Parameters in Captivate (Back to Basics)

What are parameters in Shared actions ? How do you use them? What is the difference between Compulsory and Candidate parameters. Blog is NOT about creating Shared actions, meant to be able to use parameters when you are provided with shared actions. like in an interaction.

Recolor Your SVG Icons in Adobe Captivate

In this video tutorial, I will show you how to recolor your SVG icons directly in Adobe Captivate. Specifically, I will show you how you can have different colors for the rollover and down states of your SVG icons as buttons. In the video, I show you a great resource for finding new icons to use in your eLearning projects.

LMS Scorm Reporting to vi LMS Issue

We have an issue where users who receive 100% (obviously a passing score) on a few of our eLearning modules will have a Not Passed  status in the LMS. This issue is increasing – last year I saw it a handful of times with one particular module and this year there have been at least a dozen instances in Q1 for at least 3 modules. Since getting viLMS 8 or so years ago, we haven’t changed our settings. This is […]

Can I create a slider in Captivate?

I found an article in here on how to create a slide. https://elearning.adobe.com/2018/06/add-slide-bar-projects/ However, it doesn’t seem to be working for me.  I’ve looked at the downloadable example the author provided and I’m mimicking it almost exactly as best I can tell, but instead of a slider showing up on screen I’m seeing this: The only thing I changed from the original script was “value” in the DIV….I changed it to 20 instead of 100. I’m familiar with HTML and […]

How did I meet with Adobe’s eLearning Products?

In this blog post, I gave some information about my experience working with Adobe.

Smart Shape Style Panel stopped working

Smart shape style panel changed and appears to have broken.

Adobe Captivate 2019 generates .stp files w/ bad file name

Hello from Chicago! When I preview a project, any project, Captivate generates files titled ” Audio_xxxxx.stp” . These files are stored in the project Cache. The issue is that ALL these .stp files include a blank space preceding the word “Audio” thus rendering the file name invalid. This invalid file name is causing havoc with  my company’s OneDrive and stops OneDrive from syncing until I manually delete these .stp files from the project cache. Some projects generate well over 100 […]

Migrating Legacy Flash eLearning Content to HTML5

Implementing a process to migrate legacy Flash eLearning courses to HTML5 In December of 2020, Adobe will cease support for Adobe Flash – SWF format content. It is commonly regarded as the ‘end’ of Flash.  For many, however, there are a significant number of eLearning courses, job aids and performance support materials that were developed and delivered to learners using earlier versions of Adobe Captivate, which published to the Flash SWF format. It is important to evaluate the impact of […]

Adobe Captivate (2019 release) adds new assets!

We have introduced new assets to the Asset Panel, so that you can create beautiful engaging eLearning content in minutes. We’ve added few quick start projects with new layouts and interactions, ten new characters with multiple poses, new images, and videos. These assets will be added automatically into the Asset Panel. You need not update the product. If you are not on latest version of Adobe Captivate, Download free trial of the latest version of Adobe Captivate (2019 release) to access […]

Animated Result Slide

I have made this out of Javascript and imported as html5 animation. It works well and I have tried to import to some of my old projects and the output was amazing. I have shared my personal work to inside other designers out there who are using captivate.

Updating an already-published project?

How do I most efficiently and effectively update already published content for a captivate 8 project?