For many years eLearning builders have usually turned to Microsoft PowerPoint to facilitate the creation of each slides to complement a reside nose to nose or digital lecture, and to function the bottom for a web-based eLearning course. The most recent launch of Adobe Captivate each helps and doesn’t assist the import of PowerPoint. (Adobe has launched two variations of Captivate (one known as Captivate Basic, and the opposite known as the All-New Adobe Captivate.) Powerpoint import is supported in Captivate Basic, and at the very least for this primary model, PowerPoint import just isn’t immediately supported.
Adobe has roadmapped assist for PowerPoint import within the All-New Adobe Captivate, however are you able to import these PowerPoint slides at present? For those who simply need the slide, and don’t want interactions and audio from the PowerPoint, you completely can. So right here’s a primary stroll by way of of that course of in case you end up eager to leverage the very best of each worlds at present.
Create a PowerPoint, as common. Then go to the File save dialog and choose SaveAs, and set the file sort to jpeg. (You would additionally put it aside as png recordsdata, however jpeg might be probably the most common format.) Then you choose save. There will likely be a dialog that pops as much as ask if you wish to save all of the pages of the doc or if you wish to save simply the present slide. Choose all of the slides, after which PowerPoint will put these slides right into a folder wherever you could have chosen to save lots of. (See picture above.) Now you would simply import these slides into the All New Adobe Captivate utilizing slides configured to assist picture blocks.
Within the picture above you possibly can see I’ve exported the slides from PowerPoint as jpeg photographs, after which imported them onto slides within the All New Adobe Captivate. I simply created a standalone picture slide after which duplicated it. Lastly altering the picture supply to select up every of the picture slides and establishing a switch. If I had an previous deck and I solely wanted the nonetheless slide photographs, this might need some makes use of. However I’m unsure that I might be keen to forfiet all potential for interplay. Then once more, the format and design choices within the All-New Adobe Captivate are phenomenal, and I ponder if it isn’t a greater choice than engaged on a PowerPoint to start with.
Contemplate the instance above. On this slide, there are seven blocks, and every has a picture and subtitle. For those who look intently, you could discover that the supply PowerPoint has some alignment issues. The subtitles will not be persistently positioned. Once I seemed in PowerPoint, I noticed that the entire picture had already been frozen – it wasn’t good artwork or shapes or something. Simply a picture.
Let’s have a look at how I might create the identical factor without having an company to do the graphic. Utilizing the All New Adobe Captivate I can leverage the playing cards perform to simply create cool shapes that mirror these within the PowerPoint, however why cease there. The picture above reveals each the unique (sort of bland) and my variation created within the All-New Adobe Captivate in only a few minutes. I used Picture Gallery blocks to routinely deal with the format. Enabled the subtitles on the block after which used the short instrument subsequent to subtitles to immediately middle the subtitles under all the photographs. I used to be capable of simply copy/paste the font format throughout all of them.
Not solely was I capable of in a short time recreate the looks, however now the gadgets are all staged for interplay. I can alter the state of every as multi-state objects, or simply shortly allow pressured navigation by including a slide degree interplay to validate visits to every button’s goal slide. Look how easy it’s to create the essential go to slip navigation.
First step, go to the interactions merchandise on the toolbar on the higher proper hand facet, and choose it. Relying on what on-screen merchandise is chosen, you will note the ‘Add an Interplay’ button enabled. On this case, I chosen the picture on the left.
Captivate will ask you what sort of motion goes to set off the interplay. As a result of we have now a picture chosen, the dialog reveals the interactions acceptable for a mouse occasion on a picture. More often than not, you simply need a mouse click on – so choose Click on/Faucet.
Right here you would add conditionals (consider some system, have a look at the state of a variable and so forth. On this case, we don’t want to try this, we simply wish to go to a unique slide. Notice that there are many different choices, you’ll discover issues like open an online web page and way more beneath the …MORE menu.
Lastly, we are able to choose the web page that we wish to navigate towards. Merely choose the web page that you really want the learner to go to after they click on this interactive factor. You’ll get an opportunity to set timing on a transition after which can shut the dialog.
All of this evokes the query – if all of this is really easy, what do we’d like PowerPoint for? Effectively folks use PowerPoint for lots of issues. Actually supporting reside lecture is considered one of them. For years, instructors and material specialists have used PowerPoints as a sort of doc of document to shift classroom coaching supplies from classroom to on-line studying. Usually the PowerPoint kinds a sort of ‘data’ library and quizzes and different media are added to interact learners and assess their comprehension. eLearning builders usually ship nonetheless photographs to print, making a sort of storyboard or research information for learners in print.
PowerPoint additionally comprises a handy set of instruments like speaker notes to help folks in talking whereas utilizing a PowerPoint deck. Briefly, we usually think about PowerPoint a instrument for doing reside shows, and we usually think about a instrument just like the All-New Adobe Captivate a instrument for aiding in asychronous eLearning experiences.
As you could have seen, transferring the knowledge from PowerPoint to the All New Adobe Captivate might be so simple as saving the deck as photographs and import them into the All-New Adobe Captivate. After all Adobe Captivate Basic consists of instruments for importing PowerPoint and spherical tripping forwards and backwards along with instruments for importing animations from PowerPoint. Over time we’ll little doubt see extra instruments like these added into the All-New Adobe Captivate, however I feel it’s nonetheless value asking – how a lot of that do we actually need or want.
I’d love to listen to your opinions, ideas and concepts. Are you determined to get your PowerPoint decks into the All-New Adobe Captivate. Couldn’t care much less? Someplace within the center? Let me know within the remark part – what are your use circumstances for PowerPoint import and the way keen are you to get it added into the All-New Adobe Captivate?
All of the little stuff you would possibly wish to know:
1. Right here’s a hyperlink to an article in regards to the two new variations of Adobe Captivate and the way they differ.
https://elearning.adobe.com/2023/07/two-new-adobe-captivates-what-does-that-mean/
2. Right here’s a hyperlink to obtain the All-New Adobe Captivate (it’s a trial however it’ll activate in the event you login and you have already got a subscription to Captivate.)
https://www.adobe.com/merchandise/captivate/download-trial/attempt.html?sdid=CMBLG
(Sign up with ‘Private Account’ occasion of your Adobe ID in the event you obtain “Account Kind not supported” error)
