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 […]

Wanting to import/use a branded PPT slide as a background for Quizzes

I have a PPT slide that has (off to the side) our company’s corporate colors and branding. I would like to use this slide in Captivate 2019 as the background for the quizzes I want to develop for training purposes. That is, the quizzes would appear on the screen (and function as intended), but so would the graphic elements of the corporate slide behind them as a static image. Is there a way this can be done without painstaking trying […]

CP2019’s Tiny Gems

Three small changes discovered in Captivate version 11 (CP2019) which can save time/frustration.

Project is not loading on web server…

I am using Adobe Captivate version of 2017 Release – 10.0.0.192 Project is working on Local machine while uploading on web server it is not loading. Please Guide if there is any specific publish setting or Tell us solution to resolve this issue. Please Note: I have tested on Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer and even on Mac Safari Browser. Please check the attachment. Thanks in advance, Yogesh  

CSV Questions Import in Adobe Captivate (2019 release)

Adobe Captivate (2019 release) supports importing of questions from a CSV file. The CSV file contains questions in a pre-defined format can be imported in Captivate to create question slides or question pools. Managing questions made simpler in Captivate 2019 as many of us uses CSV to create question banks. The question types supported in CSV import : True/False Multiple choices Matching Fill in the Blank Short answer How to create a CSV file with questions? The CSV can be […]

Unable to open file created by someone else

I had someone early this year do a lot of updating of existing Captivate files. Some of these need to be updated again, but neither myself or any of my team can open any of the files she created. They all open fine on her computer, so I would assume there is no file corruption. The project has never been opened on my computer so there is no cache or back-up on my computer. The error seems to indicate that any […]

Captivate 2017

I have been trying to download the free trial for Captivate 2017 and I’m redirected from Adobe to a ProDesignTools website, where two files are shown for my 64bit Windows OS.  I cannot get file 1 to download and continue to get an error saying “file archive part of Adobe Captivate is missing”. Can anyone assist me with getting Adobe Captivate 2017?  Thank you.

Uploading a Sample Project to the Adobe eLearning Community

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can share a published Adobe Captivate project with other eLearning professionals to showcase or review your work.

Adobe Captivate 2019 released – A Quick Review on All New Features

Adobe Captivate makes a hard impression with its astonishing features in its new release, Adobe Captivate 2019.

A Financial Literacy Program Created with Captivate 2019

This showcase presents a module taken from a larger Financial Literacy program created for a client. The module was originally created in PowerPoint as a backdrop for a recorded video that would delivered as a self study course via the web. All content has been “sanitized” but the general structure is similar. Specifically, each module was presented as a series of lessons with the first being an overview, the second exploring myths and the final consisting of a series of […]

Captivate 2019 review

Captivate 2019 features review Virtual reality  It’s great to see Adobe leading the charge and bring V.R. to learning. This new feature will be great for creating ‘risk free’ safety drills, orientations and much, much more allowing developers to bring an immersive experience to their learners.There are plenty of options to make to content interactive with a good selection of hotspots to choose from, such as, inserting audio, text and images and a neat Active Gaze feature that automatically launches […]

User Group in Toronto/Ontario?

The title says it all; I’m wondering if there is a Captivate user group in Toronto,or somewhere else in Ontario.