NotificationA reminder- the Captivate 5 ACE exams are available for registration and the first date you can take the exam is Feb 10th . Many of you might have already signed up for the Captivate 5 ACE exam. And as we’ve seen in the comments in my previous blog post people have been asking for the exam objectives (which normally get posted on our website). Since this will take another couple of days, I’ve reproduced this below. Good luck, and […]
One more announcement carrying on with our focus on training resources for Captivate: The Adobe documentation team (Smitha) has created a well-structured set of tutorials on Captivate 5. The tutorials are a healthy mix of step-by-step instructions that can serve as a job aid; and videos to provide more depth to the explanation.Irrespective of whether you are looking to understand the basics of Captivate, or if you are looking to spend some serious time exploring the advanced features that help […]
We now have a fix for Adobe Captivate 5 content with Text Animations not playing in the latest Flash Player issue, which does *NOT* require a republish of the entire project! We have an application ‘CaptivateFP10Fixer’ which when given an affected Adobe Captivate 5 SWF with Text Animation, will give an Adobe Captivate 5 SWF that plays fine in the latest Flash Player.
Did you know that this year the nearly 30 Authors who contribute to eLearning, rapid eLearning, technology learning, eLearning Software & Adobe eLearning products articles found right here on the Adobe Captivate blog contributed over 125 articles? This team of passionate men and women wrote dozens of sample projects, pondered the latest trends and research in the field, gave advice about the latest technologies and approaches and helped make the blog one of the single most useful resources in the […]
You may well wake up today to one of those cool little Adobe Automatic Update Messages with an update for Captivate smiling and winking patiently for you. We’re very pleased to announce that the patch for Adobe Captivate 5 is ready for prime time and coming now via Adobe Automatic Update Manager to your already installed copy of Adobe Captivate 5. (Still wondering about the Flash update to fix the Animated Text Captions issue without using the authoring patch? Read […]
As social networking, games and education converge great minds continue to explore the potential of gameplay to encourage and enhance learning. Among the most impressive innovators I’ve encountered in 2010 is Jane McGonigal. McGonigal’s online games have genuinely carved open a wonderful new pathway to human evolution via games. McGonigal’s ideas seem radical at first pass. While it certainly isn’t true that every radical new idea is an evolutionary leap, it is always true that giant leaps look radical when […]
The sample BasicBlueTemplate is available here. You are free to use it for any purpose, modify it, etc. Creating the most effective Captivate eLearning module can present a significant challenge. In addition to defining the learning challenge and building the interactions, you’ve got to figure out what the core aesthetic will be. Whether you’re trying to create the perfect branding solution for your institution or just trying to customize the look and feel of this new module, it can be […]
SUMMARY: Issue: Adobe Captivate projects with Animated Text fail to display in browsers using the most recent version of Flash (10.1.102.64) Resolution: An authoring fix for Captivate 5 was created immediately and remains available today. The next version of Flash (expected early 2011) will play Captivate text animations correctly, with or without the authoring fix. Now users may also download a complete patch containing all fixes to date, or wait for the Automatic Update – expected in the next week […]
The Find and Replace palette can be invoked by using the shortcut “Ctrl + F” or it can be selected from the Edit Menu and choosing “Find and Replace” option. Legacy users may find that, in Captivate 4 from being a dialog, it is a palette in Captivate 5 which can be docked in any of the panels or left floating anywhere on your screen. The find and replace feature is highly effective in global text changes in your project […]
eSeminar LINK: http://bit.ly/aCHm2e Part four of the popular series Making effective eLearning Modules with Adobe Captivate focused on the Multimedia Principle within Clark & Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia eLearning. We had a huge crowd gather for the session which focused on rationale behind the multimedia principle and introduced some examples of use of the multimedia principle in Adobe Captivate Projects. As has become my habit I’m posting a link to the PDF of the presentation with the notes included […]
Ok some good news!!! the hot fix is ready. Here are the steps for using the hot fix: On Windows: 1. Close Adobe Captivate 5.0 if already running. 2. Go to the captivate installation folder. 3. Find the file CPAnimationUtils.dll and rename it to CPAnimationUtils_old.dll. 4. Download the CPAnimationUtils.zip from here and extract the CPAnimationUtils.dll. 5. Place the extracted CPAnimationUtils.dll in the captivate installation folder. 6. Launch Adobe Captivate 5.0 now. 7. Open the projects which have text animations in […]
I happened upon a wonderful interview of Clark Quinn on Cammy Bean’s Blog / Kineo Audio Series today. Between the interview, Cammy’s summary and the Resources referenced it is an absolute goldmine for ID’s and eLearning authors. Clark Quinn with a quick comment on the importance of emotional appeal for learners in eLearning content development at the 2010 eLearning Guild Learning Solutions Conference. What is particularly wonderful about the interview / information is that Quinn goes beyond the theoretical concepts […]
