The Logical Blog by IconLogic

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

AUGUST 22, 2012

Are you moving away from presentations and toward eLearning lessons created with Captivate? And are you bummed because all of that great PowerPoint content is basically going to have to be redone in Captivate? Don't and audio bookmarks were not supported within Captivate.

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LearnUpon

MARCH 27, 2018

Adobe Captivate is one of the best authoring tools available to eLearning professionals. In this tutorial, we show you how to publish SCORM content in Adobe Captivate so you can import it to your LMS. Adobe Captivate makes publishing eLearning content as a SCORM file simple. SCORM Preferences.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

We were just getting ready to cover the accessible features found in Captivate when I was informed that I could skip the section because Canadians were not required to create accessible content. If you work in the United States, or create eLearning content for a U.S. Tips for Creating 508-compliant Adobe Captivate SWF Files.

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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. 

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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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Upside Learning

JUNE 3, 2010

Previously when I discussed freeform and template-based rapid content authoring tools, I kept software simulation tools aside. The main reason was that such simulation tools are not always used for developing just any type of learning but focused on training content creation for a specific software application or system.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MAY 11, 2016

If you're looking to learn Adobe Captivate. You'll learn how to publish your eLearning content for the widest possible audience. You'll learn how to publish your eLearning content for the widest possible audience. Learn to publish SWF, HTML5, or both. and quickly. this beginner course is for you.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Fortunately, adding interactivity to a lesson does not negatively impact the size of the published SWF. Rather, imported assets such as audio, video and images are the main culprits behind SWF bloat. There are some things that you can do while working in Captivate that may lower the size of the published SWF.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 15, 2011

While your published SWF will be smaller when compared to using the other modes listed here, this setting will lower the quality of the published images so much, you may not like it. The compression JPEGs is controlled by the JPEG quality percentage via the SWF size and quality preferences (via File > Publish Settings ).

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Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

I’m really excited to share with you that we have HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate 5.5 out on Adobe Labs. With the HTML5 Converter, you can easily convert Adobe Captivate generated SWF to HTML5 format and repurpose your countless hours of interactive trainings for your mobile devices that do not support Flash content.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Learners attempting to open a SWF published to a more recent version of the Player than what is installed on their computer will be unable to view the lesson. Looking to learn Adobe Captivate 5 or 5.5? Not so fast. We offer Beginner and Advanced classes. Both Windows and Macintosh developers can attend these classes.

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Great eLearning happens with great content and for great content, you need eLearning content creation tools. So what are content creation tools? Content creation tools, also known as authoring tools, are pre-programmed software that you can use to create and arrange content into a course structure.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

MARCH 4, 2014

Simply open a document and, if you've got Adobe Acrobat on your computer, choose  Adobe PDF  when you print. One way to engage the reader, besides stellar content, is to add images. You can see there's nothing particularly special about the text (beyond the promise of an Adobe Captivate simulation). 

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Specifically, there's great value in integrating eLearning (asynchronous training) with live (synchronous) training by providing access to eLearning content from within the virtual training space. First, create the eLearning content in Adobe Captivate, and then publish as an SWF.

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LearnUpon

MARCH 27, 2018

Adobe Captivate is one of the best authoring tools available to eLearning professionals. In this tutorial, we show you how to publish SCORM content in Adobe Captivate so you can import it to your LMS. Adobe Captivate makes publishing eLearning content as a SCORM file simple. SCORM Preferences.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

If you publish your Captivate projects as SWFs, you can combine multiple SWF files into one lesson using the Aggregator. Once added to an Aggregator project, you can publish the combined files as a SWF, EXE file, PDF or HTML. The published Aggregator file will include a TOC using the names of the separate SWF files.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 10, 2011

We now have a fix for Adobe Captivate 5 content with Text Animations not playing in the latest Flash Player issue, which does *NOT* require a republish of the entire project!

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Specifically, there's great value in integrating eLearning (asynchronous training) with live (synchronous) training by providing access to eLearning content from within the virtual training space. First, create the eLearning content in Adobe Captivate, and then publish as an SWF.

