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 […]

Captivate Swf Events

Captivate Swf Events are used to achieve a tighter integration between Captivate SWFs and Flash or Flex.Captivate SWF events are fired with the Captivate SWF file as the event source so that external observers (like loader swfs in Flash/Flex or Java script) can take some action based upon these events.

Adobe Presenter installation via eLS2.0 on a machine having a fresh install of Office 2010

Problem Area:  Adobe Presenter 7 does not gets installed when you try to install the same via eLS2.0 on a machine which has a fresh installation of Office 2010 Please note that if you have upgraded to Office 2010 and then you try to install Presenter 7 via eLS2.0, then it should get installed successfully. Problem happens only if Office 2010 installation is a fresh one Workaround: Follow the following steps for installing Adobe Presenter 7 via eLS2.0 on a […]

Acrobat 9 Pro Extended and Presenter 7 activation issue

Problem Area :   User has a valid Acrobat 9 Pro Extended license for Windows Platform .  He downloads and installs the Presenter installer(which supports installation on Office 2010) from Adobe website but is not able to activate Presenter.  Acrobat 9 Pro Extended comes bundled with Adobe Presenter 7. However when user tries to install Presenter 7 from Acrobat installer on a system that has Office 2010, the presenter installer throws an error saying that PowerPoint is not detected The issue […]

Troubleshooting the Adobe Captivate 5.0 Patch installation.

This blog post provides information on troubleshooting problems with installing Adobe Captivate 5.0 patch. You have updated the index.html file in the tutorials folder to fix tutorial issues earlier and patch installation fails. Roll back to the old version of index.html (located at <Installation_folder>/CP_Tutorials/). If you do not have an old version of the index.html file, download it from this link. Install the patch again. Patch installation fails and Captivate doesn’t launch. Uninstall Captivate. Install Captivate 5 (build 596) again […]

Captivate Blog is More than You Might Imagine

Did you know that this year the nearly 30 Authors who contribute to eLearning, rapid eLearning, technology learning, eLearning Software & Adobe eLearning products articles found right here on the Adobe Captivate blog contributed over 125 articles? This team of passionate men and women wrote dozens of sample projects, pondered the latest trends and research in the field, gave advice about the latest technologies and approaches and helped make the blog one of the single most useful resources in the […]

Captivate Patch Now Available via Automatic Update Manager

You may well wake up today to one of those cool little Adobe Automatic Update Messages with an update for Captivate smiling and winking patiently for you. We’re very pleased to announce that the patch for Adobe Captivate 5 is ready for prime time and coming now via Adobe Automatic Update Manager to your already installed copy of Adobe Captivate 5.  (Still wondering about the Flash update to fix the Animated Text Captions issue without using the authoring patch? Read […]

Our Adobe Learning Summit Keynote Speaker: Steven Berlin Johnson

We’re all starting to get genuinely excited for this year’s Adobe Learning Summit. Aside from the beautiful weather in Florida and all the amazing opportunities to learn, the chance to connect with new people is particularly beneficial. In fact in Steven’s latest book & research he identifies our communication and exchange of ideas as a genuinely huge factor in our ability to generate good, creative ideas. Check out this amazing animation which features our ALS keynote speaker, Steven Berlin Johnson […]

Is game based eLearning on the verge of an epic win? Jane McGonigal's Latest Alternate Reality Games Suggest So

As social networking, games and education converge great minds continue to explore the potential of gameplay to encourage and enhance learning. Among the most impressive innovators I’ve encountered in 2010 is Jane McGonigal. McGonigal’s online games have genuinely carved open a wonderful new pathway to human evolution via games. McGonigal’s ideas seem radical at first pass. While it certainly isn’t true that every radical new idea is an evolutionary leap, it is always true that giant leaps look radical when […]

How to Make a Captivate Template (Free Sample Included)

The sample BasicBlueTemplate is available here. You are free to use it for any purpose, modify it, etc. Creating the most effective Captivate eLearning module can present a significant challenge. In addition to defining the learning challenge and building the interactions, you’ve got to figure out what the core aesthetic will be. Whether you’re trying to create the perfect branding solution for your institution or just trying to customize the look and feel of this new module, it can be […]

eSeminar: Creating effective eLearning Modules using the Redundancy Principle

Part 6 of 10 in the Creating effective eLearning Modules Series (Redundancy): http://adobe.ly/ekOKz2 The focus of this week’s eSeminar was on application of the Redundancy Principle of Multimedia eLearning Design and Development. We spent more of our time this week examining application of the principle and a bit less on theory. This trend persists from last week as we continue the many part series designed to help put together the best eLearning modules. Each week I describe an element of […]

What's happening at Adobe Learning Summit 2011?

I’m so excited about Adobe Learning Summit, coming to Orlando on March 21, 2011. We’ll have a bunch of great sessions from Adobe eLearning Evangelists, Engineers & Experts – as well as sessions from industry leading professionals. We’ll kick things off with a great keynote from Award winning Author and Visionary Steven Berlin Johnson. I spoke with Steven by phone a few weeks back and found his ideas on innovation in training & education particularly engaging. We’ll end the day’s […]

About the Upcoming Captivate 5 Minor Patch & the Flash – Animated Text bug

SUMMARY: Issue: Adobe Captivate projects with Animated Text fail to display in browsers using the most recent version of Flash (10.1.102.64) Resolution: An authoring fix for Captivate 5 was created immediately and remains available today. The next version of Flash (expected early 2011) will play Captivate text animations correctly, with or without the authoring fix. Now users may also download a complete patch containing all fixes to date, or wait for the Automatic Update – expected in the next week […]