Let’s celebrate this festive season with some fun projects and ideas!

It’s that time of the year again when we gather around with our family and friends, or take a vacation to celebrate these most awaited festivals. Talking of festivals, we’re curious to know if you’ve ever created an interactive project on any festival, or would fancy creating one. Please feel free to share those with us. The best projects will get showcased on the Free Projects page, newsletters, and Adobe social media pages. In the past we have seen some […]

Introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your journey in the field of eLearning.

– What motivated you to enter the field of eLearning? – Are there any influencers who helped you learn faster along the way? – Share 2-3 challenges that helped you grow in this field.

Share your design resources

Hi all, I was wondering, what are your main go to places where you get some inspiration on how to visually design your content? These are some places I go to: Humaaans Freepik Unsplash Storyset Canva Please help me add on to this list

Which is your primary tool for conducting virtual classes, meetings, and webinars?

Additional discussion questions: – What are your main requirements from a virtual conferencing tool in your line of work? – Highlight some issues that you face during virtual conferencing and suggest some UI/UX solutions to overcome those problems. Have you registered for AEW 2021 yet?  

Which workflows or features do you like the most in your current Learning Management System (LMS)?

– Which Learning Management Systems have you work with and how would you compare them?   Have you registered for AEW 2021 yet?  

Software Simulations or Video Demos? Which one do you prefer and why?

This question is not limited to just Adobe Captivate. You can share your experience in working with other tools as well.   Have you registered for AEW 2021 yet?  

In the age of addictive smartphones, what strategies do you use to engage your online learners?

– Do you devise your own strategies that have shown favorable results in the past? – Do you follow pedagogical theories and adapt them to your eLearning? – Anything out of the box? Have you registered for AEW 2021 yet?  

What should every newcomer know about eLearning today?

Share your thoughts   Have you registered for AEW 2021 yet?  

Code Cracker – Captivate Game and Puzzle Series

Entry #4 in the Captivate Game and Puzzle Series – Code Cracker!

Announcing the Adobe eLearning Showcase Challenge – Summer 2021!

The Heat is On. Welcome Summers! And welcome back, the Adobe eLearning Showcase Challenge – SUMMER 2021, your chance to flaunt off your eLearning skills! Submit your projects to us and stand a chance to win and get recognized. Top 5 winners shall receive a $500 Amazon gift card from Adobe* Here’s how to enter the contest :- – All individual participants need to create projects using the Adobe Captivate software with a minimum of 3 project slides (see examples […]

Advice?

what advice would you give to someone starting out in ID?

Game and Puzzle Series by Greg Stager

Introduction to a new series about Games and Puzzles.

JavaScript Idea Series by Greg Stager

An introduction to a new series of postings : The JavaScript Idea Series

Join us for Adobe eLearning World 2021 in September

Adobe eLearning World (AEW) 2021 brings with it an opportunity for you to deep-dive into eLearning. As one of the biggest virtual eLearning conferences, it will help you gain key insights into the ever-changing world of eLearning. By participating, you will not only discover diverse points of view, but also get an exclusive sneak-peek into the latest innovations from Adobe’s labs. UPDATE: We’ve just moved Adobe eLearning World 2021 to September to ensure that all our colleagues may gather online […]

Introducing Adobe Captivate Creators’ Workshop Series

Register now Date: May 25, 2021 at 8 AM PT When it comes to authoring tools, Adobe Captivate is among the most recommended by users. The authoring tool has quickly managed to capture the minds of all eLearning professionals, whether their expertise level stands at beginner, intermediate, or advanced. But to truly maximize its functionality, you need an inside scoop on the best ways to create courses with it. Presenting the Creators’ Workshop Series!  Prepare to take your knowledge of […]

Announcing the winners of the Adobe eLearning Design Awards powered by eLearning Industry

Let us take a deep breath first! If we have overused our superlatives in describing any previous contests on this forum, we will like to take it back, and place it here,  as what we have witness in these last few weeks on elearning.adobe.com/projects page was nothing short of a phenomenon. This has also left our judges in a tizzy in scoring easily, due to the sheer professional quality of projects that all have created through the Adobe Captivate authoring […]

Update for Mac Users – Adobe Captivate 2019 Build for macOS Big Sur (macOS 11) is here!

Big Sur (macOS 11) update for Adobe Captivate (2019 release) is here!

What are eLearning Devs and IDs reading?

