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.

Create quizzes

Quizzes are an excellent way to test the users who are going through your eLearning courses. Adding quizzes to a project in Captivate couldn’t be any easier. Just add a Question slide, put your question into the slide and the answer, Captivate does everything else for you. It even puts a quiz results slide at the end. In this document, we will step through the different question types supported by Captivate.

Create software simulations

Captivate allows you to quickly record software simulations in Demo, Assessment, Training modes.

Create your first Captivate project

In this section, you will get stared with creating your first Captivate project. We will also cover introductory concepts such as applying themes to your project and downloading assets that you can use in your project. Before winding up this section, we will preview the progress that we have made and publish the project.

Captivate (2017 release) Update 1 released

We have released Update 1 for the 2017 release of Captivate. This update addresses several important bug fixes and includes support for the latest release of macOS. To install the update, in Captivate, click Help > Updates. Then, follow the on-screen instructions. The new build number after the update is 10.0.1.285. This update contains the following: In-app interactive guide for responsive projects. Follow the walk-through to create responsive projects using Fluid Boxes New video tutorials for Captivate (2017 release). Whether […]

Leveraging Acrobat DC and Captivate 2017 to Enhance Self-directed Learning Opportunities

Overview This past year I was presented with a very interesting design challenge. The challenge was to develop a guided interactive course that could be used in conjunction with anatomical simulators under the following conditions: Product must be device agnostic Project stakeholders globally dispersed Interactive Allows for self-directed learning Can be used internationally Usable in areas of the world with limited bandwidth Once developed, relatively easy to modify by the client company After some research and a great deal of […]

Adobe Captivate – Final Quiz Question Remediation

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can set up remediation for your final quiz questions.

Adobe Captivate – Allow Learners To Select Their Own Avatar

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can create an avatar selection screen where users can select their own characters for their eLearning experience.

Embed Microsoft Office Files Within Adobe Captivate

In this video tutorial, I show you two interesting ways you can give access to Microsoft Office documents to your learners from within your Adobe Captivate project.

Adobe Captivate – Click to Reveal with Multiple Audio Clips

In this video tutorial, I show you my workflow for creating a single-slide click to reveal that contains both slide audio, as well as additional triggered audio for each state of a multi-state object. Your instinct might be to attach the audio to the individual states of the multi-state audio but you will quickly discover that this doesn’t work so well. Please note: that this type of interaction will not work with the built-in closed captioning for the additional audio […]

Adobe Captivate 2017 – Publish Your eLearning To Your LMS

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can publish your Adobe Captivate 2017 (Release) eLearning to your learning management system using the most common features and settings.