Should You Work for Less Than Your Normal Fee?

I recently saw an article on LinkedIn by a fellow instructional designer Ralonda Simmons. She posed the question to the community about whether we should work for free when we start in the learning and design industry. I guess I’m not surprised that organisations are doing this, but I’ve also had time to reflect on this discussion, and I thought I would share my thoughts here as well. When I was starting as a freelance elearning designer, developer, I would […]

Add an Out of Tries Message to your Captivate Quiz Results Slide

I think I saw this on the forum and a potential client emailed me looking for this solution. In this video tutorial, I have combined the custom quiz results slide that I’ve used in the past along with an advanced action solution to provide a message for success, failure and out of tries messages as well.

Flipped Classes with Captivate

Examples of using Captivate published assets for flipped class setup with live and distant students.

Fix Fluid Box Image Fill Resize Issue in Captivate

In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, I show you how to fix the fluid box image fill resize issue.

Use Your Keyboard to Trigger Actions in Your Captivate eLearning

In this video tutorial, I answer a viewer question about triggering actions such as playing audio, or running advanced actions, by using a keyboard shortcut. This might be even easier than you thought.

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