OnDemand Seminars

Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 7

Adding interactivity to an eLearning course improves the engagement level with the learners. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish in multi-part series to learn about the basics of Actions and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6. In these sessions, we will be showcasing some real-life eLearning examples to explain the concepts better.

Flip the Classroom with Adobe Presenter Video Creator!

So you’ve been reading and hearing about flipped classrooms for quite some time, but not sure how implement it in your organization. Worry no more! Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh as she takes you through an amazing journey of flipping the classroom with Adobe Presenter Video Creator. You will learn about the fundamental principles behind the flipped classroom, and how to easily migrate your lessons and lectures into online modules. You will also see a short demonstration on how to record video lectures in three simple steps using Presenter Video Creator which will equip you with the technology needs of the flipped classrooms.

Creating Adobe Presenter courses for iPad

Adobe Presenter converts your PowerPoint Presentations into exciting eLearning. Now you can also access these courses on your iPad using the Presenter Mobile App. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for a step-by-step demonstration on creating an engaging mLearning course in Adobe Presenter for best viewing experience in Presenter Mobile App.

Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 6

Adding interactivity to an eLearning course improves the engagement level with the learners. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh in multi-part series to learn about the basics of Actions and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6. In these sessions, we will be showcasing some real-life eLearning examples to explain the concepts better.

Giving effective Feedbacks through Advanced Quizzing options in Adobe Captivate

Giving effective feedback to the learners is very important in the learning process, and Adobe Captivate makes this easier through Advanced Answer options. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh when they take you through a journey of feedback options for the Question Slides in Adobe Captivate.

Drag till you Drop! Making eLearning fun with Drag & Drop Interaction - Part 2

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish, Adobe eLearning Evangelists, as they take your through a journey of making your courses interactive in a fun way. They will share different variations of using drag and drop interactions for different types of scenarios. So, sit back and watch as they share different examples of adding Drag and Drop interaction to your eLearning courses.

Developing Quarantine: An example of eLearning soft skills scenario training

Alien invasion, bizarre POW camps in the Arizona desert & demystifying soft skills scenario training all go hand in hand as Dr. Allen Partridge gives practical, repeatable, code-complete examples from this crazy cool new best practice demo of soft skills training from Adobe & the eLearning Brothers. You won’t want to miss this very special workshop – note the elongated time, to allow for a deeper dive.

From 'Just PPT' to 'Wow eLearning' with new Adobe Presenter 8 Update

Converting PowerPoint Presentations to eLearning is a need that we all have, and Adobe Presenter makes it a complete solution as a plug-in for powerpoint. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn the key features of latest Adobe Presenter update to take the PowerPoint Presentation to next level by adding Media and assessment capabilities of Adobe Presenter.

Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 4

Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced - Part 5

What’s New in Adobe Captivate 6 Update

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as they take you through an interesting tour of the new features introduced in the exclusive update for subscription and ASA customers. During this session, learn how to use the Adobe Captivate App Packager to add HTML5 animations and package your courses as an app. Also learn how to create custom drag-and-drop interactions using Captivate, record system audio, author in right-to-left languages, add new interactions to your courses like Jigsaw, Hourglass, and Hangman, and much more.

Become the Superstar of your University’s Online Course Catalog

Are you teaching at a college or university that is rapidly adopting online courses? Do you want to enhance your traditional classroom experience with more online course materials? Are you one of the thousands moving to mostly online teaching? Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist as he demonstrates and discusses the fundamental concepts in interactivity and engagement for your eLearning courses. You’ll learn to use Adobe Presenter 8 & the new Video Creator to take the course materials you’ve got, and create amazing interactive experiences your students will love.

Drag till you Drop! Making eLearning fun with Drag and Drop Interaction - Part 1

Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 3

Creating HTML5 Courses from Adobe Captivate

HTML5 is becoming a popular format for distributing learning content. With HTML5 publishing capability in Adobe Captivate, now anyone can easily create content for iPad in very less time. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh on a journey of creating courses for iDevices in HTML5 format.

Advanced Quizzing in Adobe Captivate 6

Assessment and Tracking is an integral part of any eLearning content, Adobe Captivate 6 has improved Quizzing capabilities to do decision-based branching to Branch-aware quizzing. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising to learn various techniques used in creating smart branching with the course using the advanced capacities of Adobe Captivate 6.

Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 2

Create Drag & Drop Questions in Your Online Courses

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this discussion and demonstration of quiz creation using Drag & Drop Questions to tackle a variety of assessment scenarios in your eLearning. Learn the fundamental concepts behind drag and drop mechanics in eLearning and join the discussion of best practices for adding these questions to your courses.

Teaching and Learning with Adobe Captivate 6

When you Google 'Captivate 6', the first hit you come to features this quote - "Adobe Captivate 6 software is the industry-leading elearning authoring software for rapidly creating and maintaining interactive eLearning content." A bold statement but what does that mean in the real world? What makes one eLearning authoring tool more 'industry-leading' than another?

This week's presenter, Dave Dunbar, will suggest that is comes down to versatility, in that many of today's educational gadgets, gizmos and applications are simply one trick ponies, with very limited shelf lives.

David will demonstrate how a number of different teaching and learning methods can be facilitated using this authoring software, providing solutions in so many different areas of education, and not just eLearning. The letters of the word Captivate will be used to help illustrate these points -

Case Studies

Activities

Presentations

Tutorials

Independent Learning

Visiting Speakers

Assignments

Tests

ELearning

Interactivity using Actions: Basics and Advanced – Part 1

Adding interactivity in an eLearning course improves the engagement level with the learners. Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising in Multi-Part series to learn the basics of Actions and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6. In these sessions, we will learn using various examples that can be used in every eLearning courses.

Making of the Best Soft Skills eLearning Course!

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh, eLearning DemoFest 2012 winner for Best Soft Skills Course, as she shares the secrets of creating an award-winning scenario-based course. She will be taking you through the entire journey of creating the Captivate Customer Service Team Training course from content acquisition, analysis, storyboarding, graphic design, audio recording and editing, to course integration.

Social Networking Communications & eLearning: Tweeting in Adobe Captivate Course Modules

As the web evolves it's impossible to ignore the ever rising tide of social networking. The ability to micro-message, inquire, post & share our ideas, thoughts and questions in virtually every context has given rise to expectations that within our eLearning modules, students and teachers should be able to communicate effortlessly. Advancements to the Adobe Captivate Twitter Widget are designed to facilitate this sort of immediacy within your courses by leveraging the Adobe Captivate Course Companion to send instant, context relevant messages from inside Adobe Captivate course modules between educators and learners & even between students & their peers. Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a walk-through of this social media learning innovation, in order to learn how you can introduce social networking into your own courses.

Practical Uses for Adobe Presenter 8: Part 5: Simple Lecture Capture – Adding Audio to PowerPoint

Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for a discussion and demonstration of fundamental lecture capture – adding audio – to your PowerPoint slide decks using Adobe Presenter 8. Learn how easy it is to add your audio and bring those PowerPoint decks to life.

Louder, Faster, Funnier: Humor & Learning

Funny is Money! At least that's the perspective of many in the entertainment industry, but is comedy a viable tool in educational content, specifically within eLearning? What issues are introduced when eLearning modules depend on humor and what kinds of humor are most and least effective? Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a tongue in cheek examination of laughter and learning. We'll explore the latest ideas & research on humor in learning and look for special applications and exceptions that apply to online learning. You'll probably laugh, and you might even learn something.

