Rapid eLearning | Adobe Captivate Blog

Today we released a new update for Adobe Presenter. Along with some bug fixes we have packed it with some exciting new enhancements and features for Video Creator.

Here are the new enhancements for Video Creator in Adobe Presenter 8.0.1:

• Audio waveform on the timeline: Now the Presenter Video Creator displays the audio waveform on the timeline. This will allow you to easily identify extra silence in the video and trim unwanted video portion.

• Direct upload to Continue reading…

Adobe Captivate 6 is a power-packed release with a lot of impressive new features like HTML5 Publishing, Learning Interactions, Themes, Actors, Smart Shapes, Negative Scoring, Partial Scoring, Pre-tests, Branch-aware quizzes, Remediation, Submit All, Text Effects, Audio response, Object Grouping, Hyperlinks, and High-Definition Screencasts.

And if you think, that’s all we had to offer in this release, take a look at this video where I’ll be showing you the screen capture enhancements which allow you to capture even the small changes in the screen including the mouse roll-over events. You can also see the new workflow to Continue reading…

Guest Blog by: Bryan Jones, author of the Assets eLearning Blog and President of eLearningArt.com, a stock photo site for the eLearning industry.

Introduction to Using Avatars

In my last post, I introduced the idea that characters can be used in a number of ways in your eLearning course. Now I’d like to start with the first example: eLearning avatars. An avatar is probably the most common use that I see in eLearning courses. Some common characteristics of an avatar in a course are that they:

• Are designed to guide a learner through the course
• Speak directly to the learner

Avatar images are easier to find than images for Continue reading…

After the two wonderful posts by Pooja and Allen, I thought of creating one more eLearning module explaining the new features of Adobe Captivate 6. The question was, how do I make it interesting? My job became easier with enhanced Adobe Presenter 8. So I’ve used the features of Microsoft PowerPoint and Adobe Presenter to create this course… go ahead and view it on your iPad! Want to know how I achieved this? Read through the post… step-by-step…

Experience the course in your iPad using Presenter Mobile App: http://my.adobeconnect.com/cp6new2

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There is nothing like a trip to remind us that life’s journey’s are our only real destinations.  Whether you ascribe such wisdom to Chinese Proverbs or “One Tree Hill”, the wisdom in recognizing that the process is more important than the product is universal and ageless.

I have spent the last couple of weeks traveling. I have driven through Continue reading…

Guest Blog by: Sara Carpenter, President and Founder at Qurve Learning.

At Qurve Learning, we create e-learning programs that help patients prepare for medical procedures. Our programs are fully narrated and use photos, illustrations, animation, and video to make health information easy to understand and follow.

We’ve used Adobe’s E-Learning Suite since it was first released a few years ago and have upgraded regularly. We recently took Captivate 6 for a test spin and am pleased with the new enhancements. Here are few of our favorite features:

• Smart Shapes – Continue reading…

Guest Blog by: Bryan Jones, author of the Assets eLearning Blog and President of eLearningArt.com, a stock photo site for the eLearning industry.

How most people use characters

One thing I notice when hosting workshops is that the first time users try to insert character images, the end product looks about the same for all users: they use the character as an avatar and the full character (head to toe) is in the viewable area. Continue reading…

When we use PowerPoint as an authoring environment, we end up making our courses look like presentations, as the default slide designs and layouts we have at our disposal are very few. Moreover these layouts are specifically designed for presentations and not for creating eLearning content. But not anymore!

With the all new Adobe Presenter 8, you have the freedom to choose a perfect layout that exactly matches your eLearning content type. You can seamlessly use these layouts with scenes, characters, images, and animations to bring your eLearning courses to life. These layouts are specially designed to be used for eLearning courses and adapt neatly with the design theme you have used to create your Adobe Presenter course.

Exciting, isn’t it? Continue reading…

The Appiness is here and it’s here to stay! And we are proud to present the Adobe Presenter Mobile App to access your Adobe Presenter 8 courses on tablet devices. Exciting, isn’t it?

What’s even more exiting is that you do not have to create two separate courses for Desktop and device consumption. Just publish your course as a SWF and the same course works beautifully on both your iPad and Desktop. You can also track your AICC compliant and Connect courses when accessing them on the iPad. Can’t believe? Even I couldn’t believe it, when I first heard it from the engineers, so I gave it a spin and here are the steps I followed to create and view the course on iPad.

I created a short course on Hospital Hygiene with Continue reading…

Date and time: Wednesday, 19th Sept, 2012 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM US/Pacific

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a discussion and demonstration centered on knowledge sharing in your organization. Business communication today is growing increasingly dependent on clean, well-produced video content, and corporate culture has sent forth a clarion call to leverage internal knowledge in order to cut costs and protect the business process understanding resident in virtually every knowledge worker. This is sometimes a stark contrast to a prevailing knowledge hoarding culture. How can your organization facilitate both the cultural changes needed and the technological innovation required to move from knowledge protection to knowledge sharing within the group? Dr. Partridge will discuss the issues and demonstrate the technologies. You’ll learn how you can spearhead the knowledge revolution in your organization.

REGISTRATION LINK: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=2074774&loc=en_us&sdid=JZZHZ

Date and time: Wednesday, 5th Sept, 2012 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM US/Pacific

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, veteran College Professor for this fascinating demonstration and discussion of flipping the college classroom. Participants will learn the fundamental principles behind the flipped classroom, the advantages of the constructivist approach, and how to easily migrate their lessons & lectures into online modules that students can use to investigate and research the principle topics. Includes demonstrations of Adobe Presenter 8 aimed specifically at supporting the technology needs of the flipped classroom.

REGISTRATION LINK: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/event/index.cfm?event=detail&id=2074765&loc=en_us&sdid=JZZHW

Topic: eLearning Made Easy with Adobe Presenter 8

Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to rapidly create eLearning courses with trackable quizzes using the all new Adobe Presenter 8. They will also show you how to convert your slides into interactive training content using out-of-the-box assets such as actors, scenes, layouts, and learning interactions.

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