Topic: Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5
Date and time: Thursday, Sept 15, 2011 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific
Description: Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to create exciting eLearning content and add complex interactivity by using Advanced Actions and Variables.
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As we are aware, Closed Captions makes the content more interesting for the learners. Generally, they are associated with Audio in a Slide but what if we need the Closed Captions but with a Video? We have the perfect solution for that using Slide Video’s Closed Captions Feature. View the following demonstration to know what I’m talking about.
Let’s see how to achieve this using the Slide Video feature. Continue reading…
Given the current scenario of Education industry where time is a constraint and learners are spread across different geographies, eLearning seems to be a quick answer for most of the training needs. Be it large organizations, freelance trainers and SMEs, or entrepreneurs getting into training sector, everybody would like to dive into the field of eLearning with the enthusiasm to deliver content more effectively or efficiently, along with achieving maximum return on investment.
Scenario: You are creating an eLearning course, which spans into multiple modules. You want to tie it all together and have a Menu page from where you would like to access these modules. You also want to enable bookmarking so that a tick mark appears next to the module name, after the learner has viewed the module.
Here’s an example:
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There’s a lot of focus on quickly creating great looking content in the new Adobe Captivate 5.5. In this post I’ll take a quick look at how you can work with objects on layers to create professional looking eLearning pages quickly and easily by taking advantage of these Continue reading…
Is a PowerPoint to Presenter workflow just too limited for you? Most eLearning professionals, trainers and instructional designers quickly realize that a workflow based entirely on PowerPoint is just too narrow in scope to meet the broad needs and interests of authoring online educational content. So how difficult is Continue reading…
People often ask me how I got such a clean cutout of an image in Adobe Captivate 5. The answer is that it’s pretty easy with eLearning Suite 2, because Photoshop CS5 and Adobe Captivate 5 work together to make for a simple solution to complex problems like that one. Sure, it’s easy to get a clean selection when all the background pixels are the same color, but what do you do when you need to clip a foreground object or figure and the subject and the background are far more complex? In the video below I Continue reading…
A reader asked last week, “Can I add video to my Table of Contents and sync that video with a PowerPoint using Adobe Captivate 5?” I have to admit that I hadn’t really thought of that, but of course the answer is yes – and in fact it’s incredibly simple to do. So I’ve recorded this short Continue reading…
Further to Shameer’s post on “Publish to iPhone from Captivate and eLearning Suite“, here are the next steps to generate the iPhone app. from your Captivate SWF.
These are manual steps and you need to use the terminal/shell to execute the command on a Mac machine where you have your Apple Developer Certificate and Provisioning Profile installed: Continue reading…
I wanted to vlog you guys another video this week since there’s no eSeminar scheduled and I’m out of the office at a conference. This fun little tidbit is in response to one of the more common questions I get from Adobe Captivate users. The question? Now that Presenter (doesn’t matter which Presenter) doesn’t support embedded Adobe Captivate 5 files (because Presenter hasn’t been updated to AS3) how can I embed Captivate Video Captures, Application Captures, Application Simulations etc. onto my PowerPoints? My answer is generally … You know there is an easier way?
This 5 minute video demonstrates the easier Path. A lot of users don’t realize a.) how very simple it is to use PowerPoint files inside Adobe Captivate 5, and b.) how simple it is to embed Continue reading…
On the sidelines of the Learning Technologies conference, we are also meeting Captivate, eLearning Suite and Adobe Presenter customers in and around London actively doing eLearning or interested in getting there.
Our Product Management and Marketing teams will be available to meet on Jan 24, 25 and 28.
If you are visiting the Learning Technologies conference on Jan 26 & 27, do drop by at the Adobe booth.
Please leave a comment on this post if you are interested in meeting us.
We will be present at the Learning Technologies 2011 show on January 26, 27 at the Olympia, London.
Do stop by at our booth for daily theatre presentations on a variety of areas ranging from video, mobile, captivate roundtripping with flash and photoshop, tracking and reporting, creating engaging simulations amongst others.
For those interested in using Twitter for collaboration in eLearning, don’t miss our seminar on January 27, 11:00 – 11:30, Theatre 1.
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