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May 29, 2012

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

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May 25, 2012

#AdobeCaptivate 6 Sneak Peek 01: Publish to HTML5

With the upcoming release of Adobe Captivate 6 just round the corner, I can’t wait to show you a peek into the new and improved workflows in Captivate. So, let me start with my favorite feature in Captivate 6. Enjoy! :)

Inquisitive to know more about the new features of Captivate? Follow me on twitter @poojajaisingh and be the first one to know about what’s in store for you in Captivate 6.

You also stand a chance to win a full licensed copy of Adobe Captivate 6. Here’s how Continue reading…

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April 25, 2012

Announcing winners of the Scenario Training contest!

We’re happy to announce the winners of our Scenario Training contest! We had some great entries and also significant interest from the community. The entries received close to 10,000 Facebook ‘Likes’. The people’s choice award goes to Steve Shatkin, for his entry ‘Some tips to make you a better poker player’.

Steve has definitely inspired me to try and create another scenario training on Poker tips, possibly playing out each scenario even when a user makes a wrong choice- thus allowing him or her to learn from the mistakes.

That brings us to the judges award. Continue reading…

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April 18, 2012

New Course + Quiz Template using the Power of Adobe Photoshop!

When I had shared Quiz + Course templates a few months back, some Adobe Captivate users asked me for an Architecture-based theme. And I thought why not! :) So here’s a new template which you can use right away for creating your eLearning content.

Download the Template file (.cptx) from here.

Let me take few minutes of your precious time to explain how I went about doing this. Continue reading…

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April 16, 2012

My Experience with Creating a Scenario-based Course: Part 3

In Part 1 of this blog series, I shared my experience about the content acquisition and analysis phase for creating a scenario-based course. In Part 2, I shared how I created a storyline and identified the critical steps in it and further started storyboarding and shared the introduction screen with you. When storyboarding for this course, the single most important thing for me was to keep it conversational and follow the actual lingo that the customer care representatives are supposed to follow.

The introduction screen helped us understand that Lisa was a new joinee in the team and she was about to take her first call. In the next screen, we need to show how she starts the call and what the customer issue was. I got this information by listening to the recorded calls and SME interviews.

Here goes Continue reading…

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April 3, 2012

Training: Effective Planning for your eLearning Courses

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

Recordinghttp://adobe.ly/KWjuMi

Download the Presentation here

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Training: Power of Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate: Tips and Tricks

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.

Recordinghttp://adobe.ly/Ms0N5d

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Training: Professional videos in Captivate on a budget!

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

Recordinghttp://adobe.ly/L7O8la

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Training: Leverage on Typography to Create the Engaging Interfaces for eLearning Courses

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.

Recordinghttp://adobe.ly/L7O7hl

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March 26, 2012

Advanced Answer Option… A handy tool in Quizzing toolkit!

Navigating from a question slide based on the answer chosen is not only engaging but also proven method of teaching a topic or a concept. Doing this in Adobe Captivate is very easy by using the power of a property for Answer option called ‘Advanced Answer Option’. Watch the video below to learn more and let us know your thoughts…

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March 13, 2012

Another chance to win an iPad 3!! Scenario-Training Contest…

After the successful HTML5 contest for Adobe Captivate on our Facebook Page, we’re launching a global contest for the best Scenario-based training content created using Adobe Captivate. This contest is live now on our Facebook page.

Contest Rules:

  1. Upload any scenario-based course created using Adobe Captivate. For examples of scenario-based courses, visit http://bit.ly/A6MVqG or http://bit.ly/xMkBBz
  2. Publish the content as a Flash SWF file. In Captivate’s output options check both the ‘zip file’ and ‘export to HTML’ options. Continue reading…
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March 5, 2012

Quiz Scope?? what’s that?

It’s always interesting to see how people use question slides, sometimes amongst the content slides as knowledge check questions, sometimes as pre-test and sometimes to validate the learning through a post-test. In any of these scenarios, especially while using the question slides as knowledge check, we hit upon something known as Quiz Scope. What’s that by the way? We all know about it but may not be familiar with the exact terminology ‘Quiz Scope’.

Our community expert Lieve has discussed about couple of ways to play with the Quiz Scope in one of the Adobe Captivate Forum thread, thanks Lieve!

Continue reading…

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