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 […]
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 […]
youtube,adobe captivate,widgets Here is a step by step guide to create a widget. While this is a basic widget it will highlight concepts of the Adobe Captivate 4 widget framework. In future posts we will slowly move to more complex widgets covering other aspects of this framework – Decide user interface of your widget – The user interface should allow users to specify the youtube video url. It will have a label and text input box. Open Adobe Captivate 4. […]
Adobe Captivate,eLearning,rapid eLearning,Templates,Placeholders One of the many good things in Adobe Captivate is the facility to create Project Templates. Project templates are really useful to create identical projects or identical modules in a project. Their “make once and reuse” aspect ensures consistency and saves development time. So what is new in Adobe Captivate 4’s project templates? PLACEHOLDERS!! Placeholders are objects which can be included on the slides in a project template. These placeholders can be converted to respective Captivate objects […]
Captivate,eLearning,Conferences,rapid eLearning,Lectora,Flash Learning Technologies 2009 was held in London, from 28th to 29th of January, 2009. The conference was well attended by around 3000 learning professionals primarily from UK. I was interested to see how the learning and development world was coping with the struggling economic environment and if any trends were emerging in coping with the same. It was heartening to see that the industry was well represented through participation by Adobe, SumTotal, Trivantis, TechSmith, OutStart, NIIT, Tata Interactive, […]
Adobe Captivate 4,E-Learning,SCORM Packager A new addition to Captivate 4 is a separate application called SCORM Packager. It can be used to combine multiple Captivate SCOs, Flash Created swfs, Presenter quiz, Course builder quizzes into a single multi-sco SCORM package (zip). It extends Captivate’s capability of creating a SCORM enabled package by allowing user to combine these packages. This application will be useful when SCORM complaint courses created by different users have to be clubbed together into a single package. […]
rapid eLearning,authoring,scripting-free elearning development Adobe® Captivate® 4 software is packed with new features that help you work faster, collaborate more effectively, and create more realistic and engaging eLearning content with advanced interactivity, software and scenario simulations, quizzes, tables of contents, widgets, and more—all without programming or multimedia skills. Here are the top new features of Adobe Captivate 4 addressing the release goals mentioned above: Productivity, Richness, and Robustness Round-trip PowerPoint workflow Leverage existing Microsoft® PowerPoint® 2007 (PPTX format) slides in […]
Adobe captivate,rapid eLearning,ID,SME Delivering productivity through rapid authoring of complete, complex and rich content Organizations are increasingly looking at rapid development methodologies which can deliver quality eLearning content in days/weeks instead of months, at a fraction of the cost. Adobe® Captivate® 4 is designed to allow organizations to dramatically increase the percentage of courses that can be developed using rapid methodologies. Rapid authoring is taken beyond application simulation and screen capture to allow for the creation of complete end-to-end coursework […]
Adobe Captivate,Best of eLearning Award OK, I did not stage this! When I made the post yesterday about the finalists, I had no idea that the awards were going to be announced the next day. Adobe Captivate 3 has won the Best of eLearning! 2008 award for ‘Best Simulation Tool’. Also, Adobe’s Acrobat Connect Pro won the ‘Best Virtual Classroom’ award. The combination should help streamline your eLearning course delivery. When the latest version of Connect Pro was released, we […]
Rapid eLearning,Traditional eLearning,Adobe Captivate,Adobe Presenter,Flash Professional eLearning can be classified into Rapid and Traditional eLearning. The two are distinguished by multiple facets including- the intended objective, turnaround time and shelf-life. This, to a great extent determines the time and effort an author will spend on creating this content. Rapid eLearning methodologies are best employed for projects that contain frequently updated, time-sensitive content. While the turnaround time for Rapid eLearning projects are a couple of weeks, traditional eLearning projects can take […]
Adobe Captivate,Rapid eLearning,eLearning authoring tool While we have a list of very competent partners and vendors who provide Captivate training, one request I get is for some tutorials right from Adobe. I came across some of this Adobe Captivate 3 tutorial content hidden deep in our website. I hope you find this useful. Recording and publishing software simulations Editing Adobe Captivate projects Creating interactive training scenarios Creating quizzes with Adobe Captivate Adding audio to Adobe Captivate projects Adding Flash video […]
