ‘Transition’ properties for every Adobe Captivate object in your e-learning project? Have you torn out your hair everytime you had to change the ‘Timing’ & ‘Transition’ properties of Captivate objects for each e-learning project you made in Captivate? Did you know that Captivate allows you to share/re-use these object default values across slides, projects and sessions? In Adobe Captivate 4, we have added a facility […]
Adobe Captivate,eLearning,rapid eLearning,Templates,Placeholders One of the many good things in Adobe Captivate is the facility to create Project Templates. Project templates are really useful to create identical projects or identical modules in a project. Their “make once and reuse” aspect ensures consistency and saves development time. So what is new in Adobe Captivate 4’s project templates? PLACEHOLDERS!! Placeholders are objects which can be included on the slides in a project template. These placeholders can be converted to respective Captivate objects […]
