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 […]

Small menu ? Flash vs Captivate !

Small menu with Captivate integrated in html page with an iframe

Oculus Rift

Can an Adobe Captivate Virtual Reality Project be viewed with Oculus Rift?

Mini eLearning Module

A quick introductory eLearning module (would be one in a series of three) for onboarding new remote employees.

Find Differences Game; Setup

Setup of the Game ‘Find Differences’ published as sample project.

Motion Path not displaying properly

I have a motion path applied to a shape in a fluid box (which is set to static).  The project is teaching kids how to read a foreign language (Hebrew with a different alphabet).  My goal with the motion path is to create a pointer that shows the student to read from right to left.  Everything looks fine when I preview it.  However, when I publish the project and view it in my LMS (Schoology) the motion path is either […]

Playing MP4 Video in HTML5 from the Adobe Connect Content Library

As Adobe Connect continues adopting and integrating HTML5 more and more with every upgrade and update, the following workaround will help when a browser does not cooperate with MP4 playback from the Adobe Connect Content Library.

Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in School Education

It’s sad, but let’s admit that the education sector has always been the hindmost realm in accepting the latest technologies. And modern-day technologies such as Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality hold great potential in revolutionising the world of education. Here’s everything you need to know about AR and VR in school education and how schools can harness their potential to make learning better than ever.

Is there an Adobe Captivate Javascript Reference? How can we get a complete list of JS functions and variables in CP 2019 with their specifications?

Hello guys… I’ve been working with Captivate 2019 for a couple of months and trying to get the most out of it with Javascript. I think I’ve managed to do a few nice things with it. I’m kind of building a reusable framework within my simulators. One thing I’ve been struggling with is how poorly documented CP is… especially regarding the Javascript interface. There might be an official CP Javascript Reference that I have overlooked after browsing Adobe’s support and […]

Recorded video in adobe project clarity is degraded badly

When I add a pre-recorded video (either MP4 or FLV format) the video output is greatly degraded. I have gone through the tutorials and made adjustments and changes but it is to no effect. Does anyone know of any tricks or tips that may help please

How to use Instagram feeds, Stories and IGTV to Get the Most out of it for Your Ecommerce

Instagram has become one of the biggest influencer marketing channels to attract more people to your business and brand. It has changed the game of Social Media Marketing for better. Which the launch of IGTV, Instagram now offers three formats to share the content, which is very rare to other similar channels. This article describes how you can use all the three formats of content sharing, which are Instagram feeds, stories and IGTV, to get the most out of it.

How to Update Your Legacy Flash Captivate eLearning Projects

In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, I show you how you can update your legacy eLearning courses by identifying and replacing components that are not compatible with HTML5. In this example, I take a course that included SWF based animations and use the HTML5 Tracker to quickly find those unsupported items and eliminate them.