Practical Uses for Adobe Presenter 8: Part 4: Adding Assessments to your PowerPoint based eLearning

Join Vish, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this discussion and demonstration of quiz creation and editing in Adobe Presenter 8. Learn to Add and Modify quizzes, report quiz scores to Learning Management Systems and to integrate the quiz creation style with the look and feel of your PowerPoint themes.

Practical Uses for Adobe Captivate 6: Part 4: Working with Simple Buttons and Actions

Learn how to make the most of simple interactive buttons in Adobe Captivate 6 in this introduction to interaction and Advanced Actions. Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist as he demonstrates and discusses the fundamental concepts in interactivity and engagement for your eLearning courses. You’ll learn to get deeper control of your projects with Captivate’s Advanced Actions and how to connect those actions to your interactions.

Making the most of Learning Interactions in Adobe Captivate 6

Adobe Captivate 6 allows you to add out-of-the-box learning interactions like accordions, tabs, timeline, process circle, glossary, and many more such exciting interactions. Join Sara Henderson, as she shares some of the best practices of using these interactions in your eLearning courses. She will also show you some nifty examples on how and where to use these interactions in the course. Don’t miss it!

Presenter and Captivate: Together at Last!

This year, Adobe Captivate 6 and Adobe Presenter 8 were both released. Used individually, they are both great tools for creating eLearning. Together, they are more than the sum of their parts. In fact, when used together, you can capitalize on the strengths of both. But how? What are the best ways to ensure success? Joe Ganci, eLearning expert lo these many years, and an expert in both Captivate and Presenter, will guide you through the steps that will get you up and running quickly. He will also give you a few choice tips you may find difficult to find elsewhere. Come with your questions too. Joe will do his best to answer them.

Practical Uses for Adobe Presenter 8: Part 3: Mixing PowerPoint & Application Capture

Learn to add Adobe Captivate style application captures to your Adobe Presenter 8 courses in this discussion and demonstration. Join Dr. Allen Partridge as he walks you through the technique and rationale behind integrating your PowerPoint presentation with interactive application captures all created with the new Adobe Presenter 8.

Audio Editing Basics for eLearning Designers

Adding audio to your eLearning courses brings the courses to life. It also leaves you with a lot of real estate space on the screen, as you can get rid of the Onscreen Text and utilize the space for adding graphics, animations, and videos to explain the content better. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to explore the capabilities of Adobe Audition CS6 for audio recording and editing. They will also show you the Audition roundtripping feature in Adobe Captivate 6.

Practical Uses for Adobe Captivate 6: Part 2: Creating Video Demos

Video demonstrations have growing use in the video savvy web and mobile world of education and training today. Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a discussion and demonstration of the amazing new MP4 video workflows in Adobe Captivate 6. Learn to Zoom and Pan, work with transitions, layer various media and captions and work with audio in your project.

From Drab to Fab! An eLearning Makeover Using Workflows and Customizable Objects

You do your best to make the most visually pleasing eLearning you can -- but, let's face it, your strengths are in eLearning and instructional design, not graphic design or copywriting. Fortunately, Adobe Captivate gives you the ability to collaborate with others, leverage powerful workflows with tools like Photoshop and MS Word, and customize objects.

Join Linda Mahnken, Adobe Captivate Enthusiast, as she demonstrates an "eLearning make-over" case study of how she approached her company's creative department for help in making a new eLearning course more visually appealing and in line with the company voice. The result was fabulous! The creative team was able to mock up templates for different types of slides in Photoshop that she was able to either import into Captivate or set up as customizable objects, including branded buttons and correct/incorrect quiz captions. She also used an unsung Captivate document workflow to make her collaboration with the copywriters a snap! (Bonus: once she had the customizable objects and styles set up for that eLearning, she has been able to re-use them in additional eLearning projects. Huge time saver!)

Whether you are a one-person eLearning department or you collaborate with a team, this session showcases how using workflows, styles, and customizable objects can save you time and create a more visually appealing and consistent course. This is not a step-by-step "how to" session, but is an overview of what's possible for taking eLearning from drab to fab.

Practical Uses for Adobe Captivate 6: Part 1: Application Simulation & Software Training

Creating realistic and useful simulations of software applications for training can present a significant challenge. Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for a discussion and demonstration of the industry leading tool for software capture and simulation. Learn how to create and customize basic application simulations with Adobe Captivate 6.

Practical Uses for Adobe Presenter 8: Part 2: Create Rapid Training Courses with Pizzazz

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a discussion and demonstration of the powerful and simple tools in Adobe Presenter 8 for Rapid eLearning Authoring. Learn how, why and when to integrate characters, how to add interest and enhance engagement with smart learning interactions and how to work with the Presenter 8 eLearning Templates to rapidly create sensational looking, branded and customized eLearning courses.

My First eLearning Course with Adobe Presenter 8

Adobe Presenter 8 is very easy-to-use rapid authoring tool which helps you transform your boring presentations to interactive and trackable eLearning content. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish, Adobe eLearning Evangelists, as they take you through a journey of creating an interactive eLearning course from scratch to finish using the all-new features of Adobe Presenter 8. Don’t miss it!

Practical Uses for Adobe Presenter 8: Part 1: Video Lecture Capture & Knowledge Sharing

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a practical discussion and demonstration of basic uses of Adobe Presenter 8 Video Creator for knowledge sharing and lecture capture. Learn why Adobe Presenter 8 is the latest sensation in personalized video creation, and see for yourself how you can revolutionize training & education efforts in your organization with minimal investment.

Lilybiri’s favourite: shapes to trigger advanced actions

The new smart shapes in Captivate 6 are really game changers, not only because they double as text containers and rollover shapes but especially because they can be used as buttons with all functionalities, including triggering advanced actions.

In this webinar you’ll learn

About the difference between those shape buttons and normal buttons
How shape buttons can be used on Master slides or timed for the rest of the project and how to choose for either method
How they can be used on question slides
How to create custom toggle buttons using shapes
Tips and tricks

From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side

Practical Advice for Educators who want to instantly create fantastic online resources from their lectures and slide decks. Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a discussion and demonstration of practical tips to capture your lectures, economize their length and distribution and make them available to your students.

Adobe Captivate 6 for Beginners or How to Create and Publish Your First Course Module

Just downloaded Adobe Captivate 6 and want that perfect starter tutorial? Looking for more info before you launch your first course module? Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for this handy introduction to creating your first course module in Adobe Captivate 6. Aimed at beginners, this session will guide you through the basic steps of course creation, demonstrate how to add your own content to a project and integrate quizzes. You will learn to publish your content and even get a good sense of how to deploy it to a learning management system.

eLearning Made Easy with Adobe Presenter 8

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to rapidly create eLearning courses with trackable quizzes using the all new Adobe Presenter 8. They will also show you how to convert your slides into interactive training content using out-of-the-box assets such as actors, scenes, layouts, and learning interactions.

Create Professional Videos with Adobe Presenter 8

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create professional looking videos right at your desktop without specialized equipment or training. In this session, you will learn how to use Adobe Presenter 8 to easily record and edit your video with crop, trim, pan, and zoom, and automatically adjust the brightness and sharpness of the video.

Creating a Knowledge Sharing Community & Culture with Adobe Presenter 8 Video Creator

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a discussion and demonstration centered on knowledge sharing in your organization. Business communication today is growing increasingly dependent on clean, well-produced video content, and corporate culture has sent forth a clarion call to leverage internal knowledge in order to cut costs and protect the business process understanding resident in virtually every knowledge worker. This is sometimes a stark contrast to a prevailing knowledge hoarding culture. How can your organization facilitate both the cultural changes needed and the technological innovation required to move from knowledge protection to knowledge sharing within the group? Dr. Partridge will discuss the issues and demonstrate the technologies. You’ll learn how you can spearhead the knowledge revolution in your organization.

