New To Captivate? The First 10 Tutorials You Should Watch

Many first time viewers of my YouTube channel have asked me in what order they should watch my Adobe Captivate tutorials. I wish I thought of that 180 videos ago. I recorded these tutorials as questions from other viewers came in, or when I thought of a good idea for a tutorial. I never thought anyone would want to sit down and start with one tutorial and work their way through them all.   I began to think about this […]

Exploring THEMES (and templates) in Captivate

Introduction Whether I work with clients or answer questions on forums/social media, I often bump onto confusion between themes and templates. Similar confusion can be found in many training schedules and books. Captivate has evolved a lot (since I started using version 1), also in its design tools. These improvements have not been emphasized as much as the more ‘hype’ features. My blog fans know that I like to talk about the “hidden gems”, which can help saving time and frustration. […]

Multi SCO Packager

In this video, I show you how you can use the multi-SCO packager to combine your Adobe Captivate eLearning projects into one. 

Free Stock Photos for Your eLearning

Of course Adobe Captivate comes with a great free resource in the eLearning Brother’s Assets made available for all Adobe Captivate users, however, in this video, I show you a great source for additional free stock photos for your eLearning projects.  

Set Captivate to Create Project Backups

Anyone who doesn’t setup Adobe Captivate to create project backups is just taking a huge risk. In this video, I show you how to set Captivate to create project backups when saving your eLearning projects.

Troubleshoot Scoring Problems

In this video, I show you how to troubleshoot scoring problems in your eLearning projects in Adobe Captivate. This video was original shot with Adobe Captivate 8 but the techniques would be applicable in most versions of Captivate.

Why I Never Use Sequence Questions

In this video, I’ll show you why you should never use sequence questions in your Adobe Captivate projects.

Object Styles – The Key to Rapid Development

This might very well be the most important video tutorial you watch on Adobe Captivate this year. In this video, I’ll show you the object styles manager and how I work with object styles in Adobe Captivate. Knowledge of working with object styles is how I can develop eLearning as rapidly as I do. My clients are constantly amazed at how quickly I go from storyboard to prototype. It’s much easier to turn your projects around if you understand how object […]

How to create Captivate template file?

1. Select File > New Project > Project Template. 2. Specify the dimensions of the project template, and click OK. 3. Set preferences for the template using the Edit > Preferences dialog box. The preferences are automatically applied when you use the project template to create a project. 4. Choose the look and feel for projects based on the template by clicking Themes > Themes. The Themes bar appears. Click the required theme from the Themes bar. 5. Modify the […]

What is the difference between previewing and publishing a project in Captivate?

Preview options Publish options For responsive projects, the number of options are fewer. In responsive projects, the first option is Publish for Devices. When you click Preview>Project for a non-responsive course, it opens in a different SWF dialog. In case of responsive projects, when you click Preview > Project, the project opens in a browser. In case of publishing a non-responsive project, the options Publish to Computer, Publish to Adobe Connect, and Publish to Adobe Captivate Prime are the same […]

What is the difference between an HTML and an SWF output?

After you create a Captivate eLearning project, the project needs to be published into a format that can be opened by your learner. Currently, the most common methods to publish a Captivate project is as a Flash SWF and HTML. To view a project as SWF output, you will require any modern browser and the latest update of Adobe Flash Player.  Projects published as HTML5 play on any computer or mobile device that supports HTML5. This includes both Android and iOS-based devices. Learners with […]

How to set up a Captivate project review?

After creating and editing an Adobe Captivate project, you can publish the project for review on an internal server using the File > Send for Shared Review workflow. The project is published as a CREV file, a custom SWF file that is used for review. Reviewers can review the CREV file by opening it in Adobe Captivate Reviewer, an AIR application. The installer for the application, AdobeCaptivateReviewer.air, is present in the location where you installed Adobe Captivate. You can also […]