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 […]

Demystifying Gamification vs Game based eLearning

Wondering what the main differences between Gamification And Game-Based eLearning really are and how you can identify each one of the two in order to choose the best for you? Check an overview of demystifying Gamification And Game-Based eLearning.

Create Video demos

Video demos in Adobe Captivate are a way to demonstrate product capabilities in video format. You might want to create a video demonstration of your product. You could also use this to demonstrate a new product feature. In this document, let’s create a video demonstration of a feature in PowerPoint.

Need access to Captivate training videos?

Request the experts on the forum to guide us to good Captivate training videos or information to learn advanced customizable features in Captivate beyond the standard responsive course development.

Quiz Feedback Messages in Fluid Boxes

Editing individual Feedback messages on quiz slides in a Fluid Boxes responsive project.

Responsive eLearning with Captivate 2017 – Part 1: Creating a responsive project

You can create responsive courses in Adobe Captivate using two different ways: The first way, which is available in version 8, 9, and 2017 is with the use of Breakpoints. You can learn more about using breakpoints to create responsive courses here. The second way, which was introduced in Captivate 2017, is by using Fluid Boxes to create responsive courses. This new workflow allows you to easily create responsive projects, which makes it possible for you to design content for […]

A quick chat!

I’m looking to have a quick chat with training and eLearning professionals to know about their content creation workflow, challenges, and requirements. Would you be interested in participating in it and spare about 30 minutes of your time to talk to me on these topics? This will be an anonymous and informal chat session and you or your organization will not be quoted anywhere. Your responses will solely be used for product improvement. If the answer is yes, write to […]

Flexible Height of text caption and smartshape

Hello! I have a big problem with text in text captions and smartshapes. I want to make the height of “text captions” or “smartshape” automatically be changed according to the width of screen (with the different devices). Logically the the text wraps according to the width of “Text Caption” or “smart shape” and the height of them should be also changed. The problem is the height of these elements changed only with changing of break points (maximum 5 changes with […]

Accessibility in Adobe Captivate

It’s a big day today in the world of accessibility, as the W3C today introduced the latest update to WCAG Standards. These are the guidelines used to ensure that content and software accommodates the needs of diverse audiences. The new standard augments the previous set (version 2.0) and is given the new version number (2.1.)  You can read all about it in this fantastic overview from Andrew Kirkpatrick, Adobe’s Group Product Manager for Accessibly. You may at this point find […]

Add standard objects

Objects in Captivate are the building blocks of content. Let’s use the different types of objects in Captivate to add content to our project. In this section, we will use objects to add content in the form of text and images. We will also use smart shapes to provide interactivity for our users.

Newbie Quick Captivate Tip: Visiting the VISITED State

New to Captivate? Here’s a quick guide to the VISITED state.