Adobe Captivate – Keyboard Shortcuts

In this Adobe Captivate video tutorial, I show you three really helpful keyboard shortcuts that will save a bunch of time when working with the timeline. Also, I’ve provided a link below that will take you to the Adobe.com site where they have provided a list of all the keyboard shortcuts for Adobe Captivate (2017 Release) and earlier. Adobe Captivate Keyboard Shortcuts: ➜ https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/using/shortcut-keys.html

The Tools in My Toolbox

When I’m watching tutorials on YouTube, Udemy or somewhere else I often find myself asking the question “what tool did they use to do that?” For example, If I’m watching a Captivate tutorial and the presenter starts inserting images or custom buttons I want to know what they used to create them. Did they use Photoshop? Illustrator? Did they use Word (yes, really, Word)? Or, heaven forbid, Paint (not the snazzy new 3D version either). So, considering this, I decided […]

Open Different Slides Depending on Device Type

In this Quicktip video tutorial, I show you how you can use the system variable cpInfoMobileOS to create a conditional action that will navigate your end users to different slides depending on what type of device they are using to view your eLearning project.

Alterando o tamanho de palco em projetos em branco

Como está, espero que bem! Vamos a mais um tutorial Adobe Captivate 2017, vamos tratar do assunto tamanho de palco, como alterar. Sempre que iniciamos um novo Projeto Vazio, definimos o tamanho de tela logo no inicio, vejamos a imagem a seguir apontado pela seta. Quando você define o tamanho do palco e depois resolve mudar o tamanho se pergunta, como faço para alterar o tamanho do palco? Muitos fecham o projeto e iniciam um novo. Vou mostrar que não […]

Beyond the LMS: A Mobile First approach to learning using Adobe Captivate, Formative Assessment, Google Analytics, HTML5 and Google Firestore

  Hello Adobe Captivate Community!  I’m excited to hear from you and welcome your ideas and input on the work I am about to describe.  Your tutorials and forum posts have helped me tremendously in getting to completion on years of work and I am proud to share it with you today. I discovered Adobe Captivate 4 years ago when searching for a way to reach people on mobile devices. I needed to replace a platform I had developed with a mobile […]

Adobe Captivate Draft – Open Storyboards in Captivate 2017

I created a video tutorial on Adobe Captivate Draft last week that was well received, however, one of my viewers on my YouTube channel wanted to know the process of getting Captivate Draft files into Captivate 2017. In today’s video, I show everyone exactly how to do that. Click on the following link from your iPad to install Captivate Draft. Adobe Captivate Draft

Become a Captivate Swatch-buckler in No Time!

Hello, all! I recently realized that when creating a project in Captivate, it can be rather burdensome to find just the right colors to match your full brand spectrum. Thankfully, Adobe Captivate has you covered! Follow these simple steps to customize the built-in Swatch Manager, and make the default palette walk the plank! 1. Open a Captivate project file. 2. From the top menu bar, select Window, and scroll down to Swatch Manager. The default should look like this. 3.  […]

#eLearning #LIVESTREAM Publishing Your Project – 10/16/2017, 16:00 EDT

In this video tutorial, I show you how you can publish your Adobe Captivate project. We will spend most of the time on SCORM 1.2, however, we will touch on the other eLearning formats. As per usual, I will also be taking questions if time permits so get your Captivate Questions ready for the Live Chat. Follow the link right now to set up a reminder to get notified when this event becomes live on October 10th, 10 AM EDT. #eLearning #LIVESTREAM […]

Adobe Captivate Draft 1.0.5 (235)

About two years ago I was scheduled to go on vacation but also had to get started on one of my projects. I took this opportunity to use the newly released Adobe Captivate Draft to begin the storyboarding process and get a jump start on my development as well. In this video tutorial, I walk you through the process of creating a storyboard using Adobe Captivate Draft. I also discuss that Draft is not just for storyboarding but can be […]

Why I Love Shared Actions since over 4 years!

Intro Shared actions were a new feature in Captivate 7 several years ago. They were improved with Captivate 8.  I never understood why almost no one talks about them, even self-labeled experts seem never to use them. This is a real pity because their power is much underestimated. In most projects I open an external library (have a look at Internal and External Libraries) which has frequently used shared actions. It saves me a lot of time in each project. I […]

NEW BOOK! Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017 has been released

Oct 4th 2017 is an important date for Pooja Jaisingh and I. With the release of our book “Mastering Adobe Captivate 2017”, the project we have been working on for the last 6 month is now complete. Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and I are the proud co-authors of this book. Paul Wilson and  Alice Acker have reviewed the book Tridib Roy Chowdhury  has authored the foreword The editorial team at Packt Publishing has ensured the quality of the editorial process. This was an amazing team of exceptional […]

Shared Actions for Easy Navigation Controls

I record Adobe Captivate tutorials on procedures I use myself. One such topic that I haven’t covered before now is shared actions. I simply haven’t had a reason to use them in my everyday work. I would use “advanced actions” for the navigation controls I would put at the beginning of my course and display for the rest of the project. One problem is that you can’t have items displayed for rest of project and contained in a non-static fluid […]