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Captivate ‘Slide Views’ and Completion Status

A recent discussion among some developers brought up a point of consideration; “When Captivate is setup to mark completion on ‘slide views’, are those completed slide views triggered when the individual slides are ‘entered’ or ‘exited’?” The can arise in situations where, for example, the project is set to not mark complete until “100%” of […]

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Year in Review, Looking Forward

We here at ICS Learning Group had a successful 2013, working hand-in-hand with our customers to deliver another year of cutting-edge custom eLearning projects. Among the highlights; We integrated a variety of media – from animation, character-based scenarios, and custom video – to deliver a new course to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The […]

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Dreamweaver, CourseBuilder and eLearning Templates

One bonus of Adobe’s eLearning Suite (eLS) product is a few extra tools that are not normally included with the various products. For instance, Captivate comes with a ‘Multi-SCO Packager’ if licensed through the eLearning Suite, and Flash comes with a few quiz templates and ‘learning interaction objects’ that, again, are not included with Flash […]

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Captivate 7 updated

The first patch for Captivate 7 has been released!   To download and install the update, open Captivate 7 and choose Help > Updates…   CP7.0.1 Release notes   A good summary of the updates has been done on both Lieve’s blog and the official Captivate blog (by Dr. Allen Partridge) so we won’t go […]

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Considerations in Developing Accessible Courseware

Currently, the official standards for Accessibility compliance in the US are found at ADA.gov, covering the entire Americans with Disabilities Act. The site itself is a trove of information for those who really want to explore and understand the large range of requirements, from IT to public accommodations. Fortunately for those of us in eLearning, […]

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DevLearn 2013

If you’ll be at DevLearn this week, come on by and see us!We will be in Booth #415 at the Aria Resort and Casino (Las Vegas) showing off the newest version of Inquisiq R3 – and we will also be participating in “DemoFest” where we will be showing a recent content development project featuring responsive design to address the industry […]

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Captivate 7, Exit Bug and a Solution

Several of our Inquisiq R3 users have alerted us to the fact that courses developed with Captivate 7 published to HTML5 and SWF do not close properly when using the “Exit” button, forcing the user instead to manually close the browser window by clicking the “X” in the upper-right corner of the browser window. Through […]

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Instructional Design Strategies for eLearning

The ADDIE model has got to be one of the, if not just *the*, most popular instructional models used in the eLearning development process. It’s been around a long time, before ‘eLearning’ as a term even existed, and has its share of adherents and detractors. ADDIE, as a model, is a ‘waterfall’ approach…if you follow […]

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Recording Clean Audio for eLearning Projects

For most all of our ‘bespoke’ eLearning projects, we use professional narrators to record any voiceover the courseware requires. It does add a cost to the projects, of course, but it’s not terribly impactful to the overall budget and the advantages of clean, clear, and properly-emotive narration provides an additional element of interest and engagement […]

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