Adding closed captions to your eLearning courses is a basic requirement to meet accessibility standards like Section 508 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. You can easily do so for your audio-based courses by adding narration to your screen, adding slide notes, and then converting those slide notes to closed captions. But a little-known fact is that you can have closed captions for slide videos as well. Watch this short tutorial to learn how to associate close captions with your […]
Products used in this example: Adobe Captivate (2017 release) Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 In this blog post, you will learn how to easily convert your PowerPoint slides into interactive and engaging web-enabled presentations using HTML5. If you do not have the 2017 release of Adobe Captivate, download a trial version of Captivate. To install Captivate, follow the installation instructions here. Prepare your PowerPoint presentation Open the presentation that you want to convert into an eLearning course. Make the required changes and […]
Intro About two weeks ago Captivate 10, now labeled Captivate 2017 was released. If you did visit my blog in the past, you know that I prefer to wait a while before posting my first impressions. My focus is also more on the non-hype features added in this release, I call them the ‘hidden’ gems. Some are mentioned in the documentation, some not. Update undocumented feature – August 2017 This week I discovered an undocumented enhancement thanks to a user […]
I know that a lot of users still use Captivate 9, so I put this video that shows a way to make a loop animation with Captivate 9. The purpose of this video consists in showing how to illustrate a background with a loop animation. The process shows a scenery running in loop and the way to design it: by creating visual cycles within a picture as we do in cartoons, then by applying an animation effect to this created […]
Intro Happy New Year 2017 to all Captivate users! Quite a while ago I wrote an article about Timeline secrets in Captivate 5: Tiny Timeline Tidbits Since the change in the UI with Captivate 8 , the newbie User Interface minimizes the Timeline panel by default which is really a pity (personal opinion). Some of the questions I read, at least partially due to that decision to hide the Timeline: ‘I want to get rid of the timeline, don’t need it […]
Do you want the flexibility of setting your own schedule? Do you get bored working in just one eLearning niche? In this article, I’ll highlight 5 benefits associated with eLearning freelancing. Freelancing can give you the ultimate freedom to live your life, while also earning a stable income. If you are tired of working on the same eLearning topics time after time, or if you just aren’t that interested in landing a job with an eLearning organization, then an e-Learning […]
Why this short post? If you have read my article about the 3 most important stumbling blocks for Captivate (newbie) users, you’ll know that Themes are amongst them. The components of themes are described in What’s in a Theme/template. and in this post you’ll learn about he use of Theme colors. Almost daily I see questions, comments on the forums like “I don’t use a theme” which is – sorry for the word – nonsense because every project is based on a theme. The theme […]
In the 2017 release of Adobe Captivate, Fluid Boxes, Auto-migrate from non-mobile to mobile, and Adobe Typekit integration are the features which are being used extensively by the community. When you download the trial version of Adobe Captivate, you get access to projects and resources, one of these is the Adobe Captivate (2017 Release) training project which makes use of all the above features. It can also be referred to as a tutorial for this release. You can download the […]
To outsource or tackle the task in house? That’s one of the most difficult questions organizations face when creating an eLearning course. You must determine whether it’s more cost-efficient and productive to do it yourself or to outsource the eLearning project to a talented team of eLearning professionals. Unfortunately, that’s not the only quandary you’ll have to contend with. In fact, here are the top 5 e-Learning outsourcing obstacles, as well as tips to overcome them. 1. Do They Have Enough Expertise? […]
Adobe eLearning Community is listed as the top eLearning portal on – NowComms Thanks everyone for making Adobe eLearning Community the #1 portal in the eLearning space! The Adobe elearning community turns 1 year old this month. The journey so far has been inclusive and thought provoking, every member who has been a part of this journey so far, we would like to thank from the bottom of our hearts. Through the years we heard from our users of the […]
As an experienced e-Learning developer, I’ve had a number of folks ask me over the year how I keep my work organized. Given the number of graphics in a course, audio narration files, video segments, and assets created in other programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Camtasia Studio to support your Captivate course, you can easily have hundreds of assets with different file extensions, even for a moderately sized course. To begin, I maintain my course on the C: drive […]
Have you ever wondered how successful eLearning professionals got to such a rewarding point in their career? The simple truth is that everyone starts somewhere. It all begins with aspirations, a limited or non-existent client base, and a game plan. It might be a bit daunting at first, but creating a pathway to success means taking one step a time. Here are 6 top tips to start a winning e-Learning career that leads to personal and professional fulfillment. 1. Find Your eLearning […]
