In this section, you will get stared with creating your first Captivate project. We will also cover introductory concepts such as applying themes to your project and downloading assets that you can use in your project. Before winding up this section, we will preview the progress that we have made and publish the project.
We have released Update 1 for the 2017 release of Captivate. This update addresses several important bug fixes and includes support for the latest release of macOS. To install the update, in Captivate, click Help > Updates. Then, follow the on-screen instructions. The new build number after the update is 10.0.1.285. This update contains the following: In-app interactive guide for responsive projects. Follow the walk-through to create responsive projects using Fluid Boxes New video tutorials for Captivate (2017 release). Whether […]
Outsourcing of eLearning content development has been there for a few decades. What has helped it grow is certainly its most significant gain, that is, cost savings. The bigger gains are in terms of other strategic benefits that it offers. It enables the Learning and Development teams to focus on the next level of tasks including strategic planning, determining ways to measure the effectiveness of learning, analyzing program usage, and exploration on what more is possible. However, there are several […]
Hi everyone, my organisation has recently purchased Captivate 2017. The Adobe Captivate marketing material says it has access to over 75,000 free learning assets. Can you please confirm if this includes access to the in-built My Assets -> Get Adobe Stock Assets? Or is this purely talking about eLearning assets, characters, media, projects and themes? Does my organisation have to purchase a subscription to Adobe Stock to include images into eLearning content? Thanks, Maree
Particularly over the last 4+ years, most organizations have evaluated mobile learning solutions integrating tablets and smartphones into their learning delivery. Mobile learning solutions are based on HTML5 technology. While it is fairly straightforward to create new courses using HTML5 that are mobile ready, there are several aspects that you need to watch out for when converting Flash to HMTL5. How To Convert Flash To HTML5 In this article I will outline the HTML5 technology advantage, its challenges, and share […]
I have several responsive projects I’m working in Captivate 9 in all the projects I am unable to Preview Project. On some it allows me to Preview Next 5 slides. The error I receive is “Cannot Open Project”. I’ve tried changing my default browser from Chrome to Safari and Firefox and that didn’t make a difference.
I have periodically seen questions related to timers and thought I would put something together that might be useful to the community at large. Without further ado, I present to you the 10-Second Timer 3000! Never before seen on TV… LOL Anyway, this timer does not have lots of bells and whistles and it only goes to 10 seconds for the sake of the demo. In this project, I utilize the concatenate technique I have posted on in order to […]
When I started captivate I really enjoyed using it. Then I realized I can make youtube videos with it so I made 10 videos. Then next I learned how to publish to youtube. Then I realized I can edit in there to. So I really started loving it especially with the high quality videos. Then my brother and I started to presentation to showcase our work and it was the first project that we published. We even published it to youtube. […]
In this post, I provide an example of how you can change the state of an object based on the changing values of two different variables. The solution I offer you is to concatenate the variables into a single string that matches the name of your states. I referenced this in my post on using state changes as navigation and have used this in many projects and so I thought it was time to write up something a little more […]
Overview I recently worked on a project where ‘balance’ was an underlying theme to the learning. Without going into too much detail about the content, the learner needed to place several ‘statements’ into categories and through this process of categorizing would in turn understand the concept of balance. Cue the obvious metaphor: the scale. You can see the modified final product in the .cptx file I attached. Please feel free to modify or use it if you would like in your own […]
Intro In the webinar which I presented on 2018/3/15 about Shared Actions, I showed several workflows with shared actions. If you want to have a look at the presentation used during the webinar, check out my previous blog post. You’ll find a link to the published interactive movie One of those examples, was a Drag&Drop slide where both advanced and shared actions were used as Object Actions. It can help you with the tough task to choose between the two types of […]