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Adobe Captivate

JUNE 30, 2017

When you insert YouTube widget in your Adobe Captivate 2017 project using Interactions menu > Learning Interactions and view the SWF output, you may experience the following issues: Video content getting truncated/cut-off in IE 11. Playback controls (play, pause etc.) Save the widget locally on your machine.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Since I use Articulate Storyline and Adobe Captivate for my eLearning development, publishing projects as HTML5 would have taken care of his requirement. However, the client wasn't looking to create content that would  play  on mobile devices; he wanted lessons that were captured  from  a mobile device.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 12, 2011

Topic: Customizing the Project Interface with Adobe Captivate 5: TOC, skin editor and project resize Date and time: Thursday, April 14, 2011 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM US/Pacific Description: Join Dr. Pooja Jaisingh and Vish for an introductory session on customizing the table of contents, playbar and the appearance of the final SWF.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In September, Adobe made the HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate available on Adobe Labs. According to Adobe, "With HTML5 Converter, you can easily convert Adobe Captivate generated SWF to HTML5 format and repurpose your countless hours of interactive trainings for mobile devices that do not support Flash content."

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Adobe Captivate

JULY 27, 2010

In this two part blog series we look at information that you can use in Adobe Captivate 5 to parallel decide the quality of an image and the SWF file size and bring forth the differences between the publishing of images in CP 4 and CP 5. Selecting ‘high’ for all slides results in a large SWF output file.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

by Kevin Siegel When I teach my RoboHelp class , one of the RoboHelp features that most excites my students is RoboHelp's ability to import eLearning lessons published by Adobe Captivate. In this age of visual communication, incorporating interactive eLearning with your help content just makes sense. How cool is that?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

JANUARY 29, 2014

by Kevin Siegel       If you have already created a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint, it's very easy to re-purpose the presentation as eLearning content using either TechSmith Camtasia Studio or Adobe Presenter. While you can also publish SWFs using Camtasia, you cannot produce a PDF.).

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Adobe Captivate

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

You can now author your elearning courses in Captivate and publish them as a swf to run on any Flash enabled device, or follow the steps below to publish the same as an iPhone app. To deploy a Captivate course on an iPhone you need Adobe eLearning Suite 2, or both Adobe Captivate 5 and Adobe Flash Professional.

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In September, we made the HTML5 Converter for Adobe Captivate available on Adobe Labs. With HTML5 Converter, you can easily convert Adobe Captivate generated SWF to HTML5 format and repurpose your countless hours of interactive trainings for mobile devices that do not support Flash content.

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mLearning Revolution

AUGUST 12, 2011

Using the Insert SWF button , you can supplement your Presenter projects with software demonstrations and interactive simulations created with Adobe Captivate 5 and 5.5. For example, using the Record button, you can quickly record high-quality audio and then sync the audio to your PowerPoint animations with fine precision.

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Adobe Captivate

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Specifically, there’s great value in integrating eLearning (asynchronous training) with live (synchronous) training by providing access to eLearning content from within the virtual training space. Published eLearning content can typically be provided to online students via a Materials pod or direct link (URL) you type into the Chat pod.

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Steve Howard

JANUARY 20, 2009

Captivate 4 , Adobe , eLearning Suite. Adobe announced the release of Captivate 4 today. Top new features in Adobe Captivate 4. SWF commenting. Table of Contents and Aggregator. Adobe Photoshop® layer support. Adobe Photoshop® layer support. Professional project templates.

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The SWF output contains the entire course (136 slides) but the HTML5 output stops at slide 40 and simply shows the background. I do not experience any of this in the SWF version. The post HTML Slides invisible/missing in published/preview Content appeared first on eLearning. at Object.fb (eval at b (CPXHRLoader.js:36),

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LearnUpon

JANUARY 23, 2018

Flash is the most popular output type, so it’s likely that your courses are SWF Flash-based. SWF courses do not work on certain devices; Apple devices. Don’t create any more course content that is Flash SWF based. Adobe Captivate. Currently, you can export SCORM packages to Flash, HTML, or both.

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CommLab India

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Storyline is widely used to convert Flash-based e-learning content, which cannot be accssed on most Smartphones and tablet PCs, into the mobile-compatible HTML5 format. Adobe Captivate. You can use the software to preview how your technology-enabled learning content looks like on various devices. Lectora Inspire.

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Brilliant Teams

JUNE 9, 2023

Software simulated e-learning course Converting legacy Flash CBT (SWF) to HTML5 Length of Course 26 eLearning Flash-based CBT modules About a Software Simulation E-learning Course In recent years, the popularity of e-learning courses has skyrocketed, and one of the most engaging forms of e-learning is software simulations.

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Integrated Learnings

JUNE 22, 2010

Autoadvance Lectora when the Learner finishes a Captivate Simulation. Frequently, we embed Adobe Captivate simulations within a Lectora eLearning course. That's a bad thing if your simulation contains vital content (and if it doesn't, why is it there?). By Jay Lambert. And then Lectora could read the variable. In Lectora.

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 10, 2017

On July 25, 2017, Adobe made the following announcement : Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of 2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash content to these new open formats. What tool was used to build the course?

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