Feeling hopeful about Cp12; also wonder whether it is worth it for new user to learn Cp 2019?

Hi everyone!

I hope you don’t mind so many posts from a brand-new person here.

In a way, I’m an “ideal test user” for Cp 12, because I am new to course-authoring software. Ergo, I don’t have the expectations and experiences of those of you who are already fluent in Cp 2019, and I am learning Cp12 from scratch, as we all are.

At first (meaning, two weeks ago when I first started playing with it!) of course I would blame myself for everything turning out wonky - "I have built several Wordpress sites, why am I having so much trouble here?" But I have been learning that indeed there are many bugs, and this makes me feel much less like I don’t know what the heck I am doing! 🙂 This makes me feel both better (about myself) and worse (about the product getting in the way of my new career) at the same time. I am planning to launch a course in the autumn and I am feelign afraid that Cp12 may not do it, and that Cp Classic is too much of a learning curve.

(I can totally understand users such as Lilybiri and John Ryan and Marksheppard and Kurt and others, who have invested so much of their time and career in Cp and now it is being replaced by something entirely different. I am glad that Adobe is keeping Cp Classic for 5 years at least, so that those of you who have built programs for organizations can at least have some continuity while this new thing sorts itself out!)

John’s point (and Lilybiri has also said this) that most users are using desktop is absolutely correct. If selling to a large org, their internal security would only allow a user to view the course on a company computer - never on a personal hand-held mobile. So when I think of the course that I am creating to sell to organizations, I am tempted to use Cp Classic - except it is SUCH a huge learning curve!!!

Yet as much as you might love to hate the New Cp12... Another huge market is people who are not professionals, authoring a course to sell to individuals. I think we’re going to be seeing a lot more of this: Jimmy has a blog on Jam-making, and wants to sell a course to their Instagram followers—Jimmy is not going to learn Cp Classic or hire an instructional designer—Jimmy is going to use Cp 12, which (if/when it works as it is meant to) will be as easy as building your own Wordpress blog. I agree, it will never have the same instructional design power as Cp Classic has—but this new market is real. So for this reason I believe Adobe does have a vested interest in making Cp 12 work. There truly is a huge market of Jimmys out there. Does this give anyone else hope that Adobe can and will fix Cp12?

So I am an interesting customer because I will be selling some courses to organizations, and some to the individual. For me, Cp 12 will be PERFECT for my sale-to-individual course. But… to be honest I am worried about using it to sell a course to an organization. Does anyone else find themselves in this situation - selling both to orgs and to individuals?

So, to those of you Cp Classic Users, who understand so much more about software and LMS hosting that I do yet:

• Is there a danger of the Cp 12 not even working once on the LMS? 
• The types of bugs that we’re seeing in this current iteration, are they likely reflective of a greater picture “under the hood”?
• How accurate is our “user preview” view, as compared with what the learner will actually see once the course is wrapped/published/hosted on an LMS?
• I am terrified of creating a course, selling it to organizations, and then having it not work - that would be truly career-ending, just as the career is beginning!
• Cp Classic has such an enormous learning curve - I honestly don’t even think I could master it enough. Insights from anyone?

Thank you to anyone who wants to contribute to this discussion. I feel like all of us, regardless of where we are on our Instructional Design Journey, are able to learn from each other, I hope!

Have a wonderful day.

-Lisa

p.s. I had a lovely conversation with one of the Adobe Support folks who is at the receiving end of email suggestions—he was truly helpful and interested in fixing bugs. They act as a middle-person between the user (us) and the engineers, making sure that bug reports are legit before handing them off to the engineers. There are several bug reports in the pipeline which I am told will be tended to in the coming 3-4 weeks. They include but are not limited to 🙂  : 

• Videos are tiny
• Need to be able to “fit” images
• Single image slides have too much padding and also need “fit” option
• Drag and drop is very buggy - numerous bugs reported and some are already fixed (this was encouraging!)
• Flip-card, similar issues to drag and drop, and these are in their bug cue
• Interaction options for buttons on HotSpot Widget

So, this does make me feel better, somewhat… 🙂