NotificationAdding closed captions to your eLearning courses is a basic requirement to meet accessibility standards like Section 508 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. You can easily do so for your audio-based courses by adding narration to your screen, adding slide notes, and then converting those slide notes to closed captions. But a little-known fact is that you can have closed captions for slide videos as well. Watch this short tutorial to learn how to associate close captions with your […]
Products used in this example: Adobe Captivate (2017 release) Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 In this blog post, you will learn how to easily convert your PowerPoint slides into interactive and engaging web-enabled presentations using HTML5. If you do not have the 2017 release of Adobe Captivate, download a trial version of Captivate. To install Captivate, follow the installation instructions here. Prepare your PowerPoint presentation Open the presentation that you want to convert into an eLearning course. Make the required changes and […]
Importing your PowerPoint slides into Captivate is as easy as 1-2-3! Simply follow the steps in this blog. However, there may be circumstances when the dimensions of the imported PowerPoint slides do not match properly with Captivate slides. The difference in the dimensions could very well corrode the experience of a learner, especially when he/she sees stretched or shrunken objects in the project. The dimensions of a slide in Captivate are defined in pixels, whereas Power Point defines slide size […]
Adobe Captivate supports text-to-speech via NeoSpeech. Text-to-speech, simply put, is a process that converts any text into a spoken output. In Captivate, you can include intonations, inflections, pauses, etc. in your speech output. This is a must-use feature if you want to create engaging and interactive learning content. For more information on text-to-speech in Captivate, see this blog. Language support Captivate only supports the following languages in NeoSpeech voice: English Canadian French Korean The following speech agents are available: Bridget […]
Yes, there are. The community portal has tons of blogs and videos for a newbie to get started on Adobe Captivate. We have curated some posts and videos and arranged them progressively for you to learn Captivate. This tutorial/list, by no means, is complete and comprehensive. We have listed down few high-level topics that span across most of Captivate’s features. Creating projects in Captivate – Learn how to create a responsive and non-responsive project. Creating recording and software simulations – […]
Here is a one-stop shop for Captivate Text to Speech installers of the latest and previous versions. Version Download URL Adobe Captivate (2019 release) 64-bit http://www.adobe.com/go/Cp2019_win64_voices_installer Adobe Captivate (2019 release) Mac http://www.adobe.com/go/Cp2019_mac_voices_installer Adobe Captivate (2017 release) 64-bit www.adobe.com/go/Cp2017_win64_voices_installer Adobe Captivate (2017 release) 32-bit www.adobe.com/go/Cp2017_win32_voices_installer Adobe Captivate (2017 release) Mac www.adobe.com/go/Cp2017_mac_voices_installer Captivate 9 64-bit http://www.adobe.com/go/Cp9_win64_voices_installer Captivate 9 32-bit http://www.adobe.com/captivate/Cp9_32bit_NeoSpeech/Captivate_9_Neo_Content_LS21.7z http://www.adobe.com/captivate/Cp9_32bit_NeoSpeech/Captivate_9_Neo_Content_LS21.exe Captivate 9 Mac http://www.adobe.com/go/Cp9_mac_voices_installer Captivate 8 64-bit http://www.adobe.com/go/Cp8_win64_voices_installer Captivate 8 32-bit http://www.adobe.com/go/Cp8_win32_voices_installer Captivate 8 Mac http://www.adobe.com/go/Cp8_mac_voices_installer Captivate 7 64-bit http://www.adobe.com/go/Cp7_win64_voices_installer Captivate […]
Of late, we’ve been getting some mails on how some users were unable to activate their copy of Adobe Captivate (2017 release). Typically on launch, you’d see the following message: Clicking Try Again results in the same pop-up message. To fix this annoying issue, perform the following steps: Launch the Creative Cloud desktop application. Click your profile image and click Sign out. Re-launch Adobe Captivate and then sign in using your Adobe ID and password. Once your Adobe credentials are validated, Adobe Captivate […]
Captivate 8 and 9 updates (release date 13 June, 2017) fix some vulnerabilities when reporting quiz results to a server. In this update, we have sanitized the php files that you need for internal server reporting. For more information, read the security bulletin. Adobe recommends users of Captivate 8 and 9 to apply the fix using the instructions below: Backup the php files: Browse to the Captivate folder – the default location is %ProgramFiles%\Adobe\Captivate\Templates\Publish Rename the files internalserverread.php and internalServerReporting.php to internalserverread.old and internalServerReporting.old respectively. […]
Before suggesting a Fluid Box to responsive slide, it is a recommended that you select all objects in the slide and check for overlaps. For example, in the slide below on Ctrl+A, you can see at least two object overlaps. When you click Suggest Fluid Boxes, you get the following message: Rearrange the objects so that there are no overlaps. Now, click Suggest Fluid Boxes. You can see that the content is now accommodated in two Fluid Boxes due to […]
In Adobe Captivate (2017 release), we have deprecated the following: MathMagic editor Adobe Edge Inspect preview To see what’s the latest and greatest in the 2017 release of Captivate, see What’s new.
Rollover Captions, Rollover Images, and Rollover Slidelets are not supported in a Fluid Box. The Suggest Fluid Boxes workflow also ignores grouped objects. For example, let there be a group of three objects in a slide. Also, insert a smart shape as a button and assign an advanced action to the button that applies an effect to the group. If you click Suggest Fluid Box, you can see that the Fluid Box ignores the group. So, a group of objects […]
