Using Shortcut Keys to Increase Your Productivity

A list of Shortcut Keys for use in Captivate, these will allow you to increase your productivity.

Using The Alignment Panel in Captivate

The best way to align objects and content in Captivate

Who Should You Include In Your Planning For Your eLearning Course?

Who Should You Include In Your Planning For Your eLearning Course? Having worked with many companies over the years I have come across a high number of instructional designers and company managers that dictate what needs to be included in the learning materials for online teaching. Many of these company managers have no formal training in teaching learners and hence have not compiled a complete picture of what needs to be learned by the student or learner.  In their opinion, […]

Creating Courses for Adult Learners

Understanding how to create courses for your adult learners and knowing that adult learners have a “What’s In It For Me” priority clause that must be met every time.

Using Certificates in Your eLearning Courses

How rewarding learners can lead to higher course engagement and they will complete their courses on time.

What makes a great eLearning module?

Make sure that your learners get the best from your eLearning modules by giving them every opportunity to learn in an exciting way as possible. Use all of the features that are available in Captivate to engage learners and allow them to retain the information for later use.

Captivates States Made Simple

The easy way to add extra states to your project that will save you time and money and give you more interactivity for your learners.

Using the Captivate States for Smart Shapes and Buttons

One of the most common things I have to do in Captivate is to add from 5 to 20 clickable objects that will update the main object container.  With Captivate States option I can now do this is a matter of minutes.  In the image below I have ten smart shapes that change the information in the main container.  Before this would have taken me an hour to write, creating many main containers and writing various different pieces of code.  […]

Easy to manage fluid boxes 2019

Using fluid boxes in now very simple in Captivate 2019.  I used to hate working with fluid boxes in earlier versions, but now with the highlighting, it makes it simpler to see where I am in the boxes.  It’s also great to be able to select the parent and child elements in the properties bar.  All of this now makes it so easy to work with responsive projects that work well on multi devices from desktop to smartphone. Having any type […]

Beginners Guide to Planning a Successful Captivate Project

Taking a little time with a pencil and paper can save you many hours of reworking content to ensure that all the elements and assets are consistent. It easy to keep adding assets to your project, but time-consuming when you have to modify them individually.