I have a client who wants us to develop using breakpoints. They have provided five specific measurements. For custom mobile (phone landscape), they have specified 667 x 375. When I published the course to the server and tested it on desktop, tablet, and phone, all of them worked fine – except for phone landscape. The page appeared very large and required considerable scrolling. I checked everything again to be sure, did a Live Preview, and still the same results. I […]
Hi all, I’ve built a slide with a five-tab learning interaction. Each content panel in the interaction includes audio. There is also audio on the main slide timeline. I can’t figure out a way to stop the main slide audio when a tab on the interaction is clicked, and this results in two audio files playing at the same time. Is there a way I can disable the main timeline audio when the interaction buttons are pressed? Thanks, CHUCK
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On July 25, 2017, Adobe made the following announcement: Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats. This announcement has a major impact on any organization which has e-learning courses published to run in Adobe Flash player. And for more than a decade, if you took or built an e-learning course, chances are […]
In this article, I will share with you how I determined how many hours it would take me to re-build an existing catalog of courses in Captivate and show you examples of documents I created to assist me in the process. This process may assist you in the next year or two as we prepare for potential course re-development opportunities due to the slow but eventual demise of the Flash player. Recently I was asked to estimate how long it […]
I’ve tried various ways of lighting videos that I shoot at my desktop with Presenter Video Express. I’ve even purchased a selfie ring light, but I’m not quite sure how to work that into the equation. I know several members create professional looking videos for their work, and I’ve also seen some very high-quality videos presented in this forum. What suggestions do you have for lighting your videos? What works best for you? What should be the “standard” setup? Any […]
In addition to being an e-learning developer, I am a magician. No, really, I am. Yes, that kind. Mind you, you won’t find me pulling a rabbit out of a hat or anything, but I’ve been known to work a few feats of prestidigitation into some of my recent conference presentations. It’s all about matching the effect with the content of my presentation. That’s what a good corporate magician does. I recently attended a magic lecture where the magician talked […]
Performance support videos are everywhere. From YouTube to the workplace, you can learn pretty much anything by watching a step-by-step video one step at a time, and then doing it yourself. Some of these videos are good; others not so much. So how can you be sure that the video you are producing for your client or organization is high quality – and effective? In June, I gave a session at the Focus On Learning conference in which I shared […]
As an experienced e-Learning developer, I’ve had a number of folks ask me over the year how I keep my work organized. Given the number of graphics in a course, audio narration files, video segments, and assets created in other programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Camtasia Studio to support your Captivate course, you can easily have hundreds of assets with different file extensions, even for a moderately sized course. To begin, I maintain my course on the C: drive […]
Over the past 2 weeks or so, I’ve posted two blog articles in which I discussed how performance support video solutions are flipping training on its head. In the first post, I talked about how traditional training stresses participants learning something at a defined time – and then going into the work area and doing what it is they learned. I then shared how in my own experience of developing performance support tools. If you have not read that article […]
In my blog article last week entitled “The Death of the (e)Learning Course Objectives Screen,” I showed some screenshots of a task-oriented course I produced which immediately engages the learners and brings them into the course. While I incorporated screenshots in the course, I realize there’s nothing better than seeing the real thing. So if you’d like, check it out for yourself. Watch how the “supervisor” avatar gives the assignment then actually leaves and heads off to a meeting, leaving […]
I have conducted lots of facilitator led training during my career, in areas such as leadership development, human resources, software training, and coaching/mentoring. And every course that I’ve ever developed or conducted started with a slide which began with the statement, “After completing this course, you will be able to . . . “ That statement was immediately followed usually by 4 or 5 learning objectives, depending on the amount of classroom hours scheduled. It only seemed natural then, that […]
