The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 16, 2011

He needed to change the appearance of his mouse pointer throughout the project. With the mouse pointer on any slide is selected, he chose a different pointer shape from among those available on the Options group. To change the mouse pointer shape project-wide, first change the appearance of any mouse pointer on any slide.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 25, 2014

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. Choose  Project > Variables  and create a new variable. Create a Text Caption on your slide that tells the user they need to fill in the data. by Lori Smith.

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Hurix Digital

APRIL 24, 2024

How to Utilize a SCORM Authoring Tool Here is a step-by-step procedure to use SCORM authoring tools : Step 1 – Select an Appropriate Tool and Setup an Account After doing your homework on the best SCORM authoring tools, assess the benefits and select the option that best suits your needs. Establish brand styles to ensure consistency.

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Brilliant Teams

AUGUST 11, 2023

Enhanced Interactivity and Engagement By converting your PowerPoint slides into eLearning modules, you can add interactive elements like quizzes, assessments, and multimedia, making the learning experience more engaging and enjoyable for your learners. The tool will automatically transfer your slides into the eLearning project.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 26, 2010

If you've included a Table of Contents (TOC) in your Captivate project, there are two important Run Time Options that you'll find interesting: Self Paced Learning and Navigation. Choose Project > Table of Contents to display the TOC tab of the Skin Editor. The status flag will not be reset after the project is closed.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

In an ideal world, your Captivate projects would be kept to a respectable number of slides (fewer than approximately 100). Larger projects will take longer to produce, longer to publish, longer for learners to download and, most importantly, longer to complete. Choose File > New Project > Aggregator Project.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

You've produced your Captivate project in record time. The only thing left to do is Publish the project. 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. by Kevin Siegel.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 10, 2011

When you add a Table of Contents to a Captivate project ( Project > Table of Contents > Show TOC ), the default settings include Show Duration. With this option selected, the duration of each slide in the lesson will be shown to your learners. Choose Project > Table of Contents. by Kevin Siegel.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 31, 2010

Adobe Captivate 5 offers an alternate reporting option to using an LMS: you can create a free account on Acrobat.com, and set the reporting preferences in a Captivate project so that the quiz results are uploaded to Acrobat.com. Open or create a project that includes a quiz. Publish the project and view the results.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

AUGUST 12, 2010

Adding closed captions to a slide is relatively simple. Select a slide that contains audio and, at the bottom of the dialog box, click the Closed Caption button. If you have several slides with audio, you'll need several closed captions, which will take time. your project has hundreds of closed captions.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 15, 2010

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. For the first time in Captivate history, you'll be able to create, edit and use styles for many of Captivate's standard slide objects. I added several captions to a slide.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 18, 2010

I'm thinking that a message similar to the following would be perfect: Believe it or not, you can add the message shown above to any Captivate project right now. All you need to do is add a Table of Contents to your project and explore the TOC Settings. Open a Captivate project and choose Project > Table of Contents.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 27, 2010

After making your changes to the PowerPoint slides, all you need to do is click the Save button and the changes will be reflected within Captivate. you will be alerted should the PowerPoint presentation be modified by someone else after you have imported it into your Captivate project. Click here for details on the Beginner class.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

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. The On mouse click option will add a click box to each slide in the pending Captivate project.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Captivate developers have been able to add background audio to their projects since Captivate was known as RoboDemo. One of the options missing from RoboDemo and older versions of Captivate was the ability to control the volume of the background audio on slides that already had audio (voiceover audio for instance). by Kevin Siegel.

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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. Here's how: First, go through your project and convert the slide notes to speech.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 21, 2011

by Kevin Siegel It's relatively simple to import a PowerPoint presentation into a Captivate project. You can import a presentation into a new project, or add PowerPoint slides to an existing project. The decision to select Maintain aspect ratio depends largely on the size of your other Captivate projects.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Over the past few months I've been creating more and more Project Templates for my customers. Some of the most important things you can add to a Project Template are placeholders. As the name implies, placeholders hold a spot on a slide or within a project for specific objects. What are placeholders?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Once the server is set up, and you've got the reporting script in place, open or create a Captivate project that includes a quiz. From the Quiz Reporting category, select Enable reporting for this project. Go to the Quiz Results slide in your project and you'll notice that a Post Results button has automatically been added.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 13, 2011

He told me he had spent over an hour trying to figure out how to disable the mouse-click sound, project-wide. Project-wide?  The solution is actually quite simple, and can be used project-wide. First, select any of the mouse pointers on any slide in your project.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JUNE 28, 2011

