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 […]
The focus of this week’s eSeminar was on application of the Contiguity 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. I suspect that trend will continue as we continue the many part series designed to help put together the best eLearning modules. The Contiguity principle in a nutshell suggests that people learn better when words (either as printed text or spoken words) […]
This patch addresses some of the capture, audio, publish, and upgrade issues in Adobe Captivate 5, along with a few more frequently encountered issues. To know more details and download the patch, please visit Adobe Captivate Support page. Bug Fixes available in this patch are detailed here.
In this article, I would like to add usage of ‘Effects’ in ‘Advance Actions’ to make captivate movie look more effective and jazzy. If you are not familiar with ‘Effects’ feature you might want to refer to this blog post. https://elearning.adobe.com/2010/07/a_picture_is_worth_a.html Before getting into ‘Advanced Actions’, I would like to explain ‘Effect’ nomenclature briefly. To apply an effect, we need a target object on which the effect is applied. Also you might want to configure the effect to possible extent. […]
In the previous post we learnt how to create triggered effects in Captivate. In this post we will focus on custom effects. One of the cool feature in Captivate 5 is you can create custom effects (which are not present in captivate by default) in Flash and import it in Captivate. Following Demo shows how to create vibrate effect (similar effect when you type wrong password in Mac log-in screen). Basic Steps are: 1) Create desired effects in Flash using […]
When an Adobe Captivate SWF is distributed to clients to be launched locally on the client machine using the browser or standalone Flash player, there are chances of the SWF being launched from an untrusted location. When this happens Alternate Reporting will not be able perform the necessary task. This is because of Flash Player’s Security policy. How does the client identify this? When an Adobe Captivate SWF is locally launched on the client machine from an untrusted location, an […]
Last week Tristan Ward (creator of the Widget Factory) treated me to another lesson in development of Widgets for Adobe Captivate using the development library he created. It was a great opportunity to learn more about widgets and how they work in Captivate and it was incredible to be able to build a widget from scratch so quickly. Tristan picked up the lesson where we left off (see the first widget development eSeminar online for more) and he walked me […]
I sometimes spend time meeting young people with broken or ineffective memes. The word meme itself is a combination of ‘gene’ and ‘mimesis’ (effectively referencing mimic or that which can be imitated.) It was coined by Richard Dawkins, and is a logical outcome of the shifting sands underpinning thought about the transmission of ideas in society. A practical way to think of a meme is that its an idea that can spread like a virus. In fact there’s a whole […]
We know that ‘Advanced Actions’ help you develop dynamic content rapidly. I would like to add few tips on Advanced Actions in this tutorial. Probably most of you would already have found these workarounds/hacks. Let me take you through the topics that are covered in this tutorial. How to compare a variable with an empty string? How to mix ‘Standard Actions’ and ‘Conditional Actions’? How to compare a variable with an empty string? Say in your course, on the first […]
The Adobe Learning Summit 2011 registrations are now open. Date – 21st March 2011 Venue – Hilton, Walt Disney world resort, Orlando. We will be co-located with Learning Solutions 2011. Join leading eLearning designers, developers, trainers, industry experts and Adobe product teams in a collective explosion of information, imagination, and inspiration. Catch Steven Johnson , best-selling author of six books, speak on Where Good Ideas Come From followed by informative sessions spread across four parallel tracks – Innovation and emerging tech, Best practices, eLearning for […]
The Find and Replace palette can be invoked by using the shortcut “Ctrl + F” or it can be selected from the Edit Menu and choosing “Find and Replace” option. Legacy users may find that, in Captivate 4 from being a dialog, it is a palette in Captivate 5 which can be docked in any of the panels or left floating anywhere on your screen. The find and replace feature is highly effective in global text changes in your project […]
Adobe Captivate 5 provides the ability to check spelling for text in your project such as text captions, slide notes, text animations and quizzes. Compared to Adobe Captivate 4, Adobe Captivate 5 has been enhanced to check spelling of text in Buttons and Table of Contents also. Before you start spell check, you can customize the type of words you want check via the Spelling Options dialog. These are provided under ‘General Settings’ in the Preferences dialog. You can also […]
Frame rate is the number of frames (images) that are shown per second when a video is playing. When a video is being played, typically about 20-30 frames are shown per second depending on the need. Within this limit, more the number of frames per second (FPS) less jerky the video is. Let us consider a video with lot of action, say a soccer game .The video keeps changing at a fast rate. So, the video is typically encoded in […]
