Oct 4th 2017 is an important date for Pooja Jaisingh and I. With the release of our book “Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017”, the project we have been working on for the last 6 month is now complete. Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and I are the proud co-authors of this book. Paul Wilson and Alice Acker have reviewed the book Tridib Roy Chowdhury has authored the foreword The editorial team at Packt Publishing has ensured the quality of the editorial process. This was an amazing team of exceptional […]
by Kevin Siegel, COTP, CTT+ I received an interesting distress email from a fellow eLearning developer about an issue that caused Adobe Captivate 2017 to crash frequently and otherwise behave erratically. It’s a bug I had not experienced before, and I’d like to share both the issue and the fix. During the recording process, the developer clicked the Settings button on the recording Control Panel. Clicking the Settings button is a common thing to do and opens Captivate’s Preferences dialog […]
Mobile apps are increasingly being seen as the future of learning. Popularity of mobile devices and widespread adoption of mLearning or mobile learning is providing them the required push. In this article, I outline 10 reasons why your learning strategy must include mobile apps for learning. Why You Need To Use Mobile Apps For Learning In Your Learning Strategy Before deep-diving into the reasons why you should integrate mobile learning trends such as mobile apps for learning in your learning strategy, let’s take […]
When it comes to using different Adobe products in conjunction with Captivate, you needn’t think of yourself as being Kofi Annan trying to get different Adobe assets sat round the same table engaging in meaningful dialogue. Captivate plays nicely with the other software out of the box, but let’s look at an exciting way to turn Captivate and Photoshop into kissing-cousins, which will give you a rock-solid way to quickly alter image assets made in Photoshop, across your entire Captivate project, […]
Modern-day employees expect a lot more from trainings. Organizations need flexible and exciting approaches to keep them hooked. This article outlines how you can use Mobile Learning to increase employee engagement and boost employee performance. Using Mobile Learning To Increase Employee Engagement And Boost Performance Mobile learning or mLearning involves the use of mobile technology to enable learning anytime and anywhere on mobile devices at the learners’ own pace. Generally, the same training would be available across multiple devices (desktops, laptops, […]
Why this short post? If you have read my article about the 3 most important stumbling blocks for Captivate (newbie) users, you’ll know that Themes are amongst them. The components of themes are described in What’s in a Theme/template. and in this post you’ll learn about he use of Theme colors. Almost daily I see questions, comments on the forums like “I don’t use a theme” which is – sorry for the word – nonsense because every project is based on a theme. The theme […]
As an experienced e-Learning developer, I’ve had a number of folks ask me over the year how I keep my work organized. Given the number of graphics in a course, audio narration files, video segments, and assets created in other programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Camtasia Studio to support your Captivate course, you can easily have hundreds of assets with different file extensions, even for a moderately sized course. To begin, I maintain my course on the C: drive […]
Intro Reusability in Captivate is one of this tool’s most amazing features, but a lot of the possibilities (often time-saving) are not very well known by (starting) users. When I mention the word ‘external library’ in a presentation I see a lot of confused eyes among the participants. Even recently, based on an answer on the forums, someone sent me a message: ‘What are you talking about, never heard about external libraries in Captivate, where can I find them?’. Time […]
by Kevin Siegel, COTP, CTT During the first day of my Adobe Captivate Beginner class, attendees learn how to import and work with both images and videos. During the video portion of the class, we import a Flash Video (flv) which students love because without the background color in the video, it’s possible to include an animated guide throughout a lesson. The problem with Flash Videos is that they can be difficult to create on your own and, worse, there […]
Learn about Adobe Captivate from Experts. Below are links to videos that will guide you through the extraordinary features of Adobe Captivate. Come back to this page often as our collection is always growing. If you have a request for a topic that you don’t find here, please feel free to use the comment section below. And as always we love to hear from you! Adobe Captivate 2017 – Tutorials Useful Resources Adobe Captivate Free Sample Project – CloudAir SoftSkills […]
My favorite method for learning new or enhanced software product is through project development. I find it difficult to master new enhancements working with each in isolation, so I have a tendency to add as many of a software tools enhancements to a single personal learning project as possible. This way I can study the effects the new feathers have on each other and older features. For the new Captivate 2017 release I took a very text intensive tutorial created […]
