Decorate the donut project

In this Drag and Drop interaction, you can drag the different Frosting flavors and Sprinkles and drop on to the donut to decorate it. What is that example intending to do? When should the user use such a theme? In this example, you will see the use of drag and drop interaction with the ability to replace dropped objects with a new one. You can use this interaction in your projects, where you want to allow the learners to replace […]

Shopping cart project

In this drag and drop interaction, when you pick and item from the shelf and drop it in the shopping cart, the price of the item is added to the total amount on the cash counter display. What is that example intending to do? When should the user use such a theme? In this example, you will see the use of drag and drop interaction with the ability to do mathematical operations. In this example, only addition has been used. […]

Project Download isn’t working

I am trying to download the projects and keep getting this error.  Help? There has been a critical error on your website. Learn more about debugging in WordPress.

Use Shared Actions!

Demonstration project showing interactions created exclusively with shared actions. Prologue to a short course about USING existing shared actions.

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.