For instance, when you add a multiple choice question slide, something simple like aligning the text horizontally is a real challenge. I've spent some time playing with question slides and it appears that the text formatting issues that plagued Captivate 5 are a thing of the past. We offer  Beginner and Advanced classes. Both

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 30, 2012

For example, consider that a project contains a quiz that branches into two modules that in turn contain a quiz. If this option is not enabled, the scores are calculated on the total number of questions in the project and not the module that users actually viewed. I created a simple project that is Branch Aware.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 18, 2011

You can easily add a Table of Contents to your lesson by choosing Project > Table of Contents and then selecting  Show TOC.     Like magic, all of the project slides will be added to the TOC. If you don't add slide Labels, the name given to each slide is based on the slide number.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 4, 2010

by Lori Smith Variables in Adobe Captivate 4 bring a lot of versatility to a project. Creating the variables you need for a project before you begin to add objects and create advanced actions is a best practice. Click OK to close the Text Entry Box properties and check out your list of variables ( Project > Actions, Variables tab).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 15, 2011

One thing you can do to lower the size of your published video is control the quality of your slides. You can apply the settings to individual slides, or for all of the project slides. Low (8 bit):  This option will publish your slides with the smallest possible size and should be the one you try first.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

In Adobe Captivate 5: Create a Standard Advanced Action ( Project > Advanced Actions ) as shown below. Attach the Action to the first slide.  (Select Slide 1 on the Filmstrip. Below are the screen shots for the Action and attaching the action to the slide On slide enter.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 31, 2011

Once audio clips are imported into a Captivate project, they are embedded within the project and are not stored externally. From the lower left of the dialog box, select Show object level audio so that you can see all of the project's audio files (even those attached to objects on your slides).

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JULY 20, 2011

" I asked him if he had included a significant number of buttons, text captions and other objects in the original project. With the new lesson open, copy the first slide's background to the clipboard. Right-click the first slide and choose Paste as Background. We offer Beginner and Advanced classes.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 7, 2010

"   Here's the scenario: you are working on a project with several slides. On slide 5 , the mouse is moving from point A to point B. On slide 6 , the mouse has clearly gotten to point B. In fact, the jump looks almost as if the mouse pointer on slide 6 received some kind of jolt.   Bam.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 7, 2011

Right-click a slide object and you'll find you can select Audio > Import to  (or  Record to ). Right-click a slide and you'll find the exact same menu items. Ever wondered how you can get the edited audio clip out of your project so it can be used in other applications that accept audio?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 25, 2011

Adding a Table of Contents to your published Captivate project is a great idea. Go ahead and add the TOC to the project via Project > Table of Contents > Show TOC.     When you preview the project, there won't be any obvious sign of the TOC. by Kevin Siegel. Then click the Settings button.

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Elucidat

MAY 20, 2020

This means people can work on the same project at the same time, while you stay in control. There are two key apps in the suite: Rise : If you’re a beginner and want to keep it simple, Rise is the Articulate app for you. iSpring Suite. The iSpring Suite is a desktop-based authoring toolkit. Adobe Captivate.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 19, 2011

Later on, when I re-opened the slide, the caption was much smaller. At some point I used the spell check feature ( Project > Check Spelling ).   Note: The General preferences you set above will not affect legacy projects. The existing projects will need to be altered, one at a time. 

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Use Fewer Slides Keep the number of slides in your Captivate project as low as possible. Simply put, the more slides in your lesson, the larger the published lesson will be, especially if your lessons are larger (a large width and/or height) and you captured pixel-heavy backgrounds. We offer Beginner and Advanced classes.

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Mike Taylor

JUNE 4, 2021

Find ways to be a beginner, or at the very least cultivate a beginner’s mind. The most efficient way to achieve consistency in the visual design of eLearning and presentation slides is to create a visual style guide. How To Write A Visual Style Guide for eLearning. The Seven Sins of Memory. Pop on over and dive into the details.

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Spark Your Interest

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It’s simple enough for beginners yet powerful enough for experts. The quality of the media production value of your Articulate Storyline course can significantly impact your budget for the project. Or for icons, the Noun Project and lordicon. Once finished, you then import the course into your LMS. Articulate Website.

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Philip's Learning

MARCH 15, 2023

Easy to Use and User-Friendly Interface : Articulate Storyline 360 has an easy-to-use interface, making it a perfect tool for both beginners and experienced e-learning developers. However, designing an entire course from scratch can be time-consuming and daunting, especially for beginners.

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