Multiple Text Entry Boxes on Your Captivate Slide

In this video tutorial, I answer a viewers question about having two or more text entry boxes on a Captivate slide without having multiple submit buttons.

Add Closed Captions to Your 360° Videos in Captivate 2019

In this Adobe Captivate video tutorial, I show you my workaround for getting closed captions into your 360° video slides or projects. Eventually, I hope that Adobe comes up with a simplified workflow that doesn’t require this solution, but in the meantime, this will get you through it.

Breaking Captivate News!

You’ll want to read this blog post.

Closed Captions in Your Captivate Video Demos

In this video tutorial, I’ll show you how to get closed captions in your Adobe Captivate video demo projects.

eLearning Livestream – Adobe Captivate Upcoming Update & AMA | March 18, 2019

Join me on Monday at 12 PM EDT for this eLearning Livestream, I will be taking your questions from the chat but also discussing the Adobe eLearning Conference and sharing with you what I know about what’s coming for Adobe eLearning.

Adobe Captivate Sneak Peeks

Sneak peeks live from the Adobe eLearning Conference.

Adobe eLearning Conference Opening Session

Livestream from the Adobe eLearning Conference Opening Session

Sneak Peek – Create Mobile Responsive Training

Are you attending the Adobe eLearning Conference in Washington DC? Here is a sneak peek of the project I will help you build.

Making Conferences More Affordable

I know some of you have expense accounts and can travel on the company’s dime as it were. Unfortunately, some of us have to come up with our own dimes. I speak about a breed of learning and development professionals known as freelancers. We do need to sharpen our skills by attending training and conferences like the Adobe eLearning Conference happening next week in Washington DC, or the Adobe Learning Summit that happens in the fall in Las Vegas, NV. Unfortunately places like Washington and Las Vegas are not exactly inexpensive places for those of us who have to foot our own bills. Also, these money saving tips are not just for freelancers as well. You L&D manager might agree to send you to Washington or Las Vegas but only if you can demonstrate how you can keep it more affordable for the organization. Here are 6 of my ways to make these types of events more affordable.

Submit All with Only One Submit Button in Your Captivate Quiz

In this video tutorial, I got a message from Anjalli Pawar about disabling the Submit All on the majority of slides. Not a complicated solution but I think this accomplishes what Anjalli was looking for. At least I hope so. In either case, feel free to use this approach to have only one final submit button at the end of your quiz but still can move about the exam freely.

Should You Work for Less Than Your Normal Fee?

I recently saw an article on LinkedIn by a fellow instructional designer Ralonda Simmons. She posed the question to the community about whether we should work for free when we start in the learning and design industry. I guess I’m not surprised that organisations are doing this, but I’ve also had time to reflect on this discussion, and I thought I would share my thoughts here as well. When I was starting as a freelance elearning designer, developer, I would […]

Add an Out of Tries Message to your Captivate Quiz Results Slide

I think I saw this on the forum and a potential client emailed me looking for this solution. In this video tutorial, I have combined the custom quiz results slide that I’ve used in the past along with an advanced action solution to provide a message for success, failure and out of tries messages as well.