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 […]

Learn how to convert Flash into HTML5 content

In December of 2020, Adobe will cease support for Adobe Flash – SWF format content. It is commonly regarded as the ‘end’ of Flash. For many, however, there are a significant number of eLearning courses, job aids and performance support materials that were developed and delivered to learners using earlier versions of Adobe Captivate, which published to the Flash SWF format. In this session you will discover strategies to convert your Captivate eLearning Courses from Flash fromat to HTML5 format.

Building a Customer Education Program with Adobe Captivate Prime

The Brand Safety Institute (BSI) is focused on educating and certifying people from the biggest brand marketers, advertising agencies, AdTech companies, and digital publishers in the world to support the mission of improving the digital advertising ecosystem. Neal Thurman, Co-founder of BSI, discusses the growing importance of Brand Safety in digital advertising and the development of the organization and its digital curriculum with Adobe Captivate Prime at the center of it.

Using Flipped Virtual Classrooms for Successful Blended Learning

In 2016, Hearing First set a goal of using subject-matter experts to efficiently and effectively help busy hearing professionals and parents develop the skills and knowledge needed to successfully support deaf and hard-of-hearing childrenall online. We’ve been successfully meeting this goal for nearly three years, but getting there wasn’t easy. This session will describe how we met this challenge with a flipped-classroom (blended) model. You’ll see how we complemented an online community platformfor self-paced learning assignments, recordings, and resourceswith live […]

Explore different kinds of assessment options & learn how to create them

Creating quizzes in Captivate can seem rather easy, but you may find yourself wishing some tasks were easier. During this session with Captivate Expert Joe Ganci, you will learn a number of ways that you can make quizzes work exactly as you’d like. During this session, you’ll learn to: • Add images, a video, and more to a question feedback • Set all questions to immediately move to the next slide when the learner clicks the feedback rather than waiting […]

Deep dive into Adobe Captivate with Shared & Advanced Actions

To create engaging interactions you will need to use Shared/Advanced actions, maybe in combination with JavaScript. Before diving, preparing and climbing is necessary. What are you diving for? Is your equipment ready? Will you dive with a team, with a guide or alone? From projects you’ll discover the main differences between Shared and Advanced actions. Examples like games, click/reveal interactions, toggle buttons, forced first navigation, and also updating legacy courses for HTML5 output. This will enable you to choose the […]

Learning – a key pillar of Digital Transformation, post COVID-19

Organizations go for digital transformation to achieve improved performance, increased reach, and to enhance customer experience. No wonder for many businesses, digitization of business is the path to recovery post Covid 19. More and more organizations are trying to transform themselves by switching to digital way of doing business and with Covid 19 the pace of digitization is only going to increase. Faster adoption of changes brought into business processes and systems as a result of transformation is one of […]

Using Photoshop to Enhance Your Virtual Classrooms and Events

Adding imagery to your virtual classrooms and events makes them look more polished and professional. In this session, you’ll learn some tips and tricks on how you can use Adobe Photoshop to create custom backgrounds, virtual business cards, event imagery, and more for your Adobe Connect rooms and events.

Create Click & Reveal/Replace Interactions with Forced Navigation option

We will go through 2 interactive examples built in Adobe Captivate. Both examples will have Click & Reveal/Replace Interactions with Forced Navigation option. This can be very useful for basically any e-learning project, where you want to have simple click and reveal interactivity. Download sample files

Convert any on-screen content into Interactive eLearning

You have amazing presentation material and handouts that you generally use for face-to-face training, but now you need to quickly convert it to eLearning courses. Join Anastasia McCune for a step-by-step demo on how to use Adobe Captivate to rapidly convert your different types of existing training material to interactive eLearning interactions. She will demonstrate incorporating various types of media, interactions, and free Captivate assets. Download sample files and resources

Training as a Customer Acquisition Strategy

How delivering on customer need for e-learning lead Cytiva to integrate a headless LMS into an existing digital hub to deliver customer facing educational and training content via our website. The presentation will cover the customer need, describe the platform and explain how this will improve Cytiva’s customer experience, add valuable & timely insights to the commercial Sales and Marketing organisation and add enhance our understanding of customer behaviour.

Kickstart Your Virtual Classrooms with Adobe Connect

As more classes are moved online, it’s important to take advantage of the benefits going virtual can offer. Join us to learn how to design interaction in your virtual classrooms using Adobe Connect. You’ll see how to create compelling layouts that increase engagement, design breakout rooms that foster collaboration, and learn how to measure engagement and read digital body language.

Learn when you should use Interactive Videos and how to create them

Videos are the best and easiest way to learn about new content and skills. But they are inherently passive, with no opportunity for learners to interact with the content. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to quickly convert an MP4 video from your local folder, video hosted on YouTube or Vimeo to an interactive video content. You will see a demonstration of how to convert informational slides, interactions, and knowledge check questions to overlay slides and add them at […]