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.
Adobe Captivate Fluid Box Secrets | July 22th 12:00 PM EDT | 16:00 UTC
Experienced eLearning designers will tell you that responsive design only represents 5% or less of the eLearning designed today, and because of that, you shouldn’t necessarily embrace it. I predict that this is going to shift the other way within the next five years. If you don’t have this skill, you may no longer be competitive within this industry. You need to master these skills I will be sharing with you in this livestream.
Experienced eLearning designers will tell you that responsive design only represents 5% or less of the eLearning designed today, and because of that, you shouldn’t necessarily embrace it. I predict that this is going to shift the other way within the next five years. If you don’t have this skill, you may no longer be competitive within this industry. You need to master these skills I will be sharing with you in this livestream.
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Setting your Adobe Captivate Dimensions
In this video tutorial, I show you how to set and resize the dimensions of various types of eLearning projects including responsive and non-responsive projects.
In this video tutorial, I show you how to set and resize the dimensions of various types of eLearning projects including responsive and non-responsive projects.
Here is the video that Johan commented on. It's a couple of years old at the time of this present video so it may not be applicable for new Adobe Captivate users.
Responsive Learning
When designing for mobile I find you need to rethink learning. I always try to imagine what my learner needs from each project. For example, if an employee wanted to access my lesson while commuting on the train, what needs to be on their screen? Do I need just the basics or should I try to cram my desktop design onto their tiny screen?
When designing for mobile I find you need to rethink learning. I always try to imagine what my learner needs from each project. For example, if an employee wanted to access my lesson while commuting on the train, what needs to be on their screen? Do I need just the basics or should I try to cram my desktop design onto their tiny screen?
Another colleague and I have coined the phrase responsive learning. This is not to be confused with responsive design. No, responsive learning is a theory that I have that true mobile learning should not only know what screen size you have and accommodate for that, but to also understand the environment your learner is in and adjust the learning to be suitable for that environment. Adobe Captivate has begun this process by integrating location based information into your course. For example you could design a course in Adobe Captivate that not only adjusts the on-screen content based on the size of screen you are using but also adjust the content based on where you are. One of the eLearning evangelists at Adobe designed a sample course that would act as a tour guide within a theme park. When users would change their physical location the Captivate project would present new information based on where the learner was located within the theme park. Here is a link if you want to see this in action.
Making of an Award-winning Location-aware App!
I think we are in early days of this type of technology. In fact I would like to see location aware technology go even further than just pinpointing where you are located on the planet but to gather enough information as to determine what type of activity you are currently engaged using sensors that can determine how fast you are moving and so on. For example, it wouldn't be appropriate to have text on screen for a course while you are driving. In such circumstances perhaps the learning switches to podcast mode and presents the material in a radio show format. Perhaps this is done through a combination of GPS location, speed of travel, or maybe it just asks you what you are doing at the present and adjusts the learning based on the answers you give.
In other words, I think mobile is just getting started and we can expect that the most successful instructional designers and developers are those that take advantage of each new mobile technology as they come out. It will no longer be acceptable to just pump out a series of PowerPoint slides any more. I think we are about to see some really cool technology implemented in some really original and different ways. Stay tuned…
Responsive Design - Is It Worth It?
While I have fooled around with responsive design, I haven't completed any real projects for my clients in responsive design; that is until now. At this point I can now speak from experience and say that responsive design is worth the effort.
While I have fooled around with responsive design, I haven't completed any real projects for my clients in responsive design; that is until now. At this point I can now speak from experience and say that responsive design is worth the effort.
First lets consider what that effort equates to. When I design responsive projects I need to prepare the same material anywhere from three to five different ways (depending on your needs). Obviously if you are designing training for a mobile workforce that all have the exact same iPad as one another, this will be much easier. The truth is that every person is different and while some of the devices might be shared across a large portion of your audience, one person may want to view your project on a smart phone, while another might only want to complete training at home on their PC or Mac. Ensuring you have the widest possible range of resolutions and checking your project on as many devices is strongly encouraged.
Now of course this goes against rapid design, so how to do you rapidly develop responsive design. The solution is to design a rock solid template. Experimenting with sample content as you design your template will help you prepare default font sizes for different screen sizes and also address what you will do with images, logos, characters and other on screen elements. My advice is to have as much of your content live in narration as possible. For example, if the knowledge that is required is in the narration, it not only doesn't matter what size your screen is, but also what items are on the screen. I have looked at certain break points and decided that I just don't have the room for that great image, so in the end I take it off the screen sizes where it doesn't work.
The advantage of offering responsive design is obvious. More people can access your content from more places and during more times. If you are restricted to just taking training at your PC at work, you are only going to complete that training while sitting at your desk when you have nothing else pressing to complete. I don't know about you, but that doesn't describe anyone I know. If I could complete my required training while riding on public transit, or at home during down time, that's when I would do it. As an Instructional Designer, I want more people to complete my training not less. It's better when I need to show how effective my training is.
Here are a couple of my recent videos where I have addressed the challenges of responsive design. Please take a look. Remember I'm available for consultation if you or your company are thinking about implementing any type of eLearning for your organization.
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.