ATD’s Florida Suncoast Chapter Hosts Regional Conference in September 2019!

It’s hard not to love Florida.  I used to live near Sanford and loved the great restaurants, warm weather, and laid back people.  The humidity will of course destroy your hair, but everyone else has frizz too, so no one notices. ATD’s Florida Suncoast Chapter invites everyone to their regional conference on Friday, September 20.  Details are here.  Pre-conference certificate programs are available.  We’ll be exploring four learning tracks: Training Delivery, Learning Technologies, Talent Management, and Organizational Development.  Those who […]

5 Capabilities to Look for in an Online Teaching Platform in 2019 – Part I

Read only if you are a trainer, educator and teacher who is making a multi-million dollars or believes in making it for your students and yourself with the value of your teachings.So you are a trainer and educator who has been doing on-stage and online teaching for a while now, you know how difficult it is to scale up the online student subscriptions. If you have taken your own online teaching program and have said to yourself “I am better than this when I am with my students”, then this piece of information will be helpful to you.

A Hidden Gem in Captivate.

We all know about the great features of Captivate like Responsive Design, Virtual reality, Interactive videos, Gamification, etc. But there is one hidden gem of a feature in Captivate which is very rarely discussed and that feature is Creating a Mobile App of ‘eLearning Module’ in Captivate itself.

Enrich Without The Expense: 6 Ways To Use Course Content Catalogs To Augment Your Current Online Training Curriculum

‘They’ claim you have to spend money to make money, and within certain conditions,‘they’ are right. But are there situations where you can improve staff performance without additional expenditure?

What You Get with Your Adobe Captivate Specialist Certification

I saw some people asking how the Adobe Captivate Specialist Certification is verified so I wrote up this blog post to answer their question.

Creating Course Presentation in Captivate

Can you embed the Captivate created courses into  LearnDash without tracking capabilities for certificates and awards that are supported using SCORM and Tin Can if the outcome is something you check on the student’s properties? (Like a website or file they upload.)

2017 Captivate Date Format – Month dd, yyyy

I use 2017 Captivate Release 10.0.1.285. I have numerous CBTs that I have created where the User must print a Certificate after completing the Quiz. The only date I can seem to enter is $$cpInfoCurrentDateString$$ but that produces a numerical date only (i.e., 03/09/2019). How can I update this so that it print March 9, 2019?

Multi State Objects. Simple as 1-2-3!

In captivate you can convert any interactive or non- interactive object to a multi-state object. The This was the first multi state object I created during the Adobe Captivate 2019 Specialist Certificate program. I have to say it’s much simpler than the multi-state objects in Captivate 8 and 9.

In this sample the image above has three states:

1. Normal
2. Correct
3. Incorrect

My view on (software) training

Based on my decades of experience with software training, my guidelines for more efficiency, results with training.

Captivate 2017 – Email Action Automatically Populate Subject Line

I am using an Action ‘Send Email to” on Exit so that the user can email a PDF of the certificate of completion to a safety officer in the company. Is it possible to program the Email so that a subject line is automatically populated? For instance, when the Email pops up, the subject line says “certificate of completion for safety program”. Right now the Email subject line and body text is completely blank so the User would have to […]

Calculate Expiry Date (Expression, variables)

Using some user variables and system variables to calculate an expiry date, and store it in a user variable. It can then be inserted on a certificate.

Details of the Adobe Captivate (2019) Specialist Certification experience: The Summit – Part 3 of 3 in a series

Finally I was certified as an Adobe Captivate (2019) Specialist. And so, it was time for the Adobe Learning Summit and the opportunity to hear from industry experts, take time to reflect on my experiences and celebrate in a city that’s built for fun.