Beginners Guide to Planning a Successful Captivate Project

Taking a little time with a pencil and paper can save you many hours of reworking content to ensure that all the elements and assets are consistent. It easy to keep adding assets to your project, but time-consuming when you have to modify them individually.

Custom Effects in Advanced/Shared Actions

Step by step plan for using a custom effect in an advanced or a shared action.

Effective Use Of Collaboration And Social Learning At Workplace To Improve Learning And Performance

Collaboration is the key to being a successful learning organization. Social learning in the workplace plays a big part in a collaborative learning environment. In this article, I will share my thoughts on how collaborative tools can help employees learn better and improve their work performance. How Collaboration And Social Learning In The Workplace Improve Employee Performance Human beings have been collaborating since eons to solve problems and share experiences. Probably, the first-ever collaboration was when cavemen shared their insights […]

CSV import – localisation

CSV import workflow used to have questions in different languages in one project.

Captivate 2019 Release Update 1 – Already?

I’m impressed! With Adobe Captivate 2017 we had to wait for over a year before we saw an update to 2017 release. Here we are slightly more than a month has transpired and we now have some bug fixes and security updates to Captivate 2019. I hope that is a sign of things to come. Not that there are many things wrong with Captivate, but instead they work quickly to resolve any issues that come up.

So here is the skinny. When running virtual reality content on iOS devices the display was not as you expected and was cut off when an LMS launched the course in an iFrame. The other issue relates to HTML5 published projects where an upgraded PowerPoint project appears blank when the source PowerPoint file is in linked mode.

Anyway, regardless of your situation, make sure you are always running the latest version. Run the update procedures I demonstrate in the video or let your IT department know there is an update so they can push it out to your computer.

A Responsive Theme with Fluid Boxes and Selected Vector Graphics

Launch a Published Version of the Getaway Theme (.cptx): Download Your Getaway Theme (.cptm) Captivate 2019 offers two work streams that allow you to create responsive projects: Break Points and Fluid Boxes. Initially I gravitated toward Break Points, because they offered more flexibility in how you could use graphics. However, in the back of my mind I knew I had to come grips with Fluid Boxes because they are likely the wave of the future. Fluid Boxes remind me of […]

Individual Effects Are Still Lost When Grouping Objects?

We still lose object effects when objects are grouped in CP2019 and the Help section contradicts itself.

Publishing nightmare in Captivate

Can’t publish courses in Captivate CC 2017 after upgrading them from Captivate 7. Not trying for responsive courses at this point just HTML5 deliverable.

CP2019’s Tiny Gems

Three small changes discovered in Captivate version 11 (CP2019) which can save time/frustration.

Issue when publishing as HTML5 only

HTML5 issues

Beginners’ guide to setting up Google Daydream for your Captivate VR content

Most of you would be well versed with the things I am going to discuss, with respect to the correct settings, in getting your Captivate content to play just right for the Google Daydream VR headset. In the process we will come across few settings and the two compatibility modes : daydream view and the google cardboard view; how can a learner interact with VR courses in these modes. What is daydream? Daydream is a Virtual Reality Platform developed by […]

Slides wont show but audio will

Good evening! My team just recently moved to the 2019 release. Everything seemed to be running smoothly. However ALL of our projects will not load properly in our LMS. We have checked every setting we could find to make sure that everything is set exactly as it was when we were using 2017, we did this because we have one machine that has not been updated. I previewed in the Scorm Cloud so I’m sure its not our LMS. I’ve […]