Captivates States Made Simple

The easy way to add extra states to your project that will save you time and money and give you more interactivity for your learners.

Easy to manage fluid boxes 2019

Using fluid boxes in now very simple in Captivate 2019.  I used to hate working with fluid boxes in earlier versions, but now with the highlighting, it makes it simpler to see where I am in the boxes.  It’s also great to be able to select the parent and child elements in the properties bar.  All of this now makes it so easy to work with responsive projects that work well on multi devices from desktop to smartphone. Having any type […]

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.