The Best Adobe App for Explainer Videos

I’ve been making explainer videos for over five years on YouTube. I have used Adobe Captivate Video Demo and I’ve also used Adobe Presenter Video Express. This article is my attempt to show the pros and cons of each tool and talk a little about what I might be using in the future.

Disable the Progress Bar in Adobe Captivate

In this tutorial, I show you a solution initially created by Michael Barshinger to disable the progress bar in your Adobe Captivate eLearning projects. This gives your learners the advantage of seeing their progress without allowing them to scrub forward and skipping valuable content.

Adding New Users in Adobe Captivate Prime

In this video tutorial, I show you how to create new users in Adobe Captivate Prime.

Fluid Boxes on Your Adobe Captivate Master Slides

In this tutorial, I show you how you can create fluid boxes on your Adobe Captivate master slides so that the fluid boxes are inherited by your regular filmstrip slides. I will also show you how you can add child level fluid boxes on the regular slides but still maintain the layouts from the master slides as well.

Shrink it Down To Size: 7 Tips To Formalize Informal Learning In Small Group Settings

It seems counterproductive to formalize something that’s purposefully informal … but it can drastically improve knowledge retention. So, what exactly does the formalization process involve?

Maximize L&D Resources: 7 Tips To Develop More Custom eLearning Content Without Bending Your Budget

There’s only so much room in your budget for L&D, but you still need to impart the essentials and improve on-the-job performance. In this article, I’ll share 7 tips to develop more custom eLearning content without bending your budget.

JIT After ILT: 5 Blended Learning Support Tools To Add To Your LMS

When you want the benefits of both instructor-led-training and eLearning, you have to balance their proportions. In what ways can JIT facilitate this so that you can offer ongoing support to your remote workforce?

Adobe’s LMS Amps up Engagement & Compliance in New Release

This release of Adobe Captivate Prime (LMS) provides solutions for learners to share materials that they discover online, to share their own, user generated content – via videos, audio recordings, postings, polls & more – and it provides the tools to create those user generated contributions. It provides an architecture to align those postings to skills / competencies within your organizational framework and it delivers a solution for the moderation problem – how do you ensure that posts are relevant, true and appropriate, that leverages the skill experts you already have in your organization. People who share content are incentivized to do so with gamification points, and people who review / approve posts are similarly incentivized. 

From Theory To Practice: 7 Tips To Use xAPI To Measure eLearning Effectiveness In The Real World

Being well versed on a topic is one thing. But being able to apply it in a practical setting is another matter altogether. In this article, I’ll share tips to measure eLearning effectiveness in the real world by using an LMS with xAPI.

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Allow Learners to Edit Text Entry Boxes Later in Your Project

In this video tutorial, I show you a way you can have learners edit or add to entries in text entry boxes later in your Adobe Captivate project.

‘An Explanation to Correct Answer’ in Review mode of Quiz Using ‘Shared Action’

As you might be well aware that, besides many, there are two very similar looking Actions that can be used to control & manipulate our Application created in Captivate. program. Advanced Action & Shared Action. Every developer has different opinions on whether Advanced Action is better or Shared Action. And the fact is both have pro & cons. We are not going into that debate. Here, I am demonstrating Shared Action to achieve additional functionality in our Quiz, that is […]