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 […]

Described Video in Captivate

Hi Everyone! I’m new here and this is my first post. We (in Canada) have just been told that we need to add Descriptive Video to our Captivate eLearning Modules. These modules are being used internally and not public facing, so do we really need to add Descriptive Video? And how can you add it to a module that already has narration? Thank you.

Healthcare Click, Match, and Learn

I worked with subject matter experts in instructional design and surgical assistance on this project. The first piece is an interactive learning project the first topic in the first lesson of the first chapter of the first course… that’s a lot of firsts.  So far, I’m loving Captivate!

Starting from a powerpoint presentation

I am am back to Captivate after over ten years. I want to convert a powerpoint presentation. When if begging to load the the dialog box appears, it is frozen; I cannot click on anything and have to close Captivate. What am I doing wrong? Thanks

Find and customize Interactions in Ready-to-go slides (Quick Start Projects)

Step by step workflow to find, understand and (within limits) edit interactions in those slides.

Live Demo of Captivate

Is it possible to book a live Captivate demo for my organisation? We are looking to change authoring tool in the very near future and would like to be able to speak live to someone at Adobe. Thank you

Easily Add PDFs to Your Adobe Captivate eLearning

In this video, I show you how to easily add PDFs to your Adobe Captivate 2019 eLearning project.

Converting Flash-based Widgets

When going through the Adobe Certification, I thought I heard that the widgets are flash based. What is Adobe doing to convert these widgets over since flash will be retired by the end of this year? The widgets are great and very useful so I am hoping they have plans for them to work in a post-flash world.

Tracking Slide Visits and Stop Replay of Animations

Hi all, I feel like I should know how to do this, but I’m a bit rusty on Captivate right now. I have a Forward button that isn’t showing until the audio finishes (compliance course) and on some slides, I have text animations. I’d like to track the slide visits so when the Back button is clicked, it will automatically show the Forward button on the previous slide, but ALSO jump to the point in the timeline where the animation […]

Captivate 2019 Update 5 fails and corrupts installation

The installation of the update fails near the end and seems to corrupt the installation. When I start up Captivate 2019 I get a dialogue box that reads Adobe Captivate 7 The localized resources files for this application could not be loaded…… After I click OK the Captivate 2019 splash screens displays but then disappears. There is no option to repair so I have to uninstall/reinstall. I didn’t see any solutions so any suggestions would be appreciated. Dave

Making a VR Video project

Hello I’m Miho. I have little experience with making VR videos into a project, and I would appreciate any tips from anyone who knows. ・ Is it possible to continue displaying the wipe (image)without stopping the playback of the VR video? ・I would like to know if there is an editing method that does not use hotspots for VR videos. ・ Can VR videos be trimmed on Captivate? ・ How much VR video data is optimal for editing? Even one, […]

Why Captivate Isn’t Part of the Creative Cloud

This is the third time this week that someone has reached out to me with this question. When this happens I usually write a blog post to answer instead of writing the same email to multiple people explaining my thoughts about this controversial question. This way I can now refer people making similar inquiries to this post rather than repeating myself.