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 […]
Results from a comprehensive study conducted by APLU (Association of Public and Land-grant Universities) show that eLearning is growing rapidly in the universities. Key statistics from the survey: “During the past decade, online learning has begun to weave into the fabric of higher education and has become the fastest growing segment,” said Peter McPherson, president of Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (A۰P۰L۰U). “All indications are that this growth will continue” Between 21% to 28% of all faculty are currently […]
Adobe Captivate 4 has a feature using which you can access and control captivate movies from external movies. You can find more details here. Here is how you access Adobe Captivate movie variables from external swf: Action Script 3: root.<variable_name> Ex: root.rdinfoCurrentSlide, root.cpInfoAuthor Action Script 2: _root.<variable_name> Ex: _root.rdinfoCurrentSlide, _root.cpInfoAuthor Note : Few of the variables in Captivate AS2 movie are defined inside movie class. Hence cannot be accessed directly with _root. In these cases _root.movie.<variable_name> is the correct way […]
In the recent past, there have been increasing incidences of dissatisfaction with Adobe’s customer support. I’ve personally tracked and escalated some of this chatter from forums like Twitter and Facebook (Ellen, we heard you ). Below is an open letter, from Adobe’s VP for Tech Support- Lambert Walsh, on what is being done to address this situation. Captivate customer support, customer support, lambert walsh
learning In old computer terminology we used the phrase "garbage in and garbage out". Our school and learning systems have unwittingly added a third element – "garbage tracked". Calvin in another strip comments, that it is no point going to school as he never learns anything there that he wants to learn. As I reflect back to my schooling days, I can hardly recollect a class in a new semester (or terms as we call them in India) starting off […]
learning,e-learning,advanced actions,conditional statments,captivate,quiz You are creating a quiz in your e-learning project in Adobe Captivate. You intend to grant grades(such as A, B,C) to students based on the percentage scored by a student out of total score. This was the use-case I had thrown in my last post. In my last post you learnt how to create an advanced action and add assignment & standard action statments to an advanced action. If you are still wondering as in how to […]
Adobe Presenter, one of the key rapid authoring tools in the Adobe eLearning suite, will be releasing an important product update in the next few weeks. Paresh Kharya, the PM for Adobe Presenter, has covered some of the key highlights of this release in his post on the Connect User Forum. Couple of key feature enhancements that I’m very excited about in this update are: Improved PowerPoint Conversion and PPTX format support: This update would include support for various PowerPoint […]
Here’s another way of sharing your expertise with other Captivate and eLearning Suite users! The Adobe Community Publishing 1.1 beta is live. This new AIR app lets anyone with an Adobe ID publish content on Adobe products and technology directly to Adobe.com. You can contribute tips, movies, code snippets and more with easy-to-use templates. Plus, everyone in the community can rate and comment on contributions. This will help get you featured on our community pages and with enough contributions be […]
eLearning,KILLERS,Constructivism,instructional design,cognitivism,learning theories Is Brandon Flowers and KILLERS thinking of eLearning, when he sings this song? Nah! too much to expect. But, listening to this song yesterday for the nth time got me thinking. So I downloaded the lyrics and tried to look at them this time through the learning eyes. Are we creating eLearning content which is meant for human learning, or are we creating instructional content which is meant to disseminate instructions and hope to provoke expected actions? […]
e-Learning,Captivate,Advanced Actions,Variables,Learning You are creating a quiz in your e-learning project in Adobe Captivate. You intend to grant grades(such as A, B,C) to students based on the percentage scored by a student out of total score. How will you do it?? Well, Advanced Actions can help you. Adobe Captivate allows to execute actions i.e. “Execute advanced action” on various events that happen within a captivate movie while the movie is playing. These events include On slide enter/exit, On interactive object’s […]
elearning,Adobe captivate,Learning,branching Yesterday, I wanted to look up the equation for an ellipse. And I wanted to find this information quickly. So I went to wikipedia typed ellipse and frantically (skimming paragraphs) went over the page, found the information and exited the page. Last week a visit to wikipedia on a related topic on Lithium saw me diving deep into this mazing mineral on whose availability a lot of green movement in based upon. By the way, I learnt that […]
Text2Speech,Pronunciation Adobe Captivate 4 Text-to-Speech feature gives a Dictionary Editor tool to add or change the pronunciation for a word. This tool is available at <Adobe Captivate Installation Dir>VT<agent>M16binUserDicEng.exe. The default version of this tool is not unlocked. So when a word is added/changed and its pronunciation is tested, it announces that it is a trial license. This post explains how to fix this. Follow the steps below to correct this problem in your installation – 1. Open the Windows […]
Variables in Adobe Captivate act as placeholders for data. The relevant data is associated with the variable during user input or when the output SWF is played. Adobe Capativate supports two types of variables: System Variables: These are pre-defined variables, which carry a Captivate movie’s information. In Adobe Captivate, system variables are classified as follows: MovieControl: variables for events that control the movie like pause, resume, previous, next slide, and so on. MovieInformation: variables related to the movie such as […]
