Even if you’ve setup an Adobe Captivate file to work correctly with a Learning Management System (LMS), not every LMS has great tools for troubleshooting tracking and reporting problems. If your LMS doesn’t have the ability to see SCORM debug logs, the following video will show you how to modify one of Captivate’s published files so you can see the debug logs.
A peculiar problem that has always seemed to exist with Illustrator’s 3D Extrude & Bevel feature is how the shading along a curve won’t always be completely smooth and will occasionally have a harsh transition. The visual bug appears most frequently when extruding fonts and will usually appear on the same characters regardless of the font selected. After asking for help from a group of my fellow Illustrator users, the answer to the problem lies partly with Illustrator but also in the underlying objects.
If you’re using the scrolling text widget in Captivate you’ve found that it’s very limited for displaying scrollable text to viewers. The widget applies the same font, styling, and color to everything in the widget. However, by using Captivate’s Web widget you can add your own HTML and CSS to create scrollable formatted text. Now you can have text that’s styled in countless ways.
Captivate 9 gave us a ton of great new features but smart shape buttons on master slides no longer have rollover effects when you mouse over them. You could simulate rollover effects by using multiple smart shapes and advanced actions, but master slides don’t allow you to name smart shape objects. This means there isn’t a way to use Captivate’s tools to target master slide objects. This video tutorial will show you how to use the plugin CpExtra to get around these limitations.
Simplifying the navigation of an online training helps user engagement. Requiring users to view an entire slide before the ‘Next’ button appears, which allows them to progress, is a common practice. But if they return to review a slide, having to wait until the end of a slide again for the Next button to appear can leave users regretting their decision to review. Fortunately, you can implement an enhanced Next button in Adobe Captivate that once it appears will automatically remain on the slide.