Captivate 4 has several avenues for possible extensions- especially given the new widgets and variables features. Captivate, like many of the other Adobe products, has an exchange where third parties can share product extensions and other assets that the larger Captivate community might find useful. While the exchange has been dormant for a while, a new set of content has been introduced on exchange this month. The new content on exchange ranges from widgets to stock animations- each of which […]
A lot of legacy learning content is in PowerPoint format and it is natural that e-learning course authors want to leverage or re-use this content. The earlier versions of Captivate allowed users to import their PowerPoint content into their Captivate projects. Now Captivate 4 goes much further- Cp4 now supports full round-tripping with the PowerPoint content. It supports collaborative authoring with the SME’s who use PowerPoint. Detailed below are some key aspects of this powerful feature: – You can import […]
A typical scenario for creating an elearning course with Captivate is to create multiple 5-10 min modules of Captivate movies that are integrated using the aggregator or the multi-sco packager or by creating your own navigation shell using Flash Pro. Today, I’ll show you another option that is available for creating a course with multiple modules. The Adobe eLearning Suite integrates Adobe Captivate and Adobe Acrobat Pro to help you create a PDF portfolio containing your Captivate movies, complete with […]
captivate podcasts,captivate tutorial Some good Captivate podcasts and webinars have been posted on the net recently. Rick Zanotti, who’s been involved with Captivate since the Robodemo days has a very popular podcast series titled ‘Captivating’. He’s just posted two new episodes on audio import and branching menus. RJ Jacquez, our eLearning evangelist, has also posted a ‘Captivate 4- getting started with new features‘ eLearning session. This is a great tutorial on the new features in Captivate 4 with simulations that […]
Adobe Captivate,eLearning,rapid eLearning,Templates,Placeholders One of the many good things in Adobe Captivate is the facility to create Project Templates. Project templates are really useful to create identical projects or identical modules in a project. Their “make once and reuse” aspect ensures consistency and saves development time. So what is new in Adobe Captivate 4’s project templates? PLACEHOLDERS!! Placeholders are objects which can be included on the slides in a project template. These placeholders can be converted to respective Captivate objects […]
adobe captivate,elearning,flash,widgets Captivate users – do you sometimes feel that we were cramping your style and limiting your creativity? In simple terms, why could not Captivate allow you: To use your creativity to define new buttons, charts, graphs and other display objects. To explore with new quizzing experience to engage different user segments. Take full advantage of the media revolution happening on YouTube/Flickr etc. and elsewhere on the net. Sure, Captivate has a great set of quizzing options, interactions and […]
