Kevin Stagg's List: Adobe Captivate

This course is a series of online trainings, especially designed for beginners. The course is divided in four modules: Basics, Beyond Basics, Best Practices and End-to-End Course Creation. It covers the core eLearning authoring workflows for using Captivate- including application capture, transforming PowerPoint into interactive eLearning, Quizzing, Publishing to your LMS and adding Audio narration.

If you have questions related to any of these topics, please leave a comment and we will get back to you.

Adobe Captivate 4 Text-to-Speech feature gives a Dictionary Editor tool to add or change the pronunciation for a word. This tool is available at <Adobe Captivate Installation Dir>\VT\<agent>\M16\bin\UserDicEng.exe. The default version of this tool is not unlocked. So when a word is added/changed and its pronunciation is tested, it announces that it is a trial license. This post explains how to fix this.

Text to speech does the same functionality in Captivate 5 as it used to do in Captivate 4, i.e. it converts the text to speech. The distinctive part being that it has quite a number of enhancements to make it even more easier to use.

In this blog post, let us learn how to tweak the speech generated using Loquendo voices.

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh while they demonstrate how to create exciting eLearning content and add complex interactivity by using Advanced Actions and Variables.

Now it’s time to play with some audio… So let’s see how to create a rollover audio screen.

A lot of button images come packaged with Adobe Captivate. But if you want to get creative in how the buttons should look like, here’s the way to go!

It’s just a three step process to add custom buttons to your courses...

"Sometimes when we are creating quizzes, we come across requirements like linking a remedial screen to the question screens, or branch out the course based on learner’s response.

In such cases, we need a solution where based on the option selected on a multiple choice question, the learner is directed to a customized feedback screen."

...Adobe Flash / HTML5 team released a pretty cool, albeit experimental technology, codenamed Wallaby, which converts Flash (.FLA) files into HTML5. Wallaby is a free AIR application available on Adobe Labs, which means it works on Mac and Windows.

I downloaded Wallaby and started testing it using Adobe Captivate 5 content and so far, I like the results. Please keep in mind that because Wallaby is experimental, there are many things that are not converted properly at this point, but it's worth trying it and providing feedback.

"Admittedly bizarre but tons of fun, this week's eSeminar focused on saving money and still getting high quality images and animations for your eLearning modules by leveraging free animation software to create animations and even stage complex simulations.

In a test of my rapidly aging laptop I held the session in Adobe Connect, did Captures with Adobe Captivate Full Motion Recording of Linden Labs Second Life and ran a browser for good measure.

In this screen, we have six tabs and there’s some text related to it. The easiest way to create such a screen is to create seven slides, with the first one in the start state and the rest of the six slides with the text related to each tab and then linking the six screens with each of the tab. Lot of work, huh!

If you want to accommodate it all in one slide, retain the same slide number and make the project less cluttered… There’s a cool way to do so! Read on…

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for a hands-on session on adding assessments to your eLearning courses with Adobe Captivate 5.5. Learn how to use the newly added quiz templates in Adobe Captivate 5.5 to create your assessments.

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for a hands-on session on capture workflows using Adobe Captivate 5.5. In this session, you learn to create application recordings in demonstration mode, training mode and assessment mode — all in one go.

You will also learn to enhance the recordings with additional objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5, to make the captured content more effective.

I love word clouds. You know, those cool clusters of words that give instant summary of concepts by making words bigger and bolder the more times they are used somewhere. Today I thought it would be fun to show you how you can make wicked cool word clouds based on your Adobe Captivate (and even Microsoft PowerPoint) projects in just a few minutes.

The coolest part? It’s totally free, totally simple and you’ll impress your friends with your ability to spin a context appropriate graphic out of thin air.

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.

Adobe eLearning Master Class: Cathy Moore chats with Allen Partridge on Saving the World from Boring eLearning. The session is scheduled for September 07, 2011 from 8-9 AM US Pacific time.

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.