Advanced Actions for Dummies using Adobe Captivate 6

Join Anita Horsley, Captivate Community Expert, to learn how to make eLearning more engaging using Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate.

Ever wondered how to allow users to click on any button, in any order, before they can advance in the course? This could be the case if you have multiple lessons that jump to other slides and return to the Topics Menu each time or you may simply have multiple objects on one slide that the user must click on before advancing. The webinar will demonstrate simple step-by-step instructions on how to create and apply Conditional Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate.

Lightbox Me Baby: The Power of Groups and Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate 6

In this one hour introductory session on grouping and Advanced Actions within Adobe Captivate 6, Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist will demonstrate the process of creating, grouping, and manipulating through Advanced Actions elements in a lightbox window. Learn to make your projects shine with attractive popover lightbox windows, and how to control the elements in those windows individually or as a group using behind the scenes actions to guide and facilitate your learners.

First Look at the Enhanced Multi-SCO Packager!

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn about the new enhancements in Multi-SCO Packager in Adobe eLearning Suite 6. Watch as they combine content created from products within the eLearning Suite, like Adobe Captivate 6, Flash Professional CS6, Dreamweaver CS6, and Adobe Presenter 8 and then publish the course to SCORM 2004 LMSs, and track module-specific results effortlessly.

Flipping the College Classroom with Adobe Presenter 8 Video Creator

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, veteran College Professor for this fascinating demonstration and discussion of flipping the college classroom. Participants will learn the fundamental principles behind the flipped classroom, the advantages of the constructivist approach, and how to easily migrate their lessons & lectures into online modules that students can use to investigate and research the principle topics. Includes demonstrations of Adobe Presenter 8 aimed specifically at supporting the technology needs of the flipped classroom.

High Definition Screencasts with Adobe Captivate 6

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to easily create high-quality screencasts with the new capture-as-a-video workflow. In this session, you will learn how to edit video, and add transitions, pan and zoom, smart shapes, audio, and captions. You will also see how to insert a talking head or another video in a picture-in-picture format and publish the video to YouTube with a single click.

Three Simple Steps to Create Professional Videos

Create Professional Videos with a Minimal Budget

Join Adobe eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for a very hands on session explaining how to create professional quality video productions from the comfort of your desk. Dr. Partridge will create examples live and give you his top tips to guarantee success when building your arsenal of video tutorials, marketing materials and more.

Go Mobile with Adobe Captivate 6

Join Josh Cavalier along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create eLearning content for mobile devices using Adobe Captivate, publish it to HTML5 format, and deliver on iOS and Android devices. You will also learn how to send scoring data for your HTML5 courses to leading SCORM- and AICC-compliant LMSs and track learner progress.

What is new in Adobe eLearning Suite 6

Adobe® eLearning Suite 6 software is an integrated toolbox for creating eLearning and HTML5-based mLearning content. Get the best tools for application simulation, product demos, digital imaging, rich animations, and audio production. Accelerate development with rapid prototyping, roundtripping workflows, and out-of-the-box assets like actors and smart interactions. Publish to SCORM- and AICC-compliant LMSs and easily track SWF, PDF, and HTML5 content.

What is new in Adobe Presenter 8

Adobe® Presenter 8 software helps you communicate more effectively with engaging videos and interactive presentations created in PowerPoint. Minimize the time, effort, and cost of producing and editing videos by doing it yourself at your desktop without specialized equipment or training. Add quizzes and out-of-the-box assets, deliver content to the web, video sharing sites, desktops, and mobile devices, including iPads*, and track using integration with LMSs.

Bring your eLearning Courses to Life with Adobe Captivate 6 and Adobe Presenter 8

Join Bryan Jones, author of the Assets eLearning Blog and President of eLearningArt. Bryan will show you how you can use the new character images included in Adobe Captivate 6 and Adobe Presenter 8 to design better eLearning courses. This session will deliver five hands-on methods that you can use to rapidly build better courses.

What’s New in Adobe eLearning Suite 6

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn what’s new and exciting in Adobe eLearning Suite 6.

Adobe eLearning Suite 6 software offers best-in-class tools for application simulations, product demos, digital imaging, rich animations, and audio production. Now you can create HTML5-based mLearning content and deliver it to mobile devices and liven up courses with actors, themes, and smart interactions. You can also combine multiple modules, including pre-test and post-test quizzes, into a single course, publish to leading LMSs, and track SWF, PDF, and HTML5 content.

What’s New in Adobe Captivate 6

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish, Adobe eLearning Evangelists to learn more about the new release of Adobe Captivate 6 - the industry leading rapid eLearning authoring software tool.

Adobe Captivate 6 helps users author and deliver HTML5-based eLearning content to virtually any device. They can create HD product demos with a new capture-as-a-video workflow and liven up courses with actors, themes, smart shapes, and interactive elements. Quizzing is now much easier and more effective with pre-tests, audio responses, and remediation.

Personify Your Presentations with Adobe Presenter 8

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn what’s new and exciting in Adobe Presenter 8.

Adobe Presenter 8 helps you convert slides into interactive training content using out-of-the-box assets such as actors and learning interactions. You can minimize the time, effort, and cost of producing and editing videos by doing it yourself, at your desktop without specialized equipment or training. You can also add quizzes to your courses, deliver content to video sharing sites, desktops, and mobile devices, and track learner’s progress using integration with LMSs.

Let’s Explore the Advanced Quizzing Options with Adobe Captivate

Creating quizzes with Adobe Captivate is a simple task, but there are a lot of advanced options available to take your quizzes to the next level. Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to explore these advanced quizzing options available with Adobe Captivate.

At last, LMS & Scorm Integration without the Headache

Join eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for an amazing introduction to the simple, elegant, and above all effective new tools for LMS integration with SCORM compliant Learning Management Systems found in Adobe Captivate. Tired of fighting constantly with SCORM and LMS? You won’t want to miss this demonstration and discussion of the genuine solutions available now in Adobe Captivate.

High Definition Video for Application Simulation, Screencasting & Everything Else

Join eLearning Evangelist Dr. Allen Partridge for a demonstration of High Definition Video creation and editing in Adobe Captivate. See why Captivate is the industry leader in Application Capture and Simulation and learn how Captivate can make a huge difference for your entire organization when it comes to creating awesome videos, incredibly fast.

"So, what were the right answers, anyway?" Using Advanced Actions and Variables for Quizzing

Have you ever taken a quiz, passed with 80%, but wondered about the 20% you got wrong and why? In many quizzes, as soon as a learner passes a quiz, the course ends and the learner may never find out what the right answers were on the ones they missed -- a serious missed learning opportunity for the curious and the conscientious. This session shows one method to quickly and elegantly show the user which question(s) he answered incorrectly and what the correct answer is. Get ready for a dive into conditional variables and a handy tool in the quiz panel you may have overlooked in the past: triggering an advanced action based on a correct or incorrect answer.

About the Instructor: Linda Mahnken has worked in the eLearning instructional design field for over 10 years and is passionate about learning new theories, exploring new technologies, creating engaging content, and helping people learn. She earned a master's degree in instructional technologies and has applied her knowledge to solve training challenges in a wide range of sectors including corporate training, university level cyber courses, and K-12 educational software. Currently, she holds the title of Sr. eLearning Instructional Designer and is intrigued by training that uses avatars, social media, games, and mobile devices.

Branding eLearning Development with theme-based templates using Adobe Captivate

Join Anita Horsley, the community expert for Adobe Captivate with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to Brand your eLearning courses with the use of Styles and Theme-based templates in new version of Adobe Captivate. During the session we will not only discuss how to modify the existing branding in the courses but would discuss how to create new themes for the use in other courses.

