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 […]

Captivate 2019

Hello First time user of Adobe captivate 2019. I am really struggling share content after publishing content to all devices. I am getting a bunch of files created after the publish button is used. Question how do I distribute the content to my other devices? do I use the index file? I thought it would be a simple process, I can’t seem to work it out today. Any good learning videos anywhere? Mark

Understanding/Using System Variables – part 1

Introduction to system variables, focus on the categories of system variables which are read only. Post includes a downloadable table with definitions and references to articles with use cases. Later articles will focus on the category Movie Control, on user variables, and on their meaning in simple, advanced and shared actions.

Selecting Your LMS

Selecting an LMS is a daunting experience for even the most seasoned Learning & Development managers. Some tip to look out for when selecting your LMS.

Is that as big as it gets? Text pop out box

Can anyone shed any light on why Captivate is so keen to put the text pop out icon  next to my work? I thought that my text would fill up an entire fluid box before that icon appears, but it is coming up for all my titles. Here is  a screenshot of 1pt past the maximum size I’m able to make in Cp: There is no padding in the FB, no hidden spaces or carriage returns. There seems to be […]

Setting your Adobe Captivate Dimensions

In this video tutorial, I show you how to set and resize the dimensions of various types of eLearning projects including responsive and non-responsive projects.

Using Advanced Actions to change state of an object but it’s not working

Hi there, In Captivate 9, I have created a module where I want to use advanced actions to change the state of buttons. I’ve setup the following Completed state on a button. On slide 12, the users clicks this button, which jumps them to the next slide. On entry into this slide, I have assigned a variable with the value of 1. The user completes a few slides. Then on slide 15 I have an advanced action set on entry […]

My first and only authoring tool.

My experience with Adobe Captivate.

Pan and Zoom BUG ?

Hi, I got a problem with last version of captivate 2019 (Windows 10) and the function PAN and ZOOM. I would like to know if somebody else as this problem cause the support chat online could not help me for now (maybe they write to me in few days). In a demo video, I use zooms with 0,5 to 1 second fading. For zooming OUT to initial size(100%), I use pan and zoom again (with0,5 or 1s) but whatever the […]

10 Awesome Ways To Use Mobile Learning For Employee Training

Mobile learning for employee training is fast becoming an essential part of training delivery. In this article, I share 10 ways to showcase how you can use mobile learning for employee training for formal training and Performance Support (job aids). How To Use Mobile Learning For Employee Training The usage of mobile learning began in earnest a decade ago, and this was essentially to complement or support traditional eLearning. Over the last few years, the adoption of mobile learning for […]

Add an External User

This article explains how to add an external user to your Prime Account. An external user is someone who does not belong to the immediate organization, but to perhaps a partner or an associate concern. Adding an external user allows them to participate in training you enroll them in and take on any role you may give them within the LMS.

Drag and Drop, Question Submit button

In Drag and Drop question, only incorrect option should get reset and correct option should stick with position. In question, can we convert submit button to Next button after attempting the question. How to convert question feedback to speech bubbles, I am not able to find the option.