Greetings all. I am always looking for resources and things to learn from.  I have read some articles recommending books and unfortunately some that seem really interesting I haven’t been able to find, but I will continue to look. Thought I would pose the question here. What are some good resources that you recommend? They don’t have to specifically be direct to eLearning or Instructional Design, but they obviously can. But if there is something that relates and you feel […]

JavaScript Book Recommendation

Hi, Can someone recommend JavaScript, HTML and CSS books for beginners that would be a best fit for Adobe Captivate? I keep researching but do not find anything in particular. However, if anyone can recommend any books that were of great help to you and Captivate, let me know! Currently, I have a few in my Amazon cart but just not sure which would be good. Plan on also heading to a Barnes and Nobles this weekend and see what’s […]

Adobe eLearning Design Awards powered by eLearning Industry

The Most Exciting eLearning Design Challenge of 2021 is here!** eLearning Industry and Adobe have joined hands to honor the best in the field of eLearning authoring and design, and you can be one of them! Submit your projects and earn a ticket to the spotlight in the world of eLearning. The best talents across the globe will be picked by a panel of distinguished eLearning experts. The top 3 winners will be rewarded  jointly by eLearning Industry and Adobe […]

Multiple Failure messages for Drag&Drop KC slide

Intro This article is written as an answer to a question on the forums: Drag&Drop with Advanced Action For quiz slides it is possible to show different Failure messages based on the attempt number. That functionality is not available for Drag&Drop slides. As you can read in the thread, another user posted a solution using the Object actions which are executed after each drag action.  I posted some comments about the limitations of that solution. In this article the described solution is […]

How to allow users to toggle between drag and drop and keyboard navigation

Seeking advice on best method for switching between drag and drop and keyboard navigation.

Images on Masters Slides

Hello, I have tried to put images on our master slides. I have got them into the slides but it do not appear when I am looking the material on preview. I can only see the grey color from the master slide (first one) even our logo do not appear and it is on the first master slide. Text do appear but images does not. I really would like to use images on our slides. If anyone could give a […]

9 FAQs about Video Workflows in Adobe Captivate

For the past few weeks, we have been spending some time looking at the forum questions, discussion threads, and posts to find the set of frequently asked questions related to Adobe Captivate. At the top of this list were questions related video workflows. They ranged from questions about importing videos, embedding YouTube/Vimeo videos, recording and editing video demos, and publishing courses in video format. Here are the top 9 questions with quick video responses for them. FAQ 1: How to […]

Easy way to hide submit button from appearing until a learner listen to audio in Adobe Captivate Quiz slide

Easy way to hide submit button from appearing until a learner listen to audio in Adobe Captivate Quiz slide

Animated slide looks blurry

I have added an entrance animation to several slides. These slides now look blurry. All other slides look fine. Why is this happening and how can I fix this. I find it so strange.  It looks completely fine in Captivate, it is only blurry in the preview and when I have published. More info: Animation is ease in from left The slides have several objects including text, shapes and pictures. I have grouped these all together to animate at the […]

Return to the exact frame on a slide video from another slide in Adobe Captivate

You have added a slide video to your project, and at some point in the video, you wish the learners to reference information on another slide. After reading the information, you want them to return to the same frame of video from where they left. Watch this video to learn about the steps to do so:

Safety Quiz – ELG

Safety Gear quiz project description. This interaction based on US Dept. of Labor’s (OSHA) guidelines on PPE (Personal Protective Equipment). This Game project includes Game and Quiz interactions. This interaction is a “choose the right answer” knowledge check based quiz. This can be used for testing knowledge of your workforce and enables them to move to the complete the task only if they answer all the questions correctly.

Swapping the slide video without losing the bookmarks and overlays in Adobe Captivate

Sometimes when you have finished creating an interactive video with overlays and bookmarks, you realize that there needs to be a slight change in the video. In such a situation, if you re-import the video to the Captivate project, you might lose the Overlays and Bookmarks added to it. Let’s take a look at the steps to safely replace the existing video with the edited one.

Publish a responsive project to MP4 video

For the responsive eLearning projects created using Adobe Captivate, there’s no direct option to publish them to MP4 videos. Let’s take a look at a workaround you can use to publish them as videos.

Publish Adobe Captivate project to MP4 video

In this step-by-step video tutorial, take a look at the steps to publish your existing Adobe Captivate courses to MP4 videos.

5 Ways To Provide Digital Learning in the New Way Of work

The spread of COVID-19 has brought unprecedented human challenges. The pandemic has forced the organizations worldwide towards adopting new ways of working. Many companies are acting swiftly to safeguard their employees and to migrate to new ways of working. The situation has also accelerated the need to upskill and retrain the individual employees. Companies can provide relevant and engaging digital learning courses and modules to their employees during the current crisis and beyond. The modern business environment is bound to […]