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 […]
Some Adobe Captivate 4 users on XP have problems installing the product. It might be because the Windows registry is corrupt or has incorrect permissions. You could see following problems in such a case – 1)Captivate fails to install properly. 2)While doing audio import/record you get “Unable to decode / import the selected wav/mp3 file” as error message. 3)Audio recording , calibration or editing does not work. 4)Fullmotion recording does not start . Solution: You can use SubInAcl tool from […]
Captivate 4 Book,Kevin Siegel Here comes first book on Adobe Captivate 4 – Essentials of Adobe Captivate 4 which is a part of series of two books, second being Adobe Captivate 4: Beyond the Essentials. Read the announcement here. It starts with a bird’s eye view of planning eLearning projects, the process involved in it and time/ budgetary considerations and prepares you for what to expect from your authoring tool- all in simple and jargon free terms. It further deals […]
LMS reporting,captivate 4,sumtotal In Captivate 4 several changes have been made to Quiz preferences so that content developers can choose the right option for their LMS. Captivate content has been tested against some of the popular LMS along with ADL Test suite to ensure standard compliance. Here I would like to highlight some of the Quiz Reporting options one has to choose for tracking Captivate 4 SCORM compliant content. Report Status - Complete/Incomplete – cmi.lesson_status will be set to Complete/Incomplete […]
We found that in some of Vista machines with Real tek or Sigma tel sound card audio inside captivate doesn’t play back. Some customers who use USB mic for recording narration also observed that device is not getting detected by Captivate. These issues were reported more on Vista and we have one solution to address both the problems. – replacing the audio dll’s , Steps Close Captivate 4 if it is open. Download the file kept at https://share.acrobat.com/adc/document.do?docid=a14e1bd9-dc10-4456-9cd2-44489809b78e Go to […]
Adobe Captivate,Rapid e-learning authoring,Captivate Preferences,eLearning Have you ever found yourself manually changing the ‘Timing’ and ‘Transition’ properties for every Adobe Captivate object in your e-learning project? Have you torn out your hair everytime you had to change the ‘Timing’ & ‘Transition’ properties of Captivate objects for each e-learning project you made in Captivate? Did you know that Captivate allows you to share/re-use these object default values across slides, projects and sessions? In Adobe Captivate 4, we have added a facility […]
customizing captivate playbar,localizing captivate playbar,captivate 4 Consider a scenario where you want to create content in some different language, say German or Hindi. You created the content properly, but then you discover that the play-bar shows its tool-tips in English. Did you know that you can localize the play-bar tooltips to match your content? This post shows you how… Img 1. English tool-tips Img 2. Italian tool-tips
Captivate,cp files disappearing,e-learning Some Captivate 3 users have faced a strange and unfortunate problem of .cp file suddenly disappearing after saving and closing the captivate. A possible reason for this has been analyzed and fixed in Captivate 4. However for the Captivate 3 users I can suggest a possible workaround to recover the project. If this problem happens, immediately look for a .tmp file (after closing Captivate) in the same folder where your .cp file was supposed to be. If […]
Adobe Captivate,Captivate webinar,Adobe eLearning suite RJ, our eLearning evangelist, will be conducting a live eLearning session on ‘Getting started with the new features in Adobe Captivate 4’. The session will provide you good working knowledge on the new features in Captivate 4 like Templates, Text-to-Speech, SWF Reviewer, Variables and Scripting, Widgets, TOC, Aggregator, new publish options, PSD import and more. RJ’s sessions are always packed with information and very interactive; hence they also tend to get filled very early. So […]
Adobe eLearning Suite,LMS,LMS Adapter,Flash,SCORM,AICC,elearning Developing content that plays well across multiple LMS’s is one of the key challenges faced by today’s eLearning professional. LMS standards can vary from SCORM1.2 to AICC to SCORM 2004. If content created for a SCORM 1.2 LMS needs to run on an AICC complaint LMS, the author will need to make laborious code changes in his content. The new LMS Adapter in the Adobe eLearning Suite makes this LMS interoperability seamless- and enables authors […]
Adobe Captivate,PowerPoint Audio,Captivate Audio This post will give you all the details on how Captivate handles audio in imported PowerPoint slides. PowerPoint presentations usually have two kinds of sound support – Narration and Object Sounds. Narration is the voice-over which you record with the slide (say, reading out bullet points). Object sounds are the event sounds (say, an applause sound when user does a correct action). Captivate 4 handles these sounds differently: Narrations – are extracted from PowerPoint slides and […]
Adobe Captivate,Captivate TOC Image 1. Default TOC Image 1 shows the default captions in TOC that Adobe Captivate creates. Captivate allows us to change the captions in TOC so that the TOC can look like the example shown in Image 2. Image 2. TOC with changed captions Now let’s see how we can do it.
Captivate 3 doesn’t preview inserted animations, FLV’s if the user system has Flash player 10. This is a bug in Cp3 and this bug doesn’t affect preview in browser or published SWF. The preview code of cp3 looks for installed flash version and if it doesn’t find anything between Fp 6 to Fp9 it publishes the preview in Fp6 and hence animations which are greater than 6 and FLV don’t show up in preview. For preview in browser and publish […]
