4 Steps to Selling Your eLearning

When you are a freelance instructional designer, sales are an important part of selling your eLearning solutions

Adobe eLearning Conference & Captivate Specialist Training

In this post, I share my thought about past eLearning Conferences and why you should consider attending the next one in Washington DC in March.

Submit All Revisited

Sometimes Adobe will improve features in new versions of Adobe Captivate without listing them as a feature improvement. To my surprise, this was the case in Captivate 2017 with the submit all feature. Because I don’t always use the submit all feature, I was unaware of this improvement covered in the video tutorial until now with Captivate 2019!

What You Need to Know to Become a Freelance Instructional Designer

Well…Here is what I did to become a freelance instructional designer. Join me on Monday, December 17th at noon EST to participate in this live stream.

Super Easy Custom Knowledge Check in Adobe Captivate

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can make a custom knowledge check question using just simple shapes used as buttons. No need for variables, advanced actions, conditional actions, or shared actions. Just a simple learning interaction that anyone can create.

FontAwesome Icons Into Your Responsive Adobe Captivate eLearning

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can set up the FontAwesome icons into your responsive design Adobe Captivate eLearning. This hack works for Captivate 2017 as well.

Setting your Adobe Captivate Dimensions

In this video tutorial, I show you how to set and resize the dimensions of various types of eLearning projects including responsive and non-responsive projects.

GIFT Import Answer Height Issue Solved for Adobe Captivate!

In this Adobe Captivate quick tip, I show you my workaround for importing question answers that are greater than one row in length. This solution allows you to update the height of your answer placeholders for potentially hundreds of answers in your Adobe Captivate eLearning project.

Adobe Captivate – Advanced Answer Feedback with Images

In this video tutorial, I answer Fundació Eduard Soler’s question is there a way to insert images into an advanced answer option multiple choice question like the knowledge check I used in this video.

Adobe Captivate – Drag and Drop as an Interactive Video Overlay

In this video tutorial, I address an issue with drag and drop when used as an interactive video overlay slide.

Share Your eLearning Using Amazon AWS

If there is one thing that can be a problem for freelance elearning designer/developers that would be how we share our prototype eLearning courses with our stakeholders and subject matter experts. We don’t usually have access to the learning management system, and having our own LMS can be expensive for a small business owner like ourselves. That’s where getting your own web server comes in. I’ve been using Amazon AWS for a number of years now and I have nothing to complain about their service or the ease of use. In this video tutorial, I show you how you can sign up for an Amazon AWS account and upload your eLearning project for sharing with stakeholders and subject matter experts for review purposes.

Adobe Captivate – Customizing Learning Interactions

In this Adobe Captivate video tutorial, I show you how you can customise your learning interactions to align with your Adobe Captivate Themes. Use the chart below to align your colour palette to your theme colour choices.