The eLearning Alchemist

I’m really enjoying a new podcast about learning and design that I thought I would share with the eLearning community.

Fix Fluid Box Image Fill Resize Issue in Captivate

In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, I show you how to fix the fluid box image fill resize issue.

Use Your Keyboard to Trigger Actions in Your Captivate eLearning

In this video tutorial, I answer a viewer question about triggering actions such as playing audio, or running advanced actions, by using a keyboard shortcut. This might be even easier than you thought.

Use Text to Speech in Your Adobe Captivate eLearning

In this clip from one of my recent live streams, I show you how you can add your text to your notes panel, generate text to speech, and use the same notes for your closed captions.

Material Design Icons in Your Captivate eLearning

I’m a big fan of pictures rather than words. Because of this, I’m always looking for ways to use iconography instead of words to convey meaning in my eLearning projects. In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, I show you how you can use the Material Design icons for your Adobe Captivate 2019 eLearning projects for your navigation controls and other buttons.

Do This to Your Images Before Adding to Your Captivate eLearning

I saw a post on the forums recently where a person didn’t understand why the images they imported into their eLearning project were not showing up, were slow to load, or were showing up as red boxes. My experience is that the images being selected were too large for the elearning course. This video is my workflow for optimising and importing stock photography into my eLearning project, so they take up as little space as possible and still look good.

Removing Unused Variables in Your Captivate eLearning

In this video tutorial, I show you my process for getting rid of unused variables in my Adobe Captivate eLearning projects.

Delete Unused Advanced Actions in Your Captivate eLearning

In this segment from my last live stream, I show you how to find and delete unused advanced actions from your Adobe Captivate eLearning project.

Optimize Your Images for Your Captivate eLearning

This video clip from my last live stream shows you what I do to optimize my images for my Adobe Captivate eLearning using. Photoshop or whatever image editing software you use.

Delete Unused Objects in Your Captivate eLearning

This is a clip from my latest live stream about deleting unused objects in your Captivate eLearning project.

Live Stream: Clean Up Your Adobe Captivate Project Files Feb 4 12 PM EST

Captivate project files can become large and unruly. In this live stream, I’m going to share with you some techniques I use to make sure that project files are nice and neat. Join me Monday at 12 PM EST to chat about this great topic: https://youtu.be/ccUUy7i8KrU

Wireframe Podcast

I’ve found a great podcast that should be right up everyone’s alley. It’s called Wireframe which is co-created by Gimlet Media and Adobe. It’s less to do with eLearning and more to do with what you traditionally think about interaction and interface design. I believe there are many episodes in the series that cross over into our world of eLearning.