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FEBRUARY 5, 2014

by Kevin Siegel      During every  Captivate beginner class , time is spent on the second day teaching everyone how to use Captivate's Text-to-Speech feature to convert slide notes into speech. It would help I, at the very least, I can select all of a slide's notes at once and change the agent.

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MARCH 14, 2017

During our  live, online beginner Adobe Captivate class, you learn about previewing your project pretty quickly. It wasn't a Captivate problem but a Windows 10 problem caused by a recent Windows update.).   Once within the Default Apps screen, I changed my default browser to Microsoft Edge.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 20, 2011

A fellow Captivate developer sent me an email asking for advice. It seemed that he had just completed a slick eLearning lesson in Captivate. There were "minor" changes to the interface that needed to be included in the eLearning lesson. I asked him if the interface changes were, in fact, minor.

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Appsembler

AUGUST 13, 2023

Welcome to “Learner Experience Platforms: A Beginners Guide.” While an LMS is akin to a library, an LXP is more like an interactive learning ecosystem designed to captivate, engage, and empower learners. Addressing Change Management: Transitioning to a new learning platform can be met with resistance.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 15, 2012

by Kevin Siegel    During every  Captivate beginner class , time is spent on the second day teaching everyone how to use Captivate's Text-to-Speech feature to convert slide notes into speech. Recently, one of the students asked an excellent question: "Is there an easy way to change my mind?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 9, 2011

When you record a Captivate demonstration or simulation, one of the coolest things that Captivate can do for you is automatically create the text captions. By default, Captivate does not add the end of sentence punctuation to the text captions. Exit Captivate.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 16, 2010

You'll notice that the timing has changed--something that most Captivate developers don't want to happen every time the timing for a slide is adjusted. What's a Captivate developer to do? Anchors aren't a bug in Captivate, they're a feature. Looking to learn Captivate?

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MARCH 21, 2011

by Kevin Siegel It's relatively simple to import a PowerPoint presentation into a Captivate project. After opening the PowerPoint presentation, Captivate will scan the presentation and the available slides will be presented in the Convert PowerPoint Presentation dialog box.

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DECEMBER 13, 2011

by Kevin Siegel    I received an SOS from a fellow Captivate developer who was having a hate-hate relationship with the mouse click sounds he was hearing in his Adobe Captivate demonstration.     Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer  Beginner  and Advanced  classes. Both

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You may have noticed that Captivate 5.5 allows you to quickly change the angle of a slide object by dragging the free-rotate icon you will find just above any selected object. First, with the rotated object selected, expand the Transform group on the Properties panel and change the Angle to 0. by Kevin Siegel. double-click it.

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JUNE 7, 2010

by Kevin Siegel Ever needed to display an object across several or all of your Captivate project slides? One way to show an object (such as your logo) across multiple slides is to use Captivate's Show for rest of project command via the Options tab of several objects. Looking to learn Captivate? We have a couple of options.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

You've produced your Captivate project in record time. Anyone who has published a Captivate project knows it is a simple process of choosing File > Publish and setting the appropriate options. It takes time for Captivate project to publish. Make a change (even a minor change) and need to republish?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 10, 2011

During my Advanced Captivate class , we spend quite a bit of time creating a project template from scratch. Find the project file on your computer (it will have a cptx file extension which is typical for a Captivate 5 project).   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both

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MARCH 29, 2011

Widgets give Captivate developers the ability to extend Captivate's functionality without limits. While you need Adobe Flash to create Widgets, you do not have to be a Flash developer, nor do you need to have Flash on your computer to insert Widgets into a Captivate project. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?

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JUNE 21, 2011

While some of the new features in Adobe Captivate 5.5 You can change just about all of the shadow's properties including its color, angle and how far the shadow falls from the object (the Distance field shown in the image above). Looking to learn Adobe Captivate? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. No worries.

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JUNE 15, 2010

by Kevin Siegel How many times have you had to update the appearance of objects in Captivate and the pesky Apply to All feature simply didn't work? If you've tried to updated Captivate's text captions across an entire project, then you know how truly hit or miss the process can be. Looking to learn Captivate?

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MAY 25, 2010

by Kevin Siegel I've been using, writing about and teaching Captivate since, well. before the program was known as Captivate. I've been underwhelmed (Captivate 1 to 2 didn't do much for me) and amazed (Captivate 3 to 4 was a major step forward for the program). Make your changes there and then click OK.

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APRIL 19, 2011

There was a typo flagged in that very same caption, which I naturally allowed Captivate to fix. If you resize a text caption or button in Adobe Captivate, and then edit the object's text at all, the object will do you a favor and resize.   Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5? The caption resized. It's not a bug.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Changing the font size of selected text is a simple thing to accomplish in Captivate. Note: The largest font size in Captivate is 720 points; the smallest font size is 1 point. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. by Kevin Siegel.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

  Text-to-Speech (TTS) was one of the coolest new features in Adobe Captivate 4. In the new Captivate 5, TTS is still available but the interface for converting text to speech has changed (like everything else). Change the Speech Agent and click Generate Audio. Looking to learn Captivate? by Kevin Siegel.

