P19 BYOD: Building Interactive and Animated eLearning with Captivate
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Monday, March 26
Salon 1
The best way to beat the boredom in eLearning courses is to make them engaging and interactive. But adding animated content and learner interactivity to your courses can be time-consuming and, to some extent, challenging. These animations and interactions also need to be relevant to the learning goals and help make the learning experience interesting.
During this hands-on session, you will learn different ways to add interactivity and animations to your eLearning courses using interactive objects, multi-state objects, drag-and-drops, effects, variables, actions, and advanced actions in Adobe Captivate. You will also learn the best practices to quickly convert drab and boring content to vibrant, interactive eLearning.
In this session, you will learn:
- How to build interactions using multi-state objects
- How to build interactions using simple actions
- How to build different types of drag-and-drop interactions
- How to use effects to create animated content
- How to use variables and advanced actions to build interactions
Audience:
Intermediate designers and developers with basic instructional design and Captivate skills.
Technology discussed in this session:
Adobe Captivate.
Participant technology requirements:
Windows or Mac laptop with Captivate 2017 installed.

Pooja Jaisingh
Senior Director, Digital Learning
Icertis
Pooja Jaisingh works as a senior director of digital learning at Icertis. She has created several award-winning eLearning courses and authored books and video courses on eLearning tools and technologies. In her previous roles, she worked as a principal eLearning evangelist at Adobe and chief learning geek at a start-up. Pooja is CPTD-, and COTP-certified. She holds a master’s degree in education & economics and a doctorate in educational technology.