I have been a fan of Adobe and Captivate for many years maintaining active subscriptions for years. However, the amount of time I had with my previous employer to acquire new skills was minimal because we are always in survival mode due to growth and limited resources. I have moved to a new position with a new organization that has enabled me to finally dive more in-depth into the tools and the community. I have rapidly consumed information through the […]
Do you want to know about the latest innovations and what’s new with Captivate and the e-learning industry? Attend the Adobe eLearning Summit 2017 in Las Vegas. Here’s what makes you eligible for a free pass Share your e-learning or Captivate-based learning, best practices, or an instructional video in the Community Portal. Here are a couple of blogs as references for the format and style of content: Adobe Captivate 2017 Social learning Update your profile. To update your profile: Mouse […]
What is social learning and how can you use it to foster collaborative learning As learning professionals, most of us are familiar with the 70:20:10 Model for Learning and Development that describes how learning happens. According to this, most of us pick: 70 percent of our knowledge from our on-the job experiences 20 percent from interactions with others 10 percent from structured or formal training It is no surprise that today more and more companies are using some form of social […]
On July 25, 2017, Adobe made the following announcement: Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats. This announcement has a major impact on any organization which has e-learning courses published to run in Adobe Flash player. And for more than a decade, if you took or built an e-learning course, chances are […]
Are you an Instructional Designer looking for inspiration? Here are 5 Instructional Design books you should add to your must-read list. Top 5 Instructional Design Books For Instructional Design Professionals The field of Instructional Design is filled with a plethora of theories and practices. Thus, educating yourself on the current thinking and foundational principles is vital to the success of your Instructional Design career. Reading up on the field is important whether you are just starting out or need to refresh […]
Adobe has long played a leadership role in advancing interactivity and creative content – from video, to games and more – on the web. But as open standards like HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly have matured over the past several years, most now provide many of the capabilities and functionalities that plugins pioneered and have become a viable alternative for content on the web. Given this progress, and in collaboration with several of our technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla – Adobe is planning […]
When I first started using adobe captivate it was purchased for me. I worked as an eLearning designer, developer and of course we used whatever software the company provided. Of course, then the decision isn’t yours to make and you have to use whatever software they give you. But I’ve found myself in different circumstances over the years and perhaps my experience can help you when it comes to making the decision for yourself. Student Teacher Pricing In between jobs, […]
Yes, there are. The community portal has tons of blogs and videos for a newbie to get started on Adobe Captivate. We have curated some posts and videos and arranged them progressively for you to learn Captivate. This tutorial/list, by no means, is complete and comprehensive. We have listed down few high-level topics that span across most of Captivate’s features. Creating projects in Captivate – Learn how to create a responsive and non-responsive project. Creating recording and software simulations – […]
Adobe Captivate 2017 comes with an exciting new workflow to aid in the creation of responsive eLearning courses: Fluid Boxes. Instead of designing multiple slides for different screen sizes (known as breakpoints), you work on a single slide. Fluid Boxes, containers that you insert on the stage and then populate with content, improve the responsive development time significantly. Let’s take a look at the steps to record a responsive simulation with Captivate 2017: To begin, start Captivate 2017 and double-click […]
Adobe Captivate 2017 is packed with a ton of new features. One that you may have missed is the new WHILE condition in Advanced Actions. Even if you did notice it, you may be wondering: What is the point? Why would I use that? Or, how would I use that? Well how about something like this demo course? Please read on to discover how I built that demo. WHILE conditions have been used in programming since… well, since there has […]
This demo course and post explains how to use a free Firebase account to collect and display all user data live in real time. Play with the live example here (click the launch course button, upper right): http://elbrotherscustom.com/jk/blogs/cp_fb/ Watch a video of how I made it here: Read more and get the JavaScript here: http://elearningbrothers.com/capture-adobe-captivate-data-real-time/ I will be presenting a similar concept on how to use Google (and other) Analytics as free LMSs at Learning DevCamp June 6th.
Background Two weeks ago I was approached by a Curriculum Design Specialist (CDS) on our team who wanted to make use of a very long interview that she had recorded. Initially she wished to splice the audio file into several podcasts but was grappling with the idea of making her learners do more than just listen. We came up with an idea for integrating other events of instruction, namely: THINK-LISTEN-COMPARE. In order to promote a more active listener during independent […]
