Use Drag and Drop Instead of a Click to Reveal in Your Adobe Captivate eLearning

In this video, I show you how to use drag and drop to build an interaction that you can use instead of a click to reveal in your Adobe Captivate elearning project. Also, this interaction uses forced navigation to prevent learners from skipping important content. Finally, this interaction uses a shared action to save you from writing multiple advanced actions. Free download members of my YouTube channel or higher can download this project file for their own use.

Easy to Build Click to Reveal Example Recorded in Real-Time

As I'm sure most of you know, my video tutorials are edited. Here is an example of a video tutorial I recorded for Steven, one of my YouTube members, in order to answer a question he had about advanced actions and shared actions. I have not edited this video in any way. I wanted to not only show the steps to produce such an interaction but also demonstrate that it's not as time-consuming as some people might think.

DevLearn 2021 Session — Making eLearning Magic with Adobe Captivate

I wanted to provide all of you with a quick summary of what to expect from me at the upcoming DevLearn conference to be held in Las Vegas.

I’ve heard the complaints. 2019 was two years ago. When are we getting a new version of Adobe Captivate? Actually, it came out in the summer of 2018 so it’s actually over three years old. Yes, there have been half a dozen or so updates to the software over those years in service, but eLearning authors like you and me want something that looks brand new. We want our training to be cool and sexy. We want to look like eLearning rockstars.

Rock Star

There are these interactions we all know how to build in Adobe Captivate 2019. You have a click to reveal where you click a smart shape used as a button and your course displays some supplemental content. You also know how to build a content carousel that cycles through information on screen. Of course we have the in-built question slides that haven’t been updated since…well, since forever. We want to engage our learners but some of these interactions are pretty drab.

In this session, you’ll learn how to take your Adobe Captivate interactions from drab to fab. We’ll start with learning how you can improve your click to reveal interactions to make them look like 3-D flip cards. You’ll also learn how to create a content carousel that presents content to your learners using a cool animated effect. Next, you’ll discover how to build an information wheel that works off a single click to progress through the information. Lastly, you’ll find out how to build a knowledge check slide that doesn’t use the in-built question slides that learners have seen a thousand times before. You’ll leave this session with new tools to put in your eLearning toolbelt that will make your eLearning look like magic.

In this session, you will learn:

• How to track your learner’s progress through interactions using Adobe Captivate variables

• How to write advanced actions that include a variety of actions that when combined create interactions that are truly engaging

• How to use effects in your advanced actions that will make your eLearning appear like magic

• How you can repurpose what you’ve learned in this session into your new eLearning projects in seconds instead of hours, and look like an eLearning superstar

My session is on October 20th from 3 PM to 4 PM. It’s marked as a BYOD session but you don’t have to work on these exercise files I will be providing free of charge during the session. You will get a template along with a completed version of the project file to take with you and easily use in your own projects right away.

But you can’t get this material unless you register and attend.

Build Your Own Template for Adobe Captivate Multiple Choice Question Slide

In this video, I show you how to build your own template for an Adobe Captivate multiple choice question slide that is ideal for a knowledge check that includes remediation. You can literally build this once and copy and paste it over and over again from one project to the next.

• 00:00 Introduction

• 01:01 Setup the slide

• 02:52 On-enter shared action (reset the slide)

• 04:19 Button press advanced action

• 07:07 Apply the shared action to each answer button

• 08:58 Preview the project

• 09:44 How you can use this as a template

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Easy to Duplicate Flip Card Interaction for Adobe Captivate

In this video, I show you how to create an easy and completely reusable flip card interaction. This is similar to what you might find in some of the other web-based authoring tools.

Custom Table of Contents Using Shared Actions in Adobe Captivate

Here is how you can use shared actions to build a custom table of contents for your Adobe Captivate eLearning project.

Adobe Captivate Fake Slide Numbers Using Shared Actions

In this video, I show you how you can write a shared action to maintain fake slide numbers in your Adobe Captivate eLearning project. This is useful when you have multiple slide interactions that you want to appear as single slide interactions to your learners. Free Download Members of my YouTube channel can download the completed project.

Stop Audio on Slide Revisits in Your Adobe Captivate eLearning

In this video, I show you how you can use a variable and simple advanced action to prevent a slide's audio from replaying on subsequent revisits. This is useful for slides that contain audio instructions but important on-screen text that learners may wish to review. If your course has many such slides you can save this advanced action as a shared action and apply the same logic to many slides throughout your course. Free Download Members of my YouTube Channel can download this project file for their own use.

Adobe Captivate Custom Quiz Questions Made with Shared Actions

In this video tutorial, I will show you how to build custom quiz questions made with shared actions so you can easily replicate these multiple-choice questions and revise them with little time and effort. Patreon members get to download the project file for free. Become a Patreon member.

Using Adobe Captivate Shared Actions

In this Adobe Captivate video tutorial, I show you a way you can use Shared Actions to save yourself some time writing Advanced Actions by reusing the Shared Action for different objects and multistate objects.