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JULY 20, 2010

  Back in June, I wrote about the new Effects feature in Adobe Captivate 5. Drag the white dots at the top and bottom of the path to change the height of each zig and zag. Looking to learn Captivate? we offer two online classes for Captivate 4, Beginner and Advanced. by Kevin Siegel.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 2, 2011

by Kevin Siegel Back in March I wrote an article about editing Captivate's RDL files to control much of the text and punctuation that will appear in a project's text captions before  recording any of your lessons. That little trick will surely save any Captivate developer hours of work. Rock on Dave!

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MAY 11, 2010

by Lori Smith Allowing your learners to press the [tab] key is a great way to allow navigation in a Captivate eLearning lesson. If you know you will always want this behavior in all of your published projects, you can change the file on which your.html output is based. Click here for details on the Beginner class. when it works.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

by Kevin Siegel If you have created a presentation using Microsoft PowerPoint, you can import the presentation slides into an existing Captivate project, or create a new project that uses the PowerPoint slides. During the import process, Captivate includes the ability to create a link between a Captivate project and PowerPoint presentation.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

I received an interesting distress email from a fellow eLearning developer about an issue that caused Adobe Captivate 2017 to crash frequently and otherwise behave erratically. Clicking the Settings button is a common thing to do and opens Captivate’s Preferences dialog box.   First, close Captivate.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

I felt it important to rerun the original article now, updated a bit for Captivate 5.5. After starting Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5, take a moment to display the Preferences (via the Edit menu if you are using a PC or the Adobe Captivate menu if you are on a Mac) and select the Global Category ( General Settings in Captivate 5.5).

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APRIL 5, 2010

by Kevin Siegel During my Adobe Captivate beginner classes, I always teach students how to use Captivate's Text to Speech. If you've spent any time with Captivate's Text to Speech utility, you have probably discovered that the pronunciation of the spoken words isn't always perfect. And why not?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Captivate developers have been able to add background audio to their projects since Captivate was known as RoboDemo. The process of adding background audio hasn't changed much over the years. In Adobe Captivate 5, you simply choose Audio > Import to > Background and open the audio file (wav or mp3).

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JANUARY 18, 2011

You can change the name easily enough by double-clicking any slide name on the TOC and typing a name.   Recently I had a student in one of my Captivate classes ask if she could use her slide labels on the TOC "after the fact. .     Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5?       And BAM!

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Thinkdom

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Ease of Use: Beginner-friendly. Ease of Use: Beginner-friendly. It’s easy to use for beginners because it has a simple interface, a clear workflow. With its captivating and easy-to-follow content, Pictory is a smart option for video-based corporate eLearning. Ease of Use: Beginner-friendly to intermediate level.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 13, 2010

  After starting Adobe Captivate 5, take a moment to display the Preferences (via the Edit menu if you are using a PC or the Adobe Captivate menu if you are on a Mac) and select the Global Category. The Generate Project Backup feature is a holdover from the previous version of Captivate. by Kevin Siegel.

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Elucidat

JULY 27, 2023

With the rising need to develop digital training materials, tools that facilitate the creation of captivating elearning courses at speed are in high demand. They allow for easy content updates, revisions, and enhancements, ensuring that elearning courses can be quickly modified and refined based on feedback or changing requirements.

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learnWorlds

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Read how elearning has been changed by AI in our how-to guide of LearnWorlds’ AI Course Creator. One particularly captivating trend that has been steadily gaining momentum over the past few years and shows no signs of slowing down is personal branding. AI for Business ? Deep Learning ? Machine learning ?

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 3, 2017

I received an interesting distress email from a fellow eLearning developer about an issue that caused Adobe Captivate 2017 to crash frequently and otherwise behave erratically. Clicking the Settings button is a common thing to do and opens Captivate’s Preferences dialog box. First, close Captivate. Restart Captivate.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 18, 2017

If you create a software simulation using Adobe Captivate, you can elect to have Captivate automatically create text captions for you. You can find this option by displaying the Preferencesdialog box (Edit menu for Windows users; Adobe Captivate menu for Mac users), and then select the Modes category. by Kevin Siegel, COTP.

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Brilliant Teams

AUGUST 11, 2023

In this article, we will provide you with a detailed and practical step-by-step conversion walkthrough, allowing you to harness the full potential of your presentations and create engaging eLearning content that captivates your audience. Follow these step-by-step instructions to transform your slides into captivating eLearning content.

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Hurix Digital

APRIL 24, 2024

Seek feedback and guidance, and make relevant changes and edits based on industry demands and the personalized needs of the learners. The content creation process is quick, and even beginners can use iSpring Suite. Adobe Captivate Adobe Captivate serves as a robust standalone slide-based content maker.

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