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 […]

Publish to my computer window- can’t see publish button

I have a project in Captivate 9 and I needed to make a small edit. I re-saved the version, and need to publish to SCORM for my LMS, but when I select publish to my computer, I can’t see the entire window. The publish button is not visable. Any idea why and more importantly how I can publish. If you can see this thumnail, then you see I can’t seem to re-size the window or view the button, nor can […]

How do you make slide notes viewable in the presentation?

I remember in Captivate 5 you could make it an option where the learner could opt to view the slide notes in the published Captivate course. In the current version of Captivate (2019) I don’t see where to do this anymore. Can someone tell me if it’s still possible to do this, and if so, the steps for doing it in the program? Thank you.

Using Blended Training in Your Employee Onboarding Program to Promote Organizational Culture

Traditionally, how employers onboarded the new inductees depended a lot more on organizational culture than anything else. Large organizations operate with centralized corporate training centers where they delivered Instructor-Led Induction Training (ILT) to their new employees. With the proliferation of online learning, organizations have now realized that there is an opportunity to tap into eLearning as part of the Induction and Onboarding process. What Is Driving the Transition of Fully Face-to-Face/ILT Trainings to Blended Learning? In spite of the drive to adopt online delivery […]

10 Tips to Personalize Your Employee Training Program with mLearning

We are witnessing rapid changes in the way learners want to learn. Alongside, there are significant changes in the way online training is being delivered. These changes are triggering L&D teams to relook at their current learning strategies and adapt so that they meet this mandate. The notable 3 aspects that must be factored in the L&D strategy today include:  The Changing Learners’ Expectations They want training to be short, focused, and available on the go as well as on demand. The […]

Reusing Shared Actions

Third blog in series about ‘using’ (not creating) shared actions. Fpcussed on: reuse of existing shared actions and variables in new projects.

Pin item to Microsoft Windows 10 Start Menu – Beginner System Administration

Pin item to Microsoft Windows 10 Start Menu – a simple system administration task is captured with Adobe Captivate 2019

Only Let Learners Select a Set Number of Buttons in Your Captivate Project

In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, I show you how you can let learners only select a set number of buttons for a learning interaction by having the remaining buttons disappear when that threshold is met.

Why I Love Dreamweaver

Here is a list of five reasons I like using Dreamweaver as a web editing tool.

Restrict next button until the current smart shape is playing its audio

Hi I am working on a project. There are 6 steps in my slide. Each step has the next step button with it. The steps are smart shape and they have audio assigned to it. When the slide starts step one begins and the button next to it will continue the project on clicking. What do I want? I want until the step one smart shape completes the user should not be able to click on this next button. Please […]

Preventing youtube media from auto playing

Hello, I will preface my post by stating I am very new to the software and seeking training online and through the resources of this website.  I am also in pursuit of the incentive of posting and interacting therefore my question currently is… How do I prevent an inserted youtube video from automatically playing? I will continue to search the resources of this cite and learn.  So thanks for your help and support as I continue to learn and develop […]

cpAPIInterface in Adobe Captivate

How to control volume button with window.cpAPIInterface.setVolume?