Working with Advanced Actions: Upgrade to complex conditional advanced actions

Join Lieve Weymeis, Adobe Captivate Expert, with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh on yet another journey on using Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate. We will focus on conditional advanced actions, from simple ones with only one decision and one condition to complex actions with multiple decisions and complex conditions.

By attending this, you will be able to:

Learn about preparation, tips, good practice and testing
How to combine a standard action with a conditional action

Prerequisites: basic knowledge of simple, standard and conditional actions and the possible events to trigger those actions (slide events and interactive object events).

Just Add Content: Instant eLearning with Awesome Out-Of-The-Box Assets

Join eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for an introduction to the awesome assets, tools and powerful theme based workflows available out of the box with Adobe Captivate. Allen will demonstrate the amazing new assets and workflows in Adobe Captivate Next and will guide you through the basic steps of working with these new assets and workflows.

Live from mLearn with Allen & Pooja

Join eLearning Evangelists, Dr. Allen Partridge & Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for a fascinating discussion of Adobe Captivate. The evangelists will be at the mLearn conference and ready to take on all your mobile learning questions as well. You’ll get the latest, hottest information live from Adobe’s eLearning Evangelists and have a chance to ask them anything you’d like to know about Adobe Captivate, Adobe Presenter & Adobe eLearning Suite.

Adobe Captivate 6 is here. See what's new!

Join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist to learn more about the new release of Adobe Captivate 6 - the industry leading rapid eLearning authoring software tool.

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Effectively Using Effects in Adobe Captivate

Join Jeff Blackman, Captivate Community Expert, to learn how to easily add effects and get some ideas on using them EFFECTIVELY in your Adobe Captivate projects. Effects in Captivate allow you to add all kinds of simple animations and other effects to Captivate objects such as pictures, text boxes, shapes, and you name it! Using effects can greatly enhance your project and make your content come to life for your end user … and it’s super easy!

About the Instructor: Jeff Blackman works as an eLearning Training Specialist with The Methodist Hospital System. He is responsible for designing, developing, and deploying a wide variety of online courses for the entire hospital system. He also assists with the maintenance and administration of its learning management system. Jeff has over 15 years of training and development experience working for a variety of companies, including Walt Disney World and IBM.

LMS Strategies and Implementation with Adobe Captivate

Integrating Adobe Captivate with your Learning Management System (LMS) can be daunting. Join Rick Zannoti, Captivate Community Expert, as he demonstrates how to simplify this process for you. In this webinar, he will be covering LMS basics about SCORM and AICC, Captivate LMS preferences, SCORM Aggregator, course deployment on LMS, and LMS gotchas and things you should be aware of.

About the Instructor: Rick Zanotti founded RELATE Corporation, an eLearning and multimedia development firm in 1984. He is a member of the Adobe Captivate Advisory Board, a content developer for Adobe, and a well-known presenter for several trade organizations. A management consultant, multimedia author, instructional designer, voice talent, and videographer. Rick has a broad business background and was directly responsible for implementing large-scale ERP systems for many Fortune 500 corporations.

Creating Meaningful assets for your elearning courses

Join Alice Acker, Adobe Captivate Expert along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn the nuances of selecting and using assets like images and videos for your elearning courses. During the session, we will also discuss how to make use of Adobe Captivate and Adobe Photoshop to select, manage and edit the assets for an effective use inside the course.

What's in it for you?

After attending the session, you will be able to:

Carefully select the assets for your elearning course from different sources
Create assets from the internal sources like people images or office images etc.
Edit images using Adobe Captivate and Adobe Photoshop

Rapid Instructional Design for Agile Software Development

Join Sara Feijó, Adobe Captivate enthusiast, as she talks about Rapid Instructional Design for Agile Software Development. She will discuss about the Agile methodology and incorporating the ADDIE model using a variety of tools including Adobe Captivate, Adobe Air, and Adobe Connect to build concise, succinct, relevant, and engaging eLearning within the constraints of Agile processes.

Developing Rapid Prototypes for Adobe Captivate Course Modules

Join eLearning Professional Rod Ward for a practical session on rapid prototyping. Learn how to go directly from a rough set of initial high-level learning objectives to a working prototype in Adobe Captivate. This is not a finished module, just something that you can use to test assumptions about learner behaviour and acceptability of certain treatment methods or assessment approaches. This approach will allow you to create something to show a client VERY quickly, perhaps even while you are having an initial design meeting with the SME or client. Learn why Rod favours rapid prototyping over detailed storyboarding documents. This approach follows the logic that the faster you can get into Captivate and start creating prototypes, the better. Using this method you’ll find that you can actually use the Captivate handouts as a form of storyboard that makes more sense to most clients than traditional detailed storyboard docs.

Effective Planning for your eLearning Courses

Join Kirsten Rourke, Adobe Captivate Expert and Trainer, along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to discuss the essentials during the planning process for your eLearning courses. During the session, they will discuss how storyboarding, planning for assets and navigation is essential to minimize risks and maximize productivity.

What’s the Big Deal about HTML5 for Mobile eLearning

Join eLearning Evangelist, Dr. Allen Partridge for a fascinating discussion of HTML5 and other mobile solutions for eLearning. Dr. Partridge will give practical advice for developing ‘just in time’ tools, job aids and other practical solutions to today’s mLearning requirements. Attendees will learn how to convert their eLearning content to HTML5, and when to convert their content to HTML5. Allen will discuss the short and long term implications of the latest version of Hypertext language and it’s uses and limitations for everything from performance aids to on demand eLearning assessments.

Power of Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate: Tips and Tricks

Join Lieve Weymeis, Adobe Captivate Expert and Community Leader, along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to unleash the power of Advanced Actions in Adobe Captivate. They will discuss the tips and tricks for using Adobe Captivate and best practices to get stunning results.

Captivate Your Learners with Engaging eLearning

Join Dr. Risa Blair, Adobe Captivate enthusiast, as she transforms a bland course into a captivating experience for her learners. She will also be discussing some best practices of creating instructionally sound eLearning courses.

Low Cost – High Quality Avatar Animation for eLearning Module Personalization

Dr. Allen Partridge will present a special session on developing high quality 3D animated Avatars on a very low budget. This session will focus on step by step guidelines for capturing animations and using them in your eLearning. Dr. Partridge will demonstrate the methods and tools, and provide you with step-by-step instructions that you can use to follow along live, or to perform the steps on your own after the session. Attendees who want to follow along should have Adobe Captivate installed as well as Second Life.

Transitioning from eLearning to mLearning

Join Josh Cavalier, popularly known as Captain Captivate, along with Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as talk about how mLearning fits into the overall instructional strategy and how you can effectively use mobile devices for learning consumption and creation. They will also discuss how to build the mLearning content delivery ecosystem and various delivery options available for mLearning.

Best Practices for Creating and Using Videos in Adobe Captivate

Join Joseph Caplan, Adobe Captivate Expert, along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to effectively create videos for Adobe Captivate. During the session, they will also discuss the best practices, tools and techniques used for generating high-quality videos.

Using Video in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join Rick Zannoti, Captivate Community Expert, to learn how to use video in Captivate 5.5. Video is rapidly becoming a very important part of eLearning. During this session, he will demonstrate how to insert video, use slide video and time a video across contiguous and non-contiguous slides. He will also be sharing some video tips and tricks.

Leverage on Typography to Create the Engaging Interfaces for eLearning Courses

Join Jay Dutta, Typographer, Designer and Design Evangelist along with Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to play with text and type to create interesting and immersive designs that keeps the learners engaged with your eLearning courses. During the session they will also discuss how these principles can effectively be used inside Adobe Captivate.

