CPVC File will not load inside the Captivate Project

I saw other questions related to this but no real solutions.  Since January 2018 I’ve been creating Captivate 2017 Responsive courses with video simulations captured first as CPVC files and then inserted into the bigger Captivate course.  Up through April, I had no problem with the slides loading or playing at HTML 5 on my desktop.  Suddenly in June this stopped working on a new project I created. Then I realized all of my old projects no longer work. What […]

Captivate 2017 PhoneGap App Not Loading

I have recently created and published several Captivate 2017 projects as Android apps via PhoneGap.  I have updated the phonegapConfig.xml file as recommended and the publish works well, creating the app as requested.  However when the app is installed on an Android phone and launched, the app does not run and the spinning wheel of death appears and that’s all I get.  Where am I going wrong?

Responsive eLearning with Captivate 2017 – Part 5: Using the fill option for Fluid Boxes

Now that you’ve learned how to create a new responsive project, rescale it (if required), add Fluid Boxes to the slides, and further add objects to these Fluid Boxes, it’s time to look at the editing options. We’ll start with adding background color and images to the Fluid Boxes. You can easily add background images or colors in Captivate responsive projects by using the Fill option for Fluid Boxes. The Fill option for Fluid Boxes works the same as the […]

Neumann BCM 705 microphone for your e-learning

Very good microphone for E-Learning. I will use this microphone for voice over work for my e-learning courses. I find the Neumann BCM 705 very easy o use and I don’t need to give to much patience while recording. It is very reliable in a more difficult recording environment which I am facing.

_cp_n_m_file missing after updating Captivate

Hi all, Ever since I updated to 10.0.1.285 I have been receiving a 404 failure to load a _cp_n_m_ file error in my console.  I have read a 4 year old post https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1576008 but the suggestions posted there (clearing out the library of dead links) have not worked for me. The error now appears on all my older projects as well.  Anyone else have any issues with this? Thanks

Advanced Actions, Shared Actions, or JavaScript – Which one is right for you?

When you build your eLearning project with Adobe Captivate you have several options for customizing the way the elements or components of your project work. You can control almost every aspect of your project with Advanced Actions, Shared Actions, or JavaScript but how do you know which approach is right for your project? When I first started working with Adobe Captivate I used Advanced Actions almost exclusively. Part of this was because they worked and part of it was because […]

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 […]