The Importance of Keeping Software Training Up To Date

Keeping Your Software Knowledge Current As a learning and development professional, it is wise to keep your level of knowledge up to date, and that applies to your software training as well.  Many professionals get stuck in a rut, believing they can not gain any further usage from the software or afraid to update their software to the current release.  Not only is it good practice to ensure that you are constantly learning what your software can do right now, […]

Super Easy Custom Knowledge Check in Adobe Captivate

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can make a custom knowledge check question using just simple shapes used as buttons. No need for variables, advanced actions, conditional actions, or shared actions. Just a simple learning interaction that anyone can create.

FontAwesome Icons Into Your Responsive Adobe Captivate eLearning

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can set up the FontAwesome icons into your responsive design Adobe Captivate eLearning. This hack works for Captivate 2017 as well.

Custom Play/Pause button (Use case system variables)

Step by step tutorial to create a custom toggle button for Play/Pause, using multistate shape button, conditional action based on the system variable cpCmndPause.

Tincan xAPI

In this video tutorial, I show you how to tracking the tincan xAPI in the eLearning project.

Job Aids – What you should know

A Job Aid is like a checklist, a cheat-sheet or any kind of quick reference material that employees can use in the execution of their jobs. In Adobe Captivate Prime, Job Aids are organized in Catalogs. Read more to find out what you need to know about Job Aids in Adobe Captivate Prime.

Understanding/Using System Variables – part 2

This post explains the power and use of the variables in the category Movie Control’. Terminology which is crucial is explained as well as some easy use cases.

Understanding/Using System Variables – part 1

Introduction to system variables, focus on the categories of system variables which are read only. Post includes a downloadable table with definitions and references to articles with use cases. Later articles will focus on the category Movie Control, on user variables, and on their meaning in simple, advanced and shared actions.

Setting your Adobe Captivate Dimensions

In this video tutorial, I show you how to set and resize the dimensions of various types of eLearning projects including responsive and non-responsive projects.

Using Adobe Captivate Learning Interactions

Using Adobe Captivate Learning Interactions As an Instructional Designer, I am always concerned about how to organize and present content in a way that does not overwhelm my learners. Therefore, writing style and length of text are extremely important. Enormous blocks of text on screen can make the learner reluctant to continue the course, especially in this digital age where learning is experienced on mobile devices (e.g. tablets, phones, laptops) and the social media phenomenon has created learners with short […]

Slide Notes Basics for Newbies

This quick tutorial will show Newbies what “the blue line” means and what it can do when you are adding, re-ordering, deleting, or editing lines of your slide notes.

How Does a Newbie Get Started?

Tips and recommendations for a newbie