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy to formulate learning Objectives

Join eLearning professional Rod Ward for a practical session about how to use Learning Objectives to design an e-learning course in Adobe Captivate. Learn how to use Blooms Taxonomy to formulate learning objectives, how to map out objectives in a hierarchy for design purposes, and avoiding common pitfalls with invalid learning objective verbs. Attendees will also learn how to map the learning objectives to different types of content treatments, mapping objectives to assessments (e.g. which verbs go best with which question types in Captivate).

Practical Mobile eLearning Today: Real Solutions for Creating mLearning for Your Organization Right Now

Join Chandranath Bhattacharyya, the engineering manager for HTML5 eLearning projects at Adobe and Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for an introduction to the practical side of mobile eLearning development. We’ll discuss the UI differences that make eLearning content for mobile delivery different than PC deployments and we’ll show you how to get from Adobe Captivate to iOS and other mobile platforms. Get down to the business of creating actual training content that can be delivered on cell phones, tablets and other mobile devices. We'll give you an overview of the dominant types of mLearning content, and give you some examples of how to create content of these types. Finally I'll talk about some of the inherent tools in mobile devices that might be leveraged in order to provide new opportunities for your learning solutions.

Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 8 (Creating Templates with Photoshop)

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this exciting and unprecedented series for Instructional Designers, eLearning Content Authors and anyone who wants to produce higher quality eLearning content. Dr. Partridge will show you how to leverage the components in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5 in order to create compelling, effective & engaging eLearning materials for online distribution. Throughout the series Dr. Partridge will provide a foundation in principles adopted from the principles of design combined with a deep understanding of educational theory & methodology to help you master the art of creating great designs for your online learning content. In this session the focus will be on creating interface elements with Adobe Photoshop. Attendees will learn basic methods to create interface elements from scratch with an emphasis on pragmatic solutions that are quick to produce, creative in practice and lead to aesthetically pleasing finished eLearning content.

The Time-Line Demystified

Join Tim Lucas, Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as they show you how to effectively use the timeline to create captivating projects. They will show you how to set the duration right, understand the stacking order and discuss some troubleshooting tips related to objects placed on the timeline.

Best Practices for Creating HTML5 Courses using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 Converter

Join Michael Hinze, Adobe Captivate Expert, as he shares the best practices of creating HTML5 Courses using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 Converter. He will show you how to create a course in Adobe Captivate 5.5 and publish it to HTML5 format using HTML5 Converter. He will also share some tips and tricks for effectively creating HTML5 courses.

Increase Productivity with Master Slides, Object Styles and Object Effects

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create great looking courses using the power of Master Slides, Object Styles and Object Effects. During the session, we will discuss the best practices of using these features in Adobe Captivate to do the tasks faster and still create aesthetically good looking courses.

Simulations made easy with Adobe Captivate 5.5 – Basics and best practices

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn the basics of Capture in Adobe Captivate 5.5. We will also discuss the best practices while creating and modifying the simulations in Adobe Captivate.

What's in it for you?

After attending the session, you will be able to:

Understand the suitable settings to be done before capturing
Capture any application/screen area as Automatic or Full Motion Recording
Understand the best practices while editing the captured project
Resize the project for various requirements

Adobe Photoshop basics for Adobe Captivate 5.5 users – Part 2

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaising to learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop for creating and editing images/assets for Adobe Captivate 5.5. This is the second part of 2 part series wherein we will discuss different techniques used in creating and managing the image assets.

What's in it for you?

After attending the session, you will be able to:

Create graphics to be used as buttons in Adobe Captivate
Create graphics to be used as Text Caption Backgrounds
Understand and create layer comps
Use the layer comps in Adobe Captivate for various layouts

Recording Modes and Using the Captivate Library

Join Tim Lucas, Pooja Jaisingh and Vish as they talk about the different recording modes in Adobe Captivate. They will guide you how to select the right mode for your training requirements. They will also show you how to effectively use the Library.

Creating Educational Games in Adobe Captivate with Joe Ganci

Leap into Spring with eLearning Rock Star Joe Ganci on leap day. Join Joe for an amazing session on creating eLearning Games with Adobe Captivate. You know that games can be beneficial in helping learners retain what they learn. Of course, games can also distract from the content, so you must plan carefully what kind of games to include in your learning. During this session, reknowned Captivate expert, Joe Ganci will teach the factors that must be considered in choosing or building games for learning and will also show you how to create a learning game in Adobe Captivate. You will even get a free copy of a game for your own use!

Best Practices for Working with Objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join John Daigle, Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn about the best practices of working with standard and interactive objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5. These objects include text captions, images, rollover images/captions/slidelets, animations, click boxes, buttons, and highlight boxes. They will also be sharing some quick tips on troubleshooting common issues you can face when working with objects in Adobe Captivate 5.5.

Enhancing Captivate eLearning with Interactive Widgets- Part 2

This vicarious eLearning eSeminar features me (Allen) learning from Tristan Ward of Infosemantics how you can use the new Widget to do unbelievably cool things in Adobe Captivate. Particularly mind-blowing from our prep-session? Tristan showed me how I can combine things like Jim Liechliter's radio button widget with Captivate variables and use the master widget to create incredibly detailed form simulations with very deep tests to determine if the form is properly filled out - then, amazingly - evaluate the entire problem and report it as a single question response! You won't want to miss this amazing session.

Karl Kapp on Gamification & eLearning

Join Dr. Allen Partridge as he interviews Dr. Karl Kapp, distinguished author and expert on simulations and games in eLearning. Dr. Kapp is a professor of instructional technology at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA and has worked with such organizations as Black and Decker, L’OREAL and Sovereign Bank as well as government agencies to help them create effective online instruction. Dr. Kapp is author of five books on the convergence of learning and technology including "Gadgets, Games and Gizmos for Learning" and “Learning in 3D” which he co-authored with Tony O’Driscoll. Currently, he is working on his fifth book "The Gamification of Learning and Instruction” where he explores the research and theoretical foundations behind effective game-based learning; examining everything from reward schedules to the use of avatars to games for teaching pro-social behaviors which will be discussed during this session. Look for his latest book on Gamification in the Spring of 2012.

Enhancing Captivate eLearning with Interactive Widgets – Part 1: Drag and Drop

Join Dr. Allen Partridge and Tristan Ward (AKA: The Widget King) for a new series of seminars focused around Infosemantics’ latest widgets for Adobe Captivate 4, 5, and 5.5. The first of these seminars teaches how to use the Interactive Drag and Drop widget to create complex interactions that were previously impossible in Captivate. The first half of this seminar will give an introduction the unique features of the Interactive Drag and Drop widget. The second half will demonstrate how to construct a sophisticated drag and drop interaction for an online safety training course. This seminar assumes a basic knowledge of how to use Infosemantics Drag and Drop widgets. For those unfamiliar with these widgets, it is recommended to watch the previous seminar on the Drag and Drop Lite question widget accessible from here:

http://blogs.adobe.com/captivate/2010/11/drag-drop-in-adobe-captivate.html

Preparing Captivate for Efficient Recording and Editing

Join Tim Lucas, Adobe Captivate Expert, along with Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to set the ground right for capture workflow. They will show you how to work with global preferences and custom styles and talk about the best practices around these settings.

Adobe Photoshop basics for Adobe Captivate 5.5 users – Part 1

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn the basics of Adobe Photoshop for creating and editing images/assets for Adobe Captivate 5.5. This is the first part of 2 part series wherein we will discuss different techniques used in creating and managing the image assets.

What's in it for you?

After attending the session, you will be able to:

Export the Captured images from Adobe Captivate for editing, edit it in Adobe Photoshop, and import it back into Adobe Captivate
Understand the image and canvas dimensions
Create backgrounds using different tools available in Adobe Photoshop
Create image masks to edit the images
Create Transparent PNGs to be used inside Adobe Photoshop

Creating Quizzes with Random Questions in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create quizzes with random questions using Adobe Captivate 5.5. They will show you how to create a question pool, create a quiz with random questions, reuse question pools created for other projects, and create a quiz with questions coming from various question pools.

What’s in it for you?

After attending the session, you will be able to:

Create a random question slide
Create a question pool
Create a quiz with random questions from a single question pool
Create a quiz with random questions from a multiple question pools
Reuse question pools created for other projects
Move questions from pool to pool, main project to pool and vice versa

Step-by-step Procedure to Create Good Looking Templates for Your Adobe Captivate

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create great looking course templates using various applications available in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5. We will also discuss how we can do the roundtripping between these applications to edit the assets used in these templates.

Create Cool Assets for Your Adobe Captivate Courses

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create various assets for your eLearning courses such as buttons, text caption backgrounds, slide backgrounds, etc. During this session we will use Adobe Captivate and other products in Adobe eLearning Suite to create and modify the assets.

Creating HTML5 Courses for iPad using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 Converter

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create eLearning courses for your iPad. They will show you how to create a course in Adobe Captivate 5.5 and publish it to HTML5 format using HTML5 Converter. They will also share some tips and tricks for effectively creating HTML5 courses.

Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 7 (Learning from the Best & Worst of PowerPoint)

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this exciting and unprecedented series for Instructional Designers, eLearning Content Authors and anyone who wants to produce higher quality eLearning content. Dr. Partridge will show you how to leverage the components in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5 in order to create compelling, effective & engaging eLearning materials for online distribution. Throughout the series Dr. Partridge will provide a foundation in principles adopted from the principles of design combined with a deep understanding of educational theory & methodology to help you master the art of creating great designs for your online learning content. In this session the focus will be on learning from common problems found in PowerPoint based layout & design.

Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 6 (Making it Mobile with HTML5 & Captivate)

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this exciting and unprecedented series for Instructional Designers, eLearning Content Authors and anyone who wants to produce higher quality eLearning content. Dr. Partridge will show you how to leverage the components in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5 in order to create compelling, effective & engaging eLearning materials for online distribution. Throughout the series Dr. Partridge will provide a foundation in principles adopted from the principles of design combined with a deep understanding of educational theory & methodology to help you master the art of creating great designs for your online learning content. In this session the focus will be on converting your content to HTML5 for iOS devices like the iPad, the iPod and the iPhone.

Composition & Layout for Online eLearning: Lesson 5 (Adding Animation with Adobe Flash)

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for this exciting and unprecedented series for Instructional Designers, eLearning Content Authors and anyone who wants to produce higher quality eLearning content. Dr. Partridge will show you how to leverage the components in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5 in order to create compelling, effective & engaging eLearning materials for online distribution. Throughout the series Dr. Partridge will provide a foundation in principles adopted from the principles of design combined with a deep understanding of educational theory & methodology to help you master the art of creating great designs for your online learning content. In this session the focus will be on creating animation for user interface components using Adobe Flash Professional CS 5.5.

Best Practices for Creating eLearning Courses using Adobe Presenter

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to rapidly create an eLearning course from within Microsoft PowerPoint using Adobe Presenter. In this training session, they will share some best practices to transform drab presentations into interactive multimedia experiences with narration, animations, quizzes, and simulations.

Training: Creating Interesting Interactivities with Adobe Captivate – Part 2

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create interactive screens using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5. The interactive screens included in this two-part training session will be click-reveal text screen, tabbed screen, click-based animation screen, and timeline screen.

Training: Creating an HTML5 course using Adobe Captivate 5.5 and HTML5 converter

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to create a good looking eLearning course which can be published as HTML5 output. In this Hands-on session, we will also look at using HTML5 converter for Adobe Captivate 5.5. While doing this, we will discuss creating content slides and question slides as well for the course.

Training: Creating Interesting Interactivities with Adobe Captivate – Part 1

Creating Interactive eLearning with Adobe Presenter

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to rapidly create an interactive eLearning course from within Microsoft PowerPoint using Adobe Presenter. In this training session, they will show you how to create interactive screens using simple actions in PowerPoint. They will also show you how to ember interactive SWFs in your Adobe Presenter courses.

Alternate Reporting and Quiz Result Analyzer in Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn about the alternate options available for quiz reporting like Acrobat.com and Internal Server. They will also show you how to analyze the results using Adobe Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer.

What’s in it for you?

After attending the session, you will be able to:

Set the reporting preferences.
Submit results for the quiz.
View the results in Adobe Captivate Quiz Results Analyzer.

Hands-on: Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.5

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

What’s in it for you?

After attending the session, you will be able to:
Create a user-defined variable.
Edit/delete a user-defined variable.
Control Adobe Captivate projects with variables.
Create advanced actions.
Edit/delete/duplicate advanced actions.
Apply advanced actions to slides.
Apply advanced actions to interactive objects.

Roundtripping Adobe Captivate Content with Adobe Flash

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn how to instantly update Flash applications used in Adobe Captivate projects, invoke Flash from within Adobe Captivate, and synchronize the files in Adobe Captivate and Flash with a single click.

What’s in it for you?

After attending this session, you will be able to:

Edit animation with Flash from within Captivate
Update and swap animations
Relink Flash source file
Export Captivate project to Flash

Roundtripping Adobe Captivate Content with Adobe Photoshop

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an exciting session on Photoshop roundtripping. Learn how to instantly update Adobe Photoshop files imported in Adobe Captivate projects, invoke Adobe Photoshop from within Adobe Captivate and keep the linked files in sync using a single click.

What’s in it for you?

After attending this session, you will be able to:

Import Photoshop files
Manage layers and layer comps
Edit Photoshop files from within Captivate
Update and relink Photoshop files

Getting started with Adobe Photoshop for Adobe Captivate users

Join RJ Jacquez, Adobe Senior Product Evangelist, for a fun session on Photoshop, specifically designed for new users who are already familiar with Adobe Captivate. In this session, you learn how to get started using Photoshop for enhancing your Captivate projects, how to work with Layers and how to use the powerful content-aware fill tool for including just the right images in your eLearning projects.

Introduction to Adobe eLearning Suite for Adobe Captivate users

Join RJ Jacquez, Adobe Senior Product Evangelist, for an introductory session on the entire Adobe eLearning Suite for Adobe Captivate users. This session is intended for Adobe Captivate users who are interested in discovering how they can take their eLearning projects to the next level by using dedicated applications, such as Adobe Audition, Photoshop and Flash for audio, rich media and animation editing.

Reviewing eLearning Courses Made Easy with Adobe Captivate 5.5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to use Adobe Captivate Reviewer to get your Captivate projects reviewed by the SMEs, internal team or customers. Also learn how to leverage Acrobat.com or your internal server in this process.

What’s in it for you?

After attending this session, you will be able to:

Publish the project for review
Share project for review on an internal server
Share the project on Acrobat.com for review
Review Adobe Captivate project
Add comments to the SWF file
Edit comments in the SWF file
Import comments from an XML file
Export comments to an XML file
View or sort comments in the AIR application
View or sort comments in the Adobe Captivate project
Provide feedback on comments by reviewers

Understanding Adobe Captivate for Total Beginners: Part 2

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for an introductory session demonstrating the fundamental components of Adobe Captivate, and explaining how to use these tools to create eLearning modules. This session is intended for beginners who have already seen Part 1 in this series, and it will gently guide you to a stronger understanding of how to use Adobe Captivate to create slightly more complex eLearning content.

Introduction to Adobe eLearning Suite for Adobe Captivate users

Hands-on: Introduction to Capture workflows using Adobe Captivate 5.5

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.

What’s in it for you?

After attending this session, you will be able to:

Modify the capture settings
Capture application in demonstration mode
Capture application in assessment mode
Capture application in training mode
Edit the captured simulation
Insert additional objects
Publish the project

Adobe Captivate Interface Made Easy!

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an introductory session on Adobe Captivate interface. In this session, they will walk you through the Adobe Captivate workspace and show you how to use the toolbar, panels, filmstrip and timeline effectively.

What’s in it for you?

After attending this session, you will be able to:

Rearrange the toolbar, timeline and panels
Show/hide various panels
Initiate various actions using the Filmstrip view
Change the zoom level of the timeline panel
Change the order of object layers
Hide objects during editing
Set time for objects and slides using the timeline
Preview a slide using the playhead

Hands-on: Enhancing PowerPoint Courses with Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an exciting hands-on session on how to convert the existing eLearning courses from PowerPoint to Adobe Captivate projects. Learn how to edit a PowerPoint presentation, synchronize a PowerPoint presentation with the Captivate project and enhance the course by adding animations/interactivity in this session with them.

What’s in it for you?

After attending this session, you will be able to:

Create Adobe Captivate projects from PowerPoint presentations
Edit imported PowerPoint slides within Adobe Captivate
Import additional PowerPoint slides
Synchronize the PowerPoint presentation with Captivate project file
Add objects and slides
Delete PowerPoint slides
Change modes from Linked to Embedded and vice versa
Export Animations

Effective eLearning with new Adobe Captivate 5.5 & eLearning Suite 2.5 - EMEA

Join Dr Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a demonstration of the exciting new ways to create effective eLearning with Adobe's latest industry leading authoring tools for rapid eLearning authoring. Adobe Captivate is widely recognized as the industry leading rapid eLearning authoring software tool. Explore how Adobe Captivate extends your reach into mobile publishing and enables you to create great looking course content.

The Adobe eLearning Suite has rocketed to the top, quickly becoming the must-have software package for eLearning professionals since Adobe first released this Dream Team of integrated eLearning Tools in 2009. Find out what everyone's buzzing about, and see the amazing ways Adobe eLearning Suite, featuring Adobe Captivate can help you create dynamic, engaging and productive eLearning courses.

Hands-on: My First Captivate Project

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to get introduced to Adobe Captivate 5 workspace and to use different standard and Interactive objects. Also learn how to preview and publish the finished projects.

What’s in it for you?

After attending this session, you will be able to:

Work with Adobe Captivate 5 improved workspace
Save and reuse the workspace
Create a new project
Insert standard objects
Insert interactive objects
Preview and publish the project

Effective eLearning with the new Adobe Captivate 5.5 & eLearning Suite 2.5

Join Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a demonstration of the exciting new ways to create effective eLearning with Adobe's latest updated to the industry leading Authoring tools for rapid eLearning Authoring. Adobe Captivate is widely recognized as the industry leading rapid eLearning authoring software tool. This update adds new functionality to the software that extend its reach into mobile publishing and enhance authors' tools for quickly creating great looking course content.

The Adobe eLearning Suite has rocketed to the top, quickly becoming the must-have software package for eLearning professionals since Adobe first released this dream team of integrated eLearning Tools in 2009. Find out what everyone's buzzing about, and see what new treasures the Adobe eLearning Team has cooked up for you at this one hour eSeminar demonstrating the amazing ways that the new Adobe eLearning Suite 2.5, featuring Adobe Captivate 5.5 can help you create dynamic, engaging and productive eLearning courses.

Creating Inspired Activities and Interactions for Effective eLearning

Adobe’s eLearning Evangelist, Dr Allen Partridge and esteemed eLearning and Communication Consultant, Clive Shepherd, will discuss the future of eLearning and how organisations can best create ‘Inspired Activities and Interactions for Effective eLearning’.

Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5

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Using Advanced Actions and Variables in Adobe Captivate 5

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.

Using Object Styles and Effects in Adobe Captivate 5

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Question Banking Made Easy with Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn how to create Question Banks with Adobe Captivate 5. They will show you how to create a question pool, create a quiz with random questions, reuse question pools created for other projects, and create a quiz with questions coming from various question pools.

Deep Dive: Effective Soft Skills Training in Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for an advanced tutorial on creating soft skills simulations with Adobe Captivate. This session is recommended for intermediate and advanced users and assumes fundamental awareness of Adobe Captivate. Dr. Partridge will demonstrate and break-down the elements commonly used in creating soft skills simulations. This will be a technically oriented session focused on advanced actions and creating the logical decision trees and complementary functions to make advanced branching dependent projects really sing.

Preferences and Publish Settings in Adobe Captivate 5

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to explore the various preferences and publish settings available in Adobe Captivate 5.

Navigating the LMS Maze

Join Dr. Allen Partridge and guest Captivate Engineers as they take a deeper dive into the Learning Management System integration potential of Adobe Captivate 5. Topics include all forms of LMS integration as well as setting the various properties for Captivate to LMS communication.

Customizing the Project Interface with Adobe Captivate 5: TOC, skin editor and project resize

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an introductory session on customizing the table of contents, playbar and the appearance of the final SWF. They will also touch upon the playbar widgets available with Captivate 5.

Publishing Options in Adobe Captivate 5

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Publishing options in Adobe Captivate 5

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh to learn about various publishing options like, SWF, F4V, EXE and APP for Mac. They will also discuss about publishing the course to Adobe Acrobat Connect Pro, uploading the course directly to FTP and printing course handouts.

Enhancing Adobe Captivate Content with Audio - Part 2

Join Vish and Dr. Pooja Jaisingh for an introduction to audio in Captivate 5, where they will discuss various methods to add audio: record, text-to-speech and import. They will also touch upon the ways to edit the audio.

PowerPoint workflows in Adobe Captivate 5

In this eSeminar, Adobe eLearning Senior Product Evangelist, RJ Jacquez, will discuss and demonstrate best practices for linking, reusing and customizing PowerPoint content for inclusion in Adobe Captivate 5 Projects.

Enhancing Adobe Captivate Content with Audio - Part 1

Adding Interactivity to eLearning Courses with Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish to learn about the standard and interactive objects in Adobe Captivate 5. They will also discuss the best practices of using objects in Adobe Captivate 5.

Creating a self-guided Knowledge-based Training Solution in Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a Step by Step Guide to creating a knowledge-based self-guided training solution in Adobe Captivate 5.

Enhancing PowerPoint Courses with Adobe Captivate 5

In this training session, we will focus on converting the existing eLearning courses from PowerPoint to Adobe Captivate projects. We will also discuss how to edit a PowerPoint presentation, synchronize a PowerPoint presentation with the Captivate project and enhance the course by adding animations/interactivity to it.

Adding Spice to Compliance Training with Adobe Captivate 5

Compliance training can all too often be dry as toast. Dr. Allen Partridge will demonstrate and define approaches that can add some flair to your compliance training. He will explain how to improve ROI by ensuring that the focus of your compliance training (changing behaviors) is actually accomplished.

Introduction to Capture workflows using Adobe Captivate 5 - Part 2

One of the major workflows in Adobe Captivate 5 is Capture workflow. We use capture workflows to do Software Simulations, Product demos etc., During this session, we will discuss Different Recording options available for us including Automatic and Manual recording of either screen area or an application. Session also focuses on different Preview/Publish options available catering to Web Distribution or Stand-alone distribution.

Introduction to Capture workflows using Adobe Captivate 5

Captivate 5 Beginner Tips: How to Avoid the Common Mistakes when using Adobe Captivate 5

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist will explain the most common errors made by beginners who are just learning to work with Adobe Captivate 5. He'll give you examples of ways to avoid these common issues and explain the fundamentals of the Adobe Captivate Workflow.

Creating your first Application Capture Training with Adobe Captivate 5

Join Dr. Allen Partridge for a Step by Step Guide to creating your first Screen / Application Training Solution with Adobe Captivate 5

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 10: Individual Differences

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as the Individual Differences Principle, which suggests that design effects are stronger for low-knowledge learners than for high knowledge learners, and for high-spatial learners rather than for low-spatial learners. Examples will focus on the use of Advanced Actions, ADA/508 Compliance, Closed Captions, Localization, Video Closed Caption, Branching and User Variables in Adobe Captivate 5.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 9: Pre-Training

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on creating effective eLearning content. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as pre-training, which suggests that elearning content authors should first build up basic information about essential elements which are pre-requisites to understanding the larger concepts. Examples will focus on the use of Quizzes, the Quiz Results Analyzer and the Table of Contents in Adobe Captivate 5.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 8: Segmenting

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as the Segmenting Principle, which suggests that authors of eLearning content should break content up into small pieces or chunks in order to help avoid cognitive overload for the learners. Examples will focus on the use of Slide Paradigm, Object Styles & PPT Import in Adobe Captivate 5.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 7 : Coherence

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on creating effective eLearning content. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as Coherence, which suggests that off topic ancillary material can distract from learning. This theory stands in opposition to arousal theory, providing research based evidence that when stimulating animation or any form of non-relevant information is provided, it can actually decrease the efficacy of the instruction. Examples will focus on the use of Templates, Master Slides & Object Styles in Adobe Captivate 5.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 6: Redundancy

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as Redundancy, which suggests that presenting symbols via both text and aural channels is less effective than presenting via only one. Examples will focus on the use of Audio Editing & Text in Adobe Captivate 5.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules Part 5: Contiguity

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on creating effective eLearning content, specifically on the Contiguity Principle, which indicates that the spatial relationship (proximity) of symbols (like text) to analogous images (things that look like the subject of the learning) is significant, and plays a key role in how effectively we learn. This session will explain the overall concept and demonstrate how this concept can be applied with particular focus on the following features in Adobe Captivate; Position, Resize, Transform, Align, Pan, Zoom, Auto-Captions, Rollover.

Working with Widgets, Part 2: Beyond the Basics

Widget developer Tristan Ward joins Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist for a second adventure in vicarious eLearning. Tristan will again teach Allen Widget creation basics (using the Widget Factory) of widget Development for Adobe Captivate. This time the duo will forge beyond the basic building blocks of widgets and create a more sophisticated widget. Explores basic widget concepts and provides examples of implementation. This session is appropriate for intermediate and advanced users of Adobe Captivate & Adobe eLearning Suite.

Adding Drag and Drop Questions to Adobe Captivate 5 with the 'Infosemantics' Drag and Drop Widget

Special Guest Tristan Ward (creator of the Widget Factory) will join Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist to host a special session focused on the new Drag and Drop Widget from Infosemantics, and on the significance of drag and drop questions as a tool for developing interactive eLearning content. This session is appropriate for all users of Adobe Captivate & Adobe eLearning Suite.

Creating effective eLearning Multimedia with Adobe Captivate 5

This one hour session will focus on creating eLearning content with Adobe Captivate 5. The session will center on the Multimedia Principle (the importance of combining images & text) of eLearning Design. It will be hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, and is intended for all users of Adobe Captivate, eLearning Professionals, Academicians and Training Professionals. Examples for this session will focus on the use of Adobe Captivate 5 images, shapes, Photoshop Integration, captions and rich animation effects.

Applying Personalization to eLearning with Adobe Captivate 5

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as Personalization, which suggests that people learn more effectively when conversational styles and or learning agents are used to enhance the social aspects of the experience. Examples will focus on slide video, flash animation, Widgets, Advanced Actions and the Adobe Captivate Twitter Widget.

Balancing cognitive load in eLearning content with Adobe Captivate 5

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The session focuses on the Multimedia eLearning Design Principle known as Personalization, which suggests that people learn more effectively when conversational styles and or learning agents are used to enhance the social aspects of the experience. Examples will focus on slide video, flash animation, Widgets, Advanced Actions and the Adobe Captivate Twitter Widget.

Making Effective Adobe Captivate eLearning Modules

This one hour session will focus on a meta-level restructuring of Clark, Mayer et. al, principles of multimedia eLearning - specifically via evidence from educational psychology. It will be hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist and is intended for all users of Adobe Captivate, eLearning Professionals, Academics, and Training Professionals. This session will provide a foundation in multimedia design concepts for eLearning, and help you understand the reasons / rationale behind many of the eLearning strategies you see implemented today.

Mastering Audio and Video with Adobe Captivate 5 and Adobe eLearning Suite 2 for Advanced Users

This one hour session intended for Advanced users of Adobe Captivate will be hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist. The eSeminar will focus on challenges and opportunities involving video and audio in online eLearning, specifically regarding the use of audio and video with Adobe Captivate 5. The new full project workflows for sound and video will be examined in detail.

Adobe Captivate 5 for University Students

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on the rapid adoption of Adobe Captivate among University students and examine the key motivators for students adopting Adobe Captivate. Studies indicate a rise in adoption of rapid eLearning tools over traditional slide creation tools among university students. What is motivating this trend?

Is Rapid eLearning Right for me - A Beginners Guide to eLearning

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on the decision to use Rapid eLearning for your institution. While cost savings are clear, there is still a lot of discussion about the eventual efficacy of Rapid eLearning in spite of strong numbers supporting its use. Partridge will discuss the importance of solid Multimedia eLearning and Instructional Design principles in the development of Rapid eLearning in order to maximize efficacy and minimizethe likelihood of ineffective course creation.

Advanced Actions & Widgets with Adobe Flash Professional CS5 and Adobe Captivate 5 for Advanced Users

This one hour session for Advanced Adobe Captivate users will be centered on the development of complex navigation, interaction & general application behavior by using the tools provided in Adobe Flash Professional CS5 (as part of Adobe eLearning Suite 2) and Adobe Captivate 5. The session will be hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist.

Understanding the Adobe eLearning Suite Workflow

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will present a one hour online eSeminar for intermediate users of Adobe Captivate and / or Adobe eLearning Suite. The core issue will be expediting eLearning development with the complete toolset provided in Adobe eLearning Suite 2.

Adobe Captivate 5 for University Educators

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on making the transition to asynchronous and synchronous online education & distance learning for university faculty and instructional design support personnel. The session will examine the specific needs of higher education with regard to online education and will demonstrate solutions using Adobe Captivate 5 and Adobe eLearning Suite 2.

Advanced Interaction Development for Adobe Captivate 5 for Advanced Users

Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, will focus on the differences and similarities between Adobe Captivate 4 and Adobe Captivate 5 during this one hour session intended for people with experience using prior versions of Adobe Captivate.

Comparing Adobe Captivate 4 to Adobe Captivate 5

Leveraging Legacy PowerPoint Training with Adobe Captivate 5 for Beginners

This one hour session hosted by Dr. Allen Partridge, Adobe eLearning Evangelist, is intended for Trainers,eLearning Professionals and members of the Academic community who want to learn how to migrate their legacy slide decks to more engaging interactive online content.