Easy Storyboards with Captivate Draft | 10+ Hacks with Captivate & the Creative Cloud

Learn how to create quick, fast, storyboards to quickly put your ideas together using Captivate Draft. Save and then open your storyboard right inside of Captivate. From Storyboard to Interactive Project with ONE CLICK! BooM!

10+ Hacks with Captivate & the Creative Cloud | Video Intro Animation

Happy New Year everyone! I posted a discussion in December about a new Blog I will be creating called “10+ Hacks with Captivate and the Adobe Creative Cloud” based on a talk I gave at the Adobe Learning Summit where I was invited to speak in Las Vegas, 2017. I plan on making 10+ short videos using the Captivate with the Creative Cloud to enhance your eLearning projects, speed up workflow, increase productivity. I am getting ready to start production, and This […]

10+ Hacks with Captivate & the Creative Cloud | Introduction

Hello Everyone! Howdy! I just wanted to introduce myself to the Adobe eLearning Community, I plan to create a new Blog with training videos teaching and showing 10+ Hacks with Captivate & The Creative Cloud. I want to start with 10+ reasons you should be using the Adobe Creative Cloud to enhance your projects, increase productivity, and speed up your workflow! So please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Mark, and I am an Adobe Certified Instructor and an Adobe […]

Changing States as a Form of Navigation

Not sure if this has been covered or not so here we go… Captivate has this great feature that allows you to change the state of an object. I have used this in many situations where I need to swap an image based on input from a user. Two that I use often are to display some form of icon as a way to inform the learner that an answer was right or wrong and to change the ‘display’ of […]

What about all those old SWF files?

I’ve seen several posts related to the SWF output and the lack of browser support or simply having issues playing them. I also have a number of projects that were published as SWF from old versions of Captivate. In many cases, all I have any longer is the final SWF. I sometimes like to show them as examples to others. I utilize a small little SWF player that has, for me, worked very well – and the price is right […]

Introductory Tips/Information Window

We have probably all seen, at one time or another, one of those little popup windows the very first time that you launch an app that gives you a little bit of information about how to get started. I thought I would play around with this concept a little bit to create something similar with Captivate. Here is the link to the working demo. It features my 9-year old dog, Shelby. https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/captivateshare/introTips/index.html Before I dive into how I made this, […]

Intro to Shared Actions

Interactive presentation (webinar) Last week I presented a webinar ‘Dare to Share: Power of Shared Actions’ for a pretty big crowd.  As usual I presented using a Captivate presentation, since I don’t feel it to be appropriate to use Powerpoint when Captivate has so much more features. One of the advantages is that I am able to convert that presentation in an interactive movie. If you did miss the webinar and did not register to have access to the recorded […]

Adobe Captivate Webinar – Adding Software Demos and Simulations to a Project

Did you know that you can record onscreen activity using Adobe Captivate? Adobe Captivate has three main ways of creating system training, utilising the on-screen recording feature. In this webinar, we explore these methods, giving you the skills to create software training in Adobe Captivate 2017. We will guide you through the various ways you can edit the projects to suit your target audience and situation. Whether it’s just a quick 2 or 3 step demo on a company-wide platform, or allowing […]

Fonts and Adobe Captivate

There have been some questions in the comments of my videos that suggest that some people may not understand Typekit fonts in Adobe Captivate. This article will try to explain it. There are three different types of fonts on a Windows or Mac computer running Adobe Captivate 2017. These are system fonts, web-safe fonts, and potentially Typekit fonts. The importance of font selection only really applies to responsive designed elearning projects, since non-responsive projects convert your text into pictures, and […]

4 Key Benefits of Social Learning at Workplace

L&D teams acknowledge the significance of collaborative learning. As a result, the measures that can foster this spirit are being increasingly being factored in corporate training delivery. In this blog, I begin with the definition of Social learning and then move on to outlining its top 4 benefits. I hope that these pointers, will help you assess how adding Social Learning in your learning strategy can increase its impact. What is Social Learning and how relevant is it for corporate training? Put […]

ADOBE PRESENTER 11: Creating Packages

by Kevin Siegel, CTT+, COTP If you need to share an Adobe Presenter presentation with another developer, you’ll find the Presenter’s Package tool very useful. Presenter projects begin as a single, self-contained PowerPoint presentation. You can transfer them from one computer to another without worrying about leaving a part of the presentation behind. However, once you add audio or videos assets to a PowerPoint slide via the Presenter tab on the PowerPoint Ribbon, those assets aren’t embedded into the presentation. Instead, […]

Using Workspaces to Increase Productivity | 10+ Hacks with Captivate & The Creative Cloud

Hello! Finally, after working on an eLearning project for United Airlines, and being sick…. I have created the first video in the series “10+ Hacks with Captivate & The Creative Cloud”. This blog will help you enhance your eLearning projects, increase productivity, and speed up your workflow! For my first hack, I suggest using Workspaces in all of your Adobe applications to speed up your workflow by saving your own customized workspace! I show you how to optimize your Adobe […]