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 […]
We recently updated the eLearning channel on AdobeTV with seven new shows, containing close to 40 new episodes. Most of these are tutorials created for Adobe Captivate 5 and eLearning Suite. The tutorial videos cover both the new and pre-existing features of Captivate. They also discuss the new UI and workflows in detail. Mark Fletcher, our community expert, has done a wonderful job in creating these videos. The videos are tagged and organized by Captivate function; And also allow you […]
The article quickly describes what’s new in Quizzing of Captivate 5. Also how it makes the life of both a quiz maker and quiz taker easier, quicker and simpler. Insert multiple questions at a time Quiz -> Question Slide… menu opens an insert question dialog. In Captivate 4, I could have inserted only 1 question at a time. The dialog needs to be invoked as many times as many questions were to be inserted. On the better hand, insert question […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
