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.

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.