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 […]

Fake Text Popups in Adobe Captivate Fluid Box Design

In this video tutorial, I show you how I would manage a simulated text popup in my fluid box responsive design eLearning project in Adobe Captivate.

What Percent of LMS Content is Built Outside of LMS

This might be an odd question, but I am starting process to evaluate LMSs for my company (1000+ employees) and one thing that crossed my mind is how much of the course content people put in their LMS is built with tools like Captivate or video editors, and how much is built in the LMS using their tools? My company doesn’t have much history to pull from.

Certificate of Completion does not appear in slide

I have been trying to utilize the Certificate of Completion widget. However, the certificate does not appear in the slide. When I preview the project, the certificate does appear. But in the final product, the certificate does not appear. After consulting with a coworker, I am told that .swf is no longer supported and that this is the reason I was not able to see the certificate of completion. I can save the project using the HTML5 option and the […]

Tips and Strategies to Design Effective Leadership Training and Achieve Higher ROI

While the success of organizations hinges on many factors, having a great leadership team certainly helps them stay ahead of competition. A strong leadership team creates high performing teams that in turn generate the required business results. Need for leadership training: While there may be some exceptions, most of us are not born leaders. Leadership skills are built through a range of options that include training (experiential, social, and self-directed), coaching, mentoring, and so on. To create long-term success, organizations must […]

Combine 2 quizzes In one HTML wrapper with language selection, student needs to complete one to pass

Hi there, I am hoping I can find some help on what I thought would be simple, packaging an English Quiz and French Quiz in one package with an HTML page for language selection to load the corresponding Quiz and track with pass or fail. I have searched the discussions here and there are a lot of great points. The problem is I have close to 100 Quizzes in both languages. I have tried to combine both quizzes into one […]

Plan site ? Flash vs Captivate !…

Captivate vs Flash – Plan site project

Adding hyperlink text inside tabbed interaction widgets in Adobe Captivate 2019

I am using Adobe Captivate 2019. I need to add a hyperlink inside tabbed interaction. Is it possible? Please refer the below screenshot, I have tried adding <a href> tag inside the content. It did not work.

Captivate 2019 Addtional Voices

I downloaded Captivate 2019 and see the additional languages. Where or can I get additional voices? I want to use Spanish but the basic voices do not sound accurate when speaking Spanish. Thanks!

Adobe Captivate Prime kicks off 2020 with the first annual Rising Star Award!

Adobe Captivate Prime Wins First Annual Best of Elearning! Rising Star Award

Use QR Codes to Ease ILT Workflows

Are you an Instructor in the LMS, struggling to find time to mark attendance and ensure everyone who has enrolled is marked accordingly? Do you wish you did not have to do all this manually? Would you like an easy way to deal with learner attendance? And what about walk-ins: how do you deal with those?

Captivate 2017 TTS voice Issue

Hi We are having an issue where our no matter what we change TTS voice to in Captivate the voice will default to the computer’s Text to Speech (Control panel>speech recognition). This presents a problem where we want to have different voices on different slides. We are desperate for some help on this as our IT company has said it is a Captivate issue. Hope you can help! Nicole

Can’t navigate to interface

Help!  I just downloaded and installed the 30 day trial for Captivate – it all went well – but now it did not direct me to the Captivate interface.  I have an icon on my desktop but it just takes me to the installation instructions again.  There is no other direction.  How do I access and start using Captivate?? Thanks!