Creating Your Own Custom Question Captions

In this video, I show you how you can replace the default captions with your own custom ones.

Replacing the Default Click Sound

In this video, I show you how you can replace the default click sound for buttons with your own choice of sounds.

Multi State Objects in Drag and Drops

A viewer on my YouTube channel asked if there was a way to change the color of the text of a drag object once it was dropped onto a drop target. In this case from a darker color to a lighter shade to create the appropriate amount of contract needed. Here is my solution.

Each Of Us Doing Our Part

When I started using Captivate there were a handful of Captivate experts whose knowledge helped me get up to speed. Even back then I relied on other experts to figure out how to do various things in Captivate. Unfortunately, the resources and documentation have ranged from either non-existent to poor and incomplete. Making my YouTube video tutorials at YouTube.com/PaulWilsonLearning has been my way of paying it forward. Lately, there have been some users complaining about this shortcoming once again and […]

Paul Wilson Adobe Captivate LIVE STREAM – Monday 8PM UTC

On Monday, February 27th (or after) click here to watch participate in the live stream on YouTube. I will be answering your Adobe Captivate questions LIVE! Please note, you should go to YouTube.com/paulwilsonlearning if you want to use the chat features.

Feature Request

What does everyone think about my feature request for Adobe Captivate?

I Think This Applies to the Adobe eLearning Conference in Washington D.C. As Well

I just read this great article by Adam Moran on Why Humans Should Attend Conferences – Like Adobe Summit 2017 and I think it applies to the Adobe eLearning Conference as well. If you are trying to convince your manager why they should fly you to Washington in April and book you into a fancy hotel you might be able to pull some key points from this article: https://blogs.adobe.com/digitalmarketing/digital-marketing/humans-attend-conferences-like-adobe-summit-2017/ Now if you’re successful, make sure you register for the conference. […]

Automatically Close the Table of Contents

Steve from the Adobe eLearning Community asked a follow-up question to my video about using the inbuilt table of contents feature. He asked is there a way to make the table of contents disappear once you have clicked on a link within it? In this quick tip, I will answer his question.

Publishing Your Project on Amazon S3

As a freelance eLearning designer developer, I often have to share my eLearning prototypes with clients for review. I have had several solutions to this over the years but recently had some extra difficulties with my previous solutions. After some research, I found this solution from the folks at Articulate. I suggest you watch this video in addition to what I’m offering here. The first thing you’ll need is an Amazon Web Services account. https://aws.amazon.com You’ll also need to download […]

Pop up Mini Knowledge Checks

In this video, I will show you how to create a pop-up mini survey, multiple choice single answer, multiple choice multi-answer, true-false type question. This can be a great way to have mini knowledge checks without interrupting the flow of training.

Use Media Encoder for Video in eLearning

In this video, I will show you what you need to know about encoding your video for use in your Adobe Captivate eLearning.

Adobe eLearning Conference – Not Just a Free Lunch

Another member of the Adobe eLearning Community asked a great question on a post I did about the 2nd Annual Adobe eLearning Conference. I started to write this reply below but I changed my mind and decided to make it a blog post on its own. She asked what did we like best about this gathering. Below is my answer but I encourage members of the community to also include their own remarks either here or on the original post. Well, […]