Adobe Captivate 4 patch update Adobe Captivate 4 patch is now LIVE! Today we released a patch for Adobe Captivate 4 patch. The key driver for this patch was the degradation in audio quality as reported by some of our customers. This update fixes several elements that were causing issues in the audio workflow. It also includes fixes for some other niggling concerns that were reported/ discovered post launch. The full details are below. Do note that the Captivate 4 […]
Adobe Captivate,context menu,elearning,content authoring In my last post, you saw what how to view content on mouse rollover and simultaneously have an action performed on mouse click, both on single object. After going through my last post I am sure you are still wondering as to “How do I get a context menu appear on mouse rollover over any object in Adobe Captivate?” Well your wait is over now. This post shows the simulation of context menu which appears on mouse […]
adobe eLearning suite and articulate presenter,migrating old eLearning projects Adobe eLearning suite consists of a set of products along with Adobe Captivate 4 and Adobe Presenter 7 using which you can create any kind of eLearning courses. With this you will not need any other eLearning tool in your arsenal. But when organizations decide to switch to a new product their foremost worry could be about existing content they have created using other tools. Well you need not worry about […]
var gaJsHost = ((“https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”); document.write(unescape(“%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”)); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(“UA-7747520-1”); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {} Captivate 4,Captivate tutorials Late last year, I had blogged about a set of Captivate 3 tutorials on the Adobe website. These were specifically crated for the education industry and most of our readers have found them very useful. This has now been completely refreshed for Captivate 4- with new topics on the key […]
Adobe Captivate 4,Captivate library Captivate accepts high quality images, animations, FLVs, audio files etc. Content generation is an iterative process and hence content developers use these resources across different sections of their project, and even across multiple projects. Captivate keeps track of all your resources to allow you to use it the next time. All these resources are placed in the "Captivate Library". Let’s look at this basic but very powerful functionality which Adobe Captivate provides. So, where is this […]
Adobe Captivate 4,widgets,google map During our school days how many times we have been given quizzes around identifying places on maps. I was a good student of geography but still wondered if there could be better way than seeing few black lines on white papers. I was wondering if this has changed in this world of rich learning content. Then I thought can I use Adobe Captivate 4 to make the learning better. How would the experience be if I […]
publish to avi,captivate 4,codec,youtube With Adobe Captivate 4, you can publish your Captivate project directly as an AVI file. This enables you to create demos using Captivate and upload them as AVI files on media sharing websites like YouTube etc. There are a few points which you need to keep in mind before proceeding with publishing your projects as AVI. Any media encoding process requires a considerable amount of processing power. Publishing to AVI is no different, because it converts […]
Captivate 4 Book,Kevin Siegel Here comes first book on Adobe Captivate 4 – Essentials of Adobe Captivate 4 which is a part of series of two books, second being Adobe Captivate 4: Beyond the Essentials. Read the announcement here. It starts with a bird’s eye view of planning eLearning projects, the process involved in it and time/ budgetary considerations and prepares you for what to expect from your authoring tool- all in simple and jargon free terms. It further deals […]
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 […]
