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Adobe Captivate: No More Empty TEBs

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During my beginner Adobe Captivate class , I am often asked if it's possible to ensure that learners do not leave a Text Entry Box (TEB) blank. Note: This would be a great variable to put in all your templates! by Lori Smith. Choose  Project > Variables  and create a new variable. Interested? 

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In Memory – Corporate Instructional Designers

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Macromedia Dreamweaver came out with templates. The product eventually added templates (for web dev), and for WBT with the corporate side, folks who disliked using Authorware, DazzlerMax and similar (the UI/UX was brutal and time to create was not quick), jumped over. Did I mention the RCATs were heavy into templates?

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Three Takeaways Today

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PowerPoint is for Presentations, not for creating an e-learning course or as part of your course development. Then Dreamweaver, a tool for designing web sites, rolled out templates for course building. What used to take six months, with storyboards, actual text to design (i.e.

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Top 11 to 20 Authoring Tools for 2013

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Templates, themes, debug tool (nice), translation tool (nice too). Beginners – zero tech skills to advanced – with tech skills – preferably ID and e-learning developer folks. Custom learning paths, templates. A beginner could jump right in and start creating a course. Oh, and for Adobe Presenter fans?

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State of the Authoring Tool Industry

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Yes, you can use it for many different things, and yes, Microsoft has an add-on that turns PPT into something similar to Adobe Presenter. Two problems that I see with PPT being used as an authoring tool is that to make it engaging, fun and interactive you have to use what the product includes, and those templates are a mixed bag. .