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 […]

Bitten by the Captivate Bug

Captivate has opened my eyes to a new world of possibilities in the field of education. The new wave of Elearning is the future, and Captivate is leading the way.

Captivate 2019 Interface with blurry text on 4K display

Hello, recently I replaced both my monitors with new ones that run at 4k. When launching Adobe Captivate 2019, the font throughout the interface is noticeably blurry compared to all other text in windows. Is this a known issue or is there an easy fix to this problem?

Drag and drop grouped image/text

I want to create a drag and drop interaction where the drag source is a group with a text box and image, but when I select the group and click next, I get an error that I must select at least one item to proceed. I don’t want the drag source to be just text, or just an image. Is there a workaround for this? I know this is possible in Storyline, but I’m hoping Captivate has similar functionality. I’m […]

Quiz Tweak 2: Slide Audio

Post explains how you can prevent that a learner submits an answer before having listened to the slide audio and….

XML Export in Adobe Captivate

Has anyone else run into this issue.  I attempt to export an XML file from Captivate for translation purposes, and when I click “yes” to open the results I get text that appears to say I have a password set in the Captivate project.  The first line of text says 1121 5001 55 Please type the correct password directly into the text box below and click the button below. I have no password protection set for this course/project so why […]

Captivate 2019; Glossary Widget

Does anyone know if there is a limit to the amount of data that can be added to the Captivate 2019 Glossary widget? I recently added additional terms to our current Glossary and uploaded it to our intranet work site. NONE of the new terms show up when searched on the intranet work site. They are in the Glossary when viewed/working in Captivate 2019….they don’t show up after the Glossary is uploaded……what’s up with that???

Captivate published project in an internal server

One of my captivate project is not working in an internal server,this project is published in HTML5 version and i have checked the HTML tracker, as such there are no unsupported slides or objects found. Once this project published in local server and  giving the correct URL to the browser, it keep showing load icon for a long time. I have published  several other projects, to the internal server without any issues. Could you please help me with this?

Captivate 7 and Windows 10

Does captivate 7 work on Windows 10 without any problem?

How to put a video in a circle – it fills the whole page

Hi, I have a circle on the center of my page and would like to insert my video to sit in that circle. Anytime I try to insert the video, it fills up the whole page. How can I accomplish what I’m trying to do? Please and thank you! Sofia

How do I change the color of the numbers within a quiz slide?

 You’ll notice I was able to change the C ) answer. I’m having a hard time replicating this for A ) and B ).   Appreciate the community helping. Chandra

Learning Captivate 2019 – Samples and Templates

Hi, How come I don’t have the GIZMO in my Captivate? I have Captivate 2019 and heard that you can get completed samle files/templates. I saw this link earlier for inspiration: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2055561

Differences between Shape used as button and a normal interaction button?

I have a project where i have used shape as button and given an advance action to that shape. But this shape (use as button) is not working as well that advance action is not executing the result,when i publish this project in HTML5 version. While playing this project or publishing in other format like SWF ,it works properly.Is there any specific reason for this?