Captivate 2017-Advanced Workflow Tutorials

Whether you’re just getting started with Captivate and need some help with creating a shiny new project, or you’ve used the previous versions of Captivate and looking for some help to update your Captivate skills, there’s good news for you!

Responsive eLearning with Captivate 2017 – Part 3: Adding Fluid Boxes

In the first and second part of this blog-series on responsive eLearning with Captivate 2017, we learned how to create a new responsive project and rescale the maximum width and height of the responsive project. Now let’s learn how to add Fluid Boxes to the responsive project which will help you quickly and easily format slides; and adjust the layouts to fit the content needs. Fluid Boxes are intelligent containers in responsive projects. They can either be added to the […]

Current Best Solution for ‘Blurry’ Text?

Hi all, I know that Captivate still has issues with scaling text for unresponsive HTML5 scalable projects. I’m currently using 10.0.0.192 for windows.  The only strategy I can think of is to double the screen resolution, but then I am having problems with the TOC being too small. What is the current best strategy to getting rid of text blurriness? Thanks

eLearning Community – June Update

Thanks for all your feedback on last release – https://elearning.adobe.com/2018/04/welcome-adobe-elearning-community-2-0/ In this release, we have introduced an interface to upload your captivate project and view the HTML5 preview of it on a browser. We have also improved a few workflows, based on your feedback. What’s New –  Introducing HTML5 Previews of Captivate projects You can now upload the zipped output of your Captivate project that contains the HTML5 file. How do I create a zipped file of my HTML5 project in […]

How to quickly and easily create a basic eLearning module using PowerPoint & Adobe Captivate 2017

While I generally don’t recommend it, very often eLearning developers are called upon to create simple course modules very, very quickly. Often the basis for such courses is a Microsoft PowerPoint file. Captivate can import PowerPoint files on Windows machines, and Captivate 2017 makes it easy to create multi-state buttons to handle the course navigation. The easiest way would simply be to leave the PowerPoint import settings alone, and let your learners click through the deck. But what if you […]

Have a Problem? Find Your Own Approach in a Sea of Captivate Solutions

If you encounter a problem building an eLearning Project in Captivate and you ask more than one developer how to solve that problem, you may get a different answer from each developer. For example, a colleague and I attended the Adobe eLearning Summit in Las Vegas in October and we asked two developers if they had any idea how to implement a feature we were working on, and while they both had excellent ideas, their approaches were vastly different but […]

Use Captivate with a Learning Management System

A Learning Management System (LMS) provides, tracks, and manages web-based training

Create a responsive project using Fluid Boxes

Create responsive projects in Adobe Captivate that scales seamlessly across devices and screen sizes. Use responsive projects to build an immersive learning experience for your learners and make learning interesting and interactive. In this document, you will learn to create and customize responsive projects in Adobe Captivate.

Random Animated Spinner

Add an animated spinner to include some fun randomness to your online learning.

Create Video demos

Video demos in Adobe Captivate are a way to demonstrate product capabilities in video format. You might want to create a video demonstration of your product. You could also use this to demonstrate a new product feature. In this document, let’s create a video demonstration of a feature in PowerPoint.

Responsive eLearning with Captivate 2017 – Part 1: Creating a responsive project

You can create responsive courses in Adobe Captivate using two different ways: The first way, which is available in version 8, 9, and 2017 is with the use of Breakpoints. You can learn more about using breakpoints to create responsive courses here. The second way, which was introduced in Captivate 2017, is by using Fluid Boxes to create responsive courses. This new workflow allows you to easily create responsive projects, which makes it possible for you to design content for […]

Accessibility in Adobe Captivate

It’s a big day today in the world of accessibility, as the W3C today introduced the latest update to WCAG Standards. These are the guidelines used to ensure that content and software accommodates the needs of diverse audiences. The new standard augments the previous set (version 2.0) and is given the new version number (2.1.)  You can read all about it in this fantastic overview from Andrew Kirkpatrick, Adobe’s Group Product Manager for Accessibly. You may at this point find […]