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 […]

Multiplication in columns with Captivate (2)

Multiplication in columns with Captivate

Captivate Publishing Html – HELP

Please Help I’m trying to publish a HTML file but it defaults to a play button in order to initiate the files that I want to display.  It did not work like that in the past.  I’m on version 2019.  I’m a novice user and only use Captivate a few times a  year.  I tried attaching my file but it stated I had the wrong format.  I’m unable to attach a screen shot of the screen that’s displaying. I need […]

Show Delayed Next Buttons Immediately on Slide Revisits in Adobe Captivate

In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, I will show you how you can use a shared action to delay the appearance of your Next buttons across all your slides but make them immediately available on slide revisits.

PowerPoint Presenter Notes in an Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom Share Pod

When uploading a PowerPoint with speaker notes to an Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom (VC), you may notice the lack of a Notes Tab in the PPTX in the VC Share Pod – even if you had rich notes in the PowerPoint file, they may not appear. There is an easy workaround in Adobe Presenter to make sure that your speaker notes always appear in the Notes Tab in the Share Pod in the uploaded PPTX. This feature is driven in […]

I can’t see Image with zoom

After I have update to v. 11.5.1  is it not possible to see the Image, when I use the Zoom bottom. I have to use Publich to Computer and as a HTLM5 zip file. Someone who knows why and what I need to do to make it work,

Pretest and Frustration – Setup

Explains the setup for a Pretest, where remaining questions are skipped if the learner cannot get a passing score anymore.

captivate cc fluid boxes parent background image does not resize

Hello all, I have just started setting up my master slides as a template for my department course developments.  I have created a parent fluid box and added child fluid boxes.  I added an image (png) as my parent background image.  So far everything is working correctly.  I test the master slide using the layout preview button and as the width decreases all the child fluid boxes that are suppose to go away, do, and all the child fluid boxes […]

Master Template Slides

Currently i’m going back and having to re drop in my assets to take to the new template

SCORM 1.2 Freezes Randomly in Absorb LMS

I am a bit at a loss here for what to do, I tried Adobe Support, I wasted an hour of my life. I created a SCORM 1.2 file from an Adobe Captivate with mostly videos and then a couple quiz questions at the end. I uploaded it to Absorb LMS with no problems. And was able to go through it myself, no problems. But after I launched it to all our users, I got a few people with issues, […]

Pretest without Frustrations

Example project of a Prretest, where remaining questions are skipped if it is impossible for the learner to get a passing score at the end, due to low scoring of the first questions.

Get MORE Text Captions in Adobe Captivate

A common complaint is that there are not many choices when selecting a style of Text Caption in Adobe Captivate. In this Adobe Captivate quick tip, I show you how you can get MORE text captions other than the ones that you see in Adobe Captivate by default.

Is it possible to recover a Captivate file from a SCORM

My predecessor created some lessons and published them to our LMS, but never saved the actual captivate files where I can get to them. Is there a way to recover the Captivate files from the published SCORM files?