New to eLearning? Try Adobe Captivate 8!

Guest post by Coline Son Lee, Principal & Learning Strategist at Everest CS, Orange County, CA How Adobe has broken the entry barrier to developing eLearning with a more powerful and responsive product! As an eLearning developer, I am often asked by others considering making the leap from developing instructor-led training (ILT) to eLearning what is the “best” tool to learn/use. And this loaded question is often narrowed down to two options – Captivate or …? My response isn’t usually […]

Training: Create stunning mobile learning courses with Adobe Captivate 8

Topic: Create stunning mobile learning courses with Adobe Captivate Description:  Have you always wondered – 1. How you could create mobile learning experiences which allow your learners to access all their eLearning seamlessly irrespective of which device they are on? 2. If you could have the power to preview how your content will look on your learners’ devices of varying screen sizes without physically having to test it on those devices? 3. Whether you need to create multiple eLearning courses for […]

Adobe Captivate 8 Reimagines Responsive eLearning for a Multi-device World

In the web world, being responsive has become a norm. It’s considered uncool if you don’t have your website mobile- or tablet-friendly. As much as we have been trying to make our eLearning courses responsive, we have been facing a lot of challenges all these years. The main challenge is that an eLearning course is not like a big long web page that you need to make responsive. In eLearning courses, you are dealing with screen/slide based approach, which are […]

Check out this award-winning interactive eBook!

Last month at DevLearn 2013 conference, I participated in the 9th Annual eLearning DemoFest event and showcased an Interactive eBook for iPad on how to use Adobe Presenter to create eLearning courses. There were 81 participants at DemoFest showing off their latest and greatest development efforts, offering the DevLearn conference attendees an opportunity to see a wide variety of solutions to common eLearning challenges, and information about the tools, technologies and processes they used to build them. And the good […]

Create Engaging eLearning using Effects in Adobe Captivate 7

Guest Blog by: Joanne Nichols, Adobe Certified Trainer and an Adobe Certified Expert in Adobe Captivate When creating eLearning it is important to ensure you keep the user engaged.  By nature we are inquisitive, so why not create eLearning to capture the learner’s interest using this to our advantage. Rollovers are a great way to do this. (Obviously this means that these rollover effects that I am teaching you today cannot be used for mobile learning. However you can replicate […]

Free eTrainings Announced for Adobe Captivate and Adobe Presenter: Register now!

Topic: eLearning 101; A Quick Start for eLearning First Timers Date and time: Wednesday, 2nd October, 2013 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Every Year More and More Companies are joining the online learning movement. Whether it’s a late realization that online courses can save your institution money or eLearning is just ‘new to you,’ it can be tough to wrap your head around the various aspects of eLearning content creation deployment, distribution, assessment, tracking and the myriad of other things […]

August eSeminars for Adobe Captivate and Adobe Presenter: Register now for free!

Here’s the list of eSeminars we’ve planned for the month of August. Feel free to register for the eSeminars you wish to attend. Topic: What’s New in Adobe Presenter 9 Date and time: Thursday, 1st August, 2013 8:00 AM to 9:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, as she demonstrates some of the new and enhanced features in Adobe Presenter 9. Learn how to use the new audio workflow and filters, add a drag and drop […]

Training: Lilybiri’s favourite: shapes to trigger advanced actions

Topic: Lilybiri’s favourite: Shapes to trigger advanced actions Description: The new smart shapes in Captivate 6 are really game changers, not only because they double as text containers and rollover shapes but especially because they can be used as buttons with all functionalities, including triggering advanced actions. In this webinar, you’ll learn: About the difference between those shape buttons and normal buttons How shape buttons can be used on Master slides or timed for the rest of the project and […]

Training: Advanced Actions for Dummies using Adobe Captivate 6

Topic: Advanced Actions for Dummies using Adobe Captivate 6 Description: Join Anita Horsley, Captivate Community Expert, to learn how to make eLearning more engaging using Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate. Ever wondered how to allow users to click on any button, in any order, before they can advance in the course? This could be the case if you have multiple lessons that jump to other slides and return to the Topics Menu each time or you may simply have multiple […]

Training: LMS Strategies and Implementation with Adobe Captivate

Topic: LMS Strategies and Implementation with Adobe Captivate Description: Integrating Adobe Captivate with you Learning Management System (LMS) can be daunting. Join Rick Zannoti, Captivate Community Expert, as he demonstrates how to simplify this process for you. In this webinar, he will be covering LMS basics about SCORM and AICC, Captivate LMS preferences, SCORM Aggregator, course deployment on LMS, and LMS gotchas and things you should be aware of. Recording Link: http://adobe.ly/MzPKUG

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, […]

Adobe eLearning Master Class with Clive Shepherd & Allen Partridge on demand now available

The first in a series of Adobe eLearning Master Classes was held yesterday. The session, titled “Creating Inspired Activities and Interactions for Effective eLearning” was