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 […]

E-learning In India, It’s Advantages And Disadvantages

E-learning in India has come a long way with the development of technology. India is one of the nations that is developing at an exponential rate in terms of technology. With the population of more than 1.3 billion, the availability of  high-speed internet and smartphones, India has the most number of technologically driven persons. The rise of the internet has changed the way of life in India. People like to do everything online, they shop online, do business online, make friends […]

Freezing Error – Spinning Wheel – SCORM 2004 (4th edition) files dont work in LMS when published using Captivate 2019.

I was creating SCOMR 2004 4th edition files in Adobe Captivate 9.0.230 and it worked just fine in the LMS. I took the same source file and created the SCORM 2004 4th edition video in Adobe Captivate 2019, but the videos dont work in the LMS. It just hangs on spinning wheel. Below is the console error I get – any help would be greatly appreciated. Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property ‘charAt’ of undefined at cp.QuizState.readNumber (eval at e (CPXHRLoader.js:37), […]

Patch work in Video Demo

After creating video demo, I added small square shpe to hide one mistake. Colour of the shape box set exactly same to that of video. Everything was ok in preview. But when final Video created in publishing, color of that patch shpaed change slightly consequently one can easily identify that patchwork. Any solution to that?

Simulation of

This is Part-1 of “Windows 7 OS” Simulation where you can try many functions of real Windows 7. What you can do with this: Enter into CMOS setup (if you wish, press ‘DEL’ key just after pressing ‘power on’ button. Login with appropriate user. Password for User ‘C.K. Shah’ is 321 You can change the Theme of Windows 7 by right-clicking on Desktop and selecting “Personalization” You can even see “Resolution” by same way. Other feature of the right-click menus […]

Demo on ‘Windows 7 OS’ Simulation

This is Video of Demonstration of “Windows 7 OS simulation” developed in/using Captivate. The main Simulation would be uploaded in Blog section. This video shows how to use the simulation. Note: After seeing this, don’t forget to see (feel) REAL simulation uploaded in Blog section of this site.

Filling a button with a picture.

This short tutorial is about inserting a graphic into a smart shape and using it as a button.

Syncing Captivate with PPT

I have imported a PPT into Captivate but later made adjustments to my original PPT.  When I’m trying to update or sync with PPT through Captivate, it will not sync.  How can I get the presentation to sync within Captivate without starting over? Thanks!

Creating Interactive Fingering Charts via Captivate-Part 3

This project demonstrates a recorder fingering chart built in captivate. The chart is interactive, displaying the pitch created by the chosen fingering.

Q&A: Audio in Captivate

Tips and Tricks for Audio clips with Captivate’s audio management features.

Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter of “From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice”

Last October, I posted some recommended reading that complemented one of my classes on gamification.  I’ve since started writing chapter summaries (here is the first one) so people can “preview” some of the great books out there and hopefully end up reading them! Here is this month’s chapter summary.  The full chapter is available for free on Sasha Barab’s web site and I highly recommend it. Chapter 2: From Practice Fields to Communities of Practice by Sasha Barab and Thomas […]

Captivate not running Vimeo videos in IE11 and below

I have courses new and old built in a few different versions of Captivate (I’m currently using 2019) and when I play them in IE11 and earlier the vimeo videos won’t stream,  it looks like the video starts to load (a blurred version of the first frame appears) but then nothing else happens. 

Captivate newbie

When using a shape to create buttons I am experiencing the following difficulties: (Captivate 2017) 1. I can’t find the Storyline equivalent of size/position option. The Button Properties Reference Guide indicates the size and position of the button (X Y coordinates, width, height) as part of the options tab/Transform. No matter what I do, all I see is Audio and angular positioning options. What am I missing? 2. Also, every time I drag a duplicated button (in a responsive project) […]