NotificationIt’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 […]
– 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.
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
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 Learning Management Systems have you work with and how would you compare them? Have you registered for AEW 2021 yet?
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?
– 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?
Share your thoughts Have you registered for AEW 2021 yet?
Entry #4 in the Captivate Game and Puzzle Series – Code Cracker!
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 […]
Introduction to a new series about Games and Puzzles.
An introduction to a new series of postings : The JavaScript Idea Series
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Big Sur (macOS 11) update for Adobe Captivate (2019 release) is here!
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
About three years ago Adobe came out with a drag and drop interaction for Adobe Captivate 8. It’s often used as a question slide either in your knowledge checks or final quiz, however as most will tell you it doesn’t behave exactly like a regular question slide. In this video tutorial, I show you how I maintain some consistency between my drag and drop questions and my proper question slides.
As a vendor you may have the best tools a user can buy, but what is it worth, if no one is using them? This is where the power of a community can help, as it stimulates the use of great tools trough social learning. The Adobe eLearning Community shares a wealth of information enabling social learning through video’s, discussions and showcases. Even going beyond the use of the Adobe tools with blogs covering eLearning Wisdom shared by professionals with […]
Big congrats to Kevin Siegel and Jennie Ruby, for the recent publication of his their new book on Presenter 11. If Kevin’s name sounds familiar, you may recognize him from his acclaimed project estimation tool – a very cool widget that let’s you calculate / project project costs for eLearning. This book covers Presenter 11 in solid detail. It approaches the material topically, providing a solid foundation in everything from audio to video and nicely includes quizzing and reporting alongside […]
I would like to start a discussion here regarding what constitutes “final work product” when delivering a course. Do you deliver the Captivate files, or just the exported courses? Do you consider any of your work proprietary? Thoughts?
by Kevin Siegel, COTP Over the past few months, I’ve received more and more calls and emails about the pros and cons of adding background music to eLearning projects (specifically projects created using Adobe Captivate). First and foremost, it’s a simple process to add background in Captivate via Audio > Import to > Background. In the image below, I’ve imported a music file called Acoustic Mellow.mp3. The file comes with Captivate and can be used in your Captivate projects royalty-free. […]
by Kevin Siegel, CTT+, COTP When I teach my live, online Certified Online Training Professional course, one of the core concepts I encourage is blended learning (combining online digital media with traditional classroom teaching concepts). Specifically, there’s great value in integrating eLearning (asynchronous training) with live (synchronous) training by providing access to eLearning content from within the virtual training space. Published eLearning content can typically be provided to online students via a Materials pod or direct link (URL) you type […]
Can I sell my classes I create within Captivate to the public? Is there an option to sell classes in the application?
Those responsible for training delivery understand the value of measuring training effectiveness. Without a formal assessment of training effectiveness, you cannot ascertain the return on investment of your training spend. In this blog, I outline how you can use the Kirkpatrick’s model of training evaluation as a model to measure training effectiveness and impact. I will also show you how this can be further used to determine your Return On Investment (ROI). What is Kirkpatrick’s model of training evaluation? This model […]
Hello Community, In my previous blog I mentioned how I am using Captivate from a web developer’s point of view. As I move more in this direction, focusing on mobile and measuring learning with Google Analytics, the tools are getting more complicated and exciting. For example: I am successfully getting PhoneGap plugins to work when you “publish for devices” to PhoneGap Build. I am working on getting Firebase Authentication to function so a user can log in with Google, Facebook etc., so we can […]
When I participate in events like the 2018 Adobe eLearning Conference, we call them speaking engagements, and that’s certainly part of it. I like to think about this as really an instructor-led classroom session. My YouTube tutorials are often five to ten minutes of instruction, but what I do at the Adobe Live Events is a full hour of demonstration (I don’t use PowerPoint). What you will see from me is one hour of me demonstrating how to do a […]
by Kevin Siegel, COTP, CTT+ As a publisher of such step-by-step workbooks such as “Adobe Captivate: The Essentials” and more, I know first-hand how frustrating it can be when assets mentioned in my books are moved or removed by the software vendors. Take Adobe’s eLearning assets used by Adobe Captivate. With every new release of Adobe Captivate, Adobe posts new (fresh) assets to support the latest and greatest release of Captivate. That’s great. However, the old assets seem to disappear entirely from […]
Scenario Based Learning (SBL) is used extensively as a learner strategy in online learning. Not only does it provide high learner engagement as scenarios depict real life situations making them relatable, it also provides a safe environment to practice and understand consequences of their action. In this blog, I show you how to you can use Scenario Based Learning through 5 examples for both Formal and Informal learning. What is Scenario Based Learning (SBL)? Scenario Based Learning (SBL) in eLearning uses real-life […]
