Top eLearning Trends For 2018

Predicting learning trends is not easy as it may sound, as some of the trends have been there for quite some time, and some have not seen the maturity or traction that is required of them. Let’s look some of top eLearning trends that will become stronger as we step into 2018.

Painless animated gifs in Captivate

My short workflow for making animated gifs that display as intended in Cp

Adobe Captivate – Content Carousel Two Ways

In this video tutorial, I show you how to create your own content carousel. The first method is through using simple actions on your properties panel. The second method is a little more sophisticated and requires the use of a tracking variable and two advanced actions.

Adobe Captivate – Understanding Text Scaling

In this video tutorial, I explain how text scaling works in Adobe Captivate 2017 Release and when you can expect the text expand icon to appear.

Adobe Captivate – Workflow for Adding Closed Captions

In this video tutorial, I show you my workflow for adding Closed Captions to my eLearning projects created in Adobe Captivate.

HTML5 Output not workin

Hello. I am working on a tutorial in Captivate 2017 with audio narration. All displays fine in Chrome, Edge and Internet Explorer except for the following problem: when you try to use the rewind or fast forward buttons, the audio is disabled and there is no way to re-enable it unless you reload the presentation. Is there a fix for this? In lieu of that, is there some way to simply remove the fast forward and rewind buttons from the […]

About Slides and Frames – Intro to Micro-navigation

Introduction to navigation within frames instead of slides: macro- versus micro-navigation. Includes a fun exercise to reinforce the learning, as preparation for advanced use cases.

Adobe Captivate – Performing Calculations in Advanced Actions

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can perform mathematical calculations inside your Adobe Captivate advanced actions using the expression command.

Adobe Captivate – Slide Audio Three Ways

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can import your slide audio using one of three different methods.

Adobe Learning Evangalists on Lynda as well!

I think it’s great that there’s a lot of community contribution here, but it’s nice to see some of the same names appearing both here and elsewhere.  Today I went to lynda.com to find more resources, and found Pooja Jaisingh there as well!  Great!  She posted in one of her posts on here that you could got to lynda for more tutorials, and it’s worth noting you might have free access to lynda through your local public library. The more […]

Newbies: More PowerPoint Hacks for Your Cp Project: Using PowerPoint Template Backgrounds in Your Captivate Master Slides

We’re always looking for shortcuts. If there’s a nicely designed template in PowerPoint, you can use its background in your Captivate Master Slide to create a stunning new theme.

Tweak that Timeline: 4 easy workflows

Some of the simple tips offered during the presentation at Adobe eLearning Conference – Washington DC (25th of April 2018). No variables, no advanced actions, no shared actions are used in the post.