Adobe Captivate transforms training videos by adding overlays or pop-ups that engage learners and reinforce key concepts. These interactive elements appear at specific moments, pausing the video until the learner interacts. You can use them for knowledge checks, additional information, or marketing messages. Instead of passively watching, learners must respond, ensuring they stay focused. This method makes training more dynamic and effective, turning passive video content into an active learning experience.
In this tutorial, you’ll learn to create overlays step by step. You’ll start by adding bookmarks at key points in the video timeline, then configure actions that trigger overlays. By setting up multiple-choice knowledge checks, ungraded interactions, and custom content slides, you’ll control how learners engage. The video will pause at each overlay, requiring input before continuing. You’ll also fine-tune settings for attempt limits, feedback, and timeline control, ensuring a seamless learning experience. Mastering these techniques will help you create more interactive and engaging courses.
Beyond setup, you’ll troubleshoot common issues, such as ensuring the timeline resumes correctly after an interaction. Best practices for slide naming, overlay structuring, and feedback refinement will improve usability. This tutorial gives you everything needed to enhance your Adobe Captivate training videos. Whether you want to boost engagement, test comprehension, or make content more interactive, these techniques will help.
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Meet the Voice
Andrew Chemey has over 25 years of experience in eLearning and Development. In addition to building content or managing LMS / training, he has been a QA Manager and Developer on both the tools used to generate that same content; and the LMS’s used to launch/track the content. He started his career at Macromedia , working on the development teams of several Macromedia and Adobe products including Authorware, Flash, Connect, Captivate and Presenter. He specializes in the back-end technologies such as AICC and SCORM standards or APIs that are used to provide solutions which enhance the experience of the customer and especially their learners
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