#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 […]

Adicionando video do Youtube ao projeto, Captivate 2017

Olá Como está? Neste tutorial, demonstro em como adicionar um vídeo do youtube em seu projeto Adobe Captivate 2017, sem a utilização de um Widget, player para carregar vídeo do youtube. Lembrando que, para que o aluno possa visualizar o vídeo, o mesmo deverá estar online conectado uma rede de internet, este processo não levará o vídeo junto com compilação.  

Replacing the Text Expand Icons in Your Captivate Responsive Design Projects

In this Adobe Captivate tutorial, I show you how you can replace the text expand icon used in your responsive design projects for something else. I used a grey icon of a book so as to match more eLearning designs, however, you are free to use whatever style you wish. If you wish to use my icons you can download them for FREE here: Replacing the Text Expand Icons in Your Captivate Responsive Design Projects

Control Event Video with JavaScript

In this video tutorial, I will show you how you can create a play/pause toggle button to control your Adobe Captivate Event Videos using a mixture of advanced actions and JavaScript. Adobe Help Page Mentioned in Video ➜ https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/using/event-video.html  

Pause/play button and a custom drag and drop (issues)

Hi Everybody, I’m working on a eLearning and ran into a few tiny hiccups that I think can be fixed easily. The problem is that I can’t seem to find a solution. Here are the problems i’m having. Pause/play toggle: I used a tutorial (and I don’t remember which one) to build a pause/play toggle button that pauses the timeline and plays again after pushing the button again. The problem with this button is, that for the first time to pause […]

Adobe Captivate 2017: Powerful!

I am very excited to be using Adobe Captivate 2017.  What an outstanding tool!  I tired the 30 day trial a few months ago and while I was impressed, I thought that I needed more time to really consider what I could do in the future with such a powerful tool.  After purchasing Adobe Captivate 2017, reviewing the short tutorials and taking an Adobe Captivate 2017 course on LYNDA.com, I feel like Adobe Captivate 2017 will provide me with all […]

Adding Closed Captions for your Videos in Adobe Captivate

Adding closed captions to your eLearning courses is a basic requirement to meet accessibility standards like Section 508 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. You can easily do so for your audio-based courses by adding narration to your screen, adding slide notes, and then converting those slide notes to closed captions. But a little-known fact is that you can have closed captions for slide videos as well. Watch this short tutorial to learn how to associate close captions with your […]

Reflections on Captivate 2017

Intro About two weeks ago Captivate 10, now labeled Captivate 2017 was released. If you did visit my blog in the past, you know that I prefer to wait a while before posting my first impressions. My focus is also more on the non-hype features added in this release, I call them the ‘hidden’ gems. Some are mentioned in the documentation, some not. Update undocumented feature – August 2017 This week I discovered an undocumented enhancement thanks to a user […]