NotificationYou may well wake up today to one of those cool little Adobe Automatic Update Messages with an update for Captivate smiling and winking patiently for you. We’re very pleased to announce that the patch for Adobe Captivate 5 is ready for prime time and coming now via Adobe Automatic Update Manager to your already installed copy of Adobe Captivate 5. (Still wondering about the Flash update to fix the Animated Text Captions issue without using the authoring patch? Read […]
We know that ‘Advanced Actions’ help you develop dynamic content rapidly. I would like to add few tips on Advanced Actions in this tutorial. Probably most of you would already have found these workarounds/hacks. Let me take you through the topics that are covered in this tutorial. How to compare a variable with an empty string? How to mix ‘Standard Actions’ and ‘Conditional Actions’? How to compare a variable with an empty string? Say in your course, on the first […]
We had a great time at this week’s eSeminar, where the focus was on creating custom learning interactions using Adobe Captivate 5’s new Advanced Actions tools. This one is fairly advanced as Captivate authoring goes, but if you’ve had a little exposure to Captivate now I’d encourage you to have a look. The tools provided manage to be both very simple to use, and very powerful options to extend the functions normally available. The OnDemand recording of the eSeminar is […]
One of the most requested features in Adobe Captivate was the ability to store the course results on the local servers or database. Adobe Captivate 5 comes with an all new reporting workflow, being highlighted as Alternate Reporting, which enables its users to store and track their course results using their own servers and database. Useful Resources Adobe Captivate Free Sample Project – CloudAir SoftSkills Download Free Adobe Captivate Sample Project – Adobe Captivate 2017 Training Download the Workbook – Getting Started with […]
I’d like to see us make August Captivate 5 Mastery Month. I’ve been inspired by wonderful recent articles created and posted to the Adobe Community Help by members of the Community like this recent contribution from Lilybiri. With hundreds of thousands of Captivate users and virtually all of them predisposed to developing eLearning, I’d want to challenge you, yes you, to create a tip, a tutorial, a handy use case or other tidbit to share with the broader Captivate Community. […]
Now that you have Captivate 5 and eLearning Suite2 in your hands, it is time to help you hit the road running and guide you thru the huge list of enhancements and features we’ve packed into the product. First off, click on the tutorials link (at the bottom left of the welcome screen) to access the large set of Captivate tutorials packed right into the product. More tutorials are getting created and should be posted on the elearning channel on […]
Captivate 5 has been called a ‘must have’ update in a recent review for[ Learning Solutions Magazine.](http://bit.ly/aS7TiL).
The Virtual Training Company (VTC) has introduced a comprehensive online training module for Captivate 4. The course is authored by Mark Fletcher, one of our most active community experts, multiple years running. A monthly subscription of $30, provides you access to the 780+ courses on VTC . I believe at this price, the VTC course is the most comprehensive coverage of Captivate (also, the first 3 modules are free). The course runs 9 hrs, but is well organized into comfortable […]
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 […]
