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 […]

Creating a custom question slide with True/False options

There are probably millions of different quiz-type interactions that we can imagine,  of which only a few Captivate can provide as pre-formed quiz slide types.   Captivate tries to provide a sufficiently flexible environment to create unique quiz interactions but it is really easy to get lost in the user interface trying to find just the right combination of functions.   In this short article,  we’ll go through the process of creating a quiz slide with the following characteristics: The […]

Partnership of UDL (Universal Design for Learning) and Captivate

Course designs should aim to progress the learner on the continuum from novice to expert and allow participants to engage with the content in ways that support lifelong learning. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework to assist curriculum developers in designing curricula to reduce barriers, as well as optimize levels of challenge and support, to meet the needs of all learners. UDL focuses on three main principles: content representation, content engagement, and learning expression. The following is a […]

Dear Instructional Designer

I’m always on the lookout for new knowledge. While generally, this is usually the more technical aspects of being an eLearning instructional designer, I also like to work on my knowledge of adult learning principles and other more foundational and theoretical stuff as well. I have listened to instructional design podcasts before but I’ve quickly become disinterested in many of them. Too often they are opportunities to show off how advanced the host is as they attempt to impress you […]

SCORM 2004 data in Cornerstone OnDemand

When speaking with other Captivate authors who publish their files in Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD), the most frequent complaint regarding CSOD is the lack of quality, usable reporting of SCORM 2004 data. CSOD has a total of three SCORM 2004 reports and only one of these reports, the ‘Course Assessment Question Item Analysis’ (CAQIA), gives you data showing what users have selected or entered for graded SCORM objects. Unfortunately, all of the data you get is aggregated together so you can’t […]

Adobe eLearning RoadshowIThe Complete eLearning Journey | Sydney

The Complete eLearning Journey | Sydney Tuesday 28 March 2017, 03:00 AM – 05:00 AM Register: Register Wouldn’t it be great if you could take charge of your eLearning environment right from storyboarding your ideas to generating responsive eLearning courses to being able to effectively deploy and track your learners’ performance? With Adobe eLearning solutions, you can: 1) Give expression to your ideas using Adobe Captivate Draft, the storyboarding app for iPads. 2) Enrich the storyboards and turn them into […]

Adobe Roadshow IThe Complete eLearning Journey | Melbourne

The Complete eLearning Journey | Melbourne Friday 31 March 2017, 03:00 AM – 05:00 AM Register: Adobe elearning Roadshow Wouldn’t it be great if you could take charge of your eLearning environment right from storyboarding your ideas to generating responsive eLearning courses to being able to effectively deploy and track your learners’ performance? With Adobe eLearning solutions, you can: 1) Give expression to your ideas using Adobe Captivate Draft, the storyboarding app for iPads. 2) Enrich the storyboards and turn […]

Hide Playback Control Bar Until User Clicks Other Buttons

In this video, I show you how you can hide your playback control bar until users click other buttons.  

Adobe eLearning Conference(East) – 2017

Adobe eLearning Conference(East) – 2017 Event Date: April 19, 2017 at 8:00 AM EDT Hosted By: Adobe & Carahsoft Location: Washington, DC   Join our interactive conference with industry luminaries, eLearning and learning experts, and Adobe product teams to discover how to stay ahead in today’s rapidly evolving learning scenario. Register today and become an active participant in the community that is at the forefront of eLearning creation, delivery, and management. Agenda:  Time Session 8:00am – 9:00am Registration and Networking Breakfast […]

What the heck does the confirmation message

I received a short question today: “I can’t figure out what the confirmation message Copy-Paste all references does.” Here’s what this is about. Ready? This is referring to the Confirmation Message in the Preferences. Whenever you copy an object in Captivate, you copy anything that is “attached” to it. Here are some examples: 1. If you copy an object that has an audio file attached to it, when you paste the copied object, it will carry the audio file with […]

Why Can’t I Choose Whether to Preserve Formatting When Formatting Text?

A very common problem I see among us Captivate users is that we get annoyed by confirmation dialog boxes so we often choose the option “Don’t ask me this again” when we see them. Here is a case in point: The problem is that we later forget that such a dialog existed and we wonder why, for instance, we don’t get to choose how to format the text we’re pasting. The solution is to go to Preferences > General Settings > […]

Transparent Buttons versus Smart Shape Buttons

In this video, I show you how you can create your own multi-state object buttons using transparent buttons and smart shape buttons. I also compare a couple of differences between the two and provide an example of when to use one over the other.  

Microlearning-Gather your ingredients

It’s being seen and analyzed as the trend of 2017 for education and all around learning and development. The ecosystem of learning for consumers is overwhelmed, impatient and distracted. In the early days of the internet a study earmarked that a person logged on 5 times a day, present day it could be as much as 27 times, content creators have between 7 and 10 seconds to grab an users attention before they click away. in 2017 employees find themselves […]