Best Practices for Team Collaboration using Adobe Captivate

Report · Nov 06, 2013

With a team of 6 Instructional Designers, how can Adobe Captivate be approached where we can collaborate while producing e-learning material while maintaining a consistent look and feel of the e-learning we produce?

What are the best practices for a team of 6 IDs working and creating e-learning material in Captivate? Is there anything build-in that allows us to connect to the same libraries, templates, etc to share?

Please advise.

Thank you!

Susanne

Report · Nov 06, 2013

Only some tips, never collaborated with someone else, being the solo teacher. You didn't mention which version you are using, what I write here is meant for CP7.

Be sure to prepare a theme and/or a template that will be used by everyone. A theme consists of master slides, object styles, skin editor. Master slides can have custom navigation shape buttons. In a template you can eventually also prepare different slides with placeholders, and eventually advanced actions etc. For CP6 and earlier that is the only way to reuse advanced actions, in Captivate 7 you can export shared actions that can be imported in any project for reuse.

A feature that few users know about are the external libraries. You can open the library of any project as an external library in another project. That is a good idea to store assets that you want to use in different projects: images, audio clips, video clips, eventually equations. The shared actions in a library can not (yet?) be used in another project however.

If you are on CP7 you have automatically the roundtripping with source Adobe Photoshop files and source Audition files, both from CC. That can also make collaboration lot easier if those assets are prepared in those applications. Will not expand on that, because I'm not sure you have the Creative Cloud applications.

Those are my two cents.

Lilybiri

Report · Nov 06, 2013

Thanks Lilybiri,

your replies are very helpful as always. We have 10 licensea of Adobe Captivate 7 and will attempt to use it to create e-learning modules that can be viewed via iPad running iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks.

I have already read some issues publishing as HTML5 for iOS7 and OS X Mavericks, but will cross my fingers there may be workarounds to make thing function the way we'd like.

Susanne