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Publishing Captivate Lessons for LMS/SCORM Tracking

First, be sure to update Captivate 5 to ver. 5.0.2.630, launch Captivate 5 and select Help > Updates (be sure you are connected to the Internet). There are no updates available at the time of this article for Captivate 5.5, so updating isn’t an option to resolve any potential LMS/SCORM issues with those projects. Next, […]

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Flash Player 11 System Requirements and Debugging

As we continue to work with the latest Flash Player (11.x) and it’s new “Stage3D” features, moving toward even more interactive eLearning content, a couple things we’ve found we want to share: Despite some suggestions that Flash Player 11 only works with DirectX 10 and above, and thus may not work on XP systems, FP11 […]

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Flash Player 11 available

Just FYI, Flash Player 11 was released yesterday.We’re working through the updates on our machines here at ICS…not waiting for the auto-upgrade notifications! A bit eager… Here’s a page describing the latest release and another post on one of the many Adobe blogs going into more detail..(and, of course, refer to our previous blog post). […]

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Adobe Flash Player 11 and AIR 3

Per the Flash Blog, the next major release of the Adobe Flash player (version 11, and AIR 3) is coming in early October. This is a significant evolution in the Flash platform – not only for the advantages it brings, but to show how Flash can stay useful and relevent in the current mobile culture. […]

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Adobe Presenter 7.07 Update

Adobe has released a free update to their Presenter tool (similar to, but not to be confused with, Articulate Presenter) which, among other things, makes it ActionScript 3 compatible! Yay! Windows 7, 64bit support is also apparently improved. “Adobe Presenter 7.07 is a fairly significant change in the overall Presenter delivery so users will need […]

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Adobe and HTML5

In an example of their commitment to tools and productivity, which is not only wise from a business standpoint but also to help dispel the idea that Flash is the only property that matters……Adobe has recently released the first public preview of Adobe Edge – their “HTML5” animation tool. While I’m sure Flash remains a […]

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Importing SWFs to Captivate – Match the FPS!

In a recent project, we made significant use of custom Flash interactions imported into an overall Captivate ‘framework’. Several of the slides for this project were fairly simple and did not require complex development. To allow the customer to make updates to those slides easily, and to divide the build time between a few different […]

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Captivate Patch 5.0.2.630

A new update for Captivate 5 is available. It should pop-up automatically for you via the Adobe Application Manager. If not, grab it directly from the Captivate Downloads page. The description is fairly brief. It mentions,“The patch also addresses a few issues with AICC- and -SCORM-compliant projects, audio, and publishing to Microsoft Word.” To get […]

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Challenges between IE9, Windows 64-bit, Flash eLearning, and SCORM

Browser updates are always a challenge for most any web-based content. With Microsoft’s release of Internet Explorer 9, a particularly disturbing issue has arisen for many Learning Management Systems and Flash-based eLearning content. Tools such as Articulate Presenter rely on Adobe’s Flash Player. The method by which IE9 works with ‘iFrames’ has changed significantly enough […]

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