Adobe Captivate Fake Slide Numbers Using Shared Actions

In this video, I show you how you can write a shared action to maintain fake slide numbers in your Adobe Captivate eLearning project. This is useful when you have multiple slide interactions that you want to appear as single slide interactions to your learners.

Adobe Captivate Click to Reveal with Audio and Closed Captions

In this video, I show you how to create an Adobe Captivate click to reveal that includes audio on each reveal and closed captions. Other solutions usually can’t include both audio and closed captions and this solution is unique because it doesn’t require advanced actions.

Adding Closed Captions to Your Adobe Captivate eLearning

In this video, I show you how you can add closed captions to your adobe captivate eLearning.

What I Learned Going Freelance (Revisited)

This was originally published on my web site in January of 2020, before a virus became a worldwide pandemic. I thought some of the lessons I learned early in my freelance career might benefit others in these uncertain times.

Why Would I Waste My Money on Captivate

Most of the comments on my YouTube videos are encouraging, but someone challenges me every once in a while.

Convert Audio Files for Adobe Captivate Using Software You Already Have

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can convert audio files that have been sent to you for inclusion in your Adobe Captivate eLearning project but are in the wrong file format. The good news is that you already have this software installed on your computer.

Make it Easy for Your Learners to Succeed

I do two things. I design and develop eLearning and I teach others to design and or develop eLearning. In both cases, I encounter people who want to make completing an eLearning course a difficult task for their learners.

Evaluate Answers in Adobe Captivate Text Entry Boxes

In this video, I show you how you can evaluate answers written by your learners in text entry boxes within your Adobe Captivate eLearning project.

Captivate Multiple Choice Question Where the Number of Answers Determines Success

In this video tutorial, I show you a solution When you need a multiple choice question where the number of answers is what determines success.

Avoid Buffering in Video for eLearning

In this video, I show you how you can avoid buffering in the video files that you add to your eLearning projects in Adobe Captivate or other authoring tools.

Cut-out Characters Not Working

I’d like to ask my fellow users to try the following steps which previously worked for me in prior versions. Click on Assets in the Captivate Toolbar Click on Characters from the Categories along the left-hand side of the Assets window. Double click a character set from any of the characters you see in this window. Select a pose from the window, select any of the options from Closeup, Half, Full and Use High Resolution Images. Click Insert. This has […]

Toggle Audio Playback On or Off in Adobe Captivate

In this video, I will show you how you can toggle audio playback on or off in your Adobe Captivate eLearning project.