Additionally, if a copyright holder asks you to provide a fair use evaluation, there is an option to print a time-stamped PDF. by AJ George. After my last article on when it's okay to use copyrighted information , I received some great resources from one of our readers,  Christy Tucker. First, there's the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. Produced  Produced by American University's Center for Social Media, it gives some good guidelines for what is and isn't considered Fair Use. The short answer is no. " eLearning MORE >>

While templates are awesome and provide a great jump-start for a new Captivate project, you don't necessarily have to create a project template to ensure that many of the attributes within your projects are consistent. by Kevin Siegel    During my  advanced Captivate class , I spend a significant amount of time extolling the value of project templates. As a group, the class opens an existing project template, edits the template, uses the template to record a software simulation and then creates a project template from scratch. Care to make it a lucky 7? No problem. MORE >>

the answers now include some cool rollover effects that provide some nice feedback just before the learner selects an answer. Check out the image below: Adobe is now providing quiz templates. by Kevin Siegel You've always been able to create quizzes with Captivate. Of course, over the years the quiz features have gotten better and better. However, if you've spent any time with the quiz feature in Captivate 5, you are probably a bit disappointed with how bad some of the text formatting features are. and then some. When learners review a Captivate 5.5 feature. and faster? MORE >>

Yu-kai provided a few examples of the Octalysis in action so I'll start by using a couple of those. The lack of chat function (which I hear they later added--but long after I stopped playing) made it hard to provide feedback on how awesome your drawing skills were.  by AJ George  Last week I gave a pretty in-depth explanation of  Yu-kai Chou's Octalysis Framework  that I thought might be useful if you'd like to incorporate gamification into your eLearning courses. So far I have mostly covered what the Octalysis is and how it is set up. MORE >>

Learning assessments provider  Pearson TalentLens  has managed to make a bit of self-examination possible at least. The two part online assessment is free, takes only minutes to complete, and provides a basic report of the participant's thinking styles. by AJ George  Do you wish you could get inside the head of your learners and know exactly how their thought processes work? Me too, but we can't all be  Professor Xavier. They have created the  My Thinking Styles assessment  to help people explore their unique thinking styles. eLearning MORE >>