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 […]

Smart shape as Background in Responsive project

In Captivate manual, there is one sentence with reference to the BreakPoint mode … “…. Set one smart shape as a background image in Responsive project and you are allowed to set crop area for the background image in different views….” I could not find how to set “Smart shape as background” and secondly, how that smartshape is related to the background image ? also I could not find croping of the Background image(as written in that sentence)” Help would be […]

Convert large screen PPT to Adobe

Hello, The PPT documents I am working on have a (16:9) format, which corresponds to a larger size than the standard format (4:3). When I want to import them to Adobe Captivate, it doesn’t match : the presentation is not well-looking and words are missing. Is it possible to keep the (16:9) format and import these PPT documents to the software ? Thank you in advance for your answers.

SCORM course very slow

I created and published a SCORM using Captivate and uploaded it on our LMS. I have received some concerns that few colleagues are either not able to access the course or some of its contents or the course is exponentially slow to load for them. This is fixed when they access the course using VPN. It sounds like there is a network issue here but are there any other insights you can give me? I can also post my Captivate publish […]

HTML preview/output not working

Dear Adobe Community, Currently my html preview/output is not working and I wonder if you can help me with that. Yesterday I updated an old non-responsive design project which had been working fine so far. I added some more in build states to multistate objects (clicked state) and some advanced actions to also change the state of these buttons if slides had been visited on entry. Apart from that I only changed some Smart Objects and some minor stuff like […]

How Corporate eLearning Caters to 6 Learning Styles

eLearning’s success in the corporate training field can be attributed to its power to engage with 6 different learning styles. This article discusses what those learning styles are how to utilize eLearning to engage employees who retain information best using that particular learning style.

PPTX/PPSX animations in Captivate – import and publish

Hello together! I’ve uploaded a pptx/ppsx file into Captivate2019. The file contains some animations (e.g. incoming text etc.). If I publish thes presenatation as SCORM the animations don’t work anymore. Is there the possibility to publish the file so that the animations work? Aim is it to display the file as a ppsx (powerpoint screen presentation) in our LMS. Thanks for your help! Franzi

Need Help: I could not able to recolour shapes

I have weird issue with captivate 2019 version, I couldn’t able to recolor any of smart shapes. Can anyone please help.  

Captivate 2019 starts up but can’t create a new project or open an existing one.

I have been using Captivate 2019 on a Windows 7 i5 desktop. I recently installed Captivate 2019 on a Windows 10 i7 laptop. Installation went smoothly and Captivate starts up fine. However, I cannot create a new project or open an existing project previously created on my desktop. Both desktop and laptop are 64-bit machines with 16Gb RAM running the same version of Captivate 2019. I have tried running in Windows 7 compatibility mode and running the program as administrator. […]

Project with a WHILE loop does not publish correctly as a video.

WHILE Loop does not work when published as a video.

Training Supplement

A sample activity that can be used to help generate discussion or reinforce concepts provided in a training session.

Add Closed Captions to Your 360° Videos in Captivate 2019

In this Adobe Captivate video tutorial, I show you my workaround for getting closed captions into your 360° video slides or projects. Eventually, I hope that Adobe comes up with a simplified workflow that doesn’t require this solution, but in the meantime, this will get you through it.

Automated CC Timing

Hello, Is there a way to include a sidecar file such as .dfxp to automate closed caption timing into a video in captivate? I have access to .dfxp files of my script and would love to implement that rather than time every block of cc text. Thanks, Sharon