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Podcast comparing Articulate Storyline with Articulate Studio, Captivate, and Lectora in multiple categories, explaining the advantages and drawbacks of each.
How to create a Captivate template in Photoshop, including notes on all the elements needed and tips (like saving captions as BMPs)
Notes on compatibility with Captivate and a number of different LMSs (Blackboard, Moodle, Saba, SharePoint, SumTotal, etc.)
Table comparing the accessibility features of Captivate, Lectora, and Articulate Storyline
Captivate widget that provides learner analytics--course completion, quiz completion, time to complete, slide navigation, time per slide, etc.
Tips for streamlining the process of adding multiple audio files to Captivate
Tips and shortcuts for the Captivate timeline
Discussion on how to daisy chain multiple Captivate projects into one big project. Includes a comparison of Aggregator projects versus Multi-SCORM
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The Multi-SCO tool is designed more specifically for LMSs in that it allows you to take two or more individual SCORM-compliant modules created in Captivate and package them all together into one big module for your LMS. The tool creates a new imsmanifest.xml file that lists all the component modules in the package so that the LMS can build it's own menu of links in its SCORM player. Users just click these links to launch each lesson module. Each lesson can have its own TOC if desired, but the menu of links in the SCORM player is all you get for a TOC that shows all modules. That's the way SCORM was originally designed to work.
The Captivate Aggregator on the other hand was designed to take multiple Captivate published outputs and merge them together in a single large project with a hierarchical merged TOC that listed the contents of all projects. I don't believe the original intention of the Captivate team was for aggregated projects to be used in LMSs but some Captivate developers have managed to get this to work by setting up all the individual projects as SCORMs and then hacking the imsmanifest.xml file to fool the LMS into thinking this was a single large SCO.
Free resource on how to create accessible content using Flash, from the US Department of Veterans Affairs
Adobe tutorials on creating e-learning, including a collection on advanced functions in Captivate
Download the full version for 30 days or try it online without needing to install it.
Quick tutorials on Moodle, including info on SCORM and making Captivate play nicely with Moodle
Estimates for the production part of Captivate development. A large project (80-150 slides) should take 8-10 hours to produce. That doesn't include storyboards, scripts, voiceover scripts, or creating templates or skins. One hour of Captivate e-learning is estimated at 200-240 hours of total development time.
Wendy Wickham walks through her whole process of planning & creating software tutorials with Captivate. A number of good tips in here too.
Nice tip on creating image buttons in Captivate that can be read by screen readers
Directions to create custom buttons in Captivate, with the required file names and location to put the finished files
Rupa discusses common reasons why instructional designers don't have work for a portfolio and suggests how to put together some quick demos in Captivate or Camtasia to show off your skills.
Jump to a specific slide in Captivate using a Flash wrapper. I've wanted to be able to do this several times when linking multiple Captivate files and never could figure out how.
Results of an experiment on the encoding bitrate for Captivate. Mark Siegriest is trying to find the best audio settings to balance sound quality and file size.
The most surprising finding in this is that at the lowest bitrates, the file size actually went up, not down. 32kbps was the smallest file size in his sampling.
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So basically from what I can see there is no point in ever going below 32kbps as you’re gaining filesize and losing quality.
Captivate tutorial & sample file to create a Flash menu to link multiple Captivate files.
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