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JUNE 5, 2014

by Kevin Siegel      Creating eLearning for mobile devices was high on the wish list a few years ago when Adobe asked users for the top features they'd like to see added to Adobe Captivate. It wasn't long before Adobe responded by adding HTML5 as a publishing option. Interested? 

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

by Kevin Siegel        If you need to include YouTube videos in your Captivate eLearning project, the traditional technique was to insert a click box or button on a slide and, on the Properties Inspector, use the  Open URL or File  action to target the video's URL. And that's it.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 12, 2012

  Save and close the HTML file and then open in your web browser. If you're looking for some awesome Captivate widgets, check out Rod's site. Looking to learn Captivate quickly?   Adobe Captivate Essentials  and  Adobe Captivate Beyond the Essentials (Advanced).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 20, 2017

Adobe recently announced a upgrade to Adobe Captivate, its popular eLearning development tool.   According to Adobe's Allen Partridge, Captivate version 2017 , includes several new features including something called Fluid Boxes.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate? No travel budget?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 2, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    I've published a ton of eLearning lesson using Adobe Captivate, and I have seen the Publish dialog box more times than I can count. When the lesson opened in my web browser, the value of the option became clear.   Looking to learn Captivate quickly?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 5, 2015

This week, let's dive into yet another way you can get your learners to a website: Web objects. Web objects allow you to embed a website directly on a Captivate slide. To add a Web object to a slide, click Objects and choose Web. You can add a Web address (just like any hyperlink).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 20, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    You've probably heard by now that Adobe released Adobe Captivate 6 late last week. Publishing in Captivate takes your source content and outputs it into a format that can be consumed (viewed) by the learner. All of the assets need to be kept together when posted to your web server.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 11, 2012

Adobe Captivate 6 makes quick work out of creating text hyperlinks. From the first drop-down menu, select  Web Page. Type the address of the intended web page within the text field and then, using the second drop-down menu, choose  New.     Looking to learn Captivate quickly?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 14, 2017

During our  live, online beginner Adobe Captivate class, you learn about previewing your project pretty quickly. You will find the following menu items in the Preview drop-down menu of a standard project: Play Slide, Project, Next 5 slides, In Browser, HTML5 in Browser, Preview in SCORM Cloud, and In Adobe Edge Inspect.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 12, 2013

Is it Adobe Captivate? I have extensive experience using Adobe Captivate and TechSmith Camtasia Studio. In my experience, it will take you approximately 2 hours of labor to produce 1 minute of eLearning playtime if you use Adobe Captivate. Publishing to an LMS or web server. 60 minutes? Adding images.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

If you preview the lesson in a web browser and click the object, a new browser window (or tab) will open.   Looking to learn Captivate quickly? IconLogic offers multiple live, online Adobe Captivate 6 classes each month including  Introduction to Adobe Captivate  and  Advanced Adobe Captivate.

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MARCH 10, 2018

There have been some questions in the comments of my videos that suggest that some people may not understand Typekit fonts in Adobe Captivate. There are three different types of fonts on a Windows or Mac computer running Adobe Captivate 2017. These are system fonts, web-safe fonts, and potentially Typekit fonts.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 14, 2013

For instance, I use Adobe Captivate to create most of my eLearning content, and Adobe RoboHelp to create my Help Systems. When the topic is displayed in a web browser, mobile device (iPad, iPhone, etc) or HTML Help, the lesson will play (and remain interactive). Looking to learn Captivate quickly? by Kevin Siegel.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Not all that long ago controlling what learners see first in Adobe Captivate published eLearning content was as simple as creating a visually-appealing first slide in the project. However,  However, if you’ve created content with either Adobe Captivate 2017 or 2019 things aren’t quite as simple.

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JULY 12, 2013

I'm happy to report that my newest book, "Adobe Captivate 7: The Essentials"  is now available for purchase. "Adobe Captivate 7: The Essentials" is a self-paced training manual that teaches the core Adobe Captivate skills needed to create interactive eLearning and mLearning content.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 26, 2015

Last week I taught you how easy it is add a hyperlink to caption text in Adobe Captivate. Select Web Page from the Link To drop-down menu and then type in the web address. by Kevin Siegel. This week, let's tackle object hyperlinks. First of all, keep in mind that any interactive object can take a learner to a website.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 26, 2013

In fact, if you're looking for image buttons beyond what comes with Captivate, you either have to find alternatives on the web, or create your own image buttons (again in an external image editing tool). Smart Shapes were introduced in Adobe Captivate 6. Looking to learn Captivate quickly?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 13, 2015

by Kevin Siegel      Over the years I've had more than a few eLearning development clients ask us to create links to web resources on a slide.       From the  Link To  drop-down menu, choose  Web Page. Next, type a web address into the field. Up first, text hyperlinks.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 13, 2017

During the first day of my Adobe Captivate Beginner class , attendees learn how to import and work with both images and videos. The problem with Flash Videos is that they can be difficult to create on your own and, worse, there isn’t a surplus of Flash Videos available on the web (free or otherwise). by Kevin Siegel, COTP, CTT.

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eLearning Brothers

APRIL 11, 2017

Typekit is a cloud-based repository of fonts that are web safe, thus ensuring that the fonts you choose will look the same across all devices and platforms, even if the font isn’t installed on that device. To access the Typekit web page from within Captivate you just click on the icon in the Character properties panel.

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eLearning Brothers

MAY 20, 2014

Most of you may be wondering what are some of the new features to Adobe Captivate 8. Captivate 8 has made significant upgrades, improvements, and created brand new features never before used in any eLearning authoring tool. Let’s get down to brass tacks and see what’s new with Adobe Captivate 8: Responsive Project Design.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 5, 2013

These days, Adobe is the software vendor I''m using the most. I use the Adobe Master Suite and Adobe Captivate for many of my projects. So when Adobe Captivate 7 was released, I was eager to unwrap the gift. The new release is the same Adobe Captivate you already know.

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eLearning Brothers

JANUARY 28, 2015

Put quotes around a phrase like “Responsive Adobe Captivate Templates” and be amazed. Scenario: You are looking for premium Responsive Adobe Captivate Templates for faster development. Search Solution: “Responsive Adobe Captivate Templates” #2 Search All the Pages in a Site.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 16, 2015

We are proud to announce that our newest book, "Adobe Captivate 9: The Essentials Workbook" has begun shipping.      This book is a self-paced training manual that teaches the core Adobe Captivate skills needed to create interactive eLearning and mLearning content.    Order here.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 20, 2012

It's certainly simple enough to change the appearance of any selected mouse cursor (via the Properties panel), but Captivate is not an image-editing application so you cannot create custom cursor images (cur files). Looking to learn Captivate quickly?     See Also:   Change the Mouse Pointer Project-Wide.

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eLearning Brothers

JUNE 7, 2013

We are pleased to inform you that our Captivate Templates are now compatible with Adobe Captivate 7. Adobe Captivate Player Skin Widgets. Adobe Captivate Layout Themes. So, what’s new with Captivate 7 ? YouTube video streaming and in-course web browsing.

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eLearning Brothers

MAY 31, 2017

The web development industry has seen a huge demand for more analytics. As detailed analytics and customizable robust reportage becomes more common in the web development world we are seeing more and more demand for detailed data and reports in the eLearning industry. And/or maybe you need more data than the xAPI can provide?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 18, 2015

. Over the next few weeks, I'm going to show you the LMS setup process in the top eLearning development tools (Adobe Captivate, Articulate Storyline, TechSmith Camtasia Studio, and Trivantis Lectora).   Reporting Scores with Adobe Captivate.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 27, 2017

When it comes to eLearning that will look awesome on just about every kind of device (including desktop computers, smart phones, and tablets), Adobe Captivate jumped to the front of the eLearning development tool class when Responsive capabilities were introduced in Captivate version 8 and continued in Captivate 9.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

Every time I wanted to test a version of one of the modules, I needed to publish it for HTML5, upload the published course to my web server, email myself the URL so I could pick it up on my iPad and then launch the course. As you start to work with the new features in Adobe Captivate 2019, you start to see a theme with many of the features.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

by Kevin Siegel      If you attend our  Adobe Captivate Beginner class , you will learn how to publish projects as SWF (for desktop users) and HTML5 (for mobile users).  According to Adobe, the Flash Player is installed on the majority of the world's computers. Of course, SWFs have a problem.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    Last week I wrote about the  project expiry issue  people are having when they use the trial version of Captivate 6 to open projects created with the trial version of Adobe Captivate 6. In the end, I re-opened every project using my licensed version of Captivate 6.

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eLearning Brothers

JULY 23, 2014

I’m here to walk you through how to insert HTML5 files, like Game Templates and Interaction Templates , to work with Adobe Captivate 8. For this tutorial, I am going to use HTML5 files from Adobe Edge Animate that I have edited. This URL will be what we put into Captivate. Put the URL Into Adobe Captivate 8.

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APRIL 11, 2017

The latest update to Adobe Captivate , Adobe’s industry leading eLearning authoring tool is packed with solid enhancements that will make virtually any eLearning developer smile, and the team at Adobe brings home another marvel – incredible levels of intuition and automation when it comes to creating fully responsive content for mobile devices.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Has anyone used adobe Captivate for the VR feature. EX: If I wanted to output a Virtual reality project and have it housed on a web page (not a LMS), what steps would I need to take? The post Adobe captivate file extensions/output appeared first on eLearning.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 12, 2011

The common way to publish a completed Captivate eLearning video is as a SWF (small web file). When the publish process is complete, you will end up with three files: an HTML file (which is what your learner will need to open the lesson in a web browser), a JavaScript file (called standard.js) and the SWF containing your lesson. 

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NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Learn about Adobe Captivate from Experts. Below are links to videos that will guide you through the extraordinary features of Adobe Captivate. Adobe Captivate 2017 – Tutorials. Adobe Captivate 7. Adobe Captivate 7: Drag and Drop Interaction.

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