My view on (software) training

Based on my decades of experience with software training, my guidelines for more efficiency, results with training.

Material Design Icons in Your Captivate eLearning

I’m a big fan of pictures rather than words. Because of this, I’m always looking for ways to use iconography instead of words to convey meaning in my eLearning projects. In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, I show you how you can use the Material Design icons for your Adobe Captivate 2019 eLearning projects for your navigation controls and other buttons.

Captivate’s Quizzes (1): Terminology

First post in a sequence about Quizzes: terminology of question types and master slides. Embedded objects.

Removing Unused Variables in Your Captivate eLearning

In this video tutorial, I show you my process for getting rid of unused variables in my Adobe Captivate eLearning projects.

First Attempt at Using Captivate

Storyboard of my first captivate project. The content will be populated based on this progression. In the current form, it is the framework of an eLearning experience to teach individuals about streaming video games using Twitch and Streamlabs+OBS. I am looking into making interactive images, videos, and simulations about the setup and controls of the different software. I am looking for quick hit tutorials on adding interactive appear/disappear information to various mediums to take it from the text/video sit and get to a more exploratory experience.

The big component I haven’t found yet was looking to see if there is a way to track simulation clicks like a passive quiz, as in “how many times were components clicked by users before the right button in the software simulation was selected?” Not sure if this is a feature or not to gain passive information on potential learning gaps.

Toggle on and off (working with advance actions and variables)

Variables and Advance Actions to Toggle a Button State and Show/Hide an Object

BOOK – Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019 – available for pre-order

The next installment of the “Mastering Adobe Captivate” series is now available for pre-order. You can now pre-order “Mastering Adobe Captivate 2019” from the following page on the Packt Publishing website : https://www.packtpub.com/hardware-and-creative/mastering-adobe-captivate-2019-fifth-edition. The actual release of the book is around the corner. We don’t have an exact date to share just yet, but it might still be before the one of this month, early February 2019 at the latest! Once again, it has been quite a ride to get […]

Training Simulation: images as feedback

Steo-by-step tutorial to replace the text feedback message by an image as fill in a shape. Newbies.

Interactive Video for effective Training:

In this tutorial, I am using existing Video(a small flat training video already created) and will add interaction to that video and there by making it more result oriented. Before seeing interactive video, First, have a look at this static training video.   And now, have a look at the same video after adding integrative elements.    You will realize that this one is no doubt, more effective and result oriented. Steps to do it. Step 1: Create a new project […]

Exporting and sending for review captivate draft

sending review in draft and importing into captivate

Hide and Reveal a Next Button in Captivate eLearning

In this video tutorial, I use a show action to reveal additional navigation to a learner once they have completed an initial task.