New Premium Course - Build Your Own Memory Game with Adobe Captivate 2019
In this course, you will learn how to use Adobe Captivate 2019 or newer and develop a learning interaction that can either stand-alone or be part of a larger eLearning course. This learning interaction will allow your learners to play the classic memory game to reveal information that they need to learn as part of a more extensive course. This course will teach you how to layout your slide for multiple fluid boxes for responsive design, create the necessary variables, and write the advanced actions to make it all work.
In this course, you will learn how to use Adobe Captivate 2019 or newer and develop a learning interaction that can either stand-alone or be part of a larger eLearning course. This learning interaction will allow your learners to play the classic memory game to reveal information that they need to learn as part of a more extensive course. This course will teach you how to layout your slide for multiple fluid boxes for responsive design, create the necessary variables, and write the advanced actions to make it all work.
Custom Advanced Answer Captions in Adobe Captivate
In this video tutorial, I show you how you can create your own advanced answer captions by using a really helpful system variable in an advanced action that's run when your learners submit their answer.
In this video tutorial, I show you how you can create your own advanced answer captions by using a really helpful system variable in an advanced action that's run when your learners submit their answer. This addresses several issues that are caused by advanced answer captions and gives you much greater control over what happens.
Use Your Keyboard to Trigger Actions in Your Captivate eLearning
In this video tutorial, I answer a viewer question about triggering actions such as playing audio, or running advanced actions, by using a keyboard shortcut. This might be even easier than you thought.
In this video tutorial, I answer a viewer question about triggering actions such as playing audio, or running advanced actions, by using a keyboard shortcut. This might be even easier than you thought.
Continue Playback of Interrupted Slide Audio
In this video tutorial, I answer a viewers question about interrupting slide audio with some optional content with audio attached. Then when this optional content is closed the slide would continue to play the original slide audio where the interruption first occurred.
In this video tutorial, I answer a viewers question about interrupting slide audio with some optional content with audio attached. Then when this optional content is closed the slide would continue to play the original slide audio where the interruption first occurred.
The Good Old Show / Hide Technique
In this video I revisit an old technique that has been mostly supplanted by Adobe Captivate 9 and it's ability to give users direct access to multi state objects. In this video I show users how to take advantage of the good old show / hide technique...
You know when you work directly with Adobe and are immersed in Adobe's software, you sometimes forget that not everyone has access to the latest version. I recently recorded a video on performing certain functions with multi state objects. I guess I just took it for granted that after a year in the marketplace, Adobe Captivate 9 would just be everywhere. I forget there are still many customers still working with the Captivate 8.
In this video I revisit an old technique that has been mostly supplanted by Adobe Captivate 9 and it's ability to give users direct access to multi state objects. In this video I show users how to take advantage of the good old show / hide technique to change the appearance of an object by substituting that object for another very similar object. I think we should keep these techniques in our back pocket as designers because they may still have some use under certain circumstances.
Adobe Captivate - Custom Messages for Quiz Reviews
Here is the video that shows you how you can provide custom messages during a quiz review in Adobe Captivate.
I'm not sure some of the requests that I get to produce YouTube videos make a lot of sense. I recently got a request to have customized messages on each quiz question during the quiz reviews. While this is entirely possible as you can see from the video I created below, I'm not sure it's necessary nor would you necessarily want it.
Of course my assumption is that you are designing eLearning for an adult employee type audience. I honestly have no idea how each subscriber to my channel uses Captivate, but that is essentially what I use it for. I think it's important that we remember that we are not trying to trick our learners into selected the wrong answer, anymore than we should not be giving the answers away. Remember that the purpose of an evaluation at the end or during training is to test if our learners are ready to perform these taught tasks on their own. For example, If I'm testing an employee's ability to react to an emergency situation, I want them to synthesize, based on what I taught them in the course, what the correct behaviour should be. They should have to rely on hints from an instructor who isn't with them on the work site.
Here is the video that shows you how you can provide custom messages during a quiz review in Adobe Captivate.
Creating Responsive Design Interactions in Adobe Captivate 8
One challenge with Adobe Captivate is that there isn't a separate type of quiz question that is only to be used for knowledge checks. When I say knowledge checks, I mean the type of question that is there for the learner to simply test their knowledge up until that point. To me a knowledge check doesn’t interact with the course quiz in any way. This is difficult in Captivate. You can do surveys, but they don't give you the built in function for providing feedback. You can turn off the ability to have quiz questions contribute to the quiz but certain other issues arise as well.
Probably the best way to deal with this is to create your own interactions. In this video I use advanced actions (both kinds), user variables, all within a responsive design as well.