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.

Demystifying Captivate–LMS integration

Learning Management Systems (LMS) help you administer, track monitor, and report users’ interactions with your courses. Adobe Captivate lets you create SCORM-and-AICC-compliant courses that you can deploy on various LMSs. This blog post summarizes the steps involved in making your Captivate courses work with LMSs. Step 1. Configure your Captivate projects for your LMS  Here’s a video tutorial (3:25) that shows how to configure a project for the SCORM cloud LMS:

My date with Adobe Captivate 5.5 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3… at HTML5 Restaurant!

Photography is one of my hobbies and I’m sure it’s the same with some of you reading this post. When I thought of creating some content in HTML5 for my iPad, the first thing that crossed my mind was Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3. I not only appreciate it but have also seen a lot of my photographer friends use it. So, here I go with my venture to create tutorials on basics of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3… 🙂

Captivate 5 patch for LMS reporting, audio dev, preloader…

We’ve just released a new patch for Adobe Captivate 5. This patch contains a new feature, and a few bug fixes. The issues fixed in this patch are: LMS An AICC-compliant Adobe Captivate course does not launch successfully if the web server on which the course is hosted, and the LMS, which is used to track to course, are on different domains. When a SCORM-compliant course is launched, the SWF file hangs at the loading screen. In a SCORM-compliant course, […]

Full Screen in Adobe Captivate Authoring: New Video

This week we welcome back to the team eLearning Evangelist R.J. Jacquez – and R.J.’s first contribution is a great short video on YouTube: All about working in full screen mode in AdobeCaptivate. Proving yet again that Adobe Captivate goes way beyond Screen Capture, R.J. gives us a nice overview of how easy it can be to work in full screen mode. You can always view the latest Adobe Captivate and eLearning Suite Tutorials on YouTube at the Adobe eLearning […]

Captivate 5 ACE exam objectives

A reminder- the Captivate 5 ACE exams are available for registration and the first date you can take the exam is Feb 10th . Many of you might have already signed up for the Captivate 5 ACE exam. And as we’ve seen in the comments in my previous blog post people have been asking for the exam objectives (which normally get posted on our website). Since this will take another couple of days, I’ve reproduced this below. Good luck, and […]

Checked out the eLearning channel on Adobe.tv recently?

We recently updated the eLearning channel on AdobeTV with seven new shows, containing close to 40 new episodes. Most of these are tutorials created for Adobe Captivate 5 and eLearning Suite. The tutorial videos cover both the new and pre-existing features of Captivate. They also discuss the new UI and workflows in detail. Mark Fletcher, our community expert, has done a wonderful job in creating these videos. The videos are tagged and organized by Captivate function; And also allow you […]

Troubleshooting the Adobe Captivate 5.0 Patch installation.

This blog post provides information on troubleshooting problems with installing Adobe Captivate 5.0 patch. You have updated the index.html file in the tutorials folder to fix tutorial issues earlier and patch installation fails. Roll back to the old version of index.html (located at <Installation_folder>/CP_Tutorials/). If you do not have an old version of the index.html file, download it from this link. Install the patch again. Patch installation fails and Captivate doesn’t launch. Uninstall Captivate. Install Captivate 5 (build 596) again […]