My Experience with Creating a Scenario-based Course: Part 5

I demonstrated this project at the eLearning DemoFest 2012 event, where a variety of solutions for day-to-day eLearning challenges including tools, technologies, and processes are showcased. And the good news is that this course won the Best Soft Skills Course award. 🙂 🙂 For DemoFest, I used the same course that I’ve shared with you in this blog series, made some cosmetic changes to it along with adding a lightbox-style menu and used some canned interactions to create the Top […]

I'm "All in" for Adobe Learning Summit, Vegas, Oct. 29, 2012

I’ve spent much of the past week preparing for Adobe Learning Summit in Las Vegas at the end of this month. This is the premiere event for fans of Adobe Presenter, Adobe Captivate and Adobe Connect. The annual event has become a welcome tradition, featuring more than twenty phenomenal sessions on mobile learning, data/LMS integration, Captivate, Presenter & Connect tutorials and tips. You can learn about the latest in Video, Rapid eLearning, Advanced Actions and more. The most exciting thing […]

Learning 3.0: Downloads for Adobe Captivate Interactive Authoring Lab Sessions

  Download and Install Adobe Captivate 6: If you don’t have a licensed version of Adobe Captivate 6 installed on your laptop, please click here to download and install Adobe Captivate 6 trial version. Session materials for Advanced Quizzing Options session: Handout Exercise files Session materials for Creating HTML5 Courses session: Handout Exercise file Published project with Pause and Resume functionality Other useful resources: Captivate Blog Page Captivate Forum Video Tutorials on the new features of Adobe Captivate 6 Live […]

Announcing – eSeminar Adobe Captivate 6 for Beginners

Adobe Captivate 6 for Beginners or How to Create and Publish Your First Course Module September 26, 2012 10:00 AM US Pacific time REGISTER: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=2074779&loc=en_us Just downloaded Adobe Captivate 6 and want that perfect starter tutorial? Looking for more info before you launch your first course module? Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this handy introduction to creating your first course module in Adobe Captivate 6. Aimed at beginners, this session will guide you through the basic steps […]

Screen Capture Enhancements in Adobe Captivate 6

Adobe Captivate 6 is a power-packed release with a lot of impressive new features like HTML5 Publishing, Learning Interactions, Themes, Actors, Smart Shapes, Negative Scoring, Partial Scoring, Pre-tests, Branch-aware quizzes, Remediation, Submit All, Text Effects, Audio response, Object Grouping, Hyperlinks, and High-Definition Screencasts. And if you think, that’s all we had to offer in this release, take a look at this video where I’ll be showing you the screen capture enhancements which allow you to capture even the small changes […]

Adobe eSeminar: Adobe Captivate 6 for Beginners or How to Create and Publish Your First Course Module

Date and time: Wednesday, 26th Sept, 2012 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM US/Pacific Just downloaded Adobe Captivate 6 and want that perfect starter tutorial? Looking for more info before you launch your first course module? Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this handy introduction to creating your first course module in Adobe Captivate 6. Aimed at beginners, this session will guide you through the basic steps of course creation, demonstrate how to add your own content to a […]

Adobe eSeminar: Create Professional Videos with a Minimal Budget

August 22, 2012 1PM US Eastern Join us for this free eSeminar Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for a very hands on session explaining how to create professional quality video productions from the comfort of your desk. Dr. Partridge will create examples live and give you his top tips to guarantee success when building your arsenal of video tutorials, marketing materials and more. LINK:

HD Videos within a regular Adobe Captivate project

Adobe Captivate 6 lets you record your screen or applications as High Definition (HD) videos and then add transitions or pan & zoom effects to make the videos more engaging. You can also publish them directly to YouTube or save them as MP4 files. But what If you want to have questions slides or training slides? What if you require reporting to LMS? This is when you need to combine the videos with a regular Adobe Captivate project (CPTX files). […]

Beyond PowerPoint: The Magic of Themes in Adobe Captivate 6

Depending on your perspective, Microsoft PowerPoint is either the birthplace or deathbed of eLearning. Few issues in online learning inspire such deep and divisive disagreement. The core of the problem is in many ways tied to the debate between didactic instruction (think one teacher or trainer giving a lecture) and discovery based education (think simulations, scenarios and self-teaching.) The truth is that there is some merit to both approaches and that we don’t have to push one approach away in […]

Text-to-Speech in Adobe Captivate 5.5 – Create and Reuse!

There are different ways of adding audio to an eLearning project in Adobe Captivate 5.5 and one of the ways is to convert Text to Audio with the powerful functionality of  Text-to-Speech in Adobe Captivate. As I was thinking about it, a thread in LinkedIn drew my attention, that talked about creating Text-to-Speech audio and then reusing that audio in a different project. Leslie Bivens, an Adobe Captivate Expert, has added her comments with a solution and I thought of creating a […]

Rapid eLearning with Adobe Captivate 5.5… HTML5 way!

As you all are aware, we launched an HTML5 contest where you can win an iPad by submitting your HTML5 courses that you have created using Adobe Captivate. All you need to do is convert it to HTML5 format using HTML5 converter for Adobe Captivate 5.5. In that context, I thought of creating a sample project to showcase the power of HTML5 converter. I was contemplating on couple of subjects but finally my favorite topic won… Basics of Photography.