Month: Juni 2017

Resolve issues in published output (SWF) when your Captivate 2017 project contains YouTube Widget

Posted on by Sharad Vatsa

When you insert YouTube widget in your Adobe Captivate 2017 project using Interactions menu > Learning Interactions and view the SWF output, you may experience the following issues:

  1. Video content getting truncated/cut-off in IE 11.
  2. Playback controls (play, pause etc.) do not appear when you hover your mouse over the video in IE 11.
  3. On Chrome and Firefox, You Tube widget doesn’t load.

Solution

  1. Download updated YouTube widget by clicking on this link – YouTube Widget
  2. Save the widget locally on your machine.
  3. Go to Insert menu > Widget and navigate to the downloaded YouTube widget and insert in your Captivate project.
  4. Publish the SWF output and YouTube widget will work fine on IE11, Chrome and Firefox.

3 Ways To Improve Cultural Intelligence Training With Mobile Microlearning

Posted on by Kristin Garn

What are some of the most important 21st century job skills and how can you make sure you are supporting your workforce in developing those skills? This article will help you learning about Cultural Intelligence and how to use mobile microlearning to improve your diversity training.

This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

Product Knowledge Online Training: 7 Creative And Innovative Activities

Posted on by Steve Lowenthal

Do your employees know the features, specs, and benefits of your new product line? In this article, I’ll share 7 creative and innovative activities that you may want to add to your product knowledge online training.

This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

What Is Microlearning And What Are The Most Important Microlearning Features?

Posted on by Ayesha Habeeb Omer, Ph.D

There is a huge shift in the profile of employees in organizations today. They have less time on hand, huge deliverables and responsibilities, and need to keep pace with changing times and business needs. Formal, annual training programs are just not enough to keep pace with the need for constant learning

This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

Unicorn launches fresh new website

Posted on by Training Press Releases

Unicorn Training are pleased to announce the launch of their new website. Having been in the pipeline for the past six months, the arrival of the new site completely overhauls Unicorn’s blog and content offerings, as well as giving a smoother, more intuitive user experience.

Posted in Allgemein

5 Tips To Improve The Learning Culture Of The Organization

Posted on by Steve Lowenthal

Most corporate eLearning solutions fail to meet the needs of learners and ultimately fail to fulfill the set learning objectives. When creating the eLearning strategy, this has to be taken into consideration along with concerted focus on how to improve the learning culture of the organization.

This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

I am a newbie in Adobe Captivate. Are there any resources to get me started?

Posted on by Saurav Ghosh

Yes, there are.

The community portal has tons of blogs and videos for a newbie to get started on Adobe Captivate. We have curated some posts and videos and arranged them progressively for you to learn Captivate.

This tutorial/list, by no means, is complete and comprehensive.

We have listed down few high-level topics that span across most of Captivate’s features.

  • Creating projects in Captivate – Learn how to create a responsive and non-responsive project.
  • Creating recording and software simulations – Learn how to record a video demo and product simulation for training.
  • Overview of objects in Captivate – Learn what an interactive or a non-interactive object is.
  • Creating quizzes and assessments – Create quizzes and evaluate your learners’ knowledge.
  • Previewing and publishing your project – Publish your project across devices, form factors, and formats.

For a list of all videos, visit  https://elearning.adobe.com/adobe-captivate-tutorials/

Creating projects in Adobe Captivate

Creating a blank project

Doc: https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/using/create-projects.html

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi_Yt7DGI3U

Importing from PowerPoint

Doc:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWkkd7doM3w

Creating a responsive project

Doc:

YouTube:

Fluid Box (New in the 2017 release of Captivate)

Doc:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQezSP3-yuA

Create recording and software simulations

Record video demonstrations

Doc:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcrpVMEyS1w

Record software simulations for training and assessment

Doc: https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/using/record-software-simulations.html

YouTube:

Objects in Adobe Captivate

Interactive objects

Doc:

YouTube:

Non-interactive objects

Doc: https://helpx.adobe.com/captivate/topics/noninteractive-objects-and-media.html

Create quizzes and assessments

Doc:

YouTube:

Previewing and publishing a project

Doc:

YouTube:

These posts and videos should get you up to speed. For more details on new features and queries related to Captivate, ask the community, and get detailed, quality answers.

Happy Captivating!