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 […]

Branching View in Captivate

Branching View in Captivate

Wrapping eLearning Video Content for Playback in HTML from the Adobe Connect Content Library

Within eLearning curricula, avoidance of Flash is imperative. This short tutorial shows how to wrap an MP4 for playback in HTML from within the Adobe Connect Content Library. This wrapping technique will soon be unnecessary as every new release of Adobe Connect more finely integrates HTML5.

Adobe Captivate Assets not downloading

Hello all!  I’m pretty new to Captivate but I’m bumbling through.  I tried to download a new character and when I go to assets, choose one, and click download, a blank grey box pops up with only the option to “cancel” and nothing else happens.

New Blog Categories Related to Finding ID and E-Learning Development Work

I participate in other  ID and EL Dev platforms and I see a high level of interest in business topics related to either finding a job as an e-learning designer, or best practices and tips for growing one’s own business.  Topics like how much to charge, how to market yourself, what to avoid, etc.  seem to be especially popular.  I would like to suggest adding another blog category in this forum covering these topics.  I bet members of this community […]

Revising Content

Hi, so I need to change a few words on the audio/slides and replace the file that goes along with it.  Does anyone know how to replace the original file without deleting the audio portion?

Navigating Effects of the New Forced Desktop Mode on iPAD OS 13 on Mobile eLearning Applications

After upgrading to iOS 13.X on any iPad, Adobe Mobile Applications will be superseded in favor of the Desktop Mode browser; this is due to a change in workflow prescribed by the new IPad OS.

Different versions of Captivate 2019 are not compatible

Has anyone seen this and figured it out?  A .cptx file created in Adobe Captivate 2019 Version 11.5.1.499 cannot be opened in Version 11.0.1.266.  I get the attached error: I have tested that all the error conditions are not true, but can not get the file to open.

Video not synced to timeline

Hello! I need help understanding why my videos are not playing at the appropriate time. I have slide audio and audio assigned to an object, followed by a video. My issue is that the video starts playing during the object audio. In the timeline, I have the video start after the object, yet it overlaps. I have set up each slide in the same way, yet this issue only happens to certain slides, seemingly at random. Is this a bug […]

Use Shared Actions to Have Fewer Advanced Actions in Your Project

In this Adobe Captivate video tutorial, I show you a way you can use Shared Actions to save yourself some time writing Advanced Actions by reusing the Shared Action for different objects and multistate objects.

How to Blend Microlearning and Macrolearning to Deliver a Higher Impact Workplace Training

Today, Microlearning based training has become a significant mode for online training delivery and the following stat reaffirms it further: “The global microlearning market size is expected to grow from USD 1.5 billion in 2019 to USD 2.7 billion by 2024”. Source: MarketsandMarkets However, organizations will continue to have Macrolearning needs too. Given the value that each one of them offers, it is important to see how the two can be leveraged by arriving at the optimal blend of Microlearning […]

Anyone can help with GSAP (GreenSock) ?

Question about implementing GSAP library in Adobe Captivate.