People often ask me about Captivate file sizes and how to optimize the learner experience accessing online content. The crux of the question of course is how can i make playback start right away and keep size small enough that it downloads smoothly on the learners’ computer. It’s actually a lot easier than you might think. I’ve posted a short video below (available along with many others on YouTube’s Adobe eLearning Channel as well) that demonstrates how I easily shrunk […]
An overview of the new features in Adobe eLearning Suite 2 and Adobe Captivate 5 for trainers, educators and eLearning professionals.
…even if you’ve used Captivate in previous versions – even dating back a long long way, you’ll know immediately where you are and what you are doing.
Most elearning authoring processes involve multiple stakeholders- across departments and organizations. It also involves multiple back-and-forth’s in getting feedback and signoffs on the storyboards and prototypes; coordinating across different stakeholders contributing assets like graphics and animations that eventually get aggregated in your Captivate project. And from what we’ve heard, majority of this still happens via email and conference calls, and this process is the single most time consuming task in the authoring process. This process can also be the single […]
Early last month, Patti Shank did a detailed review of Captivate 4 on TrainingMediaReview. She highlights something that we’ve been hearing from a lot of the forward looking learning departments- ‘The workflow process for learning content creation is changing.’ Patti writes… “Much of the content that we previously needed developers to produce can now be produced by our instructional designers or clients’ training staff and SMEs. Storyboards (if used) are no longer cumbersome Word or Excel tables describing screen content, […]
Captivate 4 has several avenues for possible extensions- especially given the new widgets and variables features. Captivate, like many of the other Adobe products, has an exchange where third parties can share product extensions and other assets that the larger Captivate community might find useful. While the exchange has been dormant for a while, a new set of content has been introduced on exchange this month. The new content on exchange ranges from widgets to stock animations- each of which […]
RJ, our eLearning evangelist (and twitter maniac :-)) will be doing a webinar on the benefits of Adobe eLearning suite for Adobe Captivate users. The session is scheduled for 9/30/2009, 10am Pacific Time, and will run 90 minutes. Please follow this link to register for this webinar. In this session you will learn about: Using Adobe Soundbooth for recording and editing pristine audio for inclusion in Adobe Captivate projects Leveraging the power of Adobe Flash for supplementing Adobe Captivate projects […]
Usecase: Say you need to administer a quiz, where the learner has to answer all the questions in the quiz in sequence (he is not provided the option to skip). Also, at the end of the quiz, he should be provided an option to review the quiz. To achieve this, you would go to project>skin editor and uncheck ‘show playback control’. But the user is still presented with the ‘skip’ button during the Quiz. Now, if you decide to uncheck […]
RJ, our eLearning evangelist, will be conducting a live eLearning session on ‘Adobe Captivate 4 for new users’. This is specifically designed for Captivate novices. Here you will acquire the knowledge you need for getting started using Adobe Captivate 4. In this 90 minute interactive session, you will learn about the different types of eLearning projects you can create in the product, including software simulations, scenario-based training, quizzes and others. RJ’s sessions are always packed with information and very interactive; […]
A lot of legacy learning content is in PowerPoint format and it is natural that e-learning course authors want to leverage or re-use this content. The earlier versions of Captivate allowed users to import their PowerPoint content into their Captivate projects. Now Captivate 4 goes much further- Cp4 now supports full round-tripping with the PowerPoint content. It supports collaborative authoring with the SME’s who use PowerPoint. Detailed below are some key aspects of this powerful feature: – You can import […]
Time! Needless to say that it is one thing every one of us is short of…. Captivate 3 introduced multi-mode recording- wherein you could record an application once, and generate 3 different projects from this recording- a demo, a simulation (training) and an assessment. This was a big timesaver. Now I’ll show you a way how you can take this one step further. Many a time, you would end up going into your recorded projects and making further fine grained […]
Lynda.com has just launched a new Captivate 4 tutorial. This is authored by Tim Plummer, Jr. The tutorial covers the essentials of Captivate 4. Tim is a Sr. Solutions Engineer in Adobe Sales and has extensive experience both as an educator and as a presenter. He provides a unique perspective covering the features not just from a traditional elearning angle- but also talks about how Captivate can be used to create good looking projects for high impact communication. In this […]
