Scenario-based courses help learners to try workflows as they proceed and learn as they make mistakes and learn. I wanted to create one such course and thought of taking my HTML5 course on Photography Basics to the next level by adding another scenario, in that way teaching two topics of Photography. Watch the course below to know more…
I hope you would have started using the Course Companion for Adobe Captivate by now. We had many queries regarding the new concept of Progress Index. In this blog, I will try to answer some of those queries.
Progress Index
Progress Index is a score (out of 16) calculated based on many aspects of an Adobe Captivate e-learning course. This index gives you an indication of how the course is being accepted by the learners and how effective the course is. Some of the aspects used to calculate this index are – how many learners are actively taking the course on any given day, how learners are doing in the quiz etc.
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Interpreting Progress Index
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Have you participated in the Adobe Captivate HTML5 Contest? Not yet? You still have twelve more days to grab this opportunity and win an iPad. So give your best shot to create an HTML5 course using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 Converter.
A few days back I had shared some helpful resources and rules for the contest. Today, let me share some tips with you to make your mLearning course dazzle! 
So here are the tips… Continue reading…
We’ve grown up with a notion that teacher is always right! I’ve gone to the extent of sometimes disagreeing with my parents if my teacher said something otherwise. I’m sure some of you must have had similar experiences. This is truly rewarding for the teachers and they’ve earned it by teaching their students everything correctly and putting in all the efforts to tell everything right to the students.
But doesn’t this leave the student with a blind faith in the teacher which could result in accepting everything that the teachers say without questioning them… This can have a long term impact on the analysis and evaluation skills in the learners and they will never ask the ‘Why?’ question to their teacher ‘coz Continue reading…
It is very common to allow the users to navigate to a different screen if they would like to read more on a particular topic. When we create such screens, being smart in navigation and letting the learners know which screen they came from becomes very important. If the learner is clicking ‘Read more’ from Screen A and lands in Screen B, it becomes helpful for the users to know that they will go back to Screen A when they click on ‘Go to last slide visited’ button. Our Community Expert Lieve Weymeis has posted an answer at the Adobe Captivate Forum on how to solve this… Thanks Lieve
Check out the example to take a look at it…
Topic: Creating HTML5 Courses for iPad using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 Converter
Date and time: Thursday, Feb 23, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific
Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create eLearning courses for your iPad. They will show you how to create a course in Adobe Captivate 5.5 and publish it to HTML5 format using HTML5 Converter. They will also share some tips and tricks for effectively creating HTML5 courses.
Registration Link: http://adobe.ly/ybG7g0
Topic: Best Practices for Creating eLearning Courses using Adobe Presenter
Date and time: Thursday, Feb 2, 2012 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US/Pacific
Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to rapidly create an eLearning course from within Microsoft PowerPoint using Adobe Presenter. In this training session, they will share some best practices to transform drab presentations into interactive multimedia experiences with narration, animations, quizzes, and simulations.
Registration Link: http://adobe.ly/yKEL4T
Are you achieving your course objectives? Do you know if the course is being well received? Do you know how your learners are progressing? Do you know if your learners are learning from the course?
Now Course Companion for Adobe® Captivate® will easily provide you with answers to these questions and many more. Adobe Captivate team launches a preview of this new solution on Adobe Labs.
Course Companion for Adobe® Captivate® (A3C) provides content creators with insights that help understand the learner’s response to course content. A3C allows content creators to instantly measure and visualize learner engagement with the learning content.
You will be able to -
It is very simple to enable the courses for tracking through A3C for the content authored through Adobe Captivate 5.5.
You are ready! You don’t have to change the way you are deploying the course. A3C works if the course is deployed on LMS or on a website or on a CD.
And you do not have to be worried, the learners do not see any change, performance impact due to the course enabled for A3C. A3C silently monitors the data for you without interrupting the learning process.
Come – try out for yourself. Visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/captivate_course/ to get started.
This video from Dustin has been gaining in popularity across our FB and Linked-in forums. I’m posting it here for the benefit of our blog readers.
Dustin shows not just how to use the HTML5 converter, but also how to convert this into an iPad app and test it using Adobe PhoneGap. Now to see if we can build all this into a seamless workflow for you in our upcoming versions J
Tip: Using the playbar to navigate seems out-of-place in HTML5 content. Here is a nice post that describes how you could hide your playbar.
If you are reading this, you might also be interested in the Captivate HTML5 contest. This is a great opportunity to showcase your skills in authoring HTML5 based eLearning content, and to win yourself one of three 32GB iPads! Even if you aren’t quite ready to create your own content, check out some of the great submissions thus far- to get an idea on what HTML5 based eLearning has to offer.
I just finished reading this amazing book today and I’m glad I did!
I love the way Dr. Jimenez narrates the book in the form of a story which is full of events, observations and experiences. It’s like he is teaching how to create scenario-based learning courses in a scenario-based book!
Everything he talks about in the book has a small little story associated with it. I also like the cool titles he uses for the chapters, which go as Bucket List, Awake at Night, True Chatter, etc. At the end of each chapter, the author directs you to view a course and answer a few questions which allow the readers to think and respond. The language he uses is casual and conversational and at no point you feel that you are reading a ‘boring’ book Continue reading…
You must have already heard about the Adobe Captivate HTML5 Contest that began on 13th January. I’m sure you would be all excited to participate in the contest. So I thought of helping you out with some resources to make your task easier
To create an eLearning course in HTML5 format, you will need a copy of Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 Converter. You will have to create the eLearning course using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and then convert it to HTML5 format using HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate.
If you don’t have a licensed version of Adobe Captivate 5.5, don’t worry. Click Continue reading…
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