Rapid Development for mLearning

In this video, I share part of a talk that I gave at the 2016 Adobe Learning Summit in Las Vegas on creating mLearning in 60 minutes. Reasons for Designing for Mobile Increase completion rates – people want to use their smartphone Engage employees – people don’t want to be tied to their desks Maximize productivity – let employees use their downtime (e.g. during their commute) Employee health – get employees outside or simply away from their desk and moving […]

Inserting Video Demo Files Into Other Projects

I had a viewer from my YouTube channel ask me about the Video Demo feature in Adobe Captivate. Specifically, this viewer was having trouble getting his video demo to play automatically within another Captivate project. In all likelihood he was using a video demo that had been published out to a video file, however, I thought I would blog about the options for inserting video demos into other project files. The first method is the easiest way. Simply record your […]

Publishing As an HTML5 Webpage

One of my viewers was looking at my video on publishing for an LMS and asked if I could show him how to publish if you just want the course to be an HTML5 web page. Here is that video:

Understanding the Table of Contents Feature

In this video I’ll show you how you can use the in-built table of contents feature.

Make Your Own Feedback Captions for Drag and Drop

In this video I’ll show you how you can customize your captions / feedback in your Adobe Captivate drag and drop interactions.

Make Your Own Multiple Choice Multiple Answer Interaction

In this video I’ll show you how you can make your own multiple choice, multiple answer interaction.

Multiple Choice Question with Pictures Rather Than Words

In this video I’m going to show you how you can create your own multiple choice question that uses pictures instead of words. I’ll even show you how you can make it a knowledge check, or a final quiz question.

Revealing a Hidden Next Button through Advanced Actions

In this video I’m going to show you how I hide a next button until the user has clicked all the other buttons on a page. In this interaction I will use several buttons to show various states of a multi-state object; I will use several variables to keep track of the clicks; and several similar but slightly different advanced actions to check for the clicks.

Set the Passing Grade for Your Adobe eLearning Project

In this video I’ll show you how you can set the pass / fail value for your Adobe Captivate eLearning project.

Customizing the Playback Controls

I had a viewer ask about the progress bar in an Adobe Captivate project and realized I had never addressed this topic on my YouTube channel. In this video I show how you can customize the playback controls for the Skin Editor in Captivate.

Create a Progress Indicator

One of my viewers asked about creating a progress indicator for their eLearning course. I created this video that outlines the steps to add a simple progress indicator using two different but related system variables.

Show / Hide Button Advanced Action Radio Buttons

In this video I’m going to show you how you can use a more traditional show / hide advanced actions as an alternative to using multi state objects in your Adobe Captivate  projects. This is ideal for folks still using Adobe Captivate 8 or earlier.