Create a Secret Help Slide in Adobe Captivate

In this video tutorial, I will show you how to set up a slide that isn’t part of the regular navigation of your course. This slide will instead be accessed from any other slide in your project using a small icon in the corner. This is useful if you want an optional page that includes course instructions, or perhaps a special help page that learners can only access if they need it.

Seven Things I’d Wish I’d Known Before My First Captivate Project

Anyone have a time machine? Here are the 7 things I wish I knew before completing my first Captivate course!

How to select a elearning authoring tool and service

Deciding on the right eLearning authoring tool is important. Here are some tips to help you select the right authoring tools to meet your eLearning content requirements.

Countdown Timer using Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate

In this video tutorial, I show you one way you can build a countdown timer. In this example, I use two user variables and two system variables. I also make use of a two decision advanced conditional action, including use of the While action.

Colors in Captivate – intro

Explains the possible workflows with Adobe Capture and Adobe Color to create a starting scheme with 5 colors, to create the 10 Theme Colors palette, and the way to transfer the scheme to Captivate.

Unable to add images to states – Captivate 11.5.1

Unable to add images to states – Captivate 11.5.1

Panel Undocking Tips in Adobe Captivate

I decided to do this video tutorial in order to answer a viewer question about her difficulty in redocking her timeline. I thought this might be a problem for other users as well. While I have other tutorials on panel undocking, I thought there might be a need for an up to date tutorial with some additional hints and tips.

Coaching with Paul Wilson, Paul Wilson Learning

This post is a testimonial/recommendation of Paul Wilson and his Captivate coaching session.

Photoshop Patch Tool (From My Latest Livestream)

In this tutorial, I show you how you can remove objects from an image using the Photoshop Patch Tool (taken from my latest eLearning Livestream).

Sizing Your Images for eLearning Using Photoshop (From My Latest Livestream)

In this video tutorial, I show you how I resize my images to be appropriate for my eLearning projects.

Help requested – adding a variable to a smart shape in a template

The problem: I want to put a variable on a smart shape in a template. The nice format master slide I like has a “Title Placeholder” that has the “Style Name” of “Default Title Smart Shape Style_1” However, that shape that won’t let me insert a variable, which I would like to do because it’s in my tutorial and I suspect that may generate a table of contents later Would I instead need to put a text caption on top […]

Clean JavaScript Popups in Your Captivate Project

In this video tutorial, I show you a solution to a question from the Adobe forums. The user wants to open a link to a web URL in a new window but doesn’t want all the gobbledygook that comes with a modern browser (no tabs, no menus, no bookmark bars, etc.). I did some research and learned a little about the window.open() command in JavaScript. It works well. I managed to get it to work for a couple of scenarios in this training.