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 […]

Not Just Another Learning Community

As an instructional designer and content developer I make a habit of trying to stay up to date on the tools available for eLearning development. I regularly will download trail versions of software when new versions come out and will spend time evaluating them. Usually I will spend a few hours over a few days going through the software, following YouTube tutorials learning the basics (enough to keep the title on my resume). Last month, I applied for an instructional […]

#eLearning #LIVESTREAM – Drag and Drop for 2017 – July 24, 2017, 16:00 EDT

In this very practical live stream I will be covering some key things about drag and drop in Adobe Captivate 2017. My hope is that we will all walk away learning something new (including me). Please share your questions and your own best practices so we can all get awesome with drag and drop. Follow the link right now to set up a reminder for yourself so you get notified when this LIVE STREAM goes live. https://youtu.be/m1EOeXDy6ZQ Use the same […]

Captivate kompakt: Klassische vs. responsive Projekte

In diesem Video erkläre ich Ihnen die Unterschiede zwischen klassischen und responsiven Projekten in Adobe Captivate 2017.  

The Death of the (e)Learning Course Objectives Screen

I have conducted lots of facilitator led training during my career, in areas such as leadership development, human resources, software training, and coaching/mentoring.  And every course that I’ve ever developed or conducted started with a slide which began with the statement, “After completing this course, you will be able to . . . “ That statement was immediately followed usually by 4 or 5 learning objectives, depending on the amount of classroom hours scheduled. It only seemed natural then, that […]

NeoSpeech language support in Captivate

Adobe Captivate supports text-to-speech via NeoSpeech. Text-to-speech, simply put, is a process that converts any text into a spoken output. In Captivate, you can include intonations, inflections, pauses, etc. in your speech output. This is a must-use feature if you want to create engaging and interactive learning content. For more information on text-to-speech in Captivate, see this blog. Language support Captivate only supports the following languages in NeoSpeech voice: English Canadian French Korean The following speech agents are available: Bridget […]

Opening Captivate Files from Previous Versions of Captivate in 2017

Hi all, I was wondering if you can open Captivate files from older versions of Captivate. I’m moving into consulting and currently have the latest version, 2017, and was just wondering what limitations there are with this. Also, is it still possible to buy the older versions like 8 and 9? Thanks Luke

Create Custom Art and Pattern Brushes in Illustrator Part 2

Here, I’ll discuss some tools I use when creating my airplane “profile style” art. These are my techniques, and by no means the only way to get the job done. I hope these help you with your projects!

Create Custom Art and Pattern Brushes in Illustrator Part 1 of 2

Here, I’ll discuss some tools I use when creating my airplane “profile style” art. These are my techniques, and by no means the only way to get the job done. I hope these help you with your projects!

Creating A GIFT Formatted Import File Using Moodle LMS

For Captivate users who also use Moodle as your LMS, you can easily export quiz questions in the GIFT quiz format that can then be imported into Captivate. So if you have questions banks filled with quiz questions, you can easily import those questions into Captivate.

Captivate 2017: It’s where the Grown-Ups Work

I was in the process of responding to a current post when I quickly realized I was typing a testimonial – so I thought I’d put it in this forum instead. I can’t speak to Lectora or the latest versions of Storyline, but I’ve used both Captivate (starting with version 3 all the way through the 2017). I’m also a regular user of Storyline 2 as well as Camtasia Studio.  Let me tell you, there are days when I’m in […]

4 reasons why you need to be at the Adobe Learning Summit 2017

Having the opportunity to attend my first conference not too long ago had a huge impact on my outlook towards community based learning. We’ll be following up with more posts specifically around what to expect at ALS 2017, session tracks, speakers,sneak peeks on new tech. For now, we’ll give you 4 reasons why you should attend ALS 2017 in October at The Mirage in Las Vegas. Click here to register – Adobe Learning Summit “They have webinars”, “You would be losing […]

Flipping Training on its Head: Getting Started with a Performance Support Video Solution (Part 2)

Last week, I posted a blog article in which I discussed how performance support video solutions are flipping training on its head. In that article, I talked about how traditional training stresses participants learning something at a defined time – and then going into the work area and doing what it is they learned.  I then shared how in my own experience of developing performance support tools, I realized that the DO occurs first and is followed by LEARN.  After […]