Use Shared Actions to Have Fewer Advanced Actions in Your Project

In this Adobe Captivate video tutorial, I show you a way you can use Shared Actions to save yourself some time writing Advanced Actions by reusing the Shared Action for different objects and multistate objects.

Fake Text Popups in Adobe Captivate Fluid Box Design

In this video tutorial, I show you how I would manage a simulated text popup in my fluid box responsive design eLearning project in Adobe Captivate.

Assets in Captivate 9

I have a question about the Assets in Captivate. When I open the Assets tab, it does not load the items as I see is done in tutorials. I do see items in the Discover section, but nothing loads in the Assets section. The same thing happens when I select the Media drop down menu and select Asset Library. Thank you for any assistance!

Split Audio Files Across Many Slides in Adobe Captivate

In this video tutorial, I show you a secret feature in Adobe Captivate that allows you to do that editing while importing the file. This will save you time and you will not need an extra application for this purpose.

Recorded video in adobe project clarity is degraded badly

When I add a pre-recorded video (either MP4 or FLV format) the video output is greatly degraded. I have gone through the tutorials and made adjustments and changes but it is to no effect. Does anyone know of any tricks or tips that may help please

How to use Instagram feeds, Stories and IGTV to Get the Most out of it for Your Ecommerce

Instagram has become one of the biggest influencer marketing channels to attract more people to your business and brand. It has changed the game of Social Media Marketing for better. Which the launch of IGTV, Instagram now offers three formats to share the content, which is very rare to other similar channels. This article describes how you can use all the three formats of content sharing, which are Instagram feeds, stories and IGTV, to get the most out of it.

How to Update Your Legacy Flash Captivate eLearning Projects

In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, I show you how you can update your legacy eLearning courses by identifying and replacing components that are not compatible with HTML5. In this example, I take a course that included SWF based animations and use the HTML5 Tracker to quickly find those unsupported items and eliminate them.

Timeline Resources

Offer for a pdf, summarizing all links to videos, blogs about Captivate’s Timeline. It includes also a list of the Timeline shortcut keys and the color codes used in the Timeline panel.

Drag and Drop with Unique Feedback in Your #AdobeCaptivate #eLearning

If you’ve built a few drag and drops with immediate captions you know that by default you don’t get unique or specific feedback when items have been dragged to a drop target. In this video tutorial, I’ll show you a method to provide unique or specific feedback for each drag and drop for both correct and incorrect captions.

Reset Your Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom back to Default After Each Session Automatically

When you finally get your Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom perfected and set up exactly the way you want it in order to engage and cultivate those student barbarians who need your awesome wisdom to function in the civilized world, it is prudent to save it as a template and then create or recreate the Virtual Classroom (or rooms) for regular live interactive use from that original pristine template. This gives you the ability to reset the Virtual Classroom back to […]

Love Adobe Captivate- especially how easy it is to learn

This is my first experience with a more sophisticated authoring tool, beyond PowerPoint or simple video platforms.  I have to admit, I was a bit nervous about learning a whole new system, but Adobe Activate made it super easy.  Especially that it has that familiar basic logic of PowerPoint but with a much more robust and powerful functionality. The availability of advice, tutorial, tricks and tips is super helpful for someone who is just beginning to learn the platform.  And […]

Unlocking a Secret Timeline Inside Adobe Captivate Advanced Actions

In this Adobe Captivate 2019 tutorial, I show you how you can create a timeline with animation and effects inside your advanced actions. Thanks to Alexa Franklin for this excellent idea for a YouTube tutorial.