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When: Thursday, May 24, 2012 12:00 AM – 3:00 PM US/Pacific

Description:

Join Kirsten Rourke, Adobe Captivate Expert and Trainer along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising to discuss the essentials during the planning process for your elearning courses. During the session, we will discuss how Storyboarding, planning for assets and navigation is very important to minimize the risks and maximize the productivity

What’s in it for you?

1. Plan for your courses in terms of resources and time
2. Create storyboards and review them
3. Do overall planning for increased productivity

To Register: http://adobe.ly/H9qRST

Description:

Join Lieve Weymeis, Adobe Captivate Expert and Adobe Education Leader along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising to improve using Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate. We will learn the best practices to create advanced actions while avoiding pitfalls.

What’s in it for you?

1. Prepare advanced actions in a structured way: choosing events, variables, action types
2. Use labeling techniques as timesavers (tips)
3. Use tricks with variables to shorten editing time
4. Test actions (trick)
5. Do’s and Don’ts

Prerequisites:
Know the meaning of variables, having played (minimally) with  standard/conditional action.

Recording: http://adobe.ly/Ms0N5d

Description:

Join Joseph Caplan, Adobe Captivate Expert along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising to learn how to create videos effectively for Adobe Captivate. During the session, we will also learn the best practices, tools and techniques used for high-quality videos.

What’s in it for you?

1. Understand the basics of video production
2. Edit the videos using Adobe Premiere Elements
3. Use the videos in Adobe Captivate Projects

Recording: http://adobe.ly/L7O8la

Description:

Join Jay Dutta, Typographer, Designer and Design Evangelist along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising to learn how to play with text and type to create interesting and immersive designs that keeps the learners engaged with your elearning courses. During the session we will also discuss how these principles can effectively be used inside Adobe Captivate.

What’s in it for you?

1. Understand how to work with text and type styles to create sticky learning content
2. Create clear hierarchies for easy reading
3. Create object styles in Adobe Captivate based on the learnings.

Recording: http://adobe.ly/L7O7hl

Description:

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising to learn how to create great looking courses using the power of Master Slides, Object Styles and Object Effects. During the session, we will discuss the best practices of using these features in Adobe Captivate to do the tasks faster and still create aesthetically good looking courses.

What’s in it for you?

After attending the session, you will be able to:

• Use Master Slides as templates for the slides
• Use Object Styles for consistency in look and feel.
• Use Object Effects for engaging content.

Recording Link: http://adobe.ly/K15Lpc

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh with Leslie Bivens to learn the basics of Capture in Adobe Captivate 5.5. We will also discuss the best practices while creating and modifying the simulations in Adobe Captivate.

What’s in it for you?

After attending the session, you will be able to:

1. Understand the suitable settings to be done before capturing
2. Capture any application/screen area as Automatic or Full Motion Recording
3. Understand the best practices while editing the captured project
4. Resize the project for various requirements

Recording: http://adobe.ly/K15PVZ

Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising to learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop for creating and editing images/assets for Adobe Captivate 5.5. This is the second part of 2 part series wherein we will discuss different techniques used in creating and managing the image assets.

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Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop for creating and editing images/assets for Adobe Captivate 5.5. This is the first part of 2 part series wherein we will discuss different techniques used in creating and managing the image assets.

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Last week, I conducted a session on creating interactive screens using Adobe Captivate 5.5 where I showed the participants how to create a tabbed, click-reveal text, and click-play audio screen.

The demonstrations for tabbed and click-reveal text screen are already available here and for the benefit of blog readers, here’s how you can create a click-play audio screen.

In this example screen, notice that introduction audio plays when the screen loads. When you click any of the highlighted area, the audio clip related to it plays and the highlight box disappears indicating that you have already clicked that area. Continue reading…

Topic: Creating an HTML5 course using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 converter

Date and time: Thursday, Jan 12, 2012 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific

Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create a good looking eLearning course which can be published as HTML5 output. In this Hands-on session, we will also look at using HTML5 converter for Adobe Captivate 5.5. While doing this, we will discuss creating content slides and question slides as well for the course.

Registration Link: http://adobe.ly/unYi0Y

Topic: Import/Export workflows in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn about different import/export workflows available in Adobe Captivate 5.5. In this session, they will show you how to export project captions, preferences, object styles, etc. They will also share some best practices related to these workflows.

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Topic: Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to create exciting eLearning content and add complex interactivity by using Advanced Actions and Variables